Harris & Walz: Everything You Need to Know

Harris & Walz: Everything You Need to Know

Copyright Information: Photo from Wikimedia Commons / Author of Photo: Office of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan

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INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION:

WHERE THEY STAND ON THE ISSUES:

INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION:

1) HARRIS: CAREER OVERVIEW

After graduating from law school at age 25 in 1989, Kamala Harris served as:

  • Deputy District Attorney for Alameda County from 1990-98
  • Managing Attorney of the Career Criminal Unit of the San Francisco DA’s Office from 1998-2000
  • head of the San Francisco City Attorney’s Division on Families and Children from 2000-03
  • San Francisco DA from 2004-11
  • Attorney General of California from 2011-17
  • S. Senator from California from 2017-2021
  • S. Vice President from 2021 to the present

2) WALZ: CAREER OVERVIEW

After joining the Army National Guard at age 17 in April 1981, Tim Walz:

  • spent several years employed in agriculture and factory jobs
  • earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Science Education in 1989
  • worked several years as a teacher while continuing to serve in the National Guard
  • was elected to the U.S. House in 2006, representing Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District
  • was elected Governor of Minnesota in 2018
  • was named as presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ VP running mate in August 2024

3) HARRIS: RADICAL & COMMUNIST TIES

Kamala’s Parents
Kamala Harris’ father was a committed Marxist who taught economics at Stanford University and pushed for the school to hire additional Marxist professors. He characterized Karl Marx as “the theorist of economic growth par excellence,” and stated that “I have heard no worthwhile arguments against Marxian economics.”

In the early 1960s, both of Kamala Harris’ parents were active in the Berkeley-based Afro-American Association (AAA), which, according to one former member, consisted of people who looked to “Fidel Castro and Che Guevara” as their “heroes.” AAA leader Donald Warden mentored two of the Association’s members, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who in 1966 co-founded the Black Panther Party, a violent revolutionary organization that engaged in drug dealing, pimping, rape, extortion, assault, and murder.

Kamala’s Sister & Brother-in-Law
Kamala Harris’ younger sister, Maya Harris, was born in 1967 and became a student activist at Stanford University, where she befriended Steve Phillips, one of the leading Marxist-Leninists on campus and a longtime affiliate of the League of Revolutionary Struggle — a Marxist-Leninist, pro-China organization.

Between 2003 and 2008, Maya Harris worked as a director with the ACLU of Northern California. She also has defended the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamic extremist organization linked to the terrorist group Hamas.

Maya Harris’ husband, Tony West, served in 2002 as a defense lawyer for al-Qaeda terrorist John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban” who had taken up arms against U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 9/11. In 2008, West raised some $65 million for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and four years later he was named the Obama administration’s Associate Attorney General. In that post, West worked to expand the rights granted to terrorist enemy combatants who had been captured on the battlefield.

Kamala’s Maoist Protégé
During her tenure as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris mentored a young Maoist activist named Lateefah Simon, who at that time was a board member of the Oakland-based Youth Empowerment Center, whose board members all belonged to the Maoist organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). Harris subsequently hired Simon, helped her get through college, and introduced her to many influential people in the Bay Area. Simon later went on to become best friends with Black Lives Matter’s Marxist co-founder Alicia Garza.

Kamala’s Ties to Communist-Linked Willie Brown
In 1994, 30-year-old Kamala Harris was dating 60-year-old Willie Brown, the powerful Democratic Speaker of the California State Assembly. Brown had been separated, but not divorced, from his wife since the 1980s.

In October 2020, the blogger/author Trevor Loudon wrote the following about Brown’s communist affiliations:

“Brown was a long-time communist sympathizer. He was first elected to public office with the help of the Communist Party USA youth wing. He was funded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett, a communist newspaper owner who was once awarded the Lenin Prize by the government of the former Soviet Union. Several years after his affair with Harris, Brown was still openly sponsoring Communist Party fundraisers in the Bay Area while serving as San Francisco mayor. Today, Brown is widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party’s best friends in the Bay Area.”

In June 1994, Brown appointed Harris to a $97,000-per-year position with the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (CUIAB). After resigning from that panel five months later, Harris was immediately appointed by Brown to the California Medical Assistance Commission (CMAC). Though CMAC members were technically required to have experience in health-and-medical-related fields, Harris had no such background. According to former California State Assemblyman Brett Granlund: “Both boards [CUIAB and CMAC] are reserved for political payback or occasionally for personal rewards for personal service. The boards are considered plum appointments as they require no work, no policy credentials, and are paid the equivalent of a full-time [state] senator for arriving at a one-to-two-hour meeting each month.”

Kamala Names Barbara Lee to Co-Chair Her Presidential Campaign
On February 14, 2019, Harris’ presidential campaign announced that Congresswoman Barbara Lee would be its California co-chair. A former ally of the notorious Black Panther Party, Lee had been:

Kamala’s Kwanzaa Memories
In December 2020, Harris made a video in which she wished Americans a happy Kwanzaa holiday and shared, in particular, her own personal childhood memories of her family celebrating Kwanzaa and its “seven principles.” She did not mention that the seven principles of Kwanzaa mirrored precisely the principles embraced by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a pro-Marxist, revolutionary terrorist organization of the 1970s. Nor did Harris mention that the founder of Kwanzaa was Maulana Karenga, a Marxist activist, black nationalist, and Black Power militant who in 1971 was arrested for brutally assaulting and torturing two women.

Kamala’s America-Hating Pastor, Amos Brown
Harris has known the Rev. Amos Brown, pastor of San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church where Harris is a “dues-paying member” of the congregation, since the late 1990s. As of July 2024, Brown had visited Vice President Harris at the White House on at least two occasions.

“For two decades now, at least, I have turned to you,” Harris said of Brown at the 2022 National Baptist Convention. “… And I will say that your wisdom has really guided me and grounded me during some of the most difficult times. And — and you have been a source of inspiration to me always.”

At the NAACP’s 2022 national convention, Harris stated that Brown “has been on this journey with me every step of the way, from when I first thought about running for public office almost two decades ago.”

Some noteworthy facts about Rev. Brown:

  • Just days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks of September 2001, Brown delivered a sermon at a memorial service for deceased victims, during which he said: “America, is there anything you did to set up this climate? America, America, what did you do — either intentionally or unintentionally — in the world order, in Central America, in Africa where bombs are still blasting?”
  • In a 2021 interview, Brown said: “I know America. America is a racist country.”
  • On another occasion, Brown told an interviewer that “America has not changed” at all since the Jim Crow era because “this sin of race is so deep, so pervasive in the body politic of America.” The “greed” and “bigotry” of “too many whites” in “this evil, brutal system,” he added, “built the American economy by making cotton king [and now] are … in a state of denial about really what was done.”
  • When Brown in 2023 served on California’s task force for racial reparations to black Americans, he stated that the panel “ought to study what’s wrong with the white power structure.”
  • When a previous reparations proposal in San Francisco had recommended $5 million payouts but was not enacted, a furious Brown claimed that opponents of racial reparations were the “personification of evil.” “Five million is not that much,” he added, especially after “246 years of slavery…. It isn’t enough to apologize. Somewhere there has to be reparations.”

Kamala’s Friend & Object of Admiration, Al Sharpton
Notwithstanding activist Al Sharpton’s long history as a highly prominent racist, black supremacist, and Jew-hater, Harris in July 2019 lauded him as a “friend” who “has spent his life fighting for what’s right.”

4) HARRIS: THE “MOST POLITICALLY LEFT” SENATOR

In 2019 and 2020 — her last two years as a member of the U.S. Senate — Harris was rated as America’s “most liberal” / “most politically left” senator by GovTrack.us, a nonpartisan tracker of Congress and its members. Indeed, her politics were even farther to the left than those of the self-identified socialist, Bernie Sanders.

5) HARRIS: IN FULL AGREEMENT WITH BIDEN ON POLICY

On April 12, 2021, President Biden posted a Twitter message stating that whenever he had to make any important political decisions, Harris was always present with him — as “the last voice in the room.” “​When I served as Vice President,” Biden wrote in the tweet, “I asked to be the last person with the President [Obama] before big decisions were made — and​ ​@VP [Harris] is providing the same counsel to me​. She’s the last voice in the room and never fails to speak the truth as we work to build our nation back better​.”

During an August 12, 2024 news briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of Harris and Biden: “They’ve been aligned, you know, they’ve been aligned for the last three and a half years. There’s not been any daylight” between them.

In a September 25, 2024 appearance on ABC’s The View, Biden said: “As Vice President, there wasn’t a single thing that I did that she [Harris] couldn’t do, and so I was able to delegate her responsibility on everything from foreign policy to domestic policy.”

In early October 2024, Biden said of Harris: “She helped pass all of the laws that are being employed now; she was a major player in everything we’ve done.”

During an October 8, 2024 appearance on ABC’s The View, Harris was asked: “If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” She replied: “There is not a thing that comes to mind. And I’ve been part of most of the decisions that have had impact…. Those were all a shared priority.”

WHERE THEY STAND ON THE ISSUES:

6) ABORTION

HARRIS: Thwarting Pro-Life Legislation in Conservative States
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Harris said that her Medicare-for-All plan would establish a list of politically conservative states that would be required to get pre-approval from the Justice Department before they would be permitted to pass any pro-life legislation.

HARRIS: Outraged by Supreme Court Overturning Roe v. Wade
On May 2, 2022, Politico reported that a leaked draft majority opinion, written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, indicated that the Court had decided to strike down the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and to return the regulation of abortion rights to each individual state. In response, an outraged VP Harris said that “the rights of women are under attack,” and that “opponents of Roe want to punish women and take away their rights to make decisions about their own bodies.”

HARRIS: Omits the Declaration’s Guarantee of Right to “Life”
VP Harris delivered a pro-abortion speech on January 22, 2023, wherein she referenced the Declaration of Independence but omitted any mention of that document’s explicit guarantee of the “unalienable right” to the “Life” that the “Creator” had gifted to all human beings. Harris’ words were as follows: “America is a promise…. A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Forcing Pro-Lifers to Pay for Abortions
On March 22, 2023, LifeNews.com reported that the Biden-Harris administration was “trying to strip away the rights” of employers to refuse to comply – because of their own moral concerns — with a government mandate requiring businesses, under the terms of Obamacare, to offer their workers health-insurance plans that would cover the costs of abortifacients, contraceptives, and sterilization.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Suing Texas Over “Fetal Heartbeat” Law
On September 8, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration sued the state of Texas over its recently enacted “Heartbeat Act,” which prohibited physicians from performing or inducing an abortion after a fetal heartbeat had been detected.

HARRIS, BIDEN, & DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Public Funding for Abortions
Advocating the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which since 1976 had barred the use of public money to fund abortions, Senator Harris in 2019 said that “no woman’s access to reproductive health care should be based on how much money she has.”

During her 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Harris announced a “Medicare-for-All” plan that would cover comprehensive abortion services for all women.

In 2019, then-Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden, who had formerly supported the Hyde Amendment, announced that the Amendment “can’t stay” because “times have changed.”

In January 2015, House Republicans introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which sought.to permanently prohibit federal funds from being used to pay for abortions or for health insurance plans that covered abortion-related procedures. When the bill came up for a vote:
•  Just 3 Democrats supported it while 178 opposed it.
•  Republicans backed the bill by a margin of 239 to 1.

The official Democratic Party Platform of 2020 stated: “We will repeal the Hyde Amendment, and protect and codify the right to reproductive freedom.”

HARRIS, BIDEN, & DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Forcing Doctors to Perform Abortions Even if They Have Moral Objections
On July 28, 2022, the National Catholic Register reported: “The Biden administration proposed a new rule this week that legal experts say, if finalized, would force hospitals and doctors to perform gender-transition surgeries and abortions,” and “would reverse Trump-era conscience protections which sought to allow medical professionals to opt out of performing procedures against their beliefs.”

On January 29, 2015, House Republicans introduced the Conscience Protection Act, which aimed to prevent the government from penalizing healthcare providers and insurers who wished, for moral or ethical reasons, not to participate in, or pay for, abortions in any way. When this bill came up for a vote in July:
•  Just 3 Democrats supported it while 181 opposed it.
•  Republicans supported it by a margin of 242 to 1.

HARRIS & DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Infanticide for Babies Who Survive Abortions
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Harris opposed legislation that would have compelled doctors to provide, for infants who survived abortions, the same degree of care as would normally be given to any infant of the same gestational age who was born in a non-abortion setting.

In January 2023, House Republicans introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which stipulated that in cases where a baby somehow managed to survive an attempted abortion procedure, medical practitioners would be required to try to preserve its life. When the bill came up for a vote:
•  Just 1 Democrat supported it while 210 opposed it.
•  Republicans supported the bill unanimously, 219 to 0.

HARRIS & DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Opposed to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
In 2020, Senator Harris, along with all but two of her fellow Senate Democrats, opposed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, legislation designed to prevent the performance of abortions starting at 20 weeks after conception — at which time, according to scientific evidence, in-utero babies can feel pain. The bill allowed exceptions for abortions deemed necessary in order to protect the life or health of the mother, or where the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.

BIDEN: Pledge to Codify Roe v. Wade if Democrats Win Midterms
At a Democratic National Committee event in D.C. on October 18, 2022, President Biden vowed to codify Roe v. Wade into law as his first legislative act after the midterms if Democrats were to succeed in retaining their control of both the House and Senate. “The court got Roe right nearly 50 years ago and I believe the Congress should codify Roe, once and for all,” he said. “The first bill I will send to the Congress will be to codify Roe v. Wade,” he added.

BIDEN: Executive Orders to Protect Abortion Rights
On July 8, 2022 – two weeks after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade – President Biden issued an executive order titled “Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services.” A White House Fact Sheet about the executive order said it would “safeguar[d] access to reproductive health care services, including abortion and contraception.”

On August 3, 2022, President Biden issued a second executive order designed to protect abortion rights in the wake of the June 24 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. The order said, in part: “I am directing my Administration to take further action to protect access to reproductive healthcare services … relating to pregnancy or the termination of a pregnancy.”

WALZ: Abortion-on-Demand
Tim Walz believes that all women should have an unrestricted right to abortion-on-demand at any stage of pregnancy – subsidized by taxpayers, in cases of economic hardship.

WALZ: Abortion-on-Demand (January 2023)
On January 31, 2023, Governor Walz signed the Protect Reproductive Options (PRO) Act — a bill enshrining a woman’s “right” to abortion without limits. The legislation read: “Every individual has a fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about the individual’s own reproductive health, including the fundamental right to use or refuse reproductive health care.” “Today,” said Walz, “we are delivering on our promise to put up a firewall against efforts to reverse reproductive freedom.”

The Minnesota Family Council stated that in addition to ensuring that abortion would remain legal through the very end of a pregnancy, the PRO Act would: (a) “forc[e] all Minnesotans to pay for all abortion services through Medical Assistance”; (b) “repea[l] the law protecting children born [alive] during [failed] abortion surgery, thereby legalizing infanticide”; and (c) “repea[l] statutes which ensure that pregnant women give informed consent prior to abortion.”

WALZ: Permitting Babies to Die after a Botched Abortion (May 2023)
In May 2023, Walz signed a bill that altered the wording of a Minnesota law which had been on the books since 1976. That 1976 law was reaffirmed in the Born Alive Infants Protection Act of 2015, which stated: “A born alive infant as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person, and accorded immediate protection under the law. All reasonable measures consistent with good medical practice, including the compilation of appropriate medical records, shall be taken by the responsible medical personnel to preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.” (Emphasis added)

By contrast, the legislation that Walz signed in May 2023 said: “An infant who is born alive shall be fully recognized as a human person, and accorded immediate protection under the law. All reasonable measures consistent with good medical practice, including the compilation of appropriate medical records, shall be taken by the responsible medical personnel to care for the infant who is born alive.” (Emphasis added)

Paul Stark, communications director with the pro-life group Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, said: “The concern is that the law no longer requires that lifesaving measures be taken. It only requires ‘care.’ So the law as it’s now written could allow a baby to be left to die, even a baby who could be saved with appropriate lifesaving measures.”

Republican state Rep. Jeff Backer explained that the legislation signed by Walz required only the administration of “comfort care” rather than aggressive efforts to save the baby’s life. “Comfort care means lay on a hard surface, maybe a blanket,” said Backer. “Comfort care is not medical lifesaving care.”

WALZ: Widespread Dispensation of Abortion Pills
In March 2023, Walz was one of 14 Democrat governors who signed a letter pressuring the leaders of major U.S. pharmacies to make abortion pills (like Mifepristone) widely available.

WALZ: State Constitutional Amendment Enshrining Abortion Rights
In January 2024, CBS News reported that Governor Walz “says he is open to putting a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights on the November ballot.”

WALZ & DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Opposed to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
In October 2017, Rep. Walz voted against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (PCUCPA), legislation designed to prevent the performance of abortions starting at 20 weeks after conception — at which time, according to scientific evidence, in-utero babies can feel pain. The bill allowed exceptions for abortions deemed necessary in order to protect the life or health of the mother, or where the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.
• All told, a mere 3 House Democrats supported the PCUCPA, while 187 opposed it.
• Republicans, by contrast, supported the bill by a margin of 234 to 2.

TRUMP: Spoke at The March for Life
In January 2018, Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. President ever to speak at the March for Life, a massive pro-life rally held annually in D.C.  He spoke again at the March for Life rallies in 2019 and 2020.

TRUMP: Opposes Late-Term Abortions
At the 2018 March for Life, Trump said: “Right now, in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be [torn] from his or her mother’s womb in the ninth month. It is wrong; it has to change.”

TRUMP: Protect the Right of Doctors To Eschew Abortion for Moral Reasons
At the 2018 March for Life, Trump said: “Today, I’m announcing that we have just issued a new proposal to protect conscience rights and religious freedoms of doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals.”

In May 2019, the Trump administration’s Department of Health & Human Services issued a Conscience and Religious Freedom rule designed, as KFF Health News put it, “to protect the religious rights of health care providers and religious institutions by allowing them to opt out of procedures such as abortions, sterilizations and assisted suicide.”

TRUMP: Believes Abortion Policy Should Be Decided by Each State
Trump agrees with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision of 2022, which ruled that each separate state should decide for itself what its abortion policies should be.

TRUMP: Favors Exceptions for Rape, Incest, & Mother’s Life
Trump favors exceptions on abortion restrictions in cases where a pregnancy results from rape or incest, or where the life of the mother is endangered by the pregnancy.

TRUMP: Opposes a National Abortion Ban
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump has repeatedly stated that he would not sign any bill calling for a nationwide ban on abortions. On October 1, 2024, he expanded that pledge by affirming that even if such a ban were to be passed by Congress, he would veto it. As Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Everyone knows I would not support a federal abortion ban, under any circumstances, and would, in fact, veto it.”

7) AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

In June 2023, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action – i.e., race preferences — for college admissions. At issue was the fact that Asians in particular, but whites as well, were being discriminated against in the admissions policies of schools like Harvard and the University of North Carolina. For example, among mid-range Harvard University applicants – those in the 5th and 6th academic deciles — blacks were 3.8 times more likely than whites, and 11.8 times more likely than Asians, to be admitted. This was a continuation of the type of extreme discrimination that had been taking place in academia for decades.

HARRIS: Opposed the 2023 Supreme Court Ruling Against Affirmative Action
When the Supreme Court made its ruling in June 2023, VP Harris expressed her “deep disappointment” and issued a statement that said: “Today’s Supreme Court decision … is a step backward for our nation. It rolls back long-established precedent and will make it more difficult for students from underrepresented backgrounds to have access to opportunities that will help them fulfill their full potential.”

In a separate venue, Harris said: “[T]his is now a moment where the Court has not fully underst[ood] the importance of equal opportunity for the people of our country, and it is in so very many ways a denial of opportunity. And … it is a complete misnomer to suggest this is about ‘colorblind,’ when, in fact, it is about being blind to history, being blind to data, being blind to empirical evidence about disparities, being blind to the strength that diversity brings to classrooms, to boardrooms.”

BIDEN: Opposed the 2023 Supreme Court Ruling Against Affirmative Action
Reacting to the June 2023 Supreme Court decision to strike down affirmative action, President Biden said: “The court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions, and I strongly, strongly disagree with the court’s decision.” He further asserted that the court which issued this ruling “is not a normal court.”

Biden also told MSNBC that the Supreme Court had “done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Urged Colleges to Defy the Supreme Court Decision
Despite the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that the use of race-based college admissions policies were unconstitutional, the Civil Rights divisions of the Department of Education and the Department of Justice together released a guidance on August 14th encouraging universities to circumvent the ruling by considering “ways a student’s background, including experiences linked to their race, have shaped their lives and the unique contributions they can make to campus.”

WALZ: Supports Affirmative Action
Tim Walz believes that public and private employers alike should be legally required to implement affirmative-action hiring and promotion policies that give preference to nonwhites and women, as compensation for historical injustices.

WALZ: Established Racial Quotas in Minnesota
In May 2024, Governor Walz signed into law a bill that established racial quotas throughout Minnesota’s Health Department, including race-based requirements for membership in five of the Department’s committees. Numerous legal experts called Walz’s policy unconstitutional.

TRUMP: Supported the 2023 Supreme Court Ruling Against Affirmative Action
Trump said that the June 2023 Supreme Court decision marked “a great day for America.” “This is the ruling everyone was waiting and hoping for, and the result was amazing,” he stated. “It will also keep us competitive with the rest of the world. Our greatest minds must be cherished, and that’s what this wonderful day has brought. We’re going back to all merit-based—and that’s the way it should be.”

8) AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL OF 2021

HARRIS: Boasted of Her Role in the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
During an April 25, 2021 interview on CNN, VP Harris boasted that she had been the “last person in the room” with President Biden when he made his then-recent decision to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops and American civilians from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021 — a target date that would subsequently be changed to August 31, 2021. When the withdrawal from Afghanistan was eventually carried out that August, it was an infamously chaotic catastrophe which:

  • left the country under the barbaric control of the Taliban;
  • released thousands of inmates, including many hardened Taliban fighters and senior al Qaeda operatives, who were being held in a prison located at America’s Bagram Air Base;
  • allowed Taliban terrorists to seize possessionof some $85 billion worth of U.S. military arms and equipment;
  • left hundreds of American civilians behind, trapped in a Taliban stronghold;
  • enabled the Islamic State’s terrorist subsidiary in Afghanistan to successfully establish a presence in every province of the country; and
  • left many desperate, terrified Afghans — fearful that they would be executed by the newly restored Taliban regime — clinging to U.S. Air Force planes in the process of departing from a Kabul airport, and in some cases falling from the planes to their deaths shortly after takeoff.

BIDEN: Portrayed the Afghanistan Withdrawal as an “Extraordinary Success”
President Biden delivered an address on August 31, 2021, in which he lauded “the extraordinary success of this mission” and proclaimed: “I give you my word: With all of my heart, I believe this is the right decision, a wise decision, and the best decision for America.”

WALZ: Whitewashes the Biden-Harris Withdrawal from Afghanistan
In July 2024, Governor Walz whitewashed the disastrous manner in which the Biden-Harris administration had withdrawn U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021. “[I]t was a messy situation,” said Walz, “the situation with the Taliban and the things that Donald Trump led [sic] up to it. Exiting a conflict is never going to be good. That situation was horrific…. I think the biggest thing was, is an understanding that the way that that was prosecuted, the way that we tried to bring stability, was simply going to be incredibly difficult…. So, look, the Afghan withdrawal was tragic, but it was a longstanding situation that rolled over many, many months and over both terms of presidents.”

TRUMP: His Agreement with the Taliban Was Contingent upon Specific Requirements
The Biden-Harris administration blamed former President Trump for the chaos surrounding the U.S. troop withdrawal, claiming that Trump had negotiated a timeline for withdrawal that his successors were bound to abide by. But that was untrue. The agreement that the Trump administration had negotiated with the Taliban in February 2020 called for the U.S. to reduce the number of its troops in Afghanistan from 13,000 to 8,600 by July 2020, followed eventually by a full U.S. withdrawal by May 1, 2021. That withdrawal, however, was contingent upon the Taliban meeting a series of clearly articulated non-aggression requirements — most notably, that it would not permit Afghanistan to again become a safe haven for jihadist terrorists. Those requirements had not been met, but Biden-Harris nevertheless proceeded with their withdrawal.

9) AMERICA: EVIL, RACIST EMPIRE

HARRIS: A Nation Replete with Racism & Hate
In a January 27, 2019 presidential campaign speech, Senator Harris asserted that: “Racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia are real in this country. They are age-old forms of hate with new fuel. And we need to speak that truth so we can deal with it.”

On January 21, 2019, Senator Harris said: “[T]oo many unarmed black men and women are killed in America. Too many black and brown Americans are locked up. From mass incarceration to cash bail to policing, our criminal justice system needs drastic repair.”

When launching her 2020 presidential campaign on January 21, 2019, Harris said: “I’m running to fight for an America where no mother or father has to teach their young son that people [police] may stop him, arrest him, chase him, or kill him, because of his race.”

During a presidential campaign stop in February 2019, Sen. Harris said of America: “[W]e are the scene of a crime when it comes to what we did with slavery and Jim Crow and institutionalized racism in this country, and we have to be honest about that.”

When Republican Attorney General Bill Barr stated in 2020 that “I don’t agree that there is systemic racism in police departments generally in this country,” Senator Harris said: “I think that Donald Trump and Bill Barr are spending full time in a different reality. The reality of America today is, what we have seen over generations and frankly since our inception, which is we do have two systems of justice in America.”

On March 19, 2021, Senator Harris said in a speech at Emory University: “Racism is real in America and it has always been. Xenophobia is real in America and always has been. Sexism, too.”

HARRIS: Praising the Anti-American “1619 Project”
Democrats have largely embraced the tenets of the so-called “1619 Project,” a New York Times creation which has made its way into the curricula of thousands of classrooms nationwide, and whose overarching theme is the claim that America is a racist nation that was born with the original sin of slavery and can never be redeemed. Harris has praised the 1619 Project as “a powerful and necessary reckoning of our history.”

On August 18, 2019, Senator Harris tweeted in support of The 1619 Project: “We must speak this truth: the very foundation of our country was built on the backs of enslaved people.”

HARRIS: Supporter of Renaming Columbus Day as “Indigenous People’s Day”

During a presidential campaign stop in New Hampshire in 2019, a voter asked Sen. Harris if she was in favor of renaming Columbus Day as “Indigenous People’s Day.” She replied: “Sure, sure. Yeah. And why it matters is to your very point, we have to remember history … we have to remember our history, uncomfortable, to your point about truths, though it may make us.” Emphasizing the importance of addressing the “vestiges of all of that harm,” Harris concluded: “Count me in on support.”

At the National Congress of American Indians’ 78th Annual Convention on October 12, 2021 — the day after Columbus Day — Harris said: “Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas. But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for Tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on Native communities today.”

HARRIS: Praising Black Lives Matter & Its Message
Black Lives Matter (BLM) was founded by three openly Marxist revolutionaries in 2013. It is a movement that:

  • depicts the U.S. as a nation awash in racism, sexism, and homophobia;
  • portrays America as a cesspool of “state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism,” where blacks are routinely targeted for “extrajudicial killings … by police and vigilantes”;
  • candidly affirms its commitment to identity politics centered on “the global Black family”;
  • proclaims its desire to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” and replace it with the socialist ideal of “villages” serving as “extended families” that “collectively care for one another”; and
  • detests Israel and the Jewish people.

