Dems Now Aiming to Bring Down Pence, Install Pelosi in White House

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‘Every word he utters in public is dissected, every move searched for signs of a coming coup…’

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Mike Pence, Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi during the State of the Union / IMAGE: Screenshot via Yahoo News

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) While President Donald Trump waged a vigorous defense against partisan House Democrats’ impeachment efforts, declaring his refusal to comply with the illegitimate investigation—at least until a floor vote occurred—some media outlets put the cart before the horse, shifting their focus to Vice President Mike Pence.

A story in The Atlantic sought to foment discord and attempt to erode solidarity between Trump and his second-in-command, suggesting the two had a fragile partnership and could soon become a threat.

“In any embattled White House, an ambitious vice president can run the risk of turning radioactive,” hyped the far-left rag. “Every word he utters in public is dissected, every move searched for signs of a coming coup.”

Popular as a driver of liberal talking points (the magazine helped rekindle the long dismissed debate over slavery reparations, for example) the piece almost seemed a road map to other media outlets that sought to pitch in with the all-hands-on-deck ploy to remove the president.

For Pence, it was a rare stroke of the ego in what has often been a relentlessly hostile press-corps that has honed in on his strong Christian values.

Not surprisingly, though, the Left’s endgame design has no intention of letting the former Indiana governor hold the top office for long.

Stories in The Washington Post and other outlets on Friday revealed that House Democrats had sent a new demand for documents—this time to Pence’s office.

The Post story seemed to take for granted the unproven allegations of Trump’s criminal misconduct for seeking the support of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in an investigation of corruption tied with former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Not only that, it claimed, but “President Trump repeatedly involved Vice President Pence in efforts to exert pressure on the leader of Ukraine at a time when the president was using other channels to solicit information that he hoped would be damaging to a Democratic rival,” said the article.

Although it claimed Trump’s use of Pence to support Ukrainian diplomacy (like his predecessor, Biden) was but one of many components in the president’s “hidden agenda” the article faulted Pence by claiming he would have had access to the transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelenskiy.

“It’s also not clear whether Pence failed to read the White House account of the call in his briefing book or read it and found it unremarkable,” the article breathlessly emoted.

In response, Pence officials seemed to have clarified—to the chagrin of the Post reporters—that the latter was the case since the transcript altogether lacked the evidence of any nefarious plot.

Still, the media seemed to pivot back and forth between efforts to drive a wedge in the current White House and to implicate both top executives.

Third in line would be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who launched and has been at the forefront of the dubious impeachment effort.

However, the prospect of a Pelosi presidency would almost assuredly undermine any hope the Left may have of using the Senate to remove the president and vice president—assuming no scandal involving her were to arise and foist the Oval Office onto Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Neb., the president pro tempore of the Senate.

‘Yang Gang’ Shells Out Big Bucks for Promise of Future Free Money

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‘This grassroots fundraising total … ensures this campaign will have the funding to compete and outperform expectations through Super Tuesday and beyond…’

'Yang Gang' Shells Out Big Bucks for Promise of Future Free Money
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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The gradual burnout of former front-runner Joe Biden‘s campaign, embroiled in pay-to-play scandals in Ukraine and China, has led many to shift attention to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who currently polls ahead in most surveys of the Democratic presidential primary pool.

But fundraising totals for the third quarter reveal another threat close on her heels in Andrew Yang.

Yang saw a 257 percent increase in fundraising for the quarter, reported Yahoo News.

The number may be misleading—his previous quarterly total was a paltry $2.8 million—the $10 million helps keep him in the conversation for now and could signal increasing momentum. It is just $1 million short of the total pull from political heavyweight Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.

“This grassroots fundraising total, with more than $6 million in the bank, ensures this campaign will have the funding to compete and outperform expectations through Super Tuesday and beyond,” Yang’s campaign manager, Zach Graumann, told the New York Times.

By comparison, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (who was forced to suspend his campaign this week due to heart trouble) raised a reported $25.3 million, the largest sum among Democrats and a 39 percent increase from the second quarter.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg—who, like Yang, has appealed to a younger demographic seeking a D.C. outsider with espoused moderate tendencies—reported $19.1 million, though he still polls well below the first tier of presidential hopefuls. The total was a 23 percent drop over his previous fundraising tally.

Like Warren, Buttigieg and others who have enjoyed their ‘audition’ moments, Yang has been regarded as a dark-horse candidate, unlikely to gain any real traction in the crowded field of seasoned politicians.

His signature agenda item—a universal basic income (UBI), paired with a campaign cash giveaway (the legality of which has raised some questions)—appears to resonate even more with younger voters than Warren’s socialist-tinged wealth-redistribution policies.

However, Yahoo said that after two well-received appearances on popular podcasts, “his bold ideas have been garnering attention, especially among the conservative youth of America.”

A business-savvy entrepreneur in the startup tech industry, Yang’s UBI proposals may be the ultimate in entitlement benefits for lower-end wage earners who stand to benefit and the ultimate tax for successful businesses and wealthy 1-percenters. For many in the middle, however, the $12,000 annual stipend—if universally applied—is effectively more like a tax rebate.

Detractors argue that it de-incentivizes the need or willingness to work and could potentially do little more than simply drive up inflation, creating more of a universal government dependency than economic stimulus.

It likely would promote more illegal immigration as well, and would raise questions of exactly how “unconditional” the eligibility really was.

Of course, the price tag—which Yahoo said would be an estimated $2- to $3-trillion per year—might still lead some to wonder where the money would come from.

But younger voters seem particularly open to it, even if it would raise the likelihood of borrowing into the future with massive deficits and inflation. Yang has gained a notable amount of traction through online media—not only podcast, but also memes and other types of platforms that are popular with millennials and post-millennials.

Should Yang rise to the front of the pack, his similarities with Trump as an outsider from the business world may shift the tone of the dialogue away from petty, partisan politics and more toward a long-term model of economic growth and prosperity.

However, several sharp contrasts remain—notably Yang’s relative youth, his tech savvy and his Asian heritage.

On Trump’s side, not only could he leverage his incumbency advantage (especially if the economy continues to flourish), but he also has a substantial lead on all the Democratic candidates in fundraising.

Amid House Democrats’ latest impeachment shenanigans, Trump was able to raise $15 million over the course of a single week. That brought his quarterly total up to a reported $125 million—which was more than double that of the top three Democrats combined.

JUDICIAL WATCH: Emails Reveal Rosenstein’s Secret Anti-Trump Loyalties

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‘I am with Mueller. He shares my view. Duty calls. Sometimes the moment chooses us…’

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein/IMAGE: Fox 11 Phoenix via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Judicial Watch said Wednesday that documents obtained in an open-records request revealed some of the secretive machinations of former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during the early days of the Trump presidency.

Rosenstein was revealed last year to have suggested wearing a wire in meetings with President Donald Trump and to have discussed with then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to declare Trump ‘unfit’ for office.

He officially resigned in May, shortly after the conclusion of the Mueller investigation that he oversaw for nearly two years.

Yet, the disclosure of two weeks’ worth of emails from May 2017 revealed to an even greater degree how Rosenstein went above and beyond the scope of his duties in engaging those who sought to undermine and damage the new president.

“These astonishing emails further confirm the dishonest corruption behind Rosenstein’s appointment of Robert Mueller,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a press release.

Just days before Rosenstein hired Mueller, the former FBI director, to lead the Russia collusion investigation as special counsel, the deputy attorney general wrote in an email with the subject “I assume you realize” that “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions.”

Other messages underscored the recently appointed DAG’s concerns for discretion, fearful that his own job was on the line—along with pressure from anti-Trump politicians and activists to appoint a special counsel while touting his “apolitical” reputation.

In a May 16 message to Mark Filip, who had previously served as a deputy attorney general under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Rosenstein wrote, “I am with Mueller. He shares my view. Duty calls. Sometimes the moment chooses us.”

Also included in the correspondence were messages with reporters from The Washington Post and the New York Times, in which Rosenstein provided “off the record” background and offers feedback on story drafts.

Fitton said they “show a shockingly cozy relationship between Mr. Rosenstein and anti-Trump media reporters.”