The anti-police rhetoric of BLM and leftwing political figures like Kamala Harris, coupled with the aggressive, confrontational tactics of BLM agitators, gave rise to a nationwide climate of extreme hostility toward law-enforcement in the wake of the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd – a black man who, shortly after having ingested a fatal dose of fentanyl, died during a physical confrontation with a white police officer in Minneapolis. With an increasingly militant criminal element now feeling emboldened by the anti-police climate, there were dramatic spikes in violent crime and homicide rates in cities across the U.S., along with at least $7 billion in property destruction resulting from BLM-led riots during the summer of 2020.

During a February 21, 2019 interview, Senator Harris praised BLM for its “incredible” and “smart” activism in demanding “change” to a criminal-justice system replete with “bias” and “systemic racism.”

On June 2, 2020, Senator Harris said in a speech: “The reality of it is that the life of a Black person in America historically, and even recently … has never been treated as fully human. And it is time that we come to terms with the fact that America has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has existed in our country. That’s just a fact. And so, the people protesting on the street are protesting understanding that we have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under the law. And there is a pain that is present that is being expressed in their constitutional right to march and to shout.”

In that same June 2, 2020 speech, Harris said: “And I can say, with full certainty, that it is time that the leaders in this United States Senate, in this United States Congress, take action to reform a criminal justice system that for far too long, has been informed by systemic racism and by racial bias…. It is time that we say that one should not be subjected to the indignity of being told to get on your knees and put your hands behind your head, simply because you are walking while Black. And it happens every day in America. There’s not a black man I know, be he a relative, a friend, or a coworker, or colleague, who has not been the subject of some form of racial discrimination at the hands of law enforcement, not one I know…. That’s why the people are marching in the streets.”

On June 4, 2020, Cosmopolitan magazine published an opinion piece written by Senator Harris in which she boasted about having “joined thousands of protesters in Washington, D.C. as we marched through the streets to demand justice for George Floyd.” Condemning what she viewed as the intransigent scourge of American racism, Harris wrote: “Let’s speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days…. No longer can some wait on the sidelines, hoping for incremental change. In times like this, silence is complicity. It will take each of us to confront the injustices that continue to perpetuate a broken system that has taken countless Black Americans’ lives…. And it’s time for all of us—not just some—to speak out against racism.”

In a June 17, 2020 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Senator Harris stated that the nationwide BLM protests would, and should, continue indefinitely: “They’re not going to stop. This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day…. I am very clear that some of the success we have been able to achieve around criminal justice reform would not have happened in recent years without Black Lives Matter.”

In August 2020, Senator Harris, who had just been named as Joe Biden‘s vice presidential running mate, said, in a reference to the influence that BLM and its allies were having on America: “[W]e’re experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country, demanding change.”

In a September 2020 interview during the NAACP’s national convention, Harris praised the “brilliance” and “impact” of what she characterized as BLM’s very “necessary” protests. “I actually believe that ‘Black Lives Matter’ has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system,” she said.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Supported a Bail Fund to Keep BLM Rioters out of Prison
Harris publicly supported the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), which made bail payments on behalf of many people who were arrested for their participation in the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis and were awaiting trial. In June 2020, the senator tweeted: “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” Thanks in part to Harris’ endorsement, MFF received more than $35 million in donations.

At least 13 staff members of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign made personal donations to the MFF.

BIDEN: A Nation Replete with Racism & Hate
In a commencement address that he delivered to the black graduates of Howard University on May 13, 2023, President Biden declared that “the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.”

Biden charges that “White America” has been too reluctant to acknowledge that “systemic racism” has “been built into every aspect of our system.”

On October 11, 2021, which was Columbus Day, President Biden issued a “A Proclamation on Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” in which he said: “For generations, Federal policies systematically sought to assimilate and displace Native people and eradicate Native cultures…. We must never forget the centuries-long campaign of violence, displacement, assimilation, and terror wrought upon Native communities and Tribal Nations throughout our country.”

On February 10, 2021, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that President Biden supported athletes who chose to protest the national anthem at sporting events, characterizing Biden’s position as follows: “[P]art of the pride in our country means recognizing moments where we as a country haven’t lived up to our highest ideals. It means respecting the right of people granted to them in the constitution to peacefully protest.”

BIDEN: A Nation in Need of Transformation
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden stated that:

  • “we all have an obligation to do nothing less than change the culture in this country” because it is “a white man’s culture”
  • “we can transform this nation … so that [my administration] goes down in history … as one of the most progressive administrations since Roosevelt”
  • the coronavirus pandemic was an “incredible opportunity … to fundamentally transform the country”
  • America needs to make “revolutionary institutional changes” that “rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country”

WALZ: Weak Response to the Death of George Floyd & the Riots
During the Tuesday and Wednesday that followed the Monday, May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd, BLM-affiliated protests and riots in the city became increasingly numerous and violent, leaving the area looking like a war zone. Minneapolis’ Democrat mayor, Jacob Frey, telephoned Governor Walz on Wednesday to request that the governor deploy National Guard troops to help quell the chaos. But not until Thursday, May 28, did Walz sign an executive order activating the Minnesota National Guard. This was too little, too late, however. As of Thursday night, only 90 National Guard troops were on the ground in the Twin Cities — an insufficient number to combat the massive hordes of rioters and vandals. The violence, therefore, continued to grow more intense. Perhaps the most memorable scene that day was the burning down of the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct building, which occurred after Walz himself had instructed the police to surrender the building to the arsonists and flee the scene. Meanwhile, Walz issued at least two separate statements indicating that he had completely failed to avert the massive crisis that was now engulfing the city:

  • “This is the largestcivilian deployment in Minnesota history that we have out there today. And quite candidly, right now, we do not have the numbers. We cannot arrest people when we’re trying to hold ground because of the sheer size, the dynamics, and the wanton violence that’s coming out there.”
  • “I will take responsibilityfor underestimating the wanton destruction and the size of this crowd. We have deployed a force, that, I think … would have, in any other civilian police operation, worked. But the terrifying thing is to hear people who have seen this, and myself looking at this, it resembles more of a military operation at times now, as, especially, ringleaders moving from place to place.”

Walz finally mobilized the full Minnesota National Guard on Saturday, May 30. And by Sunday, May 31, the violence in Minneapolis had largely abated, but not before enormous damage had been done.

On June 9, 2020, Governor Walz issued a proclamation urging Minnesotans to honor the memory of George Floyd by marking the start of his 11:00 a.m. funeral service that morning with a period of silence lasting 8 minutes and 46 seconds – the length of time that Officer Derek Chauvin had allegedly pressed his knee down upon Floyd’s neck. “The world watched in horror as George Floyd’s humanity was taken away from him,” read Walz’s proclamation. “We will not wake up one day and have the disease of systemic racism cured. We must do everything in our power to come together to deconstruct generations of systemic racism in our state so that every Minnesotan – Black, Indigenous, Brown, or White – can be safe and thrive.”

WALZ: Praising Black Lives Matter & Its Message
During the course of the mayhem that was tearing Minneapolis apart after the 2020 death of George Floyd, Governor Walz issued a number of statements characterizing the violence as an understandable response to America’s long legacy of racism against black people, and as a wake-up call to the nation at large. Some examples:

  • “Minneapolis and St. Paul are on fire. The fire is still smolderingin our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, unheard, much like we failed to hear George Floyd as he pleaded for his life, as the world watched, by people sworn to protect him, his community, our state…. So many other [nonwhite] friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, senselessly died in our street. Their voices went unheard, and now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world — and the world is watching…. What the world has witnessed since the killing of George Floyd … has been a visceral pain, a community trying to understand who we are and where we go from here.”
  • “I understand clearly there is no trust [for the police] in many of our communities…. And I will not patronize you [blacks] as a white man, without living [your] lived experiences, of how very difficult that is. But I’m asking you to help us. Help us use a humane way to get the streets to a place where we can restore the justice so that those that are expressing rage and anger and demanding justice are heard.”
  • “People who are concerned about that police presence, of an overly armed camp in their neighborhoods that is not seen in communities where children of people who look like me [whites] run to the police; others [nonwhites] have to run from [the police]. So I understand that that’s out there.”
  • “We cannot have the looting and the recklessness that went on. We cannot have it, cuz we can’t function as a society. And I refuseto have it take away the attention of the stain that we need to be working on, [which] is what happened with those fundamental institutional racism [sic] that allows a [black] man to be held down [by a white police officer] in broad daylight.… These are things that have been brewing in this country for 400 years.”
  • “It is time to rebuild. Rebuild the city, rebuild our justice system, and rebuild the relationship between law enforcement and those they’re charged to protect. George Floyd’s death should lead to justice and systemic change, not more death and destruction.”
  • “Communities need to be heard. They’re frustrated…. Because they’re not being heard. they’re demanding that these changes be made. They told us last year: ‘Change cash bail. Change how you do traffic stops.’ It didn’t happen, and look what we got.”
  • “A society that does not put equity and inclusion at the center of it, is certainly going to eventually come to the places we are at. This is a moment of inflection. It’s a moment of real change. It’s a moment that those folks who are out there demanding this, are not going to take [accept] a commission or a report. Um, they’re going to want fundamental change…. And that’s one of the exciting things in the midst of all this. You can feel a sense of optimism coming back.”
  • “Minnesotans can expect our administration to use every tool at our disposal to deconstruct generations of systemic racism in our state” and “restore trust with those in the community who have been unseen and unheard for far too long.”

WALZ: Defended Protesters Who Toppled Statue of Christopher Columbus 
When anti-American protesters in 2020 toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the Minnesota Capitol Building, Walz said: “It was an act of civil disobedience that we need to make sure people feel that there is a proper outlet to address what are legitimate concerns around what they view as a genocidal monument that they have to walk to in their democracy.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Alliance with Black Lives Matter
In August 2015, the Democratic National Committee:

  • officially endorsedBLM by approving a resolution that condemned “the unacceptable epidemic of extrajudicial killings of unarmed black men, women, and children at the hands of police”;
  • stated that the American Dream “is a nightmare for too many young people stripped of their dignity under the vestiges of slavery, Jim Crow and White Supremacy”; and
  • asserted that “without systemic reform this state of [black] unrest jeopardizes the well-being of our democracy and our nation.”

On September 16, 2015, five BLM activists met at the White House with President Obama and other administration officials. For one of the five, Brittany Packnett, it was her seventh visit to the Obama White House. Afterward, Packnett told reporters that the president had “offered us a lot of encouragement with his background as a community organizer”; “told us that even incremental changes were progress”; and exhorted the activists to “keep speaking truth to power.”

In a December 2015 interview, Obama described BLM as a positive force that was doing the vital work of shining “sunlight” on the fact that “there’s no black family that hasn’t had a conversation around the kitchen table about driving while black and being profiled or being stopped” by police.

At a Black History Month event at the White House in February 2016, Obama praised two BLM leaders as “young people … who are making history” with the “outstanding work” they were doing “on behalf of justice and equality and economic opportunity” – work that would “take America to new heights.”

On July 10, 2016, Obama likened BLM to the abolition, suffrage, and civil rights movements of yesteryear, saying that all of them were noble, even if they were sometimes “contentious and messy.”

On July 13, 2016 — six days after a BLM supporter in Dallas had shot and killed five police officers and wounded seven others — Obama hosted three BLM leaders at a lengthy meeting at the White House.

At the 2020 Democratic National Convention, former President Obama said to young BLM activists directly: “To the young people who led us [in protests] this summer, telling us we need to be better—in so many ways, you are this country’s dreams fulfilled…. You can give our democracy new meaning. You can take it to a better place. You’re the missing ingredient – the ones who will decide whether or not America becomes the country that fully lives up to its creed.”

During a June 19, 2020 interview on CNN, BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors declared: “[O]ur goal is to get Trump out.”

On October 9, 2020, BLM launched a Political Action Committee to “actively engage in the general election” by supporting Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and other Democrat political candidates.

On November 7, 2020 —  the same day that several mainstream media outlets declared Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the winners of the 2020 presidential election — BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors sent a letter to the victors, signing it “on behalf of the Black Lives Matter Global Network” and demanding political payback for BLM’s efforts to get them elected: “We are requesting a meeting with you both to discuss the expectations that we have for your administration and the commitments that must be made to Black people. We want something for our vote…. Black people won this election…. Black Lives Matter invested heavily in this election…. We want to be heard and our agenda to be prioritized.”

TRUMP: Rejects the 1619 Project
On September 17, 2020, President Trump, in an effort to combat the toxic message of the 1619 Project, announced the creation of a 1776 Commission to “encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history.” “Our mission is to defend the legacy of America’s founding, the virtue of America’s heroes, and the nobility of the American character,” said Trump. “We must … teach our children the magnificent truth about our country…. Our youth will be taught to love America with all of their heart and soul.”

10) BOOK BANS

HARRIS: Accusing Republicans of Banning Books
The early 2020s saw an increase in momentum for a parent-led movement aiming to remove, from school libraries and classrooms, books whose content contained explicit sexuality, pornography, transgender themes, the anti-white tenets of Critical Race Theory, and material otherwise inappropriate for young children. In 2023, for example, Florida passed HB 1069, a state law that:

  • barred instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms from pre-K through grade 8
  • prevented district school boards from requiring that either personnel or students be referenced with pronouns that did not correspond with their biological sex
  • barred the use of classroom materials “alleged to contain pornography or obscene depictions of sexual conduct, as identified in current law”

Many Democrats and their leftist supporters misrepresented such initiatives as “book bans” that prevented students from being exposed to literature that dealt with topics like slavery, the Jim Crow era, and racism.

During a July 21, 2023 address in Florida, VP Harris said: “And what is happening here in Florida? Extremist so-called leaders for months have dared to ban books. Book bans in this year of our Lord 2023.”

In July 2024, Harris told an American Federation of Teachers gathering: “While you teach students about our nation’s past, these extremists attack the freedom to learn and acknowledge our nation’s true and full history … including book bans…. We [Democrats] want to ban assault weapons, and they [Republicans] want to ban books. Can you imagine?”

BIDEN: Accusing Republicans of Banning Books
In June 2023, President Biden appointed domestic policy adviser Neera Tanden to coordinate the Department of Education’s efforts to address the alleged spike in book bans. “In too many parts of our country, LGBTQ Americans are being targeted for who they are, and that, simply put, is discrimination,” Tanden said, adding: “Book banning erodes our democracy, removes vital resources for student learning, and can contribute to stigma and isolation,”

In September 2023, President Biden said: “Now is the time for all Americans to speak up when history is being erased, books are being banned. Diversity is being attacked.”

During his third State of the Union speech in March 2024, Biden said: “And stop denying another core value of America: our diversity across American life. Banning books. It’s wrong! Instead of erasing history, let’s make history!”

WALZ: Accusing Republicans of Banning Books
In 2023, parents in Minnesota organized to stop Call Me Max, a book about a transgender boy, from being read aloud to kindergarten children. Specifically, the parents expressed concerns that the story would raise doubts and anxieties about sexual identity in children too young to understand the concept. Deriding such parental efforts as “regressive,” Governor Walz in 2024 signed Senate Bill 3567, a state law barring parental groups from removing books or other materials from school libraries “based solely on the viewpoint, content, message, idea, or opinion conveyed.” The new law stipulated that all decisions regarding what materials to stock should be entrusted to “a licensed library media specialist, an individual with a master’s degree in library sciences or library and information sciences, or a professional librarian or person with extensive library collection management experience.”

When Senate Bill 3567 was first introduced in March 2024, Walz told Minnesota Public Radio: “Those who have asked for book bans have never been on the right side of history. They have never been viewed as being the folks that were the heroes of freedom; they have never been viewed as the people that were looking out for others.” “Trying to tell someone else’s children that they can’t read The Hobbit, or whatever it might be, you’re in the wrong,” Walz added.

On July 25, 2024, Walz derided Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s opposition to abortion and to the presence of sexually explicit books in school libraries and classrooms: “I don’t need him telling me about my wife’s health care and her reproductive rights,” said Walz. “I don’t need him telling my children what books they can read.”

During the Democratic National Convention in August 2024, Walz said that “while other states were banning books from their schools, we [in Minnesota] were banishing hunger from ours.” He did not mention that the Feeding Our Future program to which he was referring – a program that was supposed to provide food for needy schoolchildren during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 – had perpetrated America’s largest COVID-related fraud scheme and bilked at least $250 million from taxpayers.

11) CHARACTER OF THE CANDIDATES

HARRIS: Her Maltreatment of Gold Star Families
On August 26, 2024, former President Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony honoring the 13 American soldiers who had been killed-in-action because of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous, chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan three years earlier. Neither Biden nor Harris took part in the August 26 event, but Harris, for her part, said in an X post that day: “It is not a place for politics. And yet, as was reported this week, Donald Trump’s team chose to film a video there, resulting in an altercation with cemetery staff. Let me be clear: the former president disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt. This is nothing new from Donald Trump. This is a man who has called our fallen service members ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’ and disparaged Medal of Honor recipients.” Harris further wrote that she, unlike Trump, “will always honor the service and sacrifice of all of America’s fallen heroes.”

In response to Harris, members of eight separate Gold Star families posted videos on X condemning her remarks and explaining that the families themselves had invited Trump to the cemetery for the ceremony – and that they had never once been contacted by Harris in the three years since the 13 service members were killed. One of those to post a video was Mark Schmitz, Gold Star father of Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz. Denouncing the “heinous, vile and disgusting post put out by Kamala Harris trying to incite those that don’t follow the truth, Mark Schmitz said:

“Why did we want Trump there? It wasn’t to help his political campaign. We wanted a leader — that explains why you [Harris] and Joe [Biden] didn’t get a call. Imagine for a second that your kid is killed. There’s a president in the United States willing to take you under his wing and listen to you. That’s what we found in President Trump, certainly not you, and certainly not Joe Biden. You have 13 families who have been waiting over three years to so much as get a phone call, to so much as hear our kids’ names said aloud in the halls of Congress, the State of the Union, hell, anything. The irony behind your post, that you give a rat’s ass about our military or our veterans, Jared’s brothers and sisters in arms, the rest of the 12, their brothers and sisters in arms, is an outright lie. We’re living proof of that. You’re despicable. You have zero business running this country. And I pray to God Americans wake the hell up. and get your ass out of office. You have spit in our face for the last fucking time.” Top of FormBottom of Form

HARRIS: Her Abusive Treatment of Staffers
In November 2019, Terry McAteer, an editorial board member of the California-based newspaper The Union, provided details about Kamala Harris’ volatile character and her abusive treatment of staffers in her office when she was California’s attorney general. McAteer had learned of Harris’ bad behavior when his son Gregory secured a one-month summer internship in Harris’ office. Asserting that “how she treats her staff is as important as an individual’s legislative accomplishments,” McAteer reported the following:

“Senator Harris vocally throws around ‘F-bombs’ and other profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others. The staff is in complete fear of her and she uses her profanity throughout the day.

“As Attorney General, Senator Harris instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, ‘Good Morning General.’

“Never once during the month-long internship did Harris introduce herself to our son…. and staff was too intimidated by her to introduce him. The only acknowledgment was a form letter of ‘thanks’ signed by Harris given to him on his last day of service.

“Gregory was also given instructions to never address Harris nor look her in the eye as that privilege was only allowed to senior staff members.”

As of March 31, 2024, only 4 of the initial 47 staffers who had been hired in 2021 to work in Harris’ vice presidential office were still employed there – a 91.5% turnover rate.

HARRIS: Plagiarism
In 2009, Harris, who was preparing to run for Attorney General of California, collaborated with Joan O’C. Hamilton to co-author and publish Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. On October 14, 2024, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Rufo published an article exposing the fact that the Harris-Hamilton book contained more than a dozen significant instances of plagiarism.

Rufo notes, for example, that in the following paragraph, Harris and Hamilton “lifted verbatim language from an uncited NBC News report.” The duplicated material appears in italics:

In Detroit’s public schools, only 25 percent of the students who enrolled in grade nine graduated from high school, while 30.5 percent graduated in Indianapolis public schools and 34 percent received diplomas in the Cleveland Municipal City School District. Overall, about 70 percent of the U.S. students graduate from public and private schools on time with a regular diploma, and about 1.2 million students drop out annually. Only about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation’s largest cities receive diplomas.

Elsewhere the book, writes Rufo, “Harris, without proper attribution, reproduced extensive sections from a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release … copying multiple paragraphs virtually verbatim.” Again, the duplicated material appears in italics:

High Point had its first face-to-face meeting with drug dealers, from the city’s West End neighborhood, on May 18, 2004. The drug market shut down immediately and permanently, with a sustained 35 percent reduction in violent crime. High Point repeated the strategy in three additional markets over the next three years. There is virtually no remaining public drug dealing in the city, and serious crime has fallen 20 percent citywide.

The High Point Strategy has since been implemented in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Raleigh, North Carolina; in Providence, Rhode Island; and in Rockford, Illinois. The U.S. Department of Justice is launching a national program to replicate the strategy in ten additional cities.

“In a section about a New York court program,” Rufo adds, “Harris stole long passages directly from Wikipedia—long considered an unreliable source. She not only assumes the online encyclopedia’s accuracy, but copies its language nearly verbatim, without citing the source.” Once again, the duplicated material appears in italics:

The Mid-town [sic] Community Court was established as a collaboration between the New York State Unified Court System and the Center for Court Innovation. The court works in partnership with local residents, businesses, and social service agencies to organize community service projects and provide on-site social services, including drug treatment, mental health counseling, and job training. What was innovative about Midtown Court was that it required low-level offenders to pay back the neighborhood through community service, while at the same time it offered them help with problems that often underlie criminal behavior.

Harris and Hamilton also reproduced the following material from an October 2000 Bureau of Justice Assistance report. The duplicated text is again indicated in italics:

Take West Palm Beach, Florida. This residential neighborhood on the outskirts of downtown struggles with a high crime rate. Although West Palm Beach is less than one mile from Palm Beach, one of the most affluent cities in the country, more than a third of the town’s residents live in poverty, and unemployment is high. The community is full of deteriorated houses and businesses, vacant lots with discarded mattresses and piles of trash, and litter strewn throughout the streets, sidewalks, yards, and parks. At the time the community considered adding a court, no new business had opened in the area, and few new houses had been built in recent years.

And in the paragraph that follows, Harris plagiarized promotional language from an Urban Institute report but elected not to cite the source. Again, the duplicated text appears in italics:

Participants meet six days a week for twelve hours a day and take part in an intensive schedule that involves classes, group learning, and group counseling designed to help them take a hard look at the violence in their lives. When the men are released after serving their sentences, they continue a six-month substance-abuse program or continue in the Post Release Education Program. The men are also required to participate in community restoration activities to begin to make amends for the impact of violence on the community; RSVP conducts workshops and discussions at high schools and other public events to increase awareness about violent crime.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Hid Iran’s Sharing of Materials Hacked from Trump Campaign
On September 18, 2024, three U.S. intelligence agencies — the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — issued a joint statement revealing that in late June and early July, Iran had hacked and “stolen” “non-public material” from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign emails and sent it, via email, to: (a) people working for the Biden-Harris campaign, and (b) various media outlets. After receiving the Iranian emails, the Biden-Harris campaign did not inform either the FBI or any other law-enforcement authority at all, but instead kept quiet about the matter.

Trump reacted to the news about the emails by writing on Truth Social: “The FBI caught Iran spying on my campaign and giving all of the information to Kamala Harris campaign. Therefore she and her campaign were illegally spying on me.”

Conservative columnist Daniel Greenfield put it this way: “The Biden-Harris campaign should have reported agents of a foreign government peddling stolen info to it. And it’s hard to believe that the sitting administration had no idea that Iran had hacked the Trump campaign. Its failure to do so is suspicious at best and treasonous at worst.”

WALZ: Lied about How He Became a Democrat
In 2004, Walz volunteered to work for Democrat Senator John Kerry’s presidential campaign against George W. Bush. At the time – and for many years thereafter – Walz falsely claimed that he had become a Kerry supporter not because of any preference he had for leftwing politics, but rather, as a result of a negative experience he had been forced to endure at a pro-Bush event which he attended with two of his students in Minnesota on August 5, 2004. Some time later, in a fawning, pro-Democrat piece that was published in the January/February 2006 issue of The Atlantic magazine, author Joshua Green laid out the narrative that Walz had already begun to espouse by that time. Wrote Green:

“[A]fter they [Walz and the two students] had passed through a metal detector [at the Bush event] and their tickets and IDs were checked, they were denied admittance and ordered back onto the bus [because] one of the boys had a John Kerry sticker on his wallet. Indignant, Walz refused. […]  His challenge prompted a KGB-style interrogation that was sadly characteristic of Bush campaign events. Do you support the president? Walz refused to answer. Do you oppose the president? Walz replied that it was no one’s business but his own. […] Shortly after this, Walz retired from the [National] Guard. Then he did something that until recently was highly unusual for a military man. He announced he was running for Congress—as a Democrat.”

But the chain of events described by Walz and memorialized by Joshua Green was entirely fictitious, as evidenced by photographs that later surfaced showing Walz displaying an “Enduring Freedom Veterans for Kerry” placard while participating in a pre-arranged protest against the August 5, 2004 Bush rally. (Note: “Operation Enduring Freedom” was America’s post-9/11 military operation in Afghanistan.)

WALZ: Falsely Claimed to Have Been in China During Tiananmen Square Massacre
Over the course of his adult years, Walz has said many times that he was in Hong Kong during — not after — the Tiananmen Square protests in which the Communist Chinese government slaughtered thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in the spring of 1989. But on October 1, 2024, various media outlets began to reveal that Walz had not in fact traveled to China until August of 1989.

WALZ: Stolen Valor
In 2005, Walz retired from the Army National Guard after 24 years of service, having achieved the rank of Master Sergeant, or E-8 (Eighth Enlisted Grade). But at that time – and for many years thereafter – Walz’s official website biography identified him as having attained the higher rank of Command Sergeant Major, or E-9. However, Walz held that more prestigious title only briefly before it was rescinded because of his failure to complete all the requirements upon which it was contingent. Specifically, he served only 4 of the 6 years which in 2001 he had pledged to the Minnesota Army National Guard, abruptly retiring in May 2005 after learning that his battalion would soon be deployed to a combat zone in Iraq. His early departure caused his rank at retirement to be reduced to Master Sergeant. In a November 2, 2018 letter published in the West Central Tribune, two retired Army Command Sergeant Majors — Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr — explained the nature of Walz’s actions and misrepresentation of his rank:

“The bottom line in all of this is gut wrenching and sad to explain. When the nation called, he [Walz] quit. He failed to complete the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy…. He failed to fulfill the full six years of the enlistment he signed on September 18th, 2001. He failed his country. He failed his state. He failed the Minnesota Army National Guard, the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, and his fellow Soldiers. And he failed to lead by example. Shameful.”

WALZ: Additional False Military Claims
When Walz first ran for Congress in 2006, his initial campaign announcement identified him as “a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom,” a title widely understood to signify someone who had served on the ground in Afghanistan, or in the airspace above Afghanistan, post-9/11. But Walz had never done either of those things, having spent his time instead in Italy working “in support” of Operation Enduring Freedom, and in Norway working in support of NATO forces.

Eighteen years later, while campaigning as Kamala Harris’ vice presidential running mate in 2024, Walz, calling for “common sense” gun-control legislation, advocated a ban on the kind of weapons “that I carried in war.” But in fact, he had never seen active combat during his military service. When a reporter subsequently asked Walz to explain why he had falsely claimed to have been “in war,” he replied that “my grammar is not always correct.”

TRUMP: Falsely Accused of Racism
Joe Biden flatly called Donald Trump a “racist” during the first presidential debate of 2020. In a similar spirit, Senator Bernie Sanders has stated: “We  have a president who is, in fact, a racist and a bigot.” These are just two of countless examples where leading Democrats have smeared President Trump as a racist.

The most famous and noteworthy charge of “racism” that has been leveled at Trump is the allegation that he issued racist remarks in the aftermath of the August 12, 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. That event was originally organized for the explicit purpose of protesting the proposed removal, from a local park, of an equestrian statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. According to various reports, the protesters were composed of two very distinct and dissimilar contingents of people:

  • aggressiveand hateful white supremacists with neo-Nazi sympathies
  • others who had no racial or anti-Semitic animus and simply wished to voice their disapprovalregarding the Lee statue’s removal

Meanwhile, a large group of counter-protesters likewise included two very distinct and dissimilar contingents:

  • those who supported the statue’s removal and wished to make their feelings known in a nonviolent public forum
  • hundreds of other people who were affiliated with Antifa, a revolutionary Marxist/anarchist militia movement advocating the use of violence to raze America’s existing society to the ground.

Shortly after a violent clash between opposing factions at the rally resulted in the death of one attendee, President Trump issued a statement saying: “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides — on many sides.” On August 14, Trump said: “We must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans. Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans…. Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America.” On August 15, President Trump held a televised press conference where he said:

  • “[Y]ou had a group on one side [the neo-Nazis] that was bad, and you had a group on the other side [Antifa] that was also very violent.”
  • “I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. But not all of those [pro-statue] people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch.”
  • “I think there’s blame on both sides.”
  • “[Y]ou have some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group … that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue.”
  • “And you had people, and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. OK? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers [Antifa] and … a lot of bad people.”

Trump’s detractors zeroed in mainly on his assertion that there had been “blame on both sides,” as well as some “very fine people on both sides,” at the site of the August 12 protest. The critics maliciously misrepresented what Trump had said, to make it seem as though he had referred to neo-Nazis as “very fine people.” Joe Biden, for example, has repeatedly – and fraudulently — claimed that Trump’s “very fine people” remarks were what caused him (Biden) to run for president in 2020.

TRUMP: Falsely Accused of Being Anti-Hispanic
A major New York Times piece titled “Donald Trump’s Racism: The Definitive List” charges that “during a White House meeting in 2018, [Trump] referred to some undocumented immigrants as ‘animals.’” Leading Democrats, too, have complained vocally about Trump having equated immigrants with “animals.” At a town hall meeting in South Carolina, for example, Joe Biden lamented that Trump had maligned “migrants seeking refuge in America” by saying “these aren’t people, these are animals.”

But in fact, Trump’s reference to “animals” was actually made in direct response to Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims’ complaint that immigration-law restrictions were preventing her from informing federal authorities that certain deportable, illegal-alien members of the brutally violent and murderous MS-13 gang were being housed, at that very moment, in a Fresno prison. It was in response to that reality, that Trump made his famous “animals” remark. To any honest observer, it would have been quite obvious that Trump was not referring to “undocumented” or “unauthorized” immigrants generally, but to MS-13 members specifically.

12) CHINA

WALZ: Ties to Communist China
After graduating from Chadron State College in Nebraska, Walz, through Harvard University’s WorldTeach initiative, worked for a year in a “teacher exchange” program wherein he taught American history and English to teenage students in China. The program was paid for by the Chinese government, and was made possible by a friend of Walz in China’s Foreign Affairs Department. Notably, Walz began this endeavor just months after the Communist Chinese government had slaughtered thousands of pro-democracy protesters in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Upon returning to the U.S. and taking a job as a social studies teacher at a Nebraska high school, Walz told the Nebraska National Guard’s newspaper: “Going there [to China] was one of the best things I’ve ever done.” Asserting that Chinese officials had treated him “like a king” and showered him with “more gifts than I could bring home,” he would later reflect: “No matter how long I live, I will never be treated that well again.”

During his tenure as a teacher in Nebraska, Walz told his students in a November 1991 lesson about China’s Communist system: “It [Communism] means that everyone is the same and everyone shares. The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing.”

In Nebraska as well, Walz met and fell in love with a fellow instructor named Gwen Whipple. The couple eventually married in 1994 and spent their honeymoon in China. Their wedding day was the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre — a date that, by Gwen’s telling, was chosen by Tim Walz because he “wanted to have a date he’ll always remember.”

Walz and his wife subsequently went on to make numerous trips to China as a couple, nearly every summer through 2003.

During his 12 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Walz went back to China a number of times to meet with influential political figures there.

Also during his time in Congress, Walz worked to earmark some $7 million for the Minnesota-based Hormel Institute, a publicly-funded laboratory that collaborated on projects with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 had its genesis. Walz also praised the work of the Wuhan Institute.

In 2015, Rep. Walz visited China and praised its infrastructure as well as the progress the nation was making in its fight against the alleged crisis of climate change.

In 2015 as well, Walz was part of a congressional delegation led by Nancy Pelosi that traveled to China, Tibet, and Hong Kong.

In 2016, Rep. Walz stated: “I’ve lived in China, and as I’ve said, I’ve been there about 30 times. I don’t fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship. I totally disagree.”

In January 2019, a Chinese Communist Party diplomat and other CCP government officials attended Walz’s inauguration as governor of Minnesota. A translation from a Chinese government source said of that event: “Acting Consul General Liu Jun congratulated Governor Walz and expressed his expectation to strengthen cooperation with the new Minnesota government to jointly promote the friendly and cooperative relations between Minnesota and China.”

In a letter he wrote as governor of Minnesota, Walz boasted that his state “has promoted Minnesota’s connections with China and hosted numerous senior Chinese leaders for decades.”

In September 2019, Walz, having just returned from a trip to Asia, voiced his displeasure over President Trump’s ongoing trade war with China, where: (a) Trump had set tariffs and other trade barriers on China in an effort to force the latter to end its unfair trade practices, and (b) the Chinese government then took retaliatory measures. Asserting that Minnesota’s farmers desperately needed the Trump administration to forge a trade deal with China, Walz said: “There’s just no substitute for 1.6 billion consumers who are hungry to get our China trade negotiations normalized. There is not enough market in the rest of the world to absorb our capacity.”

Soon thereafter, the U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association (USCPFA) – which was founded as a Communist front organization led by members of the Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party — invited Gov.Walz to speak at its October 2019 national convention in Minneapolis alongside a number of highly influential Communist figures. In his 2023 publication, Red Destinies, historian Colin B. Burke writes that although the USCPFA’s founders in 1971 sought to “advance the interests of Communist China and world communism.”

When Walz made his appearance at the aforementioned USCPFA convention in 2019, one of his fellow speakers was Li Xiaolin, president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC). InfluenceWatch.org describes CPAFFC as an organization that: (a) is funded by the Chinese Communist Party”; (b) is used, according to the U.S. government, to “directly and malignly influence state and local leaders” to promote China’s global agenda; and (c) is guided by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era.”

During an August 12, 2024 appearance on the Breitbart News Daily podcast, bestselling author Peter Schweizer stated that Walz remains connected to the Chinese government through “secret police stations that the Chinese have here in the United States,” stations which are unofficial but “so-called united front groups that exist in the West.” These stations, Schweizer explained, “cooperate with Chinese intelligence” in order to “intimidate Chinese [expatriates] that are living in the United States that don’t like the CCP or [are] critical of the CCP.”

Schweizer cited one alleged CCP police station that is “tied to a group called Minnesota Global, which is a Tim Walz organization.” “Now Tim Walz in 2020 and since 2020 has talked ad nauseam about the abuse by the police, the Twin Cities police, the local Minneapolis Police, about their terrible behavior with regards to how they arrest people,” added Schweizer. “I have not found one criticism that Tim Walz has had of this Chinese secret police station that’s operating in the Twin Cities. So again, you have to wonder, why is there this disconnect? Why are you so critical and brutal on your own country, but you won’t do a scintilla of the same thing as it regards to China?

On August 25, 2024, Fox News Channel host Maria Bartiromo asked Schweizer: “Do you believe that the Communist Party has been grooming Tim Walz?” Schweizer replied, “Oh, I think there’s no question about it, Maria. It goes back to the exchange program that he ran and brought hundreds of students from the United States to China…. [B]y the students’ accounting, Tim Walz [was] saying things like, well, in China, nobody is poor because everybody shares in China as if sort of a compulsive arm of the CCP is voluntary. I mean, sharing is voluntary. It’s a ridiculous statement to make. There are other comments he made. He told students going to China to downplay their American-ness. There’s an account from one student, I haven’t been able to independently verify, saying that he brought back lots of copies of Mao’s Little Red Book when he was in China.”

TRUMP: His Dealings with China
President Trump imposed various tariffs and sanctions against China in retribution for transgressions such as China’s theft of U.S. intellectual property, its purchase of fighter jets and anti-aircraft missiles from Russia, and its efforts to help North Korea evade American economic sanctions. The Trump tariffs and sanctions had an enormous impact on the Chinese economy. Reuters reported that by August 2019, “growth in industrial production [in China was] at its weakest in seventeen-and-a-half years.”

In October 2020, the Washington Times wrote the following about President Trump’s highly effective dealings with China:

“Donald Trump is the only president to meaningfully confront China’s abusive trade policies…. The groundbreaking U.S.-China Phase One Economic and Trade Agreement he signed in January stops forced technology transfer, protects our intellectual property, promotes U.S. financial services, removes barriers to trade, and creates long-term market access for American exports in manufacturing, agriculture and more. For the first time, these commitments from China are in writing and are fully enforceable.

“Mr. Trump is also maintaining pressure on China through tariffs on $370 billion in exports to the United States, including nearly all Chinese-made high-tech products….

“China is finally taking action to address numerous and long-standing intellectual property concerns….

“Of the 57 regulatory and structural changes that China committed to make in agriculture, China has already completed 50. This has led to significant new market access for U.S. poultry, beef, dairy, grains, seafood and more….

“[E]xports of U.S. manufacturing products to China have increased, and China has removed discriminatory barriers to open up its financial services sector to U.S.-owned enterprises, including life, pension and health insurance, securities, fund management and futures services. This allows U.S. companies to compete on a more level playing field in China.”

13) CONSTITUTION

WALZ: A “Living Document”
Walz has said: “I do believe the Constitution is a living document. I think Jefferson’s quote, about as mankind progressed and as technology progressed, the document was to progress with it, [unintelligible] how you deal with these things.”

BIDEN: A “Living Document”
In January 2020, Joe Biden said: “The people that I will appoint to the court, are people who have a view of the Constitution as a living document.”

TRUMP: Pledges to Appoint only Originalist Judges
President Trump pledged to appoint only originalists as judges — i.e., those who strive to discern the original intent of the Framers of the Constitution. Toward that end, he appointed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. And he applied this same standard to his appointments of 230+ additional judges to the federal bench.

14) COVID PANDEMIC

HARRIS: Injected Identity Politics into the COVID Pandemic
In May 2020, Senator Harris introduced the COVID–19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force Act, aimed at providing Congress and various federal agencies with “reports and recommendations related to racial and ethnic disparities in the COVID-19 response.”

In July 2020, Senator Harris introduced the COVID–19 Bias and Anti-Racism Training Act, a bill that that sought to require the Department of Health & Human Services to “award grants to health care providers, public health departments, tribal organizations, schools for social workers and health professionals, and other nonprofit entities, for bias and anti-racism training to reduce disparities in COVID-19 response efforts.”

WALZ: Permitted Nursing Homes to Admit COVID-Positive Patients
During the early weeks and months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Gov. Walz allowed nursing homes in Minnesota to admit COVID-positive patients; few other states in the nation permitted such admissions. Predictably, residents of Minnesota nursing homes who became infected with COVID constituted 81.9 percent of all coronavirus-related deaths statewide – a figure higher than that of any other U.S. state.

WALZ: Mask Mandate
On July 22, 2020, Gov. Walz announced a statewide mask order for Minnesotans, requiring all individuals to wear face-coverings in indoor public venues. “This is the quickest way to ending the COVID pandemic,” said Walz. “It is the surest way to getting us to the therapeutics and vaccines and with the least amount of impact on Minnesotans, and it is the absolute economic key to making sure that businesses are open and stay open.” This mask mandate would not end until May 2021, when the Minnesota executive council voted to lift it.

WALZ: Injected Race into the COVID Pandemic
As the deadly COVID pandemic continued to sweep across the United States, Gov. Walz, who had a great deal of influence over the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and was personally authorized to appoint the department’s commissioner, used his political clout to promote the use of racial preferences in MDH’s dispensation of highly coveted COVID therapeutics.

In compliance with Walz’s wishes, MDH instituted a policy that made monoclonal antibodies — a very effective coronavirus treatment that was in short supply and thus had to be rationed — more accessible for nonwhite people than for whites. Specifically, MDH devised a point system to help medical professionals determine which COVID-positive patients ought to qualify to receive the precious, relatively scarce antibodies. In that system — where 4 points were necessary to designate someone as a highest-need COVID patient — 2 points were automatically allotted to anyone who could be classified as “BIPOC” — i.e., Black, Indigenous, or People Of Color. This meant that a person’s BIPOC status alone would earn him or her just as many points as the presence of cardiovascular disease, obesity, or diabetes — co-morbidities known to dramatically increase the likelihood of negative outcomes for COVID patients.

On January 12, 2022, the conservative legal-advocacy group America First Legal (AFL) sent MDH’s then-commissioner, Jan Malcolm, a letter threatening to file a lawsuit if the department did not remove racial considerations – which AFL described as “blatantly unconstitutional, immoral and racist” — from its COVID scoring system. “The color of one’s skin,” the letter read, “is not a medical condition akin to hypertension, heart disease, or obesity, which are known to aggravate the risk of death or severe illness among those infected with COVID-19.” In response to AFL’s threat, MDH removed race as a factor to be considered in the rationed dispensation of monoclonal antibodies.

TRUMP: How He Dealt with the COVID Pandemic
As early as September of 2019, Chinese medical authorities first noticed a new, unfamiliar type of coronavirus in a number of patients in the city of Wuhan. But those authorities kept this discovery a secret for more than three months, during which time they continued to discover new cases of the virus on a regular basis. A University of Southampton study later estimated that the number of coronavirus cases worldwide could have been reduced by 95%, had China taken steps to contain the virus and to alert the rest of the world about it just three weeks sooner than it did.

On January 21, 2020, the U.S. confirmed its first known case of coronavirus in a young man who had recently traveled to Wuhan. On January 29, President Trump created a White House Coronavirus Task Force to coordinate the federal government’s response to the virus outbreak.

Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, had not held even a single hearing about the matter. Instead, they had spent the preceding four months entirely obsessed with one agenda item: impeaching President Trump and trying to remove him from office. The Senate impeachment trial, which had commenced on January 21, was still in high gear.

On January 31, President Trump formally declared coronavirus to be a public health emergency and became the first national leader in the world to implement a ban on incoming travel from China. There had not yet been a single known American death from the virus.

Joe Biden, however, depicted Trump as an anti-Asian racist because of his references to coronavirus as a “foreign virus” or a “Chinese virus.” “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia — hysterical xenophobia — and fearmongering,” said Biden.

On February 24, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited San Francisco’s crowded Chinatown area and encouraged people to come and patronize its various shops and vendors, assuring the public that “everything is fine here” and “it’s very safe to be in Chinatown.” Within a few weeks, Pelosi would be claiming that President Trump — and not she — had failed to take the lethality of the virus seriously enough.

Meanwhile, President Trump announced further restrictions on incoming travel from certain global hot spots where coronavirus was becoming increasingly widespread — namely Iran (February 26), South Korea (February 29), and eventually, all of Europe (March 11 & 14).

On February 29, a patient near Seattle was believed to be the first person to die of coronavirus in the United States.

Over the next several weeks and months, President Trump and his administration worked around the clock to:

  • accelerate the development of coronavirus diagnostic capabilities, treatments, and vaccines
  • dramatically cutthe bureaucratic red tape that traditionally had stood in the way of swift development of therapeutics and inoculations
  • sign legislation securing trillions of dollars for coronavirus response efforts
  • meet with industry executives and nonprofit leaders to develop action plans and forge public-private partnerships
  • permitMedicare health plans to waive co-payments for coronavirus tests and treatment
  • instructthe Small Business Administration to make available low-interest disaster loans for businesses impacted by the virus
  • swiftly create large military hospitals aboard ships and in land-based facilities to help support areas impacted by coronavirus
  • temporarily suspend foreclosures and evictions affecting families whose mortgages were insured by the Federal Housing Administration
  • dramatically expandaccess to telehealth services
  • recruit auto manufacturers to re-purpose their assembly lines for the mass production of ventilators
  • meet with distributors such as FedEx and UPS to discuss ways of getting necessary medical supplies to state and local governments
  • invoke the Defense Production Act to direct the 3M Company to produce a vast quantity of additional N95 respirator masks
  • make the U.S.the world leader, by far, in its capacity to test for coronavirus

In March 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci — a lead member of the Coronavirus Task Force and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — noted that “the very timely decision on the part of the president to shut off travel from China” had “absolutely” gone “a long way” toward limiting the number of coronavirus infections in the U.S. “We did it early,” said Fauci. Stating also that the Trump administration’s “coordinated response” to the crisis had been “impressive,” Fauci added: “I can’t imagine that, under any circumstances, anybody could be doing more.”

In early April 2020, the Trump administration launched “Operation Warp Speed,” a Manhattan Project-style effort to dramatically reduce the amount of time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine. As Bloomberg News pointed out: “There is no precedent for such rapid development of a vaccine.”

Two separate vaccines – produced by Pfizer and Moderna — were authorized for use in late 2020, representing one of the fastest, most extraordinary achievements in the history of medicine. Distribution of the vaccines in the U.S. began in December 2020. The incoming Biden administration then made those vaccines the centerpieces of its fight against COVID, issuing numerous vaccine mandates targeting federal employees, federal contractors, federally-funded Medicaid-and Medicare-certified health care facilities, Head Start program facilities, and private companies with more than 100 employees.

15) CRIMINAL JUSTICE

HARRIS: Low Number of Prison Terms Per Arrest
During Harris’ tenure as San Francisco district attorney (2004-11), the number of prison terms per arrest in San Francisco was California’s lowest — ten times lower than the corresponding rate in San Diego County.

HARRIS: Supported the Release of Thousands of Prisoners
In August 2024, Douglas Eckenrod, a former deputy director of parole for the California prison system, stated that Attorney General Harris had been a key supporter of Proposition 47, a 2014 California state ballot measure that reduced numerous felony offenses to misdemeanors and thereby caused thousands of prison inmates statewide to be released. “Prop 47 couldn’t happen without the AG’s office support,” said Eckenrod. “Her support of it was literally critical.”

According to Fox News: “Under Prop 47, petty theft of goods valued at under $950 is classified as a misdemeanor, even for multiple offenses. It also took a broad swath of narcotics possession offenses that were previously felonies and converted them to misdemeanors.” The results were disastrous. In February 2015, Breitbart.com reported that since Prop 47’s passage in November 2014, crime in Los Angeles County had risen dramatically: “Compared with the same three-month period a year ago, auto theft is up 20 percent, felonies are up 16 percent, misdemeanors are up 27 percent, and homicides are up 18 percent.”

HARRIS: Massive Increase in California Rapes under AG Harris
When Harris first ran for California Attorney General in 2010, there were 8,325 rapes statewide that year. By 2016, the corresponding figure was 13,695 — a 64% increase. Conservative columnist and author Daniel Greenfield has provided the following insights vis-a-vis Harris’ terrible track record:

“Kamala Harris … led a rebrand of soft-on-crime policies as ‘smart on crime’. This would also become the title of her book arguing for keeping many criminals out of prison. Among other things, ‘smart on crime’ meant cutting quick and easy plea deals while working as the DA in San Francisco to maintain the appearance of the high conviction rates that she would cite when running for attorney general. The plea deals that her office later cut statewide … cooked statistics by raising conviction rates and lowering prison populations to create the illusion that pro-crime policies worked…. By [2020], arrest rates [in California] had fallen to their lowest point since 1969 while violent crime soared.”

HARRIS: Supporter of Proposition 57, a Pro-Criminal Ballot Measure
Attorney General Harris was a strong supporter of Proposition 57, a 2016 California ballot measure that:

  • allowed the parole board to release “nonviolent” prisoners once they had served the full sentence for their primary criminal offense, and to cancel any extra prison time to which they may have been sentenced for such aggravating circumstances as repeat offenses
  • allowed juvenile-court judges to determine whether or not juveniles aged fourteen or older should be prosecuted and sentenced as adults, a decision that theretofore had been solely the province of prosecutors
  • authorized the awarding of sentence credits that would reduce the length of convicts’ prison terms if they exhibited good behavior or participated in rehabilitation or education programs

In July 2016, the Fresno Bee published an analysis of Prop 57 that pointed out its lack of clarity in defining exactly what constituted a “violent” crime. For example, Prop 57 limited the definition of rape to “sexual intercourse” by force, violence, extortion or threat, but excluded “dozens of other forms of rape” – e.g., sexual penetration with a foreign object, or of an unconscious or inebriated victim.

HARRIS: Refusal to Bar Sex Offenders from Living Near Schools & Parks
In 2015, AG Harris chose not to enforce Proposition 83, a measure that California voters had passed overwhelmingly nine years earlier to prevent the state’s 6,000 paroled sex offenders from being allowed to live within 2,000 feet of schools and parks. After the passage of Prop 83, the California Supreme Court ruled that those residency restrictions violated the constitutional rights of sex offenders who lived in that county. But the Court issued no ruling whatsoever on the legality of the restrictions in California’s 57 other counties. Nevertheless, Harris concluded that the restrictions were invalid in those counties as well — and then refused to explain her legal reasoning.

HARRIS: Condoning a Two-Tiered Justice System
When President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2017, Sen. Harris tweeted: “Judge Gorsuch has consistently valued legalisms over real lives. I won’t support his nomination.” As the American Thinker subsequently pointed out: “'[L]egalisms’ (a.k.a. what the law actually says) are the very basis of the rule of law. When [Harris] touts ‘real lives,’ [and] not the law, as the proper basis for SCOTUS rulings, she openly endorses a political system based on favoritism, not the rule of law.”

HARRIS: Opponent of the Death Penalty
When she campaigned for San Francisco DA in 2003, Harris pledged that she would never pursue capital punishment for any criminal, because she considered it unjust and immoral. During her 2004 inaugural address as DA, she again vowed to “never charge the death penalty” — a promise she kept for all of her seven years in that office.

In March 2019, during her bid for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination, Harris praised California Governor Gavin Newsom for placing a moratorium on the death penalty in his state. Asserting that “the application of the death penalty — a final and irreversible punishment — has been proven to be unequally applied,” Harris called the day of Newsom’s announcement an “important day for justice.”

Also during her 2020 presidential run, Harris’ campaign website said: “Kamala believes the death penalty is immoral, discriminatory, ineffective and a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars.”

In her 2024 presidential campaign, Harris has refused to answer requests that she clarify her current stance on the death penalty.

HARRIS: Restore the Voting Rights of Felons
In 2019, Sen. Harris advocated for the restoration of voting rights for all felons who had served their criminal sentences.

HARRIS: Voting Rights for Terrorists
During an April 22, 2019 CNN town hall, host Don Lemon asked Sen. Harris, who was seeking the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, whether “people who are convicted, in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault … should be able to vote” in political elections. Harris replied: “I think we should have that conversation.”

HARRIS: End the Cash Bail System
In 2019, Sen. Harris promised that if she were to be elected president, she would end cash bail, writing in a memo: “Excessive cash bail disproportionately harms people from low-income communities and communities of color,” thereby “criminalizing poverty.”

HARRIS: Remove Nonviolent Offenses from Criminal Records
In 2019, Sen. Harris pledged that if she were to be elected president, she would support the automatic removal of “offenses that are not serious or violent” from criminals’ records after five years.

HARRIS: Supporter of Radical Prosecutors Funded by George Soros
As explained by Charles “Cully” Stimson, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, the year 2015 saw the launch of a “progressive prosecutor” movement financed most heavily by the America-hating leftwing multibillionaire George Soros. This movement is founded upon the premise that the U.S. criminal-justice system is systemically racist to its core and can only be remedied by the wholesale replacement of law-and-order district attorneys with pro-criminal and anti-police alternatives. Says Stimson:

“One of the hallmarks of the rogue prosecutor movement has been its usurpation of the constitutional role of state legislatures. Once elected, rogue prosecutors refuse to prosecute entire categories of crimes that are on the books in their states, justifying their refusal by claiming ‘prosecutorial discretion.’ But … [p]rosecutorial discretion … does not give prosecutors the power to redefine crime and punishment. By refusing to prosecute entire categories of crime, they are in effect repealing criminal statutes—acting in place of the legislature. This is prosecutorial nullification, not discretion.”

Not surprisingly, rates of murder and other violent crimes have skyrocketed in the cities that have elected such “progressive prosecutors.”

In February 2024, Harris voiced her strong support for “progressive prosecutors … who can show what is possible and then show that it works, and show that frankly, it’s not contrary at all to public safety, [but that] in fact, it is a better way.”

HARRIS: Chose Not to Enforce a Law She Did Not Like
In 2008, DA Harris was disturbed when California voters approved Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in that state. In December 2010, as she prepared to commence her tenure as California Attorney General, Harris announced that her AG office – in a departure from the custom whereby AGs traditionally defend state laws – would not defend Proposition 8 before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The reason for Harris’ refusal to defend Prop. 8, was that she personally disagreed with it. “It’s well within the authority vested in me as the elected attorney general to use the discretion of my office to make decisions about how we will use our resources and what issue we will weigh in on or not,” she said.

“Adding insult to injury,” noted Tyler O’Neil in PJ Media, “Harris rushed to officiate the first same-sex marriage after a court struck down the will of the people.”

WALZ: Opponent of the Death Penalty
Walz believes that the death penalty should be abolished as “cruel and unusual punishment.”

WALZ: Opponent of Three-Strikes Laws
Walz argues that the discretion of judges and juries should not be diminished by formulaic sentencing policies like “Three Strikes” laws.

WALZ: End the Cash Bail System
In 2020, Governor Walz suggested that in order to give blacks and other nonwhites a sense that the criminal-justice system is not entirely stacked against them, it would be useful to either reform or end the cash bail system.

TRUMP: Great Respect for, and from, the Police
Early in his presidency in 2021, Trump told a gathering of officers: “I will always support the incredible men and women of law enforcement as much as you have always supported me.”

America’s major police organizations have unanimously voiced their support for Trump in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. These include such notables as the National Association of Police Officers, the Fraternal Order of Police, and the International Union of Police Associations.