The documents begin on May 8, the day Rosenstein submitted a memo (he later claimed he was pressured to write it) advocating for the firing of Obama-era FBI Director James Comey.

The request ends on May 22, five days after Mueller was appointed to investigate claims of Russian collusion within the Trump campaign.

In addition to the firing of Comey and hiring of Mueller, the period also covers the span of Rosenstein’s infamous meeting with McCabe and other crucial events that set the foundation for subsequent—and ongoing—attacks on Trump’s executive authority.

Although Mueller may have known early on that there was no evidence of collusion, he remained tight-lipped until March 2019, allowing Democrats in the November 2018 midterm election to retake the House of Representatives on promises of impeachment and assurances that the special counsel investigation would yield incriminating evidence.

Mueller’s report produced no such evidence for impeachment. However, House Democrats, undeterred, formally launched an impeachment investigation in September based on entirely unrelated and still unsubstantiated claims.

Hillary Claims She Is a ‘Fun Person’; Lost Election Because She Was ‘Too Serious’

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‘I take responsibility for everything I didn’t do as well or my campaign didn’t do as well…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Sounding increasingly like someone on the campaign trail, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed to the women of ABC’s “The View” that she was a “fun person” and regretted  that in her 2016 presidential campaign “I think I probably came across as too serious.”

While her personal qualities likely played a role in her defeat by President Donald Trump, Clinton’s more than a quarter-century in the national spotlight has yet to reveal any solid evidence of her fun-loving warmth and charisma.

In her partnership with former President Bill Clinton, she often has been seen as the ambition-driven counterbalance to his unmitigated id.

The Clintons unwittingly re-emerged in media discussions over the summer after pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein‘s reported suicide became the most recent in a long list of unexplained deaths linked to people within their sphere of influence who may have had compromising information.

However, with developments that House Democrats were launching an impeachment probe against Trump, Hillary Clinton sprang into action last week, booking appearances on a broad swath of newscasts and talk-shows, all while fueling broader speculation about her intentions.

Ostensibly there to plug a forthcoming book with her daughter, Chelsea, Clinton instead spent her nearly full segment on “The View” discussing impeachment and taking baseless potshots at the president, noted the Media Research Center.

She also paused for a few moments of self-aggrandizement, reflecting on her historical legacy as the first female candidate to lose a presidential election.

The heavy weight of that responsibility was the latest in a litany of excuses—including racism and now debunked claims of Russian collusion—that she has called upon to explain her failure.

“I really believed that my job—especially as a woman and the first woman to go as far as I did—that I had to help people feel good about a woman in the Oval Office, a woman commander in chief,” Clinton said, according to The Hill.

“And so I may have overcorrected a little bit,” she said, “because sometimes people say, ‘Oh, why can’t you be like that, or why weren’t you like that?’”

In classic Clinton form, she followed up on this deflection of responsibility by asserting that she took full ownership for her campaign’s shortcomings in not letting people see the true Hillary.

“I did feel a heavy sense of responsibility, and it was such that maybe I wasn’t as loose or open as I could have been,” she said. “So I take responsibility for everything I didn’t do as well or my campaign didn’t do as well.”

An ongoing investigation within the Justice Department, which is expected to conclude in the next month, has centered on whether Clinton’s campaign may, in fact, have been the source of salacious smears against Trump during and after the election.

Also at issue is whether Clinton—who was revealed in leaked emails to have colluded with the Democratic National Committee—may also have been in cahoots with the Obama intelligence apparatus to investigate Trump while clearing her in a notorious State Department scandal regarding the use of a private, unsecured server to send and receive classified emails.

Shockingly, even after the nearly two-year-long Mueller investigation concluded there was no evidence to support claims of Russian collusion with Trump, the left-wing co-hosts of “The View” joined Clinton in continuing to peddle the false narrative, which campaign advisers Robbie Mook and John Podesta were instrumental in helping craft.

The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledged recently that it also worked closely with a DNC staffer and activist to spread claims of Trump’s ties to Russia in order to benefit Clinton.

After “View” co-host Sunny Hostin interjected that Clinton should not “take responsibility for Russia,” the latter claimed “there were unprecedented events in this election—in the last election, I mean—that were beyond my understanding and nearly anybody else’s.”