16) DEFUNDING THE POLICE

HARRIS: Supporter of Defunding the Police
During a June 9, 2020 interview on a New York-based radio program, Sen. Harris voiced her support for the “defund the police” movement that had mushroomed in the aftermath of George Floyd’s recent death and the riots that followed. Objecting to the amount of money that was being devoted to police budgets rather than to community services such as education, housing, and healthcare, Harris made the following remarks:

  • “This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these [police] budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities.”
  • “Defund the police, the issue behind it, is that we need to reimagine how we are creating safety. And when you have many cities that have one third of their entire city budget focused on policing, we know that is not the smart way and the best way or the right way to achieve safety.”
  • “For too long, the status quo thinking has been, you get more safety by putting more cops on the street. Well, that’s wrong, because by the way, if you wanna look at upper middle class suburban neighborhoods, they don’t have that patrol car.”

During a June 8, 2020 appearance on MSNBC, Sen. Harris explicitly called on U.S. cities to scale back their police forces and the funding that they received. “Part of what we have to do here is also look at the militarization of police departments and, and the kind of money that is going to that,” she said. “And we need to demilitarize police departments…. It is outdated and is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety.”

In another June 8, 2020 interview — this time on ABC’s The View — Harris advocated for police funds to be redirected to social service programs. “In many cities in America, over one third of their city budget goes to police,” she lamented. “So, we have to have this conversation. What are we doing? What about the money going to social services? What about the money going to helping people with job training? What about helping with the mental health issues that communities are being plagued with for which we’re putting no resources?”

And in a third June 8, 2020 interview —  on ABC’s Good Morning America — Harris praised Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti for his decision to cut the city’s police budget by $150 million and reallocate those dollars to social services. “I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he’s done,” she said.

WALZ: Supporter of “Alternatives to Policing”
Days after Minneapolis had been overrun by violent riots in the wake of George Floyd’s May 25, 2020 death, Gov. Walz endorsed a package of criminal-justice reforms that included “alternatives to policing.” He characterized the package, which was put together by the Minnesota People of Color and Indigenous (POCI) Caucus, as one of his “legislative priorities.” “Minnesotans are demanding real change,” Walz said during a June 11, 2020 press conference. “We stand united with House and Senate leaders and the People of Color and Indigenous Caucus, ready to get to work during the upcoming special session. I stand with the legislators who have coordinated a powerful set of reforms to make meaningful changes to our law enforcement system in Minnesota.”

Vowing also that “Minnesota will change the way we do policing,” Walz in June 2020 said that one of his reforms would be the creation of an Office of Community-Led Public Safety Coordination, which would “promote and monitor alternatives to traditional policing models” and award grants to fund “healing circles.” “These are long overdue changes,” Walz added, “but they do not end the conversation we’re having about police accountability. The POCI Caucus has shown tremendous leadership on this issue, and I look forward to continuing our work with them to bring meaningful reform.”

TRUMP: Opponent of Defunding the Police
During a June 8, 2020 White House roundtable with members of law enforcement, President Trump lauded the police for the “fantastic” job they were doing. “There won’t be defunding, there won’t be dismantling of our police, and there is not going to be any disbanding of our police,” he said, adding: “We want to make sure we don’t have any bad actors in there, and sometimes, you’ll see some horrible things like we witnessed recently, but 99 — I say 99.9, but let’s go with 99% — of them are great, great people, and they’ve done jobs that are record setting.” Noting further that crime statistics nationwide were “among the best numbers we’ve ever had in terms of recorded history,” Trump stated: “There’s a reason for less crime, it’s because we have great law enforcement. I’m very proud of them.”

17) DRUGS

HARRIS: Supports Legalized Marijuana Because It Brings “Joy”
In a February 11, 2019 interview on The Breakfast Club, a New York City-based radio program, Sen. Harris was asked to comment on rumors that she opposed the legalization of marijuana. “That’s not true, she replied, laughing. “Look, I joke about it, I have joked about it. Half my family is from Jamaica, are you kidding me?” Harris, who acknowledged having smoked marijuana in college, was also asked whether she would smoke it again if the federal government were to legalize the drug’s recreational use. She laughed and replied: “Listen, I think it gives a lot of people joy. And we need more joy.”

HARRIS: Legalize All Illicit Drugs
In 2019, Sen. Harris filled out an ACLU questionnaire that asked: “Since drug use is better addressed as a public health issue (through treatment and other programming), will you support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use?” In response, Harris checked the “Yes” box and elaborated: “[T]hroughout my career I have supported treating drug addiction as a public health issue, focusing on rehabilitation over incarceration for drug-related offenses.”

BIDEN: Pardon All Marijuana-Possession Offenses
On October 6, 2022, President Biden announced that he was “pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession,” explaining that “no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.” He also exhorted governors to follow his lead and pardon “simple state marijuana possession.”

WALZ: Supporter of Legalized Marijuana for Recreational Use
As a congressman running for governor in 2017, Walz said the following about the prospect of legalizing marijuana for both medical and recreational uses: “We have an opportunity in Minnesota to replace the current failed policy with one that creates tax revenue, grows jobs, builds opportunities for Minnesotans, protects Minnesota kids, and trusts adults to make personal decisions based on their personal freedoms.”

In October 2018, Rep. Walz again called for the full legalization of both medical and recreational marijuana.

On May 30, 2023, Gov. Walz signed House File 100 into law, thereby legalizing the recreational use of cannabis in his state.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Decriminalize Marijuana
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform says: “No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Sending people to prison for possession has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit. Those criminal records impose needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities, disproportionately affecting Black and brown people.”

18) ECONOMY

HARRIS & BIDEN: Historically High Inflation
On July 13, 2022, PBS.org reported: “Surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted U.S. inflation to a new four-decade peak in June … Consumer prices soared 9.1 percent compared with a year earlier,… the biggest yearly increase since 1981, and up from an 8.6 percent jump in May.”

During the Biden-Harris administration’s first 42 months in office, from January 2021 through July 2024, consumer prices in the United Staes increased by 20.2 percent…. This represented the worst inflation record the U.S. had experienced since the Jimmy Carter administration of 1977-1981.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Opposed Trump Tax Cuts
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said: “Under her plan, she’ll reverse President Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cut for big corporations and the top 1%.”

During the 2020 vice presidential debate, Harris said: “On day one, Joe Biden will repeal that [Trump] tax bill. He’ll get rid of it.” Similarly, at an October 30, 2020 campaign stop in Texas, Harris said to a cheering audience: “I promise you this — as a first order of business, Joe Biden and I are about to work to get rid of that tax cut.”

HARRIS: Her Contributions to Massive Inflation
In August 2024, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) stated that “much of America’s inflation since 2020 has resulted from” two votes in particular that Harris, as the tiebreaking vote in a 50-50 Senate, cast in favor of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan of 2021 and the so-called Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. “These laws didn’t reduce inflation,” said WSJ. “They caused it. Together, they increased federal spending by more than $3 trillion. A new study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity finds that such a fiscal surprise translates to at least 6% higher consumer prices in an economy the size of the U.S. Therefore, Ms. Harris’s two votes were responsible for at least half of the excess inflation (beyond 2% annually) that occurred between 2020 and 2024.”

“If Ms. Harris had gotten her way fully,” added WSJ, “inflation would have been even worse. While a senator, Ms. Harris introduced in 2020 the Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act, which would have paid most U.S. residents $2,000 a month until three months after the pandemic emergency’s official end. Had that bill become law, payments would have continued through August 2023 and cost an additional $15 trillion. Cumulative inflation would have been more than 50%, rather than 20%, between December 2020 and July 2024.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Massive Tax Hikes of All Kinds
As of late August 2024, Harris endorsed the tax policies put forth by President Biden in his most recent budget proposal. These included:

  • a 28 percent corporate tax, up from the 21 percent rate that had gone into effect when President Trump in 2017 reduced it from 35 percent to 21 percent
  • a 44.6 percent capital gains tax, up from the existing rates of 0%, 15%, and 20%, depending on one’s income level (But on September 5, 2024, the Harris-Walz campaign’s senior national spokesman, Ian Sams, stated that Harris only wanted to raise the capital gains tax rate to 28 percent.)
  • a 25 percent tax on unrealized capital gains (The Heritage Foundation, which describes this tax as “likely unconstitutional,” explains: “A capital gain is the profit you make when you sell an investment asset for more than you paid for it. Once that profit is in hand, a tax lawyer would call it ‘realized,’ and the IRS would take its share. If, however, your investment increases in value and you choose not to sell it, you have an ‘unrealized’ capital gain, because the ‘profit’ exists only on paper. Under the Democrats’ proposed tax, the IRS would take its share even if that money isn’t in hand.”)

HARRIS: $15 Minimum Wage
Most studies of minimum-wage hikes in countries all over the world demonstrate that when governments impose artificially high wage rates on businesses, not only do overall employment rates drop, but young, inexperienced, and low-skilled workers are affected far negatively more than anyone else. An American Enterprise Institute analysis puts it this way: “Artificially raising wages for unskilled workers reduces the demand for those workers at the same time that it increases the number of unskilled workers looking for work, which results in an excess supply of unskilled workers. Period. And another term for an ‘excess supply of unskilled workers’ is an ‘increase in the teenage jobless rate.’”

Nonetheless, Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said: “To raise wages, Kamala will fight to … make a $15 minimum wage the national floor.”

HARRIS: Suddenly Calls for Tax Deduction That Democrats Had Long Opposed
In early September 2024, Harris, in an effort to curry favor with voters in the upcoming presidential election, proposed that the $5,000 maximum tax deduction which small businesses could claim on their start-up expenses should be increased to $50,000 – an idea that mirrored several earlier Republican bills that Democrats had opposed almost unanimously. In 2018, for example, the House of Representatives had passed a bill seeking to increase the deduction to $20,000 – legislation that was supported by every House Republican as well as the Trump administration, and was rejected by nearly every House Democrat.

HARRIS: Price Controls
To address inflation, which she blames chiefly on corporate “greed,” Harris in 2024 proposes top-down government price controls which, if implemented, will only trigger a new round of high inflation. As Joseph Klein explains in FrontPage Magazine:

“Harris proposed a federal ban on ‘price gouging’ by so-called ‘greedy’ food companies and groceries, which would impose price controls on companies that in fact are barely making a profit as it is. Groceries’ average profit margin is 1-3%, hardly enough for anyone with a modicum of common sense to [view] as evidence of price gouging. Nevertheless, Kamala Harris wants federal bureaucrats to decide if the prices that groceries and their food suppliers want to charge for their products are too high and must be blocked by government fiat….

“Such price controls, when tried in the past, have led to disastrous distortions in the economy that caused substantial pain for the average consumer. Producers cut back drastically on production to avoid losses at the capped prices set by the government. When the price controls were temporarily eased to give producers more breathing room, the pent-up demand burst open and pushed prices considerably higher as available supplies of products were not nearly enough to meet the soaring demand.”

BIDEN: Executive Order for $15 Minimum Wage
On April 27, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order increasing the hourly minimum wage of federal contract workers to $15 beginning in January 2022, up from the existing $10.95 minimum wage. Biden’s order also stipulated that the minimum wage would thenceforth be adjusted annually based on inflation.

BIDEN: Opposed Trump Tax Cuts
Condemning President Trump for enacting “irresponsible, sugar-high tax cuts,” Joe Biden, when campaigning for president in 2019-2020, said: “When I’m president … we’re going to reverse those Trump tax cuts.” “Eliminating just a few of the tax cuts” would be inadequate, he claimed. “I’m going to eliminate most all of them.”

WALZ: $15 Minimum Wage
In October 2018, Rep. Walz voiced his support for a $15-per-hour minimum wage in Minnesota.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Price Controls for Drug Companies
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform says: “The [Biden-Harris] Administration is … leading the charge against Big Pharma price gouging, by requiring drugmakers that raise prices faster than inflation to pay the difference back to Medicare.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: At Least a $15 Minimum Wage
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform says: “We … raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $17.20 an hour, and will keep pushing Congress to increase it to at least $15 for all Americans.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: 12 Weeks of Paid Family & Medical Leave
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform calls for the creation of “America’s first, full, national paid family and medical leave program, guaranteeing every American worker up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a new child or loved one to recover from an illness, in cases of domestic violence, or military deployment.”

TRUMP: He Cut Corporate Taxes
In 2017, the Trump tax-cut bill reduced the corporate tax rate from 35%, which was nearly the highest rate in the world, to 21%. Almost immediately thereafter, some 500 major U.S. companies used their tax savings under the Trump tax cuts, to fund bonuses and wage increases for 4.8 million workers.

The Wall Street Journal reports that by the end of 2019, business investment “was 9.4% above its pre-2017 trend,” while real investment for corporations rose 14.2%. Similarly, a 2021 Heritage Foundation report showed that “a key driver in the surge in investment was multinational firms” that, as a result of the Trump tax cuts, “chose to reinvest in U.S. markets instead of offshoring.”

TRUMP: Created a Thriving Economy for All Demographics
“The reinvestment in America that tax reform spurred,” says the Heritage Foundation, “paid real dividends for the typical household, increasing their annual rate of income growth tenfold. Real median household incomes grew by more than $5,000 in 2018 and 2019 alone. By contrast, in the 30 years prior to 2017, real median household income grew by a total of $7,600, or about $250 per year.”

In 2018, the national poverty rate fell to 11.8%, the lowest annual figure since 2001.

In 2019, median household income reached $65,084 — the highest level ever recorded, and a gain of $4,144, or 6.8%, since the start of Trump’s presidency. By contrast, during the final 7½ years of Barack Obama’s presidency the median household income of Americans had risen by a mere $1,043 (1.7%).

Between January 2017 and August 2019, the total number of people employed nationwide increased by 6.6 million.

In February 2020, the overall unemployment rate nationwide was a mere 3.5%, the lowest figure since December 1969.

The black unemployment rate in August 2019 was 5.4%, an all-time low.

The Hispanic unemployment rate in September 2019 was 3.9%, an all-time low.

The Asian unemployment rate in June 2019 was 2.1%, the lowest level since 2003.

The female unemployment rate reached its lowest level in 65 years.

Youth unemployment reached its lowest level in more than 50 years.

During President Trump’s first 30 months in office, manufacturing jobs in the U.S. increased by 499,000 — a 4.0% rise. This was the fastest rate of growth in manufacturing since 1988.

In November 2019, Chase Bank CEO Jamie Dimon said that Trump’s economy was “the most prosperous economy the world has ever seen.”

TRUMP: Cut Government Regulations Dramatically
Key contributors to the prosperity under President Trump were the unprecedented measures that he took to cut the size and power of government. In January 2017, Trump signed an executive order that called for the elimination of two regulations for every new regulation proposed. In February 2017, he said that “every regulation should have to pass a simple test: Does it make life better or safer for American workers or consumers? If the answer is no, we will be getting rid of it, and getting rid of it quickly.”

During the first year of Trump’s administration, regulatory activity was 74% lower than it had been during the first year of the Obama administration. Curtis Copeland, a former specialist at the Congressional Research Service, said in 2017: “By any empirical measure, it is a level of [deregulation] activity that has never been seen. It is unprecedented.”

19) EDUCATION

HARRIS: Opponent of Charter Schools & Vouchers
Charter schools often serve as outstanding alternatives to failing, substandard public schools — particularly in poor urban areas. They operate as schools of choice and are exempt from many state or local regulations related to operation and management.

School voucher programs allow low-income, mostly-minority parents to take the taxpayer money that is normally allocated for their child’s education in a failing, substandard public school, and to use it instead to cover the cost of tuition at a private school of their choice.

Harris — in accord with the official Democrat Party position, opposes both charter schools and voucher programs. In 2020 she said she was “particularly concerned with [opposed to] expansions of for-profit charter schools,” and she criticized President Trump’s campaign promise to, as Harris put it, “divert public school funding to private school vouchers.”

HARRIS: Free College
When launching her 2020 presidential campaign on January 21, 2019, Harris said: “I am running to declare education is a fundamental right, and we will guarantee that right with universal pre-K and debt free college!”

Harris in 2020 promised that if she and Joe Biden were elected to the White House, they would make both a two- and four-year college education tuition-free for students from families earning less than $125,000 per year.

Analysis: As bestselling author Mark Levin points out, free-college proposals are highly unjust. Only about one-third of all Americans hold a college degree, and college graduates earn a great deal more than non-graduates. Thus, “free college” means that the lower-earning non-college-graduates would be required to subsidize, via their tax payments, the education of the higher-earning graduates.

HARRIS: Student-Loan Debt Forgiveness
The proposition of student-loan debt forgiveness is fundamentally unfair because the loans, under such an arrangement, would be paid off by taxpayers, many of whom chose not to attend college because they did not want to take on the enormous debt associated with it. Moreover, such debt forgiveness would not do much to help people in real economic need. As the Heritage Foundation notes: “Loan forgiveness would overwhelmingly benefit the already well-off. It’s projected that for every dollar of debt cancellation that would go to the lower middle class and impoverished student loan holders, seven times that would go to the top 20% of earners—the lawyers, accountants, and doctors who borrowed heavily for their degrees.”

In 2020, Harris promised that if she and Biden were elected to the White House, “for those students who come out [of college] and have jobs that pay less than $125,000, student-loan debt will also be forgiven.”

WALZ: Opponent of Vouchers
Walz believes that voucher programs designed to enable low-income parents to send their children to private schools rather than to failing public schools, constitute bad policy because they rob the public schools of vital resources.

In October 2015, Rep. Walz voted against the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act, which sought to allow eligible students in Washington, D.C.’s abysmal public schools to enroll instead in private schools.

WALZ: Free College
In October 2018, Rep. Walz articulated his desire to provide 2 years of tuition-free education at Minnesota state colleges for all students hailing from families with annual incomes of $125,000 or less.

WALZ: Free College for Illegal Aliens
In May 2023, Governor Walz approved an education funding measure that authorized the use of state tax dollars to pay all public college and public university tuition costs for illegal-alien students from families with annual incomes below $80,000. In most states, such benefits are reserved only for legal immigrants and U.S. citizens.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Free College
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform calls for making “trade school and community college free for every American.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Student Loan Debt Forgiveness
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform says: “A majority of college students graduate with student debt. It can be an overwhelming stress, as snowballing interest follows folks for decades, defining the choices they make and the jobs they take, and holding back our entire economy. Although Republican appointees on the Supreme Court blocked the President’s initial student debt relief plan for 40 million borrowers, he has not stopped using every available tool to provide relief.”

TRUMP: Supports Charter Schools & Vouchers
President Trump strongly supports charter schools, calling them “the ladder of opportunity for black and Hispanic children.” In July 2020, he signed an executive order to expand school choice for Hispanics and improve access to charter schools.

Trump also supports school vouchers. “We’re fighting for school choice, which really is the civil rights [issue] of all time in this country, frankly,” he says.

20) ELECTORAL COLLEGE

HARRIS: Open to Abolishing the Electoral College
Harris has stated that she is “open to the discussion” of abolishing the Electoral College. “There’s no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who’s the president of the United States, and we need to deal with that,” she says, “so I’m open to the discussion.”

WALZ: Opponent of the Electoral College
In 2023, Gov. Walz signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement in which he pledged that Minnesota would join all other willing states in allocating all of their respective Electoral College votes to whichever presidential candidate won the national popular vote – regardless of whether that candidate received the most votes within his or her state. The Compact never took effect, however, because it did not garner support from enough states.

In a video that was posted to YouTube in August2024, Walz said, “[T]he Electoral College seems very undemocratic to me.”

During a political fundraiser in California on October 7, 2024, Walz said: “I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need a national popular vote, but that’s not the world we live in.”

21) ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

HARRIS: Dangers of Climate Change
On January 21, 2019, presidential candidate Harris delivered a speech wherein she asserted that: “Climate change is real and it is happening now. From wildfires in the west to hurricanes in the east, to floods and droughts in the heartland, we’re not gonna buy the lie. We’re gonna act, based on science fact, not science fiction.”

HARRIS: Activism Against Fossil-Fuel Companies
In 2016, Harris was one of seventeen Attorneys General (16 Democrats and 1 Independent) who joined “AGs United for Clean Power” (AGUCP), a group launched by former Vice President Al Gore. AGUCP’s objective was to file criminal fraud charges against fossil-fuel companies (and their supporters) that failed to explicitly endorse the notion that greenhouse-gas emissions associated with human industrial activity are chiefly responsible for potentially catastrophic “climate change.”

HARRIS: Carbon Taxes and Cap-&-Trade
In 2016, Harris’ Senate campaign website vowed that she would, if elected, “stand up to the climate-change deniers and fight to pass national climate-change legislation that promotes innovation like establishing a carbon tax or creating a cap-and-trade market for carbon pollution.”

As the Institute for Faith and Freedom explains: “The purpose of cap and trade legislation is to reduce Americans’ consumption of fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—and to speed up the transition to alternate forms of energy, such as wind and solar power. The ‘cap’ part would be a legislated limit to the quantity of carbon dioxide that Americans would be permitted to put into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. The government would then issue permits that it would sell or give … to businesses who could then either emit CO2 up to the amount stipulated in their permit, or, if they can curb CO2 emissions below that amount, could sell or ‘trade’ the permit to the highest bidder in the after-market.”

HARRIS: Ban the Sale of Gasoline-Powered Cars by 2035
In April 2019, Senator Harris co-sponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019, which sought to ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2040, at which point they would have to be powered by either electricity or hydrogen. When Harris subsequently launched her 2020 presidential bid, her campaign website advocated standards that were even more ambitious – a plan to ban internal-combustion-engine cars by 2035.

HARRIS: Supporter of the Paris Climate Accord
Summarizing the major tenets and objectives of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, a Heritage Foundation report says:

“During the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, President Barack Obama met with world leaders from around the globe to discuss plans to combat climate change. The general consensus from the summit was that the use of natural resources, such as coal, oil, and natural gas—which provide 80 percent of the world’s energy needs—should be avoided. Furthermore, industrialized, rich countries should pay for poor countries to build more renewable power and address climate change. In effect, the framework is a push for un-development for the industrialized world and a major obstacle for growth for the developing world. The economic impact of instituting the regulations associated with the Paris agreement will be severe [… and] the economic sacrifices will generate a negligible impact on global temperatures.”

When President Trump in June 2017 announced his intention to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, Harris said that Trump’s “disastrous decision” would have “catastrophic repercussions for our planet’s future,” and would “threate[n] the world our children and children’s children will live in.”

Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said: “My plan sets out a bold target to exceed the Paris Agreement climate goals and achieve a clean economy by 2045, investing $10 trillion in public and private funding to meet the initial 10-year mobilization necessary to stave off the worst climate impacts…. By 2030, we will run on 100 percent carbon-neutral electricity, all new buses, heavy-duty vehicles, and vehicle fleets will be zero-emission. All new buildings will be carbon-neutral.”

The U.S. rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement on the first day of the Biden-Harris administration in 2021.

HARRIS: Ban Offshore Drilling
On April 29, 2017, Harris posted on her social media account: “Offshore drilling is harmful to the environment and poses a threat to the health and well-being of Californians…. That’s why I’m standing up for our natural resources and public health by co-sponsoring legislation that would ban drilling off the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington.”

HARRIS: Opponent of Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing — commonly known as fracking — is a horizontal-drilling technology that allows oil and gas to be extracted from shale rock thousands of feet below ground. Fracking has been a vital component of America’s ability to finally achieve energy-independence. Contrary to claims that fracking pollutes drinking-water sources, scientific evidence now shows that it is a safe, clean process that has no effect on groundwater.

In September 2019, presidential candidate Harris was asked, “Will you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking [on] your first day in office, adding the United States to the list of countries who have banned this devastating practice?” She replied: “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking, and starting with what we can do on day 1 [of my presidency] around public lands. And then there has to be legislation. But yes, and this is something I’ve taken on in California. I have a history of working on this issue. And … we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the impact on the health and safety of communities.”

HARRIS: Threatens to Bring Criminal Charges against Big Oil
During a November 2019 town hall in South Carolina, Harris was asked if she planned to investigate the role that large oil companies played in polluting the environment. “You should be really prepared to look at a serious fine or be charged with a crime,” she replied. “And, not unlike the tobacco companies, after years — ’cause they’d done the research — they knew the harm that their product was causing. They were making so much money that they kept that secret — same thing with these big oil companies. And they need to pay the price. So yes is the answer.”

HARRIS: Co-Sponsor of the Green New Deal
In October 2018, Democrat congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) made reference to a “Green New Deal” that would: (a) aim to make the U.S. 100 percent reliant on renewable energy sources (wind, water, solar) by the year 2035; (b) strive to eliminate all fossil fuels from the U.S. electric grid by 2030, thereby forcing Americans to use much more expensive and less reliable energy sources such as wind and solar, neither of which is capable of fulfilling more than a tiny fraction of America’s energy needs; and (c) mandate trillions of dollars in public expenditures on government-approved “upgrades” and “retrofits” to make existing homes and businesses more “energy efficient.”

In addition to environmental and energy matters, the Green New Deal vowed to “build on FDR’s second bill of rights by guaranteeing” a number of major benefits:

  • “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work”
  • “a [federal] job with a family-sustaining wage” for those who are in fact able and willing to work
  • “family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security” for all workers
  • “high-quality education, including higher education and trade schools,” with all tuition costs covered by the government
  • “high-quality health care” administered by the federal government
  • “safe, affordable, adequate housing”

Noting that “none of these proposals has anything at all to do with climate change,” Heartland Institute president Tim Huelskamp described the Green New Deal as “the most radical socialist proposal in modern congressional history.”

In July 2019, AOC’s chief-of-staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, candidly acknowledged that the Green New Deal had not been devised to protect the environment, but rather to implement socialism. “[I]t wasn’t originally a climate thing at all…. [W]e really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”

By March 14, 2019, Kamala Harris was one of eleven U.S. Senators — all Democrats, except “Independent” Bernie Sanders — who had officially signed on as co-sponsors of the Green New Deal. Harris called herself “a proud co-sponsor of [the] Green New Deal resolution.”

In her 2020 presidential campaign, Harris said: “As president of the United States, I am prepared to pass a Green New Deal.”

HARRIS: Invest in Electric Vehicles
In 2022, Harris said, “Electric cars, trucks and buses, they don’t produce tailpipe emissions that irritate the nose and eyes, that decrease lung function, that increase susceptibility to respiratory illness. And so, putting more electric vehicles on our roads will make communities … healthier for our babies. … The auto industry is clearly moving toward electric. We need to make the shift faster, and make sure it is driven by the United States. That means manufacturing millions of electric cars, trucks, and buses right here in our country…. And it means installing a national network of EV chargers.

In May 2024, Harris went to Detroit to announce a $100 million government outlay to help auto manufacturers to upgrade their facilities in preparation for increased production of electric vehicles.