Clinton noted that many were skeptical when her campaign first unveiled the accusations.

“When we started talking in the summer of 2016 about the Russians, you know I think most of the press and the public goes, ‘What is she talking about? You can’t go around making excuses,’” she said. “They didn’t understand the attack that we were, unfortunately, suffering,”

While then-President Barack Obama was criticized for not going after the alleged foreign cyber-interference more aggressively, the FBI did use a dossier of unverified Russia innuendo, commissioned by Clinton’s attorneys, to wiretap and spy on officials with the Trump campaign.

In spite of it all, Clinton declared that she was stoic and not the least bit bitter about her loss, and that she had no designs on another run.

“And at the end of the day who wins, wins and who doesn’t, doesn’t,” she philosophized. “Or you could lose because of hacking and theft of material.”

Left-Wing Media LOSING In Its Effort to Dupe Public on Ukraine

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‘Almost nothing he’s done has come as a surprise to the American public, which is why we see such little change in his job rating…’

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Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler and Elijah Cummings / IMAGE: ABC News via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The Left’s Ukraine lies are starting to lose the narrative battle as more information reveals evidence of former Vice President Joe Biden‘s role in a corrupt quid-pro-quo deal that prompted President Donald Trump to seek the country’s support investigating his aspiring 2020 presidential rival.

Breitbart reported that a plurality of Americans—more than 40 percent, based on recent polling—believe that Biden corruptly coerced Ukrainian officials to fire a prosecutor whose investigation into a major energy company threatened to ensnare his son.

This public sentiment, supported by substantial facts and evidence, runs contrary to repeated mainstream media claims that there is no proof that the Bidens were implicated in the corruption probe.

“The American people know the media lie,” observed Breitbart’s John Nolte. “Knowing that, they seek information elsewhere, and discover truths and information the establishment media are desperate to hide from them.”

The resulting credibility crisis also casts doubts on other fraudulent attempts to spin House Democrats’ flimsy case for impeachment, which is evocative of their previously debunked allegations of Russian collusion.

Pollsters or Fraudsters?

Among the misleading headlines being circulated nonstop, media outlets have claimed a dramatic shift in support for impeachment.

Based on polls that significantly oversampled Democrats, sites like CBS News falsely claimed that the majority of Americans now support charges against the president.

On the other hand, left-leaning pollsters whose numerology fails to cross the 50-percent threshold have continued to hype an increase, however slight, in support for impeachment—again, largely driven by Democrats alone.

A recent poll by Monmouth University found that Trump’s job approval was steady and, in fact, up a percentage point from August following the impeachment charade.

“I’ve been saying this for a long time. Fundamental opinion about Donald Trump has been baked in from the very start of his presidency,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.

“Almost nothing he’s done has come as a surprise to the American public, which is why we see such little change in his job rating,” Murray said. “The question is whether those who want Trump out of office are willing to wait until 2020 and that’s where we see a small shift.”

The small shift he was referencing was an uptick to 44 percent supporting impeachment (the number in the buildup to the Mueller Report was, similarly, at 42 percent) versus 52 percent who currently opposed charging Trump.

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GRAPHIC: Monmouth University Polling Institute

Monmouth noted that it regularly asked the question before the latest developments and compared it with data from the lead-up to former President Richard Nixon‘s Watergate investigation.

Unlike the steady trend lines in Trump’s case, Nixon saw a sharp rise in impeachment support and an equally strong dip in job approval.

The obvious reason is that Democrats’ constant hyperbolic claims against the current president have helped to inoculate him from their attacks, even when the bulk of the media may have complicitly followed the marching orders of their liberal masters.

Biden Gets ‘Ukrained’

Meanwhile, perhaps the biggest casualty of the Ukraine scandal has been Biden, who looks increasingly guilty as evidence continues to surface showing his true ties to the Burisma energy company that had his son Hunter on its payroll.

The Monmouth poll found that 42 percent of the public believed Biden forced the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma, while 37 percent say he didn’t.