A Mackinac Center for Public Policy report explains that electric vehicles (EVs) “are proving to have at least as much environmental impact as conventional vehicles.” Some key excerpts:

  • “While electric vehicles may not emit carbon dioxide during normal operations, the power sources that charge their batteries commonly do. The majority of electric vehicles are charged using power generated by fossil fuels [requiring] diesel generators…. Heritage Foundation research explainsthat [in the process of manufacturing a single] Tesla Model S battery, carbon dioxide emissions are ‘equivalent to driving [a] BMW 320d for 60,000 miles.’”
  • “About 70%of electric vehicle [lithium-ion] batteries and their components are made in China, which derives the vast majority of its energy from fossil fuels, specifically coal. Furthermore, the manufacturing process for these batteries is far less efficient than the manufacturing process for batteries used in conventional vehicles.”
  • “The components of electric vehicles also have an environmental cost…. Mining and other processes are used to extract materials such as lithium and cobalt from the ground. Lithium is often collected through brine extraction, a process [that] can contaminate [and deplete] groundwater supplies [especially] in … Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.”
  • “In the … ‘artisanal mining’ that occurs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [e]ntire regions of the nation, including forests and water resources, have been ravaged and polluted to provide much of the world’s supply of cobalt” – a metal necessary for the production of EV batteries.
  • “[T]he disposal of EV batteries and their components presents a major risk to the environment. According to Sciencemagazine, if the battery ends up in a landfill, ‘its cells can release problematic toxins, including heavy metals’ that can leach into landfills or groundwater.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: End Fossil Fuel
During the 2020 presidential run, Joe Biden said at a September 2019 campaign appearance: “I want you to look at my eyes. I guarantee you, I guarantee you, we’re going to end fossil fuel.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Canceling Completion of the Keystone XL Pipeline
On his very first day as the nation’s chief executive — January 20, 2021 — President Biden signed an executive order revoking the presidential permit by which President Trump had granted permission for the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline which was intended to transport crude oil from Canada to refineries and distribution centers in the United States. “The Keystone XL pipeline disserves the U.S. national interest,” said Biden’s order. “… Leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administration’s economic and climate imperatives.”

But in fact, Biden’s decision to cancel Keystone was destined to have a negative impact on the environment. Consider the issues of efficiency and safety in the transport of crude oil. Nearly three-fourths of all petroleum products in the U.S. were already being transported via some 200,000 linear miles of existing pipelines, while trucks and trains together accounted for only 7 percent of petroleum transport. Despite this massive imbalance, liquid pipelines had a long safety record that was vastly superior to that of roads and railways. Accidents, leaks, spills, and other environmentally hazardous incidents were far less likely to involve transport by pipelines than by trucks or trains.

Nor were there any identifiable benefits that the termination of the Keystone pipeline could possibly have on the long-term health of the environment. The Daily Signal noted that “even if the oil meant for the pipeline was blocked completely, the impact on the global climate would be almost nonexistent, clocking in at a meager four ten-thousandths of a degree (Celsius) in temperature change over the next 79 years.”

And that is to say nothing about the 11,000 American jobs that were permanently lost when Biden cancelled Keystone, nor about the massive economic consequences that virtually all Americans suffered as a result of the Biden-Harris war on fossil fuels. Specifically, the nation’s declining petroleum output under Biden-Harris gave rise to runaway inflation of a magnitude that the U.S. had not seen in decades.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Waiving Sanctions Against Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline
Just four months after having issued the executive order to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, President Biden, citing U.S. national interests, decided to waive Trump-era sanctions against the company in charge of building Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany. National security expert Tom Rogan pointed out that Biden’s action would have a number of major repercussions:

“First, Nord Stream 2 will give Putin the means of Europe’s long-term energy dependence on Russia. That will allow Putin to leverage European political appeasement in return for Russia’s provision of cold winter energy supplies. It will thus weaken the American-led international order…. It will be of particular concern to NATO allies on Russia’s border…. Second, Nord Stream 2 will deny Ukraine access to billions of dollars in annual energy transit funds by displacing energy supplies from Ukrainian pipelines. For a country under escalating Russian military pressure, Biden’s action represents a clear betrayal.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: War on Fossil Fuels Empowers & Enriches China
The Biden-Harris quest to abandon fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy empowers America’s chief political and military rival, Communist China, which thoroughly dominates the technologies and raw materials required for the production of solar panels and the lithium batteries that store energy from the wind and sun. For instance, China produces 90 percent of the world’s polysilicon, central to the production of solar panels. It is also the world’s leading supplier of cobalt, a key component of lithium batteries. And 60% of the world’s known cobalt deposits derive from Chinese-owned mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the mining industry has long been notorious for its exploitation of child labor.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Begging for Oil Imports from Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, & UAE
On March 8, 2022, President Biden announced that the U.S. would now ban oil imports from Russia — just days after his administration had argued against such a ban. “We will not be part of subsidizing Putin’s war [in Ukraine],” Biden said. Warning Americans to expect even higher gas prices as a result of this decision, he added: “I said defending freedom is going to cost.” Biden also stated: “I’m going to do everything I can to minimize Putin’s price hike here at home.”

But the Biden-Harris war on U.S.-based fossil fuels put America in the position of begging some of its most hostile enemies across the globe to help it meet its domestic energy needs. In March 2022, for instance, the Biden-Harris administration, in an effort to make up for the domestic petroleum shortfall that was causing American gasoline and heating-oil prices to skyrocket, sought to purchase oil from Iran and Venezuela. Biden also asked Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to increase their own respective outputs of oil in order to throw a lifeline to America, but he was rebuffed in humiliating fashion. This all occurred less than 18 months after America’s own massive oil reserves had made the United States a net exporter of oil and refined fuels during the Trump years.

On May 4, 2022, OPEC, the powerful Middle Eastern oil cartel, announced that it would, along with Russia, reject the Biden administration’s latest request for OPEC to increase its oil production as a way of stopping the rapid rise in petroleum prices.

WALZ: Reduce Fossil Fuels
In November 2006, Walz advocated “reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and the negative effects on our air, water and climate.”

WALZ: Condemned President Trump’s Withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord
In response to Trump’s 2017 withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, Rep. Walz tweeted that climate change is a threat to “our air, water, food and national security,” and that withdrawing from the accord “weakens U.S. national security, food security, moral/global leadership – and lets down our kids.” In a separate tweet, Walz wrote: “Clean, US energy = jobs, energy independence, and a safer future. Staying in #ParisAgreement is a no-brainer for America.”

WALZ: Climate Change Is an Urgent Threat
In October 2018, Rep. Walz characterized climate change as a very real and urgent threat to humanity and the natural world.

WALZ: Invest in Electric Vehicles
In 2022, Gov. Walz announced a climate change plan that, according to Minnesota Public Radio, “includes a goal of increasing the share of electric cars on Minnesota roads to 20% by 2030 from the current 1%.”

In January 2022, Gov. Walz called for a $13.8 million government investment in a statewide electric-vehicle charging infrastructure.

WALZ: 100% Reliance on Wind, Solar, & Green Energy
In June 2024, Gov. Walz pledged that by 2040, Minnesota would be 100 percent reliant on wind, solar, and other sources of power favored by environmentalists – i.e., a carbon-free electrical grid. Moreover, Walz’s policy stipulated that by January 2025, all Minnesotans would be legally required to obtain at least one-fourth of their electricity from “green” sources. Minnesotans would also be barred from selling conventional power to other states, a prohibition that prompted neighboring states to charge that the policy was “constitutionally suspect” and represented “an improper attempt by Minnesota to export its wholly internal energy-policy decisions to its neighboring states in patent violation of those states’ rights and sovereignty.”

As of June 2024, Minnesota had enacted 132 policies and fiscal incentives that encouraged the use of green energy — more than any other U.S. state except California. Among those incentives, as National Review noted, were: “a state energy rebate, renewable-energy credits, property-tax exemptions, and an exemption from the 7 percent state sales tax” – all of which shifted many of the financial burdens associated with green energy onto the shoulders of Minnesota’s taxpayers.

TRUMP: Opponent of the Paris Climate Accord
On June 1, 2017, President Trump announced that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, into which the Obama-Biden administration had entered. When announcing the withdrawal, Trump said: “As someone who cares deeply about the environment, which I do, I cannot in good conscience support a deal that punishes the United States — which is what it does – the world’s leader in environmental protection, while imposing no meaningful obligations on the world’s leading polluters…. The agreement is a massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries…. Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree … Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100.”

Heritage Foundation scholar Stephen Moore has pointed out the inevitable futility and uselessness of imposing economy-crushing regulations on the U.S. coal industry, as the Democrats sought to do: “[E]ven if the U.S. cut our own coal production to zero, China and India are building hundreds of coal plants. By suspending American coal production, we are merely transferring jobs out of the U.S.”

TRUMP: Opposed to Restrictions on Coal Plants
In March 2017, President Trump issued an executive order that initiated an immediate review of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which restricted greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants. He described the CPP as a “crushing attack” on workers, loaded with “job-killing regulations.” Trump also lifted an Obama-Biden moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands.

TRUMP: Supporter of Offshore Drilling
In January 2018, the Trump administration announced a five-year plan to open up all offshore drilling areas — in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic coast, the Pacific coast, and the Alaskan coast — to leasing. Whereas under President Obama, 94 percent of the outer continental shelf was off-limits to drilling, the Trump plan opened 98 percent of the oil reserves in those regions to extraction. This was part of Trump’s pursuit of “energy dominance” as a strategy for increasing national security by eliminating American dependency on OPEC.

TRUMP: America Became the World’s Top Oil Producer
In September 2018, the U.S. overtook Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s largest oil producer. According to the Institute for Energy Research: “U.S. energy production in 2019 was higher than U.S. energy consumption for the first time in 62 years. Thus, the U.S. attained the long-held goal of ‘energy independence’ … One can thank the oil and gas industry and its use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling for that milestone.” “We’ve made OPEC relatively irrelevant,” said Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance.

TRUMP: America’s Air Continued to Get Cleaner during His Presidency
While Democrats contend that radical restrictions on all fossil-fuel-based energy sources are crucial to the promotion of a clean environment, America’s air quality has in fact been improving dramatically for years, thanks mostly to environmental innovations developed by the free market. In 2017, Heritage Foundation scholar Stephen Moore pointed out: “Emissions of lead, sulfur, carbon monoxide, and other air pollutants from coal plants [in the U.S.] have fallen by more than half, and in some cases 90%, in recent decades.”

In February 2020, the International Energy Agency reported that while CO2 emissions in China and India were growing at a rapid rate, the U.S. in 2019 saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions of any country on earth.

22) EQUITY (EQUAL OUTCOMES)

HARRIS: Advocate of Equal Outcomes — i.e., Communism
On November 1, 2020 — two days before election day — VP candidate Harris narrated an online animated video in which she said: “So there’s a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, ‘Oh everyone should get the same amount.’ The problem with that, not everybody [sic] startin’ out from the same place. So if we’re all gettin’ the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here — we could get the same amount, but you [you are] still going to be that far back behind me. It’s about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.”

WALZ: Praised China’s Communist System
During his tenure as a teacher in Nebraska, Walz in November 1991 gave a lesson praising the Communist Chinese system, telling his students: “It means that everyone is the same and everyone shares. The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg, or about 30 pounds, of rice per month. They get food and housing.”

23) FILIBUSTER

HARRIS: Supporter of Ending the Senate Filibuster Rule
In September 2019, Harris said that if she were to win the presidency, she would support abolishing the filibuster — the requirement that any proposed legislation garner 60 votes as a prerequisite to ending the Senate’s unlimited debate and bringing the bill to a simple majority vote. “[I]f they [Republicans] fail to act,” she stated, “as president of the United States, I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal.”

During a speech at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in September 2022, Harris said that if Democrats could win two additional U.S. Senate seats in the upcoming November midterms, they would then have enough votes to end the “archaic” filibuster rule and pass whatever legislation her party deemed essential. “With just two more seats in the Senate, we can codify Roe v. Wade, we can put the protections of Roe in law,” Harris said. “With two more seats in the United States Senate we can pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Two more seats…. [A]s vice president, I’m also president of the Senate.… I cannot wait to cast the deciding vote to break the filibuster on voting rights and reproductive rights. I cannot wait! Fifty-nine days [until Election Day].” (Theretofore, Democrats had been unable to eliminate the filibuster rule because 2 of their 50 senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, were committed to keeping it in place.)

BIDEN: Supporter of Ending the Senate Filibuster Rule
On October 5, 2021, President Biden said there was a “real possibility” that Senate Democrats might use their razor-thin majority to suspend the filibuster rule so they could forcibly raise the debt ceiling even with no Republican support at all.

During a June 30, 2022 press conference, Biden was asked what “specific actions” he might take in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “I believe we have to codify Roe v. Wade in the law,” he said, “and the way to do that is to make sure Congress votes to do that. And if the filibuster gets in the way … we provide an exception for this, we require an exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with the Supreme Court decision.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Supporter of Ending the Senate Filibuster Rule
In a January 30, 2021 interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s Politics Nation, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer articulated his desire to end the Senate filibuster rule, a move that would empower his party to ram its agenda down the throat of a deeply divided nation at a time when Democrats controlled both the House and Senate by the slimmest of margins.

At a March 16, 2021 press conference, Schumer spoke about the prospect of Democrats dispensing with the Senate filibuster rule. “[W]e must get bold change,” he said. “And if our Republican friends block it, we’re going to put our heads together and figure out the best way to go. Everything’s on the table. It’s plain and simple.” (This was a stark contrast to Schumer’s 2005 assertion that if the Republicans’ then-majority were to end the filibuster rule, it “would be a doomsday for democracy,” usher in a “dictatorship,” and “make this country into a banana republic.” Schumer had similarly spoken out against ending the filibuster in April 2017.)

24) FREE SPEECH RESTRICTIONS

HARRIS: Called for Trump’s Twitter Account to Be Terminated
In an October 1, 2019 letter addressed to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Senator Harris asked the social media company to consider suspending President Trump’s account because he had: (a) used Twitter to “target, harass, and attempt to out” the whistleblower who filed a complaint alleging that Trump had once pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to uncover damaging information about Joe Biden; (b) likened the whistleblower to a spy and “further implied that the punishment for that should be death”; and (c) tweeted that “a Civil War” might erupt if Democrats were to impeach him. “I believe the President’s recent tweets rise to the level that Twitter should consider suspending his account,” Harris wrote in her letter. “Others have had their accounts suspended for less offensive behavior. And when this kind of abuse is being spewed from the most powerful office in the United States, the stakes are too high to do nothing.”

In an October 15, 2019 CNN interview, host Jake Tapper asked Senator Harris about her call “for Twitter to suspend the account of President Trump.” Harris replied: “You can look at the manifesto from the shooter in El Paso to know that what Donald Trump says on Twitter impacts people’s perceptions about what they should and should not do…. He has lost his privileges and it should be taken down. And the bottom line is that you can’t say you have one rule for Facebook and you have a different rule for Twitter. The same rule has to apply, which is that there has to be a responsibility that is placed on these social media sites to understand their power. They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation. And that has to stop.”

HARRIS: Promoting Government Collusion with Social Media Companies
During a December 19, 2022 appearance on NPR, VP Harris stated that in order to minimize the spread of misinformation and disinformation: “I fully expect and would require that leaders in [the social media] sector cooperate and work with us who are concerned about national security and concerned about upholding and protecting our democracy to do everything in their power to ensure that there is not a manipulation that is allowed or overlooked that is done with the intention of upending the security of our democracy and our nation.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Exhorting the Press & Social Media to Censor “Misinformation & Disinformation”
On January 13, 2022, President Biden pleaded with Americans to continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic by wearing masks and getting vaccinated, and he exhorted media companies to censor posts that contradicted government narratives on COVID-19, its transmission, and the efficacy of masks and vaccines. “I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets,” he said, “please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that’s on your shows, it has to stop.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: “Disinformation Governance Board” to Thwart Free Speech
On April 27, 2022, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that a “Disinformation Governance Board” (DGB), whose stated purpose was to protect America’s national security by combating foreign misinformation and disinformation campaigns, had recently been established as part of DHS. The DGB was headed by Nina Jankowicz, who described herself “a disinformation fellow” and an expert on Russian disinformation.

In an opinion piece published by The Hill on May 1, 2022, media-and-politics columnist Joe Concha criticized the DGB by pointing out that politics are routinely used to determine what is classified as “disinformation” or “misinformation.” He noted, for instance, that:

  • Jankowicz in 2020 had falsely characterized New York Post reports that the infamous Hunter Biden laptop contained massive evidence of corruption by Joe Biden and his family, as nothing more than “a Trump campaign product” rooted in Russian disinformation.
  • Jankowicz had falsely described the fraudulent Steele dossier that accused Donald Trump of colluding politically with Russia and committing various moral/sexual improprieties, as a document replete with “great historical context about the evolution of disinfo.”
  • In May 2022, DHS Secretary Mayorkas had wrongly accusedhis own Border Patrol agents of whipping migrants in a manner that “painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.”

“You get the point,” wrote Concha. “Mayorkas and Jankowicz are two of the last people who should be leading any ‘Ministry of Truth.’ And the U.S. government shouldn’t even have considered creating something like this [DGB] to be run by partisans with political agendas.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Pressured Facebook to Censor Content
In an August 26, 2024 letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Facebook/Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg affirmed that “senior officials” from the Biden-Harris administration had “repeatedly pressured our teams for months [in 2021] to censor certain COVID-19 content” that people sought to post on the social media platform. “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” Zuckerberg added. “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.”

In that same letter, Zuckerberg wrote that just before the 2020 presidential election between Biden-Harris and Trump-Pence, Facebook had temporarily demoted all references to the New York Post story reporting that Hunter Biden’s laptop contained damning evidence of corruption involving Joe Biden and his family. The demotion of that story, Zuckerberg explained, occurred because the FBI had warned Facebook that the laptop’s content may have been part of a “Russian disinformation operation” designed to thwart Joe Biden’s presidential chances. “It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation,” Zuckerberg wrote in his letter, “and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.”

WALZ: Free Speech Restrictions
In a 2022 interview on MSNBC, Gov. Walz — referring to what he called the spread of “insidious” “misinformation” that could potentially threaten America’s government and way-of-life — stated that “there’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, especially around our democracy.”

25) GUN RIGHTS & SECOND AMENDMENT

HARRIS: Supported a Ban on All Handguns
During her time as DA of San Francisco in 2005, Harris supported Proposition H, which contained a proposal to completely ban the possession of handguns throughout the city. According to Breitbart.com: “The ban supported by Harris was structured so as to require city residents to hand over all handguns within four months.”

HARRIS: Allow In-Home Inspections of Personal Guns & Their Storage
In 2007, then-San Francisco DA Harris proudly announced that a bill which she had helped draft – and which was later signed into law by Mayor Gavin Newsom — would effectively authorize the government to dispatch police officers to enter the homes of legal gun owners to check if the latter were being “responsible” with their weapons. “We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community,” Harris told reporters, “and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home, doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: 2nd Amendment Does Not Protect Right to Own a Gun
Arguing that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual’s right to own a gun, DA Harris in 2008 filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller. In that case, the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms—unconnected with service in a militia—for lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home.

Regarding the Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller decision, Biden has said: “If I were on the Court, I wouldn’t have made the same ruling.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Ban “Assault Weapons” & “High-Capacity Magazines”
In 2017, Harris co-sponsored a bill to ban “assault weapons” and the sale of “high-capacity magazines,” commonly defined as those that hold more than 10 rounds.

Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website also included the following policy proposal: “Ban AR-15-style assault weapons from being imported into the United States.” The website also advocated a “ban high capacity magazines,” and “renewing the assault weapons ban.”

Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign website says “she’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”

On February 14, 2021, President Biden exhorted Congress to pass legislation “banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”

“Why should we allow people to have … pistols with 9mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?” Biden asked in a 2020 campaign speech.

Biden has called for banning the sale of “assault weapons” and “clips that have multiple bullets in them,” which would effectively amount to a ban on nearly all firearms.

  • NOTE: The Heritage Foundation explains: “There is no standard definition of ‘assault weapon,’ but the phrase generally refers to a semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine and one or more of a handful of common cosmetic features, such as a pistol grip, forward grip, barrel shroud, collapsing or folding stock, or threaded barrel…. [These weapons] are functionally identical to all other semi-automatic rifles.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Opposed to Criminal Immunity for Gun Makers & Dealers
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said she would fight for “the repeal of the NRA’s corporate gun manufacturer and dealer immunity bill” – i.e., the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a 2005 U.S law protecting firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when their products are used in the commission of a crime.

On February 14, 2021, President Biden pushed Congress to pass legislation “eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Supporters of Forced Government Buybacks of Semi-Automatic Guns
Harris supports forced, government-mandated buybacks of semiautomatic rifles. As she said in September 2019, “I think it’s a good idea…. We have to take those guns off the streets.”

Biden likewise favors “a national buyback program” for semiautomatic firearms.

Biden’s point man on gun control in 2020 was Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who repeatedly conflated automatic and semiautomatic weapons while warning: “I want to be clear: That’s exactly what we’re going to do [buyback programs]. Americans who own AR-15s and AK-47s will have to sell their assault weapons. All of them.” “Hell yes,” O’Rourke emphasized, “we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47 …”

WALZ: Detests the NRA
Walz’s former support for the National Rifle Association (NRA) ended when he renounced that organization in the wake of a February 14, 2018 mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In a February 23, 2018 opinion piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Rep. Walz: (a) called the NRA “the biggest single obstacle to passing the most basic measures to prevent gun violence in America,” and (b) vowed that “I won’t accept NRA contributions for my campaign for governor.”

WALZ: Assault-Weapons Ban & Other Proposed Reforms
During his first VP campaign appearance with Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in August 2024, Walz pushed for a ban on AR-15 rifles and other firearms that Democrats characterize as “assault weapons.”

In a February 23, 2018 opinion piece, Walz articulated his support for “common sense reforms” like the implementation of “universal background checks”; “‘no fly, no buy’ legislation”; “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for research into gun violence”; and “an assault-weapons ban.” Walz also boasted that he had voted against “concealed-carry reciprocity,” and that he had co-sponsored a bill to ban so-called “bump stocks.”

In 2023, Gov. Walz signed legislation that instituted universal background checks and red-flag laws in Minnesota.

TRUMP: Supporter of the Supreme Court’s Heller Decision
President Trump strongly supports the Supreme Court’s 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision, which ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to possess firearms that are “in common use at the time” — independent of one’s service in a state militia — and to use those firearms for lawful purposes such as self-defense within one’s home.

TRUMP: Supports the NRA
In April 2017, President Trump told an NRA gathering: “The eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end. You have a true friend and champion in the White House. No longer will federal agencies be coming after law-abiding gun owners. No longer will the government be trying to undermine your rights and your freedoms as Americans. Instead, we will work with you, by your side. We will work with the NRA to promote responsible gun ownership … And we want to ensure you of the sacred right of self-defense for all of our citizens…. Our police and sheriffs also know that when you ban guns, only the criminals will be armed.…  As your President, I will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.”

26) HEALTH CARE

HARRIS: Medicare for All
When launching her 2020 presidential campaign on January 21, 2019, Harris stated: “I am running to declare, once and for all, that health care is a fundamental right, and we will deliver that right with Medicare for All!” In other words, she called for a government-run, single-payer healthcare system.

  • Single-payer systems have been tried in a number of nations in recent decades. Because such systems are “free,” people tend to overuse their healthcare. Thus, in order to contain costs, government must ration services like diagnostic procedures, rehabilitation services, surgery, etc.  Patients invariably face long waiting lists for treatments of all types.
  • Another hallmark of most single-payer systems is a shortage of doctors – mainly as a result of government controls and capped compensation.
  • The bureaucracies of single-payer systems hold ultimate authority over the treatments that each patient can get. Britain’s National Health Service, for instance, relies on the recommendations of a quasi-governmental panel that determines which patients should be given precedence for the treatments and medications they need, all of which are in short supply. Because of cost considerations, the panel generally gives preference to young people over older people, and to healthy people over those with chronic disease.
  • The Cato Institute states that “in countries weighted heavily toward government control, people are most likely to face waiting lists, rationing, restrictions on physician choice, and other obstacles to care.” By contrast: “[T]hose countries with national health care systems that work better, such as France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, are successful to the degree that they incorporate market mechanisms such as competition, cost-consciousness, market prices, and consumer choice, and eschew centralized government control. In other words, socialized medicine works—as long as it isn’t socialized medicine.”

HARRIS: Vows to “Snatch” Medical Patents & Fix the Prices of Medicines
At a 2019 presidential campaign event in Iowa, Harris vowed that in order to forcibly lower the costs of pharmaceuticals, she, as president, would have the government set what it deemed to be a fair market price for each drug, and would punish any pharmaceutical companies that failed to comply with her pricing structure. Specifically, she vowed to “snatch” those companies’ patents for the medicines in question. “I will snatch their patent so that we [the government] will take over,” she declared. When a rally attendee asked, “Can we do that?”, Harris replied: “Yes we can do that! … The question is, do you have the will to do it? I have the will to do it!”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Health Care Coverage for Illegal Aliens
When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Harris in May 2019 whether she supported granting taxpayer-funded benefits “to people who are in this country illegally,” she responded: “Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education or public health, period.”

That same month, Joe Biden stated that America has “an obligation” to provide federal benefits like Medicare and Medicaid for all people, “regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented.”

WALZ: Government-Run, Single-Payer Healthcare
In November 2006, Rep. Walz voiced his support for a centralized, government-run, universal healthcare system.

Walz believes that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) can serve as a strategic stepping stone toward the eventual implementation of a single-payer healthcare system.

In October 2018, Rep. Walz said, with a spirit of optimism, that a government-run, single-payer-type healthcare system “is on Minnesota’s horizon.”

TRUMP: Supports Free-Market Principles for Healthcare
In October 2017, President Trump signed an executive order allowing Americans to buy health insurance from out-of-state providers. “The time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines, which will create a truly competitive national marketplace that will bring costs way down and provide far better care,” he stated.

TRUMP: Signed “Right-to-Try” Bill for Terminally Ill Patients
In May 2018, President Trump signed “right-to-try” legislation allowing terminally ill patients to access experimental medical treatments not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Said the president: “Thousands of terminally ill Americans will finally have hope, and the fighting chance, and I think it’s going to … be able to be with their families for … a longer time.”

TRUMP: Additional Healthcare Measures
During his time in office, President Trump also:

  • signed the most comprehensive legislation ever written to advance childhood cancer research and treatments
  • expanded short-term, limited-duration health plans
  • cut Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty, which imposed heavy fines on people who failed to purchase health insurance
  • signed legislation repealing Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board – i.e., “death panels” tasked with deciding which patients should be approved to receive certain treatments & medicines
  • proposed a Title X rule to help ensure that taxpayers would not be required to fund the abortion industry
  • reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy to keep foreign aid from supporting the abortion industry in other countries
  • oversaw the Department of Health & Human Services’ formation of a new division to protect medical providers’ rights of conscience and religious freedom
  • signed an executive order to help ensure that religious organizations would not be forced to violate their religious beliefs by complying with Obamacare’s contraceptive/abortifacient mandate
  • signed four executive orderson drug pricing, directing the Secretary of Health & Human Services to take steps to deliver lower costs on prescription drugs

27) IDENTITY POLITICS & TRIBALISM

HARRIS: Advocating Tribalism
In August 2018, Sen. Harris complained that critics of “identity politics” were employing that term to disparage various demographic groups whose members tended to form voting blocs centered around race, gender and sexual orientation. She then noted, approvingly, how Democrat Doug Jones had won a 2017 special election to determine who would fill the U.S. Senate seat in Alabama recently vacated by Republican Jeff Sessions. “But that didn’t just magically happen,” said Harris. “It happened because black women have been putting in the work, going door to door, organizing even when the cameras were focused elsewhere.”