Unfortunately, it is one of several areas in the survey where misinformation is evident, as Biden previously acknowledged in a 2018 panel that he did, in fact, exert the pressure by threatening to withdraw a $1 billion loan guarantee.

Moreover, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has maintained in interviews that he has documentation, including sworn affidavits from the fired prosecutor and others, that acknowledge Hunter Biden was connected with the Burisma investigation.

Even more damning is a photo of the two Bidens playing golf with another Burisma board member, Devon Archer, despite Joe Biden’s claim that he never discussed business dealings with his son.

And Fox News’s Jesse Waters pointed out that many other left-wing members of its board seemed clearly to have been added for their political connections and influence rather than their energy and foreign policy expertise.

Hunter Biden—who was facing a dishonorable discharge from the Navy after failing a drug test when Burisma brought him on—drew a monthly paycheck of $50,000 despite having no background in energy policy or Eastern Europe to speak of.

The former veep has responded, while on the campaign trail, by hectoring media to “ask the right questions” and deflecting back to attacks on Trump for having the audacity to look into his potential crimes during the Obama administration.

“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden told Fox News in September.

“I know Trump deserves to be investigated,” Biden continued. “He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader. You should be looking at Trump.”

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Joe Biden / IMAGE: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert via Youtube

Likwise, Biden’s fellow Democratic party members, including primary rival Sen. Kamala Harris, have desperately called on those digging into the scandal to leave Biden alone and focus on Trump.

To be sure, Biden has many apologists and sympathizers in the media who have continued to lay cover for him, explaining that his lashing out is justified since he is being “Ukrained,” as a recent Associated Press article claimed, in the same way failed presidential candidates John Kerry and Hillary Clinton were innocent victims unable to live down their respective campaign scandals.

Even so, Biden continues to lose ground in the primaries to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who has benefited from a parallel media effort to rehab her negative image and normalize her radical policy positions.

“I think [Biden’s] going to have to talk a lot more about what his son was doing in Ukraine,” New Hampshire Democrat Ellen Bowles told the Associated Press. “I just feel that he’s going to get tainted by that somehow.”

Antifa Shouts Down Elderly Woman Crossing Street w/ Walker as ‘Nazi Scum’

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‘Free speech is a cornerstone of our democracy and can never—and will never—be denied…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Canada’s world-renowned friendliness is under assault—by Antifa.

A group of radical leftist protestors recently blocked the path of two elderly citizens, one using a walker, from attending an event hosted by conservative leader Maxime Bernier, founder of the People’s Party of Canada.

Ironically, the topic of the discussion at the Mohawk University event was about free speech and censorship.

Forming a three-person human wall in the crosswalk and shouting “Nazi scum off our street,” the masked protestors did more to confuse than to intimidate, arousing the curiosity of several spectators while others came and went around them, according to video posted by The Spec.

Still, they continued to target the elderly couple, blocking their ability to pass for approximately a minute until police arrived and quickly disperse them, escorting the couple into the building.

Four arrests were made for breaching the peace—two from each opposing side in the protest, according to the Clarion Project.

The woman’s son, David Turkoski, later posted a video response from her on Twitter.

“Free speech is a cornerstone of our democracy and can never—and will never—be denied,” she said.

Bernier supports tighter immigration and opposes the globalist, politically correct “cult of diversity” being pushed by disgraced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Despite claiming to advocate for multiculturalism, Trudeau recently was revealed to have worn racially offensive brownface on multiple occasions as an adult prior to following his famous father into politics.

Like Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who brazenly defied calls to resign earlier this year, Trudeau has sought to ride out the scandal, insisting that his virtue-signaling words are more important than his past actions.

The rise of aggressive—albeit, often anonymous—left-wing protestors is another way in which Canada has tragically followed in the footsteps of its southern neighbor.

Since the 2016 election of President Donald Trump in the United States, armed Antifa protestors have continued to lash out in places like Berkeley, Calif.; Portland, Ore.; and Charlottesville, Va.—fomenting heightened tensions and often resorting to violent physical attacks on innocent victims.

In at least one instance, Antifa-connected activists in Minnesota staged a fake rally, attempting to lure conservative opponents of Rep. Ilhan Omar by creating a phony Facebook event, and then smashed the windshield of a woman who questioned and documented their actions.