During the February 24, 2019 airing of MSNBC’s AM Joy, host Joy Reid asked Sen. Harris if, during her presidential campaign, it “would it be difficult for you to advocate race-based policy.” In her response, Harris said: “This term ‘identity politics,’ people will use that term — it’s like people used to talk about the race card. They bring this term up when you talk about issues that are about race, about sexual orientation, about religion. They’ll bring it up when we are talking about civil rights issues as a way to marginalize the issue, as a way to frankly try to silence you or shut you up. We need to call it what it is, which is to try and divert away from a conversation that needs to happen in America. Why? One, because we must speak truth. Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Semitism are all real in this country, so we need to have that conversation and address it….”

In 2018, Sen. Harris introduced the Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act, an affirmative action-style bill requiring the Federal Reserve to interview “at least one individual reflective of gender diversity and one reflective of racial or ethnic diversity.”

In May 2020, Sen. Harris introduced the COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force Act, aimed at providing Congress and various federal agencies with “reports and recommendations related to racial and ethnic disparities in the COVID-19 response.”

In July 2020, Harris introduced the COVID-19 Bias and Anti-Racism Training Act, a bill that that called for the Department of Health & Human Services to “award grants to health care providers, public health departments, tribal organizations, schools for social workers and health professionals, and other nonprofit entities, for bias and anti-racism training to reduce disparities in COVID-19 response efforts.”

WALZ: Injected Identity Politics into the COVID Pandemic
In compliance with Governor Walz’s wishes, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) in 2020 instituted a policy that made monoclonal antibodies — a very effective coronavirus treatment that was in short supply and thus had to be rationed — more accessible for nonwhite people than for whites. Specifically, MDH devised a point system to help medical professionals determine which COVID-positive patients ought to qualify to receive the precious, relatively scarce antibodies. In that system — where 4 points were necessary to designate someone as a “highest-need” COVID patient — 2 points were automatically allotted to anyone who could be classified as “BIPOC” — i.e., Black, Indigenous, or People Of Color. This meant that BIPOC status alone would earn a person just as many points as the presence of cardiovascular disease, obesity, or diabetes — co-morbidities known to dramatically increase the likelihood of serious or fatal outcomes for COVID patients.

WALZ: Promoting an Obsession with Race & Grievance
As governor of Minnesota, Walz strongly supported the creation of a so-called Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Center at the Minnesota Department of Education “to build toward an education system committed to anti-racism.” As the Daily Signal explains: “[A]nti-racism author-activist Ibram X. Kendi explains that anti-racism requires … government policies to discriminate with the intent to rectify past discrimination. As Kendi describes it: ‘The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.’”

WALZ: Pushed for Race-Obsessed “Ethnic Studies” Courses in Schools
Walz pushed for Minnesota schools to establish Ethnic Studies requirements regulated by radical activists. Katherine Kersten, senior policy fellow at Minnesota’s Center of the American Experiment, explains: “The radical Ethnic Studies addition to Minnesota’s proposed social studies standards encourages students to disrupt and dismantle America’s fundamental institutions. … The model curriculum’s ‘guiding principles’ call for ‘transformative resistance’ and repudiate ‘forms of power and oppression’ that include ‘cisheteropatriarchy’ and ‘anthropocentrism’—the belief that human beings are superior to animals. The curriculum originally incorporated student chants to bloodthirsty Aztec gods …”

In May 2023, Governor Walz signed a law requiring elementary, middle, and high schools to begin including such ethnic studies courses as part of their curricula over the ensuing three to four years. The courses are designed to analyze “perspectives of people of color” and “the ways in which race and racism have been and continue to be social, cultural, and political forces” that create “contemporary systems of oppression.”

WALZ: Used Public Funds to Pay for Racially Discriminatory Conference
On September 25, 2024, the Daily Caller reported that Minnesota State Library Services, which was part of Governor Walz’s administration, was using public funds to pay for an upcoming “professional development and network-building” retreat intended exclusively for “BIPOC” (Black, Indigenous, or People Of Color) librarians. “A sign-up form for the event allows those seeking to attend the program to select from an assortment of races and sexualities to describe themselves,” said the report, “but ‘heterosexual’ and ‘white’ are notably missing from the options available.”

28) IMMIGRATION & BORDER POLICIES

HARRIS: Allowed Law-Enforcement to Ignore ICE Detainers for Deportation
On December 4, 2012, Attorney General Harris issued a memo informing all the executives of California’s state and local law-enforcement agencies that they could “make their own decisions about whether to fulfill” Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers – i.e., temporary holds that federal immigration authorities may place on municipal prisoners who are suspected of being eligible for deportation.

HARRIS: Allowed Release of Violent Illegals Previously Deported
Attorney General Harris demonstrated her low regard for immigration law after an illegal alien named Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez – a convicted felon who had been previously deported from the U.S. on five separate occasions – was released from a San Francisco prison in April 2015 and subsequently murdered a young woman named Kathryn Steinle. Harris supported Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s decision – which was made in accordance with the city’s sanctuary policies – to set Lopez-Sanchez free rather than turn him over to immigration authorities. Said Harris: “What needs to be looked at is comprehensive immigration reform….”

HARRIS: Says Illegal Immigration Is Not a Crime
In response to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s criticism of illegal immigration, Harris in August 2016 tweeted that “an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”

HARRIS: Appointed by Biden to Oversee Border Protection
On March 24, 2021, President Biden announced that he was appointing VP Harris to lead the government’s efforts to stem the massive flow of illegal migrants who had been crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since the very start of the Biden presidency. A senior administration official said that Harris’ duties would focus on “two tracks”: (a) slowing the current flow of migrants, and (b) devising a long-term strategy to address the “root causes” of the migration.

But Harris subsequently did nothing to indicate that she was serious about those border duties. She did not visit the southern border even once until June 25, 2021 — ninety-three days after her March 24 appointment by Biden. That visit came after: (a) more than 50 House Republicans demanded on June 20 that Biden relieve Harris of her border-related duties because she had done nothing to slow the massive flood of illegal aliens; and (b) former President Donald Trump, also on June 20, announced that he himself would soon make an official visit to the border along with Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

HARRIS: Pledged to Pour U.S. Money into Central America
In April 2021, VP Harris said: “We are looking at the issue of poverty and the lack, therefore, of economic opportunities.” She then explained that in order to address these problems as well as the border crisis, the U.S. would work to improve living conditions for Guatemala, so that Guatemalans could feel “that there will be an opportunity for them if they stay at home.”

HARRIS: Cites Climate Factors as a “Root Cause” of Migration Crisis
In April 2021, VP Harris said that “the issue of extreme weather conditions and the lack of climate adaptation” was causing many Central Americans to head northward to the United States.

HARRIS: Brought an Illegal Alien to Trump’s State of the Union Address
On January 30, 2018, Sen. Harris was one of several Democrats who brought illegal aliens as their guests to President Trump’s State of the Union address. Harris’ guest was Denea Joseph, an advocate for black illegal migrants. “Dreamers like Denea represent the best of who we are as a nation,” said Harris.

HARRIS: Likens ICE to the KKK
In November 2018, Sen. Harris asked Ronald Vitiello, whom President Trump had nominated to head the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, if he believed that ICE, by the manner in which it treated illegal migrants, was creating public fear and distrust in a manner similar to how the Ku Klux Klan had sparked such emotions during its heyday in the 20th century. “Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and the discretion at ICE is being used to enforce the laws, and do you see any parallels?” asked Harris. “I do not see a parallel between what is constitutionally mandated as it relates to enforcing the law,” Vitiello replied, adding: “I see no perception that puts ICE in the same category as the KKK.” A moment later, Harris asked: “Are you aware that there is a perception that ICE is administering its power in a way that is causing fear and intimidation, particularly among immigrants, and specifically among immigrants coming from Mexico and Central America? Are you aware of that perception?” When Vitiello again replied that he saw no parallel between ICE and the KKK, Harris asked: “Sir, how can you be the head of an agency and be unaware of how your agency is perceived by certain communities?”

HARRIS: Promoted False Claims of Abuse by Border Patrol Agents
During the week of September 19, 2021 – by which time more than 14,000 Haitians had gathered under a bridge on the banks of the Rio Grande in hopes of gaining approval for asylum in the U.S. — the media were abuzz with accusations claiming that Border Patrol agents were using whips to prevent those Haitians from illegally entering the United States. Specifically, the controversy was sparked by photographs of agents mounted on horseback attempting to corral incoming migrants. Some photos showed the agents twirling their reins to coax the horses in certain directions, and many critics misidentified the reins as whips that were being used to harm and degrade the migrants.

The “whipping” claims were ultimately proven to be entirely false, but not before a credulous VP Harris said she was “outraged” by the “horrible and deeply troubling” images shown in the photos. “Human beings should not be treated that way,” she elaborated, “and as we all know, it also evoked images of some of the worst moments of our history where that kind of behavior has been used against the indigenous people of our country, has been used against African Americans during times of slavery.” When the falsity of Harris’ claims was ultimately revealed, Harris did not apologize for her error.

HARRIS: Path to Citizenship for Illegals
On January 21, 2019, Sen. Harris said she wished to help cultivate “an America where we welcome refugees and bring people out of the shadows, and provide a pathway to citizenship.”

Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said: “As president, Kamala will fight to pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million people living in our communities and contributing to our economy.”

During an August 2024 presidential campaign rally in Arizona, Harris said she would support amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens residing in the United States, through “comprehensive [immigration] reform” and “an earned pathway to citizenship.”

HARRIS: Protect Illegals from Deportation
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said that Harris “will immediately reinstate DACA and implement DAPA to protect DREAMers and their parents from deportation.”

  • DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), enacted via a 2012 policy announced by President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, was designed to prevent the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who had first come to the U.S. as minors — though Obama himself had previously acknowledged on numerous occasions that DACA was unconstitutional.
  • DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) sought to protect illegal migrants who had given birth to children while in the U.S., from deportation.
  • DREAMers is a term that refers to the intended beneficiaries of the so-called DREAM Act, legislation aiming to offer permanent legal status to illegal aliens who first arrived in the U.S. as minors.

HARRIS: Expand DACA
Vowing to expand the number of people covered by DACA from about 700,000 to approximately 6 million, Sen. Harris said in 2019: “These young people are just as American as I am, and they deserve a president who will fight for them from day one.”

HARRIS: Close Immigrant Detention Centers
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said that Harris “[will] close private immigrant detention centers,” whose purpose is to keep illegal aliens in custody in order to ensure that they will be present for their eventual immigration proceedings or deportations. The closure of these centers would cause such illegals to be released into the American interior with instructions to appear for an immigration or asylum hearing at a later date – instructions that are rarely obeyed.

HARRIS: Opponent of a Border Wall
Regarding the construction of a wall along the southern U.S. border, Sen. Harris said in 2019: “Let’s get this straight: Billions of dollars for a border wall is a waste of money. American taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for the President’s [Trump’s] vanity project. We simply don’t need it.”

HARRIS: Proposes Merely One Extra Border Patrol Agent Per 5-6 Miles of Border
During her September 19, 2024 presidential debate with Donald Trump, VP Harris criticized Trump for having opposed a 2024 “border security bill which I supported,” and which “would have put 1,500 more border agents on the border.” But because only about 20 to 25 percent of all border agents are on duty at any given time, a mere 300 to 400 extra agents would have been patrolling America’s 1,933-mile southern border during any given shift. Former Border Patrol Agent Tom Homan characterized the bill as “ridiculous,” saying: “By the time you site these agents on the northern border, southern border, and on the maritime control, it makes zero difference.”

HARRIS: Attributing Fascist Motives to Trump’s Border Policies
On October 15, 2024, Harris sat for an hour-long interview with the popular radio host “Charlamagne tha God,” a discussion that was carried on iHeartRadio’s website and livestreamed on CNN. When a caller voiced concern that Trump, who had pledged to deport large numbers of illegal aliens, might “put anyone that doesn’t look white in camps,” Harris replied: “Yeah, so you’ve hit on a really important point and expressed it, I think so well, which is he is achieving his intended effect to make you scared. He prefers to run on a problem [illegal migration] instead of fix a problem, and we got to call it out and see it for what it is.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Funding for Sanctuary Cities
Sen. Harris opposed the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act of 2017, which called for the withholding of federal grants to sanctuary cities. The “sanctuary” policies of these cities require city employees to refrain from notifying the federal government that illegal aliens are living in their communities.

On March 4, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration’s Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to dismiss three pending cert petitions (requests to hear a case) regarding Trump administration efforts to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities. The following day, the Court agreed to dismiss the petitions.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Health Care Coverage for Illegal Aliens
When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Sen. Harris in May 2019 whether she supported granting taxpayer-funded benefits “to people who are in this country illegally,” she responded: “Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education or public health, period.”

In a June 2019 Democratic presidential primary debate, co-moderator Savannah Guthrie asked the candidates to raise their hand if their proposed healthcare plan would cover “undocumented immigrants.” Harris raised her hand, as did Joe Biden and eight others.

HARRIS & BIDEN: No More Immigration Raids
To augment its effort to maximize the number of illegal aliens who are permitted to stay in the U.S. and eventually become Democrat voters, the Democratic Party pledged, in its official 2020 Platform, to “end workplace and community raids” designed to snare illegal aliens, particularly at “sensitive locations like our schools, houses of worship, health care facilities, benefits offices, and DMVs.” Joe Biden repeatedly and unambiguously echoed this position during his presidential campaign.

In an October 12, 2021 memo issued to the Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP) agencies, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that his agency would now end all mass immigration-enforcement raids at worksites in the United States.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Encourage Migration by People Dependent on Government Aid
Democrats condemned the Trump Administration’s 2019 pledge to make it more difficult for people who would be a “public charge”—i.e., dependent on government benefits—to apply for U.S. citizenship. On March 9, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the Biden-Harris administration would no longer enforce Trump’s 2019 public charge rule—on grounds that it “was not in keeping with our nation’s values.”

In February 2022, it was reported that President Biden’s deputies were rewriting the Trump-era “public charge” regulations. “Under this [new] proposed rule … individuals will not be penalized for choosing to access the [taxpayer-funded] health benefits and other supplemental government services available to them,” said DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on February 17.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Moratorium on Deportations
Regarding a Texas federal judge’s January 26, 2021 ruling against the Biden-Harris administration’s wish to place a 100-day moratorium on deportations, former ICE Acting Director Tom Homan said on February 10th that the administration was defiantly “circumventing the judge’s order” by instructing ICE officers to stop arresting illegals, and by releasing those illegals into local communities. “What kind of message does that send to the rest of the world?” Homan asked. “If you come to the country illegally, if you can get past the border patrol, don’t commit an aggravated felony, and you’re home free. You get to stay because ICE is not looking for you. It’s no longer illegal to be here illegally.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Restore “Catch-and-Release”
Harris and Biden favor the restoration of the “catch-and-release” system of the pre-Trump era, whereby millions of asylum seekers who crossed the southern U.S. border illegally, were released into the American interior—never again to be seen by U.S. immigration authorities, in most cases. As the 2020 Democratic Party Platform said: “Democrats will end Trump Administration policies that deny protected entry to asylum seekers…. And we will end prosecution of asylum seekers at the border and policies that force them to apply from ‘safe third countries,’ which are far from safe.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: End the “Remain in Mexico” Policy
On February 6, 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the Biden-Harris administration had canceled the Trump-era agreements wherein Central American governments had pledged to place clear and reasonable limits on their people’s access to the U.S. asylum system.

On February 12, 2021, Biden-Harris stated that asylum seekers who, under President Trump’s 2019 “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP), had been forced to remain in Mexico while waiting for their cases to be resolved in the United States, would now be readily admitted into the U.S. without further delay.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Releasing Illegals Without Scheduling a Court Date
By March 2021, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley were routinely releasing asylum-seeking migrants into the American interior without even bothering to go through the process of giving them a “Notice To Appear” (NTA) for an asylum court hearing at some future date. Instead, the migrants were hurriedly registered into a digital system and were told that they themselves would be responsible for scheduling their own asylum hearings sometime thereafter. As a Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) source told Fox News, the migrant crisis had “become so dire that BP [Border Patrol] has no choice but to release people nearly immediately after apprehension because there is no space to hold people even to do necessary NTA paperwork.” Said another CBP official with knowledge of the Biden plan: “This is insane … We will never find most of these aliens once they are released.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Releasing Illegals without Testing Them for COVID
On February 8, 2021, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson reported: “[T]he Biden administration is releasing thousands of foreign nationals living here illegally into American neighborhoods without bothering to test them for the coronavirus. People from countries with high infection rates, living in crowded conditions, have been sent forth into the American population like COVID isn’t real. That’s happening. It is the official policy of the U.S. government.”

Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, confirmed: “We do not test the illegal aliens we release. So, we’re releasing people without knowing, which obviously puts the public at risk.”

On March 17, 2021, The Epoch Times reported that, according to the National Sheriffs Association (NSA), as many as 50% of all people illegally crossing the southern U.S. border were possibly infected with COVID-19.

HARRIS & BIDEN: COVID Relief Payments for Illegal Aliens
On March 22, 2021, The Epoch Times reported: “As Americans start to receive the latest round of [COVID-19 relief] stimulus checks, a new analysis reveals that about $4.38 billion will also go to illegal immigrants.”

The Center for Immigration Studies estimated that 2.65 million illegal “aliens temporarily present without status” had Social Security Numbers that would qualify them to receive stimulus checks.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Supporters of Immigration Bill That Weakens Border Security
On February 18, 2021, Democrats Robert Menendez and Linda Sanchez introduced — in the Senate and House, respectively — the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, a sweeping immigration-reform bill supported by Biden and Harris. The legislation sought to:

  • establish an 8-year path to citizenship for illegal aliens in the United States
  • provide an expedited path to citizenship for farm workers and young illegals who had arrived in the U.S. as minors protected by DACA
  • replace the word “alien” with “non-citizen” in immigration law documents
  • raise the per-country caps on family- and employment-based legal immigration numbers
  • repeal the penalty that barred deported illegals from re-entering the U.S. for 3 to 10 years

HARRIS & BIDEN: Bringing Back Previously Deported Asylum-Seekers
In response to the Biden-Harris administration’s termination of the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, the United Nations sought to help Biden and Harris: (a) track down asylum-seeking migrants who, under the Trump policy, had been removed to Mexico or Central America to await asylum processing, and (b) bring them back to the U.S. to await their asylum processing there.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Canceled Program to Deport Illegal-Alien Sex Offenders
In February 2021, the Biden-Harris administration cancelled Operation Talon, a Trump-era program designed to deport convicted sex offenders residing illegally in the United States.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Deport No Illegal Aliens Other Than Felons
During his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden said that immigration agents should “only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed [in the United States], and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony.” “We’re not going to deport anybody who has not — in this country — committed a felony in this country,” said Biden on another occasion.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Allowing Illegal Aliens to Challenge Their Arrest & Detainment
On March 4, 2021, the ICE agency told Congress that it would open an “ICE Case Review” process allowing illegal aliens to challenge their arrest and detainment if they believed they did not meet the Biden-Harris administration’s new standard, which only allowed for the arrest, detainment, or deportation of convicted aggravated felons, terrorists, gang members, or national security threats.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Outlawed the Term “Illegal Alien”
On April 19, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration’s acting directors of ICE and CBP distributed memoranda prohibiting officers from using the phrase “illegal alien,” and requiring the phrase “undocumented migrant” instead.

HARRIS & BIDEN: De Facto Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Ordered Deported
In early May of 2021, the Biden-Harris administration reversed a proposed rule change by former President Trump that would have prevented the federal government from continuing to issue work permits to illegal aliens who had received final deportation orders from federal immigration judges.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Using the U.S. Military to Resettle Illegals into Various U.S. States
On July 14, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson issued a blockbuster report in which he stated: “This show has confirmed that the Biden administration has enlisted the U.S. military to move illegal immigrants secretly around our country. That is happening at Laughlin Air Force base in Texas.”

Center for Immigration Studies senior national fellow Todd Bensman provided details: “What’s happening most of the time is that they [the illegals] are boarding buses and heading into America’s heartland. A conveyor belt of commercial and charter buses … are carrying tens of thousands, sight unseen, from Texas, Arizona, and California borderlands northward, and they are dropping their Haitian, Venezuelan, Cuban, and Central American family units in [other states all over the U.S.].”

From January 2021 through October 2021, the Biden-Harris administration oversaw the flight transportation of 44,957  illegal border crossers into the American interior, while a mere 620 such illegals were denied access to those flights — an approval rate of more than 98.6 percent.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Influx of Fentanyl Skyrockets
The total amount of the deadly drug fentanyl seized by U.S. border agents grew from approximately 2,800 pounds in Fiscal Year 2019, to 4,800 pounds in FY 2020, to 11,200 pounds in FY 2021, to 5,300 pounds during the first half of FY 2022.

  • In April 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that during the preceding 12 months, more than 100,000Americans had died from drug overdoses — and nearly two-thirds of those deaths had been due to fentanyl. This made fentanyl the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official Anne Milgram, meanwhile, stated that the amount of fentanyl that had been trafficked illegally across the southern U.S. border in 2021 was enough, in terms of its aggregate lethality, “to kill every American” — i.e., more than 300 million people.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Democrat Congressman Says “It’s Literally an Open Border”
During an April 22, 2022 appearance on the Fox News Channel, Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas said: “[W]hat we’re seeing is it’s literally an open border. It’s an open border.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Making It Easier for Terrorists to Enter the U.S.
In late June 2022, the State and Homeland Security Departments, according to a policy published in the Federal Register, amended federal immigration laws in order to permit the granting of “immigration benefits or other status” to foreigners who had provided “insignificant material support” — e.g., “humanitarian assistance” or “routine commercial transactions” — to designated terror groups. “The policy shift is fueling concerns that the Biden administration wants to make it easier for individuals who work with or for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the country’s paramilitary fighting force that has killed hundreds of Americans, to enter the country,” reported the Washington Free Beacon. “Notice of the change came several days before the Biden administration and hardline Iranian government resumed talks aimed at securing a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear deal.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Drug Cartels’ Earnings Skyrocket
A July 25, 2022 New York Times report stated that according to Homeland Security Investigations, the cartels and coyotes responsible for smuggling migrants illegally into the U.S. were now earning $13 billion per year under President Biden’s lax border agencies — a figure 26 times larger than the $500 million that the cartels had earned annually under former President Trump’s border policies. “The cartels and coyotes earn the money via smuggling contracts, high-interest loans, and border extortion, and by trafficking indebted migrants into indentured-servitude, cartel-controlled jobs throughout the United States,” said the Times piece.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Secret Arrangements to Usher Multitudes of Illegals into the U.S.
In 2022, the Biden-Harris administration launched a “lawful pathways” strategy designed to artificially and deceptively suppress the official tally of people who were crossing America’s southern border illegally — so as to minimize the negative political consequences that might afflict the administration if such inordinately large numbers of illegal newcomers continued to swarm across the border in a chaotic, unregulated manner. Under “lawful pathways,” the DHS began trying to persuade tens of thousands of aspiring illegal border-crossers each month to resolve that, rather than sneaking into the United States undetected, they would instead use the CBP One smartphone application to make formal appointments to meet with U.S. officials at any of 43 separate land ports-of-entry in the American interior. When the aliens subsequently arrived at the designated land ports in order to keep those appointments, DHS welcomed them, and U.S. Customs officials quietly “paroled” them into the country. The aliens were then free to travel to any U.S. location of their choice and await their eventual asylum hearing.

In January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration initiated a “direct-flight” program as a new, added facet of the “lawful pathways” strategy. According to data obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies, this program flew at least 221,456 illegal aliens from their homelands to airports across the United States between January and mid-September of 2023. These included 76,582 Haitians, 63,360 Venezuelans, and 46,794 Cubans, as well as many others from Colombia, Nicaragua, Ukraine, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. These migrants also used the aforementioned CBP One smartphone application to request “advance travel authorizations” to take commercial passenger flights (“at their own expense”) directly to American airports in their cities of choice, where they were greeted by U.S. Customs officers who secretly “paroled” them into the United States.

From March 2023 through February 2024, this direct-flight program transported a total of some 320,000 new illegal aliens into the United States.

HARRIS & BIDEN: 98 Terrorists Arrested at Border During FY 2022
As of October 25, 2022, a total of 98 known or suspected terrorists had been arrested at the U.S. southern border during fiscal year 2022 — while the number of those who had escaped detection at the border was unknown. By contrast, only 26 terror watchlist people had been arrested at the border during the previous five years combined – an average of just 5 per year.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Pressuring Banks to Approve Loans to Illegal Aliens
On October 12, 2023, multiple government agencies under the Biden-Harris administration posted statements threatening banks with federal investigations if they failed to approve cheap loans to illegal migrants with weak financial and credit credentials.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Illegal Border-Crossers in FY 2023 Exceeded Populations of 11 States
According to a Daily Caller review of federal data, the roughly 1.5 million migrants who went free into the American interior after crossing the southern U.S. border illegally in fiscal year 2023 exceeded the populations of eleven separate U.S. states. That 1.5 million figure included 908,669 illegals who were released by the Border Patrol following apprehension, along with another 600,000+ “got-aways” who were never apprehended.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Massive Increase in Border Patrol Encounters with Illegal Aliens
During the last three full months of the Trump administration, the number of Border Patrol encounters with illegal aliens at America’s southern border was just under 73,000 per month. Under Biden-Harris, that figure skyrocketed. During the first three-and-a-half years of their administration, Border Patrol agents encountered more than 8.4 million illegal border crossers – an average of approximately 191,000 per month, or 2.3 million per year. The high-water mark for a single month was 301,982 encounters in December 2023.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Lawsuit against Texas over Immigration Law
On January 3, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration sued Texas over what the administration characterized as that state’s “incredibly extreme” immigration law, Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), which not only gave local law-enforcement in Texas the authority to arrest migrants, but also gave judges statewide the power to order the removal and deportation of criminal aliens. Asserting that the state of Texas “cannot run its own immigration system,” Biden-Harris argued that SB 4 encroached upon the federal government’s “exclusive authority” to enforce immigration law.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Support Allowing 1.4 Million Illegals into the U.S. Each Year
In 2024, Harris has voiced her support for S. 4361, the border bill that Senate Democrats first introduced in May 2024. She has said: “I strongly supported the comprehensive border security bill written … by a bipartisan group of senators, including one of the most conservative members of the United States Congress…. It was the strongest border security bill we have seen in decades.”

But aside from hiring an insignificant number of additional border security agents and funding the purchase of 100 additional inspection machines capable of detecting fentanyl, S. 4361 would do nothing to secure the U.S. southern border. The Heritage Foundation reports that under the terms of the bill:

  • “The Secretary of Homeland Security has the discretion to [expel illegal border-crossers] after the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encounters an average of 4,000 illegal aliens daily for seven consecutive days. Secretary activation of the emergency authority becomes mandatory after the CBP encounters a 5,000 illegal-alien daily average for seven consecutive days or 8,500 in one day. Not counted in those numbers are unaccompanied children, parolees, those who claim a fear of persecution, have already been in the U.S. for 14 days, or already traveled beyond 100 miles from the southwest border.”
  • “[F]amilies and children would be released without supervision.”
  • “[The bill] would give aliens work authorization immediately upon release and create a bureaucratic third administrative appellate body with multiple chances for review, reconsideration, appeal, and motions to reopen their case. This would continue to encourage illegal aliens to submit fraudulent asylum claims to gain entry and remain and work in the U.S.”
  • “[The bill would require] U.S. taxpayers to fund deportation defense attorneys for unaccompanied aliens under 14 years and aliens found to be incompetent.”