And in another episode, an Antifa mob actually assaulted one of its own members who made the mistake of carrying an American flag to a demonstration.

Dem. Attorneys Continue Attack on Nuns over Obamacare Contraception Exemption

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) A Supreme Court ruling and executive policy change in their favor haven’t stopped a group of Catholic nuns from being hounded by left-wing lawyers in blue states that seek to force them to fund abortions against their beliefs.

According to Becket, the religious-liberties nonprofit that is representing the Little Sisters of the Poor, the nuns were back in court to again seek protection from a contraception mandate with a writ of certiorari.

“It has been six long years since we began our legal battle against government mandates that threaten our ministry,” said Mother Loraine Marie Maguire in a press statement.

“We hope we have finally reached the end of this arduous process, that the Supreme Court will reaffirm their previous decision, and that we will soon be able to keep our focus on the elderly poor,” she said.

In a May 2016 SCOTUS ruling, the Pittsburgh-based religious order was exempted from the Health and Human Services mandate—part of the controversial Obamacare package—after the high court overturned lower decisions that would have forced it to pay millions of dollars in penalties, Becket said

The following year, the Trump administration put in place a new policy, which offered blanket exemptions for religious-based nonprofits like the Little Sisters.

However, radical leftist attorneys general in blue-leaning states—including their own Pennsylvania—sued to challenge the policy change and seek an injunction on it. That lawsuit threatened to take away the nuns’ hard-fought earlier legal victory.

“That nationwide injunction has stagnated other cases, and it conflicts with the judgments of many courts that have issued final orders affirmatively requiring comparable exemptions,” said the Little Sisters’s latest legal filing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Trump case.

Becket noted that in a separate lawsuit, in which California sued the nuns to attempt to take away their exemption, the state admitted that there were other ways of supplying contraception to those who needed it without forcing the sisters to go against their religious beliefs.

Moreover, adding to the evidence that the state was targeting the nuns specifically for religious persecution, it ignored many larger exemptions for large corporations that were established under the Obama law—including Exxon, Pepsi, Visa, the City of New York and the U.S. military.

“This is a nonsensical political battle that has dragged on six years too long,” said Becket President Mark Rienzi.

“These states have not been able to identify a single person who would lose contraceptive coverage under the new HHS rule, but they won’t rest until Catholic nuns are forced to pay for contraceptives,” he said.  “It is time for the Supreme Court to finally put this issue to rest.”

She’s ‘Likable’ Now: Progressives, Media Seek to Normalize Elizabeth Warren

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‘Warren’s major advantage is how few Democratic voters she has alienated…’

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Elizabeth Warren / IMAGE: The Late Late Show with James Corden via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) As the liabilities continue to mount for longtime Democratic primary front-runner Joe Biden, left-wing operatives and their media lapdogs are engaged in active efforts to ‘normalize’ Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

Biden remains the leader in many polls and is strong with core constituent groups like black voters, but concerns are growing over his role in a major Ukraine conspiracy, penchant for false statements and his creepy violations of personal space.

While Biden’s popularity numbers have remained largely unchanged after taking a hit in the first debate (when Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., confronted him over his past support of racist policies), Warren has gained ground with a socialist message that appeals to younger Democratic voters.

Democratic strategist Michael Gordon told the left-wing magazine Newsweek that it was the same sort of underdog momentum that helped President Donald Trump coast to victory three years ago.

“In the Republican Primaries, Trump was ahead. … People didn’t think voters would support him but they did—and he had the kind of enthusiasm that Warren is seeing now,” Gordon said.

“I think what’s happening with Biden is there’s just starting to appear a cumulative effect of his gaps and other controversies,” he added.

As it did with Trump prior to his election, the mainstream media also has embraced Warren—but under very different circumstances.

While many left-wing journalists, convinced of Hillary Clinton’s inevitable coronation, viewed Trump as a sideshow in the Republican primary, treating his sensationalist run as a joke, Warren has stumbled into their favor by default amid a field of highly flawed options.