Harris has blamed Donald Trump for having prevented the passage of S. 4361: “He picked up the phone and called some friends in Congress and said, ‘stop the bill.’  Because, you see, he prefers to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.”

Harris’ depiction of S. 4361 as a bipartisan effort was false. The lone Republican senator who voted in favor of advancing the bill was Lisa Murkowski, one of the most leftwing Republicans in the Senate.

Nor was the Senate’s failure to advance S. 4361 attributable solely to Republican opposition. Indeed, six Democrat senators voted against it as well.

When the Senate Republicans (other than Murkowski) opposed S. 4361, President Biden said: “Congressional Republicans do not care about securing the border or fixing America’s broken immigration system. If they did, they would have voted for the toughest border enforcement in history. By blocking the bipartisan border agreement, they put partisan politics ahead of our country’s national security.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: $450,000 Apiece to Illegals Separated at the Border under Trump
On October 28, 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden-Harris administration was contemplating the possibility of issuing massive compensatory payments to illegal-migrant families whose members had been separated from one another for extended periods — i.e., parents separated from children — when apprehended by immigration authorities at America’s southern border under the Trump administration’s so-called “zero-tolerance policy,” which was in effect from April to June of 2018. According to people familiar with the matter, the average payment was expected to be approximately $450,000 per person — for a grand total of about $1 billion in taxpayer funds.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Illegals from 160 Countries
On January 12, 2022, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News: “It’s not just people from Central America. It’s people from 160 different countries. They have been catching people from Yemen, who are on the terrorist watchlist. Why would they be coming to America that way?”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Taxpayer-Funded Legal Help for Illegal Aliens
On January 21, 2022, Axios.com reported that the Biden-Harris administration was preparing to launch a new Legal Access at the Border (LAB) program — overseen by the Justice Department — to help prepare illegal migrants in seven border towns for the experience of navigating their way through the U.S. immigration system.

HARRIS & BIDEN: At Least 647,000 Criminal Aliens Roaming Free in U.S.
On September 25, 2024, ICE reported that, among the more than 7 million illegal aliens who were under final deportation orders but were not being detained in ICE’s custody, there were 425,431 convicted criminals and 222,141 with pending criminal charges – all of them free to roam the streets of American communities nationwide. According to Fox News: “Those include 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide. An additional 2,521 have kidnapping conviction and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions. There are an additional 1,845 with pending homicide charges, 42,915 with assault charges, 3,266 with burglary charges, and 4,250 with assault charges.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Covering up the Dangers of Their Open-Borders Policies
In testimony he gave on September 20, 2024, Aaron Heitke, the retired Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol, said:

“The only true consequence we have to slow down and discourage people from coming to the United States illegally, is sending them back to their country of origin. Throughout the first three-plus years of this [Biden-Harris] administration, I saw a steady decrease in countries we could send people back to…. The inability to send people home meant that most people being arrested for illegal entry would either have to be detained or released. The current administration, however, from day one, made a point of decreasing the amount of detention space available nationwide…. The fact that so many illegal aliens are being released into the United States has spread worldwide very quickly. As this happened, the numbers the Border Patrol encountered illegally crossing the border increased exponentially.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: National Security Threats Entering the U.S.
A DHS Inspector General report which was released at the beginning of October 2024, stated that: “Under current processes, CBP and ICE cannot ensure they are keeping high-risk noncitizens without identification from entering the country. Additionally, TSA cannot ensure its vetting and screening procedures prevent high-risk noncitizens who may pose a threat to the flying public from boarding domestic flights.”

According to a report released by the House Judiciary Committee on October 3, 2024, more than 1.7 million migrants encountered by immigration authorities at America’s southern border during the Biden-Harris administration hailed from 26 countries “of special interest” – i.e., nations known to promote terrorism and to pose a threat to U.S. national security. Among these nations were Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, North Korea, China, and Venezuela.

BIDEN: Federal Funding for Sanctuary Cities
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden made clear his belief that sanctuary cities should be fully eligible for federal funding.

BIDEN: Promoting Citizenship for Illegal Aliens
When Joe Biden ran for president in 2020, he made it clear throughout his campaign that he was in favor of granting citizenship to virtually every illegal alien residing in the United States—roughly 11 million people, by Biden’s estimate. When discussing this issue, he gave particular emphasis to those illegals affected by former President Obama’s 2012 DACA policy.

Biden also stressed the importance of granting citizenship to so-called “DREAMers” – i.e., people who would be eligible to benefit from the DREAM Act — legislation intended to protect almost anyone who entered the U.S. illegally when they were under the age of 16.

During an October 2020 presidential debate with Donald Trump, Biden said: “Within 100 days [of taking over the presidency], I’m going to send to the United States Congress a [proposed bill for] pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people. And all of those so-called Dreamers, those DACA kids, they’re going to be immediately certified to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship. We owe them, we owe them.”

True to his word, Biden, on his first day in office as U.S. President, sent to Congress an immigration bill—the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021—proposing to create a path to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens. That same day, Biden also issued a memorandum “to preserve and fortify DACA.”

BIDEN: No Border Wall
In March 2020, presidential candidate Joe Biden stated: “We don’t need a wall.” “There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my Administration,” he told NPR during an August 2020 interview.

Biden followed through on his promise when, on his first day as president, he issued a formal proclamation which stated that “building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border [between the U.S. and Mexico] is not a serious policy solution,” but rather, “is a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security.” “It shall be the policy of my Administration,” he added, “that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall.”

BIDEN: Spent Nearly $500,000 to Build a Wall Around His Vacation Home
On August 19, 2022, Breitbart.com reported: “President Joe Biden is spending nearly half a million taxpayer dollars to build a security fence around his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware…. The construction of a security fence around Biden’s beach house comes as his DHS has canceled contracts to continue building [a] border wall along the highly porous United States-Mexico border….”

BIDEN: Vowed to End Almost All Deportations
In a Democratic primary debate in March 2020, Joe Biden vowed that during his presidential administration’s first 100 days, “no one, no one will be deported at all.” “From that point on,” he added, “the only deportations that will take place are [for] commissions of felonies in the United States of America.”

On another occasion during his 2020 campaign, Biden said that immigration agents should “only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed [in the United States], and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony”—even though ICE reported 49,106 criminal convictions for DUI in fiscal year 2019 alone.

On his first day as president in January 2021, Biden proudly demonstrated his resolve in opposing deportations by issuing an executive order that revoked a 2017 order by which former President Trump had prioritized the removal of illegal aliens who had “committed acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense,” or who had “abused any program related to receipt of public benefits” (e.g., welfare and food stamps).

In accordance with President Biden’s clearly articulated intention to suspend virtually all deportations of illegal aliens, an internal ICE memo dated January 21, 2021 instructed ICE agents to immediately “stop all removals.”

BIDEN: Protect Criminal Illegals from the Police
When candidate Biden was asked in March 2020 whether “undocumented immigrants, arrested by local police, [should] be turned over to immigration officials,” he replied: “Look, we are a nation of immigrants. Our future rests upon the Latino community being fully integrated…. Xenophobia is a disease.”

BIDEN: Expanded Taxpayer-Funded Attorneys for Migrant Children in U.S.
In a May 18, 2021 presidential memorandum, President Biden expanded the ability of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) who had come to the U.S. illegally, to secure legal representation. Toward that end, Biden asked Congress to approve $1.5 billion in taxpayer funds to help local and state agencies cover the costs of additional public defenders. Biden also re-established the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable to “prioritize civil legal aid and expand access to federal programs,” according to a White House press release.

BIDEN: Says Mass Migration Makes U.S. Demographics “So Much Better”
During a September 30, 2022 speech for National Hispanic Heritage Month, President Biden celebrated what he viewed as the political benefits of the mass migration of Mexicans and Central Americans into the United States. “When in American history has there been a circumstance where one ethnicity has the potential to have such a profound impact on the direction of a country?” he asked rhetorically. “Twenty-six percent of every child who’s in school today speaks Spanish — 26 percent,” Biden continued. “We’ve had large waves of immigration before but the thing is, we just have so much opportunity to make this country so much better. I really mean it … so as my father would say, ‘Let’s go get ’em.’”

BIDEN: Subsidized Healthcare for Illegal Aliens
On April 13, 2023, President Biden announced that the hundreds of thousands of migrants who had been brought to the U.S. illegally as minors and were covered by the Obama-era DACA program, would soon be able to apply for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges. “They’re American in every way except for on paper,” Biden said in a Twitter video. “We need to give DREAMers the opportunities and support they deserve.”

On May 3, 2024, Politico reported: “President Joe Biden … announced a final rule that will open up Obamacare plans to tens of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as children but do not qualify for government health insurance because they lack legal status. Federal health officials estimate that roughly 100,000 people enrolled in the [DACA] program will sign up for subsidized plans through the health insurance marketplace over the next year under the rule, which the Biden administration proposed last year.”

WALZ: Believes That Restrictions on Immigration Are Racist
Walz believes that legal restrictions on immigration are basically racist because they tend to prevent Hispanics and other nonwhites from entering the United States.

WALZ: Social Services for Illegal Aliens
Walz claims that social services should be made available to all U.S. residents regardless of their immigration status.

WALZ: Amnesty for Illegal Aliens
Walz argues that illegal aliens should be offered amnesty if they have been productive members of American society.

WALZ: Path to Citizenship for Illegal Aliens
In November 2006, Rep. Walz voiced his support for providing illegal aliens with a “path to citizenship.”

In October 2018, Rep. Walz called for providing “DREAMers” — i.e., illegal migrants who first came to the U.S. as minors — with a path to citizenship.

In 2021, Gov. Walz sent a letter to congressional leaders exhorting them to pass legislation providing amnesty, “a clean path to citizenship,” “permanent protection,” and “permanent relief” for “essential workers, Dreamers, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, and their families.” Walz’s letter said that this would be “the right thing to do, not just for them, but for the country.”

WALZ: Loosened Restrictions Against Terrorists Entering the U.S.
In 2007, Rep. Walz co-sponsored H.R. 2940, which sought to make it easier to waive grounds of inadmissibility to the U.S. for people suspected of having ties to terrorism. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) reports that those grounds included: “(1) having engaged in terrorist activity; (2) being engaged in or likely to engage in terrorist activity after entry; (3) having incited terrorist activity; (4) serving as a representative of a terrorist organization; and (5) being a member of a terrorist organization.”

WALZ: Supporter of Funding for Sanctuary Cities
Rep. Walz repeatedly voted against proposals to defund sanctuary cities — where city employees are required to refrain from notifying the federal government about illegal aliens who are living in their communities — in 2007, 2014, 2015, and once again in 2015.

WALZ: Sought to Make Minnesota a “Sanctuary State” for Illegals
Aiming to make Minnesota a sanctuary state for illegal aliens, Rep. Walz in 2018 issued a statement that said: “My position on Minnesota becoming a sanctuary state boils down to who has the responsibility for enforcing immigration laws. Here’s what I believe: Congress has given federal agencies the authority to enforce immigration laws in Minnesota, and I support their doing so. Congress has not given local law enforcement that same authority. The role of law enforcement is to enforce state and local laws, not federal immigration laws, and I strongly believe that they should not do so.”

WALZ: Opposed to Permitting Local Police to Collaborate with Feds
During his years in Congress, Rep. Walz consistently opposed the 287(g) program which authorized state and local law-enforcement to collaborate with the federal government to enforce federal immigration laws. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) reports that Walz voted “against funding the program in 2011 and 2013, and against preventing funds from being used to terminate 287(g) agreements in 2012.”

WALZ: Boasts of Having “Helped Resettle Countless” Illegals
In an October 2017 interview, Rep. Walz boasted that his office had “helped resettle countless people [illegal migrants] into this community.’”

WALZ: Sponsored the DREAM Act of 2017
In 2017, Rep. Walz co-sponsored H.R. 3440, the DREAM Act, which sought to grant lawful permanent resident status on a conditional basis to many deportable aliens who had first arrived in the U.S. as minors.

WALZ: Co-Sponsor of Bill to Allow People from Terror-Tied Countries to Enter U.S.
In 2017, Rep. Walz was an original co-sponsor of H.R. 724, the Statue of Liberty Values (SOLVE) Act, which aimed to cancel former President Trump’s executive order barring entry to the U.S. for foreign nationals from countries with ties to terrorism.

WALZ: Permanent Resident Status & Protected Status for Illegals
In 2018, Rep. Walz co-sponsored H.R. 4253, the American Promise Act, which directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide permanent resident status to illegal aliens who had been granted Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) or Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and who had been continuously physically present in the United States for at least three years.

In 2018 as well, Rep. Walz co-sponsored H.R. 4384, the Act to Sustain the Protection of Immigrant Residents Earned Through TPS Act, (ASPIRE Act), which would provide renewable protected status for six years to any illegal aliens who: (a) had been present in the U.S. for at least five years, and (b) had been granted, or were eligible for, Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) or Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

And again in 2018, Rep. Walz co-sponsored H.R. 5072, the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act, which directed the DHS to provide permanent resident status to any “qualifying Liberian national who: (1) has been continuously present in the United States between November 20, 2014, through the date of status adjustment application; or (2) is the spouse, child, or unmarried son or daughter of such an alien.”

WALZ: Driver’s Licenses for Illegals
In March 2023, Gov. Walz signed into law a bill that would enable as many as 77,000 eligible illegal aliens to legally obtain driver’s licenses — thereby reversing a 20-year-old state law that required anyone seeking a driver’s license to be either a legal resident of Minnesota or an American citizen. Asserting that the new law would “make our communities safer for all Minnesotans,” Walz stated: “We look at our most vulnerable people and we see neighbors. And that’s why we’re giving undocumented Minnesotans the opportunity to get a driver’s license and live their lives with dignity.”

WALZ: Free College for Illegals
In May 2023, Gov. Walz approved an education funding measure that authorized the use of state tax dollars to pay all college and university tuition costs for illegal aliens from families with annual incomes below $80,000. In most states, such benefits are typically reserved only for legal immigrants and American citizens.

WALZ: Opposed to a Border Wall
On July 30, 2024, Gov. Walz told CNN that presidential candidate Donald Trump’s pledge to finish the construction of a wall along America’s southern border was nothing more than a hollow talking point. Said Walz: “I always say, let me know how high it is. If it’s 25 feet, then I’ll invest in the 30-foot ladder factory. That’s not how you stop this [illegal migration]. You stop this [by] using electronics, you stop it [by] using more border control agents, and you stop it by having a legal system that allows for that tradition of allowing folks to come here, just like my relatives did to come here, be able to work and establish the American dream.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Federal Funding for Sanctuary Cities
Democrats in 2017 condemned a Trump executive order that called for the denial of federal grants to any sanctuary cities that refused to alert federal authorities to the presence of illegal aliens in those locales. The Democrats portrayed Trump’s order as a “shameful” and “divisive” measure that would “betray our nation’s values.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: No Border Wall
In its official 2020 Platform, the Democratic Party condemned the construction of “an unnecessary, wasteful, and ineffective wall on the southern border.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Opposes the Arrest of Illegals Charged with Theft in U.S.
On March 7, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 7511, the “Laken Riley Act” — which sought to require federal officials to arrest illegal aliens charged with committing theft in the United States — by a vote of 251-170. All voting Republicans and 37 Democrats supported the bill, while 170 Democrats voted against it. The legislation was named in honor of Laken Riley, a young Georgia nursing student who had been murdered in February by an illegal alien from Venezuela who was also a member of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang. Prior to killing Miss Riley, the perpetrator had already been arrested: (a) in New York City for driving an unregistered car with a 5-year-old child inside, and (b) in Athens, Georgia for stealing food and clothing from a Walmart store.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Opposes the Deportation of Illegals Who Assault Police
On May 15, 2024, a majority of House Democrats voted against the “Detain and Deport Illegal Aliens Who Assault Cops Act,” which called for federal law enforcement to detain illegal aliens in the United States who faced charges for having assaulted police officers. The measure passed the House in a 265-148 vote. The Yay votes were cast by 211 Republicans and 54 Democrats, while all 148 Nay votes were cast by Democrats.

TRUMP: His Immigration Plan
When Donald Trump ran for the presidency in 2016, he laid out a 10-Point Plan on Immigration, which remains the foundation of his current plan:

  1. construct a wall along the southern border
  2. end the “catch-and-release” policy that permitted illegal border crossers to request asylum and then be automatically released into the American interior
  3. employ a zero-tolerance policy for criminal aliens, a policy that would entail the hiring of many additional ICE deportation officers and Border Patrol agents
  4. end funding for sanctuary cities, whose governments refuse to work with federal immigration authorities that seek to identify and process illegal aliens who have committed crimes
  5. cancel unconstitutional executive orders and enforce all existing immigration laws
  6. suspend the issuance of visas to people from nations where adequate screening for such variables as criminal history, terrorist ties, or communicable illnesses cannot take place
  7. require other countries to take their people back when they are deported from the U.S.
  8. complete the implementation of a biometric entry-exit visa tracking system
  9. demand the widespread use of E-Verify, a web-based system that allows enrolled employers to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States
  10. reform America’s legal immigration system to serve the best interests of the U.S. and its workers

TRUMP: Love of Country as the Foundation of Immigration Policy
In a January 2018 speech, President Trump put his immigration philosophy into very plain language: “The United States is a compassionate nation. We are proud that we do more than any other country to help the needy, the struggling, and the underprivileged all over the world. But as President, my highest loyalty, my greatest compassion, and my constant concern, is for America’s children, America’s struggling workers, and America’s forgotten communities.”

In an Oval Office address a year later, Trump attempted to make his case for border security directly to the American people. He stated, among other things: “Some have suggested [that] a barrier is immoral. Then why do wealthy politicians build walls, fences, and gates around their homes? They don’t build walls because they hate the people on the outside but because they love the people on the inside. The only thing that is immoral is [for] the politicians to do nothing and continue to allow more innocent people to be so horribly victimized.”

TRUMP: Opposes Immigrants Who Would Be Dependent on Government
In 2019 the Trump administration — reasoning from the premise that immigrants to the United States should not impose social or economic burdens on the American taxpayers — announced that it would expand the list of government benefits that it took into consideration when defining a person as a “public charge” – i.e., someone “likely at any time to become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence.” That designation would count against an immigrant seeking to upgrade or ­extend his visa status, or to apply for citizenship.

TRUMP: Established “Safe Zones” for Refugees in the Middle East
Understanding that it is impossible to adequately screen potential refugees from certain countries that are chaotic hotbeds of terrorism and extremism, President Trump sought to find ways of helping refugees without risking the lives and safety of the American people. In January 2017, for instance, he persuaded Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to join the U.S. in supporting the creation of safe zones in Syria and Yemen, where refugees from the Middle East could be housed and sheltered when fleeing war and terror. Trump also persuaded Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to support safe zones for refugees displaced by war and terrorism in the region.

TRUMP: The So-Called “Muslim Ban”
Virtually every American has heard about President Trump’s infamous “Muslim ban.” In January 2020, Joe Biden characterized that “ban” as a “morally wrong” manifestation of “anti-Muslim bias” that constituted “a betrayal of all our foundations of American history and American freedom, religious freedom.”

The term “Muslim ban,” as employed by Biden and fellow Democrats, refers to the fact that President Trump, professing a desire “to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America,” issued a 2017 executive order calling for a temporary suspension of almost all travel and refugee admissions to the U.S. from seven nations that were hotbeds of Islamic terrorism and/or civil war: Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, and Syria. The order also mandated the implementation of an “extreme vetting” process for any and all immigrants and visitors to the U.S.

And how did President Trump select the seven aforementioned Muslim-majority countries as targets for his executive action? Actually, he chose precisely the same seven countries that had been named in the Visa Waiver Program Improvement & Terrorist Travel Prevention Act, which passed easily through Congress and was signed into law by President Obama in December 2015.

TRUMP: Transformation of U.S. Policy on Asylum Applications
In the decades before Trump’s presidency, only a small percentage of asylum seekers from Central America chose to present themselves to U.S. authorities at any of the 300+ official ports of entry along the southern U.S. border. Instead, they elected to breach the border at locations somewhere between those ports of entry, in the midst of an arid desert, where, as soon as they had planted their feet firmly on the American side of the border with Mexico, they would actively seek to get taken them into custody by U.S. border personnel. Why? Because they understood that in most cases, they had no legitimate basis for applying for asylum — i.e., protection from potential “persecution” by authorities in their homeland — and would likely be denied entry to America.

By contrast, if aspiring asylees could somehow manage to sneak into U.S. territory before making their asylum requests, they stood a good chance of being released into the U.S. interior, along with a notice instructing them to report for a formal asylum hearing at some date in the very distant future, given the massive backlog of cases in American immigration courts. This of course would give such people plenty of time to simply disappear, never again to be seen by U.S. immigration authorities.

Seeking to end this absurd, lawless, and dangerous practice, the Trump administration announced in April 2018 that the U.S. would pursue a “zero-tolerance” policy whereby every adult caught illegally crossing the border would be subject to criminal prosecution.

In response, the Democratic Party launched a vicious propaganda campaign accusing Trump of pursuing a policy of forced “family separation.” Joe Biden denounced “this administration’s policies that literally rip babies from the arms of their mothers and fathers” as “one of the darkest moments in our history.”

The origin of the so-called “separation” policy dated back to 2015, when California federal judge Dolly Gee, an appointee of President Obama, ruled that all children apprehended while crossing the border illegally, even when accompanied by an adult, could not be detained for more than 20 days. The government’s only alternatives, then, were to either: (a) “separate” the family members by releasing the children after 20 days but continuing to detain the adults, or (b) release the entire family into the American interior after 20 days. The Obama-Biden administration usually chose to release the families.

The Trump administration deviated from the Obama-Biden policy and implemented its new “zero tolerance” standard — which kept adults in detention while releasing children as required by Judge Dee’s 2015 court order.

As families were being “separated” under Trump, the Democratic and media condemnations were relentless. On June 20, 2018, Trump, under mounting political pressure from Democrats and Republicans alike, signed an executive order ending the practice of separating children from their illegal-alien parents at the border, while keeping the zero-tolerance policy intact. In other words, it would now be permissible to detain adult migrants and their children together indefinitely.

But in practice, it became impossible for the government to keep migrant families together in detention centers for any extended period of time, simply because their numbers were far greater than the capacity of the detention centers to hold them. Thus, many of them had to be released.

In an effort to find some politically feasible way to circumvent the Democrats’ uncompromising devotion to open borders, Trump in May 2019 implemented the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), stipulating that foreign individuals seeking admission to the U.S. from Mexico without proper documentation, could be returned to Mexico where they would wait for the duration of their immigration proceedings. In short, U.S. border agencies would no longer have to release migrants into the United States prior to their asylum hearings.

In May 2019 as well, President Trump announced: “On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP. The Tariff will gradually increase [to as much as 25%] until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied, … at which time the Tariffs will be removed.” In response to this threat of tariffs, the Mexican government implemented a new policy which made it more difficult for migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to pass through Mexico on their way to the United States.

And on July 15, 2019, President Trump announced a plan that would bar most migrants from applying for asylum after illegally crossing America’s southern border, unless they had first been unsuccessful in seeking asylum in one of the “safe” countries that they traversed on their way to the United States. In other words, would-be asylees from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Nicaragua would be ineligible for asylum in the U.S. unless they had first applied in Mexico and been rejected. This was in keeping with existing American law. In the summer and early fall of 2019, the Trump administration signed such “safe-country” asylum agreements with the governments of the four aforementioned Central American nations.

These agreements—in conjunction with the Migrant Protection Protocols and the threatened tariffs against Mexico—enabled President Trump to single-handedly circumvent the relentless obstructionism of the Democrats. What Congress had failed for decades to get done, Trump himself achieved on the diplomatic front in just a few months, with no help whatsoever from Congress. It was one of the most extraordinary political accomplishments in American history.

29) IRAN & THE NUCLEAR DEAL

HARRIS & BIDEN: Promoters of the Iran Nuclear Deal
On July 14, 2015, the Obama–Biden administration — along with the leaders of Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany — together finalized a nuclear agreement with Iran. Its official name was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), whose key elements included the following:

  • Iran was permitted to keep and operate more than 5,000 nuclear centrifuges, machines necessary for enriching uranium to the degree necessary for the production of nuclear weapons.
  • Iran received $150 billionin revenue from sanctions relief, even though Obama-Biden acknowledged that Iran would likely use some of that money to fund its military and terrorist activities.
  • Iran was prohibitedfrom purchasing weapons from other countries for five years, and from buying missile technology for eight years. But there were two significant exceptions: Russia and China could continue to make weapons deals with Iran.
  • Iran was given the discretion to blockinternational inspectors from its military installations.
  • Only inspectorsfrom countries that had diplomatic relations with Iran would be given access to Iranian nuclear sites. Thus, there would be no American inspectors.
  • Sanctions were liftedon critical parts of Iran’s military, including a previously existing travel ban against Qasem Suleimani, leader of the terrorist Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
  • Iran would not be requiredto renounce terrorism against the United States, as Obama-Biden deemed such an expectation “unrealistic.”
  • Iran would not be required to affirmits “clear and unambiguous … recognition of Israel’s right to exist” — a requirement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had pleaded for.
  • Whatever restrictions were placed on Iran’s nuclear program, would expire — due to so-called “sunset clauses” — at various times over the ensuing 5 to 11 years.

Sen. Harris characterized the deal as “the best available option for blocking Iran from developing nuclear weapons capability and to avoid potentially disastrous military conflict in the Middle East.”

VP Biden dismissed the concerns of critics who warned that the sunset clauses pertaining to key parts of the agreement would “pave Iran’s path to a bomb.” Such naysayers simply “don’t get it, they’re wrong,” he claimed.

In 2018, Biden characterized President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal as “a self-inflicted disaster” that would make “another war in the Middle East” much “more likely.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Iran Now Can Produce a Nuclear Weapon Quickly
On February 5, 2024, Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reported: “Iran has enough weapons-grade uranium to produce its first nuclear weapon within a week and a total of six bombs within a month.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Iran’s Cash Reserves Skyrocket Under Biden-Harris
Iran had $122 billion in cash reserves in 2018, at which point the Trump administration began to implement its “maximum pressure” campaign of economic sanctions, causing those cash reserves to plummet down to $4 billion by the end of 2020.

But under the Biden-Harris administration, that figure rebounded dramatically. As The Washington Free Beacon reported on November 9, 2021: “The Biden administration’s decision to pursue diplomacy with Iran and unwind the Trump administration’s sanctions has helped the country recover from its cash shortage, according to the [International Monetary Fund]’s projections. The group says Iran’s cash reserves will top $31 billion by the end of the year and increase up to $42.9 billion by the end of 2022.”

WALZ: Supporter of the Iran Nuclear Deal
In 2015, Rep. Walz voted in favor of approving the Iran Nuclear Deal. He wrote that while “this deal is far from perfect,” he believed it to be “our best path forward.” Moreover, Walz would continue to vocally defend the accord in subsequent years, and he criticized President Trump when the latter eventually withdrew the U.S. from the agreement in 2018.