“In public, Democrats are closing ranks around Biden,” Vanity Fair observed. “To do anything else would amount to siding with Trump, the real offender. But they’re already finding themselves tripped up by Biden’s troubles.”

The charisma now being projected onto Warren, however, is a far cry from the initial assessments that viewed her as unelectable due to her radical positions. Even Warren’s hometown paper, the liberal Boston Globe, encouraged her early on to skip the 2020 race.

One tell-tale sign of the shifting narrative is that Warren—who initially disavowed big-donor contributions as many well-heeled left-wing oligarchs placed their bets on other favorites—has begun poaching the major donors of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., whose fringe appeal remains too far outside the mainstream.

Warren has largely parroted Sanders’s anti-corporate platform but replaced his principled calls for accountability in politics with a more conventional brand of liberal demagoguery.

“Much of the press has begun to frame the race as one of Warren versus Biden, counting out the high rank of Sanders, and she is starting to pull away from him as the safer bet,” said Vanity Fair.

“For a party still plagued by 2016 rifts, Warren has adopted enough economic populism to mollify a lot of Sanders’s 2016 fans while checking enough social-justice-and-identity boxes to reach a lot of Hillary Clinton’s,” it said.

According to a recent poll by YouGov, Warren is now leading in two crucial primary states, New Hampshire and Iowa.

While voters remain diffident about the entire pool of candidates, “hardly any Democratic voters would be ‘disappointed’ if she became the nominee,” said the site.

The key factors, noted YouGov, are that Warren is more “electable” and “well liked” than the alternatives.

“Warren’s major advantage is how few Democratic voters she has alienated,” YouGov reported.

Republicans, meanwhile, have been consistent in their attitudes toward a Warren candidacy to take on Trump: They are begging for it.

“The far-left radical ideas that she’s bringing to the table are just not going to sell in most of America,” former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently told conservative talk-show host John Catsimatidis, according to Newsweek.

“And I think that is a great thing … for the country—because it helps make sure that we get four more years under this president,” Sanders said.

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Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton / IMAGE: CBS News

While Newsweek attempted to refute the statement, pointing to polls that show Warren beating Trump, conservatives counter that the reliance on polls where oversampling and other questionable practices frequently impose left-wing bias all but assured a repeat of the 2016 election.

Many see the Left’s echo chamber, in their zeal to sell Warren as a viable contender, glossing over her legion vulnerabilities.

Already Warren has been flustered repeatedly by Trump’s mocking of her fake heritage claims. An attempt to defuse the president’s attack last year resulted in a humiliating DNA test that showed she had less Indian blood than the average Caucasian American.

The fallout forced Warren to issue multiple apologies to the Cherokee Nation for having appropriated their culture. However, the story continues to simmer after documents revealed that she spent years fraudulently exploiting minority status for her professional benefit.

Warren registered as an American Indian with the Texas Bar Association and later identified as such in a series of academic positions with elite universities, including Harvard.

Despite calculated efforts to rehab her image, like chugging a beer on Instagram, Warren’s perceived inauthenticity among voters is likely to be a continuing problem, particularly when she faces Trump’s freewheeling, off-the-cuff rhetorical style in a one-on-one context.

A recent focus group in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin revealed that some uncommitted voters simply regard her as a “bitch.”

San Francisco Caves on Attempt to Blacklist Business Partners of ‘Terrorist’ NRA

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) A group known for its strong defense of the Second Amendment found itself safeguarding the First Amendment as well during a recent stand-off with California‘s radical “sanctuary cities.”

The National Rifle Association celebrated a victory over San Francisco after the far-left city abandoned an attempt to blacklist vendors and contractors who did business with the gun-rights group.

“It is unfortunate that in today’s polarized times, some elected officials would rather silence opposing arguments than engage in good-faith debate,” said William Brewer, one of the attorneys representing the NRA, in a press release.

In September, city officials enacted a resolution to investigate the NRA’s business ties after declaring it a “domestic terrorist organization.”

But facing a federal court challenge on First Amendment grounds, Mayor London Breed backed away from the measure.

Breed issued a memorandum last week that forbade municipal departments from taking steps “to restrict any contractor from doing business with the NRA or to restrict City contracting opportunities for any business that has any relationship with the NRA.”

Another challenge to a similar ordinance in Los Angeles continues to work its way through the court, which already denied the city’s motion to dismiss.

Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s CEO and executive vice president, said he hoped the legal battles sent a clear signal to those wishing to curtail American rights in service of an extremist political agenda.

“The NRA will always fight to protect our members and the constitutional freedoms in which they believe,” LaPierre said.

Biden on the Ropes as Trove of Records May Reveal Ukrainian Corruption

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‘Such allegations of corruption deserve due scrutiny, and the American people have a right to know when foreign forces attempt to undermine our democratic processes…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) As the impeachment probe into President Donald Trump deepens, one of the central questions will be whether he was justified in seeking to investigate a rival candidate’s potential criminality.

The House investigation launched by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claims that Trump abused his power by asking Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to help investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.

Now, with the discovery of new documents that may undermine Biden’s narrative, two leading GOP senators say they intend to redouble their efforts to root out the scandals that prompted Trump to investigate in the first place.

Foreign Influence

Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., said a recently discovered trove of records may help implicate Biden in one of several shady dealings between Ukraine and the Democrats that closely mirrored Trump’s situation.

Biden, one of the frontrunners in the Democratic primary to take on Trump next year, previously acknowledged on tape that he had coerced the country into firing a prosecutor who happened to be investigating allegations of corruption surrounding his son Hunter.

However, the elder Biden denied that Ukrainian prosecutor-general Viktor Shokin’s probe into energy company Burisma—which had Hunter Biden on the payroll, drawing a salary of $50,000 a month—had anything to do with his decision to withhold a billion-dollar loan guarantee unless Shokin was fired.

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Grassley and Johnson also noted that a Ukrainian activist, Alexandra Chalupa, was on the payroll of the Democratic National Committee while working closely with the Ukrainian Embassy to dig up dirt and spread false narratives about Trump’s ties to Russia that would benefit his opponent, Hillary Clinton.

On Friday, the two powerful Senate committee chairs sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr asking for an update on the U.S. Justice Department’s probe into these matters.

“Ukrainian efforts, abetted by a U.S. political party, to interfere in the 2016 election should not be ignored,” the Senators wrote in the letter. “Such allegations of corruption deserve due scrutiny, and the American people have a right to know when foreign forces attempt to undermine our democratic processes.”

An Expanding Probe

The DOJ investigation is believed to be part of a wide-sweeping examination led by special prosecutor John Durham into the circumstances behind the now-debunked Russia hoax that led to the nearly two-year Mueller investigation.

The Biden disclosures that are now unfolding as part of Trump’s impeachment inquiry could raise the stakes even more.

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“According to the Justice Department, U.S. Attorney John Durham is ‘exploring the extent to which … Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation’ during the 2016 election,” wrote the senators.

“However, the Justice Department has yet to inform Congress and the public whether it has begun an investigation into links and coordination between the Ukrainian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Hillary Clinton or the Democratic National Committee,” they said.

Durham, who reportedly has spent a considerable amount of time on the job in Europe, is expected to report his findings next month.

Collateral Damage

Meanwhile, Democrats may sense deep trouble for Biden.

Some have speculated that left-wing leaders see his political career as collateral damage in their fight with Trump. But among those circling the wagons are Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., who is a rival of Biden’s in the presidential nominating contests; and “View” co-host Joy Behar.

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Joy Behar (screen shot Washington Free Beacon/Youtube)

Behar complained on Friday’s show that any scrutiny of Biden’s criminal conduct should be off-limits because of long-ago personal tragedies in his life.

“Don’t you think politically it’s dumb for the Republicans to go after Joe Biden’s son when he lost a son and daughter and wife?” she said. “I mean, people feel sorry for Joe!”

Behar followed up by misleading the viewing audience about the nature of Biden’s abuse of power, downplaying his Ukrainian extortion by focusing on Burisma’s hiring of Hunter Biden as the main offense, reported the Media Research Center.

“He didn’t do a thing,” Behar claimed. “Basically it boils down to nepotism and Trump’s got his whole family working in the White House! If you want to talk about nepotism!”

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