TRUMP: Opposed the Iran Nuclear Deal
Recognizing the potentially catastrophic ramifications of the Iran Nuclear Deal, President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement in May 2018. Upon announcing his decision, Trump made the following remarks:

  • “The deal lifted crippling economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for very weak limits on the regime’s nuclear activity, and no limits at all on its other malign behavior … all around the world. In other words, at the point when the United States had maximum leverage, this disastrous deal gave this regime — and it’s a regime of great terror — many billions of dollars, some of it in actual cash.”
  • “At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program.”
  • “Last week, Israel published intelligence documents long concealed by Iran, conclusively showing the Iranian regime and its history of pursuing nuclear weapons.”
  • “In the years since the deal was reached, Iran’s military budget has grown by almost 40 percent, … After the sanctions were lifted, the dictatorship used its new funds to build nuclear-capable missiles, support terrorism, and cause havoc throughout the Middle East and beyond.”
  • “The agreement was so poorly negotiated that even if Iran fully complies, the regime can still be on the verge of a nuclear breakout in just a short period of time. The deal’s sunset provisions are totally unacceptable.”
  • “The deal’s inspection provisions lack adequate mechanisms to prevent, detect, and punish cheating, and don’t even have the unqualified right to inspect many important locations, including military facilities.”
  • “Not only does the deal fail to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but it also fails to address the regime’s development of ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads.”
  • “[T]he deal does nothing to constrain Iran’s destabilizing activities, including its support for terrorism.”
  • “America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. We will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction.”

30) ISRAEL, JEWS, & PALESTINIANS

HARRIS: Shows Respect for Claims That Israel Pursues “Ethnic Genocide”
During a 2021 appearance at George Mason University, VP Harris nodded when a student asserted that U.S. funding for Israel’s anti-missile defense system, the Iron Dome, “hurts my heart because it’s an ethnic genocide.” Harris then assured the student that “your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth, should not be suppressed.”

HARRIS: “Strategy to Counter Islamophobia” after Hamas Massacre
At daybreak on October 7, 2023, the Gaza-based Islamic terror group Hamas — explicitly dedicated to the mass murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel — carried out a massive, multi-front, surprise attack against the Jewish state. The terrorists fired at least 5,000 rockets into southern and central Israel while a host of armed Hamas fighters simultaneously infiltrated the Israeli border in dozens of separate locations by land, sea, and air (with paragliders). The attack had been planned in conjunction with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iran-sponsored terrorist groups Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. All told, the official Israeli casualty toll was more than 1,200 dead (including at least 32 Americans) and 4,500 injured. The Hamas barbarians also took more than 250 Israelis hostage, including dozens who were American citizens, and moved them to the Gaza Strip, where some would be murdered in cold blood while others would be raped or otherwise violated while being held as bargaining chips for future negotiations with Israel. These horrific Hamas attacks prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare, also on October 7, that Israel was officially “at war” with Hamas.

On November 1, 2023 — after a poll commissioned by the Arab American Institute showed that President Biden’s support among Arab Americans had dropped to 17% since he had voiced support for Israel’s retaliatory war on Hamas — VP Harris announced the unveiling of the Biden-Harris administration’s new “National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia.” “For years,” she said, “Muslims in America … have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks. As a result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we have seen an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents across America …”

Harris also said that the newly announced Strategy would “protect Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim from hate, bigotry and violence. And to address the concern that some government policies may discriminate against Muslims.”

HARRIS: Scolding Israel for Creating a “Humanitarian Catastrophe” in Gaza
While speaking at a March 3, 2024 commemoration ceremony for the historically significant Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, Harris scolded Israel for its post-October 7 military actions in Gaza:

“I must address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating. We have seen reports of families eating leaves or animal feed, women giving birth to malnourished babies with little or no medical care, and children dying from malnutrition and dehydration.

“As I have said many times, too many innocent Palestinians have been killed…. Our hearts break for … all the innocent people in Gaza who are suffering from what is clearly a humanitarian catastrophe. People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane…. And the Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses. They must open new border crossings. They must not impose any unnecessary restrictions on the delivery of aid. They must ensure humanitarian personnel, sites, and convoys are not targeted. And they must work to restore basic services and promote order in Gaza so more food, water, and fuel can reach those in need.”

HARRIS: Lamenting the “Pain” & “Suffering” of Gazans
On March 10, 2024, Harris issued the following statement on the ramifications of Israel’s military operations against Hamas in Gaza: “What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating…. President Biden and I will continue to work to ease the suffering in Gaza and support the right of the Palestinian people to dignity, freedom, and self-determination.”

HARRIS: Disrespects Netanyahu
On July 24, 2024, Harris joined many congressional Democrats in skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress, choosing instead to deliver a speech at the national convention of the historically black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in Indianapolis.

HARRIS: Blaming Israel for Palestinian Civilian Deaths
In a brief exchange with reporters on August 10, 2024, Harris was asked to comment on an Israeli airstrike earlier that day, which had been aimed at terrorists in a Hamas command-and-control center situated inside a mosque in a Gaza school compound. The placement of that Hamas facility was consistent with Hamas’ longstanding pattern of placing fighters and weaponry within or under mosques, schools, hospitals, and other civilian buildings — so that Israeli military strikes that may damage or destroy such places will cause maximum civilian casualties, which in turn can be fraudulently exploited as evidence of Israel’s alleged barbarism. According to the Hamas-controlled health authorities in Gaza, “more than 80” Gazans were killed in the August 10 airstrike. Unquestioningly accepting those figures, which made no distinction between civilian and terrorist deaths, Harris lamented that “there are far too many civilians who have been killed” in Gaza. “I mean, Israel has a right to go after the terrorists that are Hamas,” she explained. “But as I have said many, many times, they also have, I believe, an important responsibility to avoid civilian casualties.”

HARRIS: Secret Meeting with Anti-Semitic Mayor of Dearborn
In August 2024, VP Harris, in an effort to win the support of Muslim and Arab voters, met secretly with Abdullah Hammoud, the anti-Semitic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, a Detroit suburb with an Arab population larger than that of any other city in America. Hammoud had a long history of contempt for Israel and the Jewish people. For example, on October 7, 2023 – immediately after the deadly Hamas attacks against the Jewish state – he posted on X: “Israel’s decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza make peace impossible and tragic violence inevitable. Israel has trapped millions of Palestinians in Gaza in what is recognized by the international community as the world’s largest open-air prison.” He also called for “the end of a racist apartheid system that criminalizes Palestinian existence” and seeks to “‘erase’ Palestinians entirely.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Restored Funding for Palestinians
On April 7, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration announced that in an effort to “restore credible engagement” by the Palestinians in their stalled peace talks with Israel, the U.S. would supply the Palestinians with $235 million in aid, thereby restoring part of the assistance that had been cut by former President Trump.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Restored U.S. Aid to the Palestinian Authority
On March 23, 2018, then-President Trump signed into law the Taylor Force Act, which stopped American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a means of pressuring the PA to stop paying stipends, through its Palestinian Authority Martyr’s Fund, to the families of terrorists killed during the commission of their atrocities. In 2018 as well, the U.S. terminated its $300 million in aid to the United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA), in an effort to pressure the agency to stop using books replete with anti-Semitic passages in its Palestinian schools.

In 2021-2022, the Biden-Harris administration gave at least $417 million to UNRWA – even though the anti-Semitic texts used in its schools remained unchanged. Biden also renewed hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority, even though its terrorist subsidy program remained fully and defiantly in force. According to Biden-Harris, this renewed financial assistance to the PA did not violate the Taylor Force Act because it was of a “humanitarian” nature. But as Islam scholar Robert Spencer pointed out:

“[T]his is absurd; there was no exception made in the Taylor Force Act for ‘humanitarian’ aid. Besides, money is fungible. If you give the PA $300 million in ‘humanitarian aid,’ that will simply free up other sums it possesses to spend on such things as anti-Israel propaganda and, especially, on the Pay-For-Slay program that rewards past, and incentivizes future, acts of terrorism.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Massive Spending on Palestinians
On October 11, 2023, the Washington Free Beacon reported: “Between 2021 to 2024, the Biden administration is slated to spend ‘over $500 million in programming to support the Palestinian people,’ including those in Gaza…. Other programs allowed the administration to spend ‘up to $250 million over five years to advance peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians to enable a sustainable two-state solution.’”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Making U.S. Aid to Israel “Conditional”?
Regarding the Democrats’ increasing calls to condition U.S. aid to Israel on the Jewish state’s willingness to scale back its military operations in Gaza, President Biden said on November 24, 2023: “I think that’s a worthwhile thought. But … [w]e have to take this a piece at a time.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Lamenting the “Suffering” of Palestinians
On March 10, 2024, President Biden issued a statement to mark the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Among his remarks: “The war in Gaza has inflicted terrible suffering on the Palestinian people. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of them civilians, including thousands of children. Some are family members of American Muslims, who are deeply grieving their lost loved ones today. Nearly two million Palestinians have been displaced by the war; many are in urgent need of food, water, medicine, and shelter.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Abstained from Opposing a UN Ceasefire Resolution
On March 26, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration opted to abstain from voting against a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an “immediate” cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Because the U.S. possessed veto power as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, Biden-Harris could have vetoed — i.e., blocked — the resolution with a single “no” vote. Instead, the administration abstained, thereby allowing the resolution to pass, 14-0.

In response to the outcome of the vote, Prime Minister Netanyahu temporarily canceled plans for an Israeli delegation to visit Washington. And Hamas — emboldened by the passage of the UN resolution — demanded that Israel “halt the aggression against our people in Gaza and provide relief and assistance to them, as well as the return of displaced persons to their homes, and the withdrawal of occupation forces from the sector.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: No Intel Support for Israel vs. Hezbollah
Between October 8, 2023 and September 24, 2024, the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which had compiled a vast arsenal of approximately 150,000 rockets and missiles, launched some 9,000 of its rockets into Israel — including 250 on September 23, 2024 alone. As the prospect of an Israeli ground invasion against Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon grew increasingly likely, the Biden-Harris administration declared emphatically that the U.S. military would not be providing any intelligence support for Israel if such an invasion were to materialize. As Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh put it in September 2024: “No. No support. When it comes to Lebanon, the U.S. military has no involvement in Israel’s operations.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Opposed to Israeli Strikes Against Iranian Nuclear Sites
On October 2, 2024 — a day after Iran had fired more than 180 missiles at Israel — President Biden told reporters, “We’ll be discussing with the Israelis what they’re going to do, but all seven of us [G7 nations] agree that they have a right to respond but they should respond proportionally.” Asked whether he would support Israel striking Iranian nuclear sites, Biden replied: “The answer is no.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Threaten to Withhold U.S. Military Aid from Israel
In October 2024, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Security Lloyd Austin, fulfilling the policy directives of Biden and Harris, sent a letter to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer condemning the “increasingly dire humanitarian situation” that had resulted from the post-October 7, 2023 military incursion that Israel had launched against Hamas targets in Gaza. Demanding “urgent and sustained action by your government this month to reverse this trajectory,” the letter warned that if the Jewish state did not take “concrete measures” to address the Gaza situation within the next 30 days, the U.S. might cut off its military assistance to Israel.

BIDEN: “Immediate Ceasefire” in Gaza
On May 19, 2024, President Biden delivered a commencement address at Morehouse College, where he made the following remarks regarding the Israel-Hamas war: “What’s happening in Gaza and Israel is heartbreaking…. Innocent Palestinians caught in the middle of all this: men, women, and children killed or displaced [and] in desperate need of water, food, and medicine.  It’s a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. That’s why I’ve called for an immediate ceasefire — an immediate ceasefire to stop the fighting — bring the hostages home. And I’ve been working on a deal as we speak, working around the clock to lead an international effort to get more aid into Gaza, rebuild Gaza.”

WALZ: Falsely Claims That Most Palestinians Do Not Support Hamas
On October 20, 2023, Gov. Walz wrote on social media: “The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas, and Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.” But Walz’s claim was untrue. As the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies reported in March 2024:

“Palestinian support for Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza remains high, according to a Palestinian poll released on March 20. That support has increased since the Iran-backed terrorist group attacked Israel on October 7…. According to the poll, only seven percent of Gazans blamed Hamas for their suffering. Seventy-one percent of all Palestinians supported Hamas’s decision to attack Israel on October 7…. Fifty-nine percent of all Palestinians thought Hamas should rule Gaza, and 70 percent were satisfied with the role Hamas has played during the war…. Only 5 percent of Palestinians think Hamas’s massacre on October 7 constitutes a war crime.”

WALZ: Lamenting the “Humanitarian Crisis” in Gaza
In the spring of 2024, when university student protest groups began portraying Israel’s military response to the Hamas atrocities of October 7 as excessive, Gov. Walz, favoring a ceasefire, spoke out in support of the students. “This is a humanitarian crisis,” he said. “They [the protesters] have every right to be heard…. These folks are asking for a change in course, they’re asking for more pressure to be put on…. Palestinian civilians being caught in this … has got to end.”

WALZ: Scolding Israel for Its Response to Hamas
In early September 2024, WCMU News asked Gov. Walz, “How would a Harris-Walz administration handle the [Israel-Hamas] conflict, and would it break with the Biden administration in any way?” Walz replied:

“Well, I think first and foremost what we saw on October 7th was a horrific act of violence against the people of Israel. They have certainly … the right to defend themselves, and the United States will always stand by that, but we can’t allow what’s happened in Gaza to happen. The Palestinian people have every right to life and liberty themselves. We need to continue … to put the leverage on to make sure we move towards a two-state solution…. We need the Netanyahu government to start moving in that direction. But I think those folks who are speaking out loudly in Michigan are speaking out for all the right reasons. It’s a humanitarian crisis. It can’t stand the way it is.”

TRUMP: Israel’s Best Friend
Donald Trump has very demonstrably been a more loyal and stalwart friend to Israel and the Jewish people, than any other president in American history. Consider just a few salient facts:

  • Nikki Haley, Trump’s Ambassador to the United Nations, stated at the very start of the Trump administration, that “I am here to underscore the ironclad supportof the United States for Israel…. [T]he United States is determined to stand up to the UN’s anti-Israel bias.”
  • In May 2017, Trump became the firstsitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall.
  • The Trump administration increasedAmerican financial aid to help Israel expand and improve its missile-defense program.
  • In December 2017, Trump announcedthat in fulfillment of a campaign promise — and also in fulfillment of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, which had passed overwhelmingly in both the House and Senate — he would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and would officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Several previous presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama — had made that same campaign promise and broken it.
  • In May 2018, Trump withdrewthe U.S. from the Iran Nuclear Deal of 2015, which constituted an existential threat to Israel.
  • On March 25, 2019, President Trump, in a major shift in U.S. policy, signed a proclamationofficially recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel. Praising Trump for his “historic” and “invaluable” move in support of Israel’s national security, Prime Minister Netanyahu told the president: “Israel has never had a better friend than you.”
  • In November 2019, the Trump administration announcedthat the United States would no longer take the position that Israeli civilian “settlements” — i.e., cities — in the West Bank were “inconsistent with international law.”

TRUMP: Peace Agreement Between Israel & United Arab Emirates
In August 2020, the Trump administration brokered a landmark peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a deal that established a “full normalization of relations” between the two countries. UAE became only the third Arab country in the Middle East — after Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994) — to recognize Israel since its founding in 1948. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, released a joint statement saying that the “diplomatic breakthrough” had occurred at “the request of President Trump.”

TRUMP: Peace Agreement Between Israel & Bahrain
In September 2020, the Trump administration brokered a peace agreement between Israel and the Gulf state of Bahrain, a deal that would fully normalize diplomatic relations between the two states.

TRUMP: Peace Agreement Between Israel & Serbia/Kosovo
In September 2020, President Trump oversaw the signing of a peace agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, in which Kosovo agreed to formally recognize Israel’s right to exist, and Serbia agreed to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Prior to this, Kosovo, a mostly Muslim country, had steadfastly refused to recognize the legitimacy of Israel’s existence. And Serbia since 2009 had refused to recognize Kosovo as an independent state.

TRUMP: Nominated for Three Nobel Peace Prizes
For his role in brokering the aforementioned peace deals, known collectively as The Abraham Accords, President Trump was nominated for three Nobel Peace Prizes.

Australian law professor David Flint said of Trump:

  • “He went ahead and negotiated against all advice, but he did it with common sense. He negotiated directly with the Arab states concerned and Israel and brought them together.”
  • “What he has done with the Trump Doctrine is that he has decided he would no longer have America in endless wars, wars which achieve nothing but the killing of thousands of young Americans. So, he’s reducing America’s tendency to get involved in any and every war.”
  • “The states are lining up, Arab and Middle-Eastern, to join that network of peace which will dominate the Middle-East.”
  • “He is really producing peace in the world in a way in a which none of his predecessors did, and he fully deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.”

TRUMP: Peace Agreement Between Israel & Sudan: On October 23, 2020, President Trump announced that Sudan had also agreed to normalize its diplomatic relations with Israel. “It’s peace in the Middle East without bloodshed,” said Trump. Netanyahu praised Trump for the vital role he was playing in the process: “We are expanding their circle of peace so rapidly with your leadership.”

TRUMP: Peace Agreement Between Israel & Morocco
In December 2020, the Trump administration facilitated yet another peace deal between Israel and a formerly hostile Arab League nation – this time, Morocco.

31) MILITARY ISSUES

HARRIS & BIDEN: Ban on Anti-Satellite Missile Tests
Speaking at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on April 18, 2022, VP Harris announced that the Biden-Harris administration — in an effort to make demilitarization an “international norm for responsible behavior in space” — had decided to unilaterally terminate America’s testing of anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles, a practice known to generate debris in outer space. Said Harris in her remarks: “Simply put, these tests are dangerous, and we will not conduct them. This debris presents a risk to the safety of our astronauts, our satellites and our growing commercial presence…. Even a piece of debris as small as a grain of sand could cause serious damage.”

While the Biden-Harris administration was declaring the end of America’s anti-satellite missile testing, the counterpart ASAT-testing programs of China, India, and Russia would continue unabated.

TRUMP: Military, National Security, & NATO
On January 27, 2017, President Trump signed a memorandum authorizing the expansion and rebuilding of the U.S. military. This was vital because in the latter years of the Obama-Biden administration, the military had faced a severe shortage of ammunition. As Col. John Venable, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said: “By the end of fiscal year 2020, the Trump administration will have acquired more than four times the number of GPS-guided munitions than were acquired during the eight years of the Obama administration.”

Also during the course of his presidency, Trump:

  • mandated a department-wide reviewof military training requirements, eliminating political-correctness exercises that relied on the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center’s perspectives on Islamic extremism
  • took a strong stance on reducingfinancial waste in the military
  • mandated a government-wide reviewof the U.S. defense industry and supply chain, for the purpose of strengthening national security
  • called for expandingS. nuclear capabilities and developing low-yield nuclear weapons
  • re-establishedthe Navy’s Second Fleet in response to increased Russian activity in the North Atlantic Ocean
  • ordered the implementation of a new comprehensive biodefensestrategy
  • released the first-ever plan to protectthe U.S. from an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attack
  • enacted restrictionson nuclear technology exports to China
  • created a task force to protect the U.S. defense supply chain from having technologiesstolen by China, Russia, and other nations
  • instituted a new Justice Department program clamping down on espionageand intellectual-property theft by China
  • signed a memorandum officially creating the U.S. Space Forceas a sixth branch of the military
  • signed an executive order to improve America’s cybersecurityworkforce
  • signed an executive order blockingforeign technology companies from operating in the U.S. if they pose a threat to national security

TRUMP: Upgraded America’s Missile Defense
In 2018, the U.S. allocated a record $11.5 billion for the Missile Defense Agency. In a January 2019 statement, President Trump said: “As President, my first duty is the defense of our country…. I will accept nothing less for our nation than the most effective, cutting-edge missile defense systems…. We are committed to establishing a missile defense program that can shield every city in the United States.  And we will never negotiate away our right to do this.”

TRUMP: Sold PATRIOT Missiles to Poland
In July 2017, the Trump administration agreed to sell PATRIOT missile-defense systems ― designed to detect, target, and destroy incoming missiles and aircraft ― to Poland. This move countered the Obama-Biden administration’s decision to break its pledge to provide Poland with those systems.

TRUMP: Pressured European Members to Contribute More Money to NATO
Throughout 2017 and 2018, President Trump pressured European leaders to contribute more money to NATO’s defense capabilities. He noted that NATO members had failed to live up to their pledges to contribute at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product to NATO’s defense and anti-terror capabilities. As a result of Trump’s pressure campaign, 26 of the 27 NATO countries (other than the U.S.) increased their NATO defense spending between 2017 and 2019.

32) MUSLIMS & TERRORISM

HARRIS: Today’s Muslim Refugees = Jews Who Fled the Third Reich
In a series of tweets which she posted on January 27, 2017 — International Holocaust Memorial Day — Harris compared Jews who escaped Nazi genocide during the Third Reich, to modern-day Muslims seeking refuge in the United States from terrorism-connected countries in the Middle East. She also used the occasion to condemn President Trump’s then-recent executive order declaring a temporary moratorium on travel to the U.S. by people from a small handful of such terror-tied nations. Tweeted Harris:

  • “On #HolocaustMemorialDay, Trump restrictedrefugees from Muslim-majority countries. Make no mistake — this is a Muslim ban.”
  • “We can’t turn our backs on the millionsof refugees who are contributing to our country and our economy.”
  • “During the Holocaust, we failed to let refugeeslike Anne Frank into our country. We can’t let history repeat itself.”

HARRIS: Lamenting “Islamophobia”
On November 13, 2015 in Paris, a coordinated series of Islamic terrorist attacks killed 137 people and wounded more than 400. Three weeks later, a husband-and-wife pair of Islamic terrorists shot up a Christmas party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and wounding 22. Soon after the latter atrocity, Harris, who was then the Attorney General of California, convened a session on “Islamophobia” that included participants from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and the Muslim Students Association — all of which had previously defended Islamic terrorists. Even after “the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino,” she explained, it would be wrong “to stoke fear and cast aspersions against an entire faith and the millions of law-abiding American Muslims.”

In June 2016, an Islamic terrorist gunman killed 49 people at a nightclub in Florida. Harris, who was running for the U.S. Senate at the time, blamed this attack – as well as those in San Bernardino and Paris — on “mental illness and violent extremism.” She also lamented that Muslims had become victims of widespread “Islamophobia” rooted in hate.

In July 2016, Harris passionately denounced “Islamophobia” during a Ramadan event at the Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC), which spun off the Muslim Public Affairs Council, a close ally of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood which has been described by Islam expert Robert Spencer as “the parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda.”

HARRIS: Relationship with Hamas-Linked CAIR
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a Muslim extremist group co-founded in 1994 by individuals affiliated with the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). The IAP was created by senior Hamas operative Mousa Abu Marzook and functioned as Hamas’ public-relations and recruitment arm in the U.S.

In 2015, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR’s Los Angeles office, lauded Harris for including CAIR in an interfaith meeting with law-enforcement officials. He also stated that Harris “exemplified leadership” by having pledged to address the allegedly widespread scourge of “Islamophobia” in America.

In December 2015 — shortly after two Muslim terrorists had killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in a San Bernardino, California mass shooting — Harris hosted CAIR for an interfaith community event.

In 2016, CAIR’s political action committee donated $1,750 to Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign.

In October 2017, Harris said the following about CAIR: “The Council has strived to improve understanding about Islam, and move toward a future in which we welcome people of all faiths and nationalities into our neighborhoods and our schools, as well as [into] our hearts and our minds.”

In September 2018, Harris wrote a letter of support to CAIR on the occasion of the organization’s 24th anniversary. Said the letter: “As you celebrate this milestone, please accept my gratitude and admiration for your tireless work to promote peace, justice, and mutual understanding. For nearly a quarter century, CAIR has worked diligently to dismantle Islamophobic rhetoric, mobilize the American Muslim community, and encourage civic engagement…. In the face of intolerant and exclusionary policies, CAIR has steadfastly defended the Constitutional rights of American Muslims … Today, as we continue to promote tolerance and eliminate hate in our society, CAIR’s work remains as important as it was the day of its founding in 1994.”

CAIR advised Harris on community issues during her time as Attorney General and Senator in California.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Ties to Radical Muslims
In September 2024, “during the blessed last 10 days of Ramadan,” VP Harris posed for a photo with those whom she called “our Administration’s incredible Muslim team.” Reporter Daniel Greenfield pointed out the identities of some notable members of that team:

  • “Nasrina Bargzie, [Harris’] deputy counsel and future Muslim liaison, who had been interviewed by the FBI after 9/11 [and] wore orange [as a gesture of solidarity with] the Islamic terrorists at Gitmo”
  • “Mazen Basrawi, Biden’s current Muslim liaison, who had attended a conference honoring one of the unindicted co-conspirators of the World Trade Center bombing, and whose appointment was hailed by Muslim Brotherhood groups”
  • “Brenda Abdelall, who … had falsely accused Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ as part of a ‘brutal occupation’ [and …] appeared at a convention where speakers … called for a caliphate ruled by Islamic law and freeing Islamic terrorists [before becoming] the ‘assistant secretary for partnership and engagement’ at the Department of Homeland Security in the Biden-Harris administration”
  • “Yousra Fazili, who had studied Islamic religious law … at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, notorious for its terrorist teachings, and represented the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations co-founded by figures tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden, before becoming the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs [under Biden-Harris]”
  • “Maher Bitar, a former executive board member of Students for Justice in Palestine, a campus hate group which has since endorsed Hamas and the atrocities of October 7, [before he became] the Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council [under Biden-Harris]”
  • “Reema Dodin, who had described suicide bombings against Jews by Muslim terrorists as ‘the last resort of a desperate people’ [before being appointed by Biden-Harris] as the deputy director for the Office of Legislative Affairs”
  • “Abdullah Hasan, a recipient of a CAIR Islamic Scholarship Fund who defended BDS [the Hamas-inspired Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctionsmovement] … and claimed that ‘Islamophobia is rampant even in our highest democratic institutions’ like the Supreme Court” before she became an assistant press secretary for the Biden-Harris administration
  • “Uzra Zeya [who …] helped compile material for a book claiming that Jews secretly control the United States [and] became the Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights [in the Biden-Harris administration]”

WALZ: Ties to Hamas-Linked CAIR
In October 2017, Walz said to a gathering of CAIR members: “The years you have spent serving our community and defending civil liberties are an incredible accomplishment. Thank you for the wonderful work you do in Minnesota and across our great nation.”

WALZ: “Challenging Islamophobia”
On March 28, 2019, in the city of St. Paul, Walz spoke at a “Challenging Islamophobia” conference hosted by CAIR’s Minnesota chapter. In the course of his remarks, he proudly announced the formation of a new civil-rights office that would address the alleged prevalence of “Islamophobia” in Minnesota, which was home to more Somali Muslims than any other state in America. Photos taken at the conference showed Walz posing with Hatem Bazian, a prominent anti-Semitic scholar who: (a) has long defended Palestinian terrorist activities targeting Israel; (b) founded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which organizes and sponsors anti-Israel events and campaigns more actively than any other student group in America; and (c) founded SJP’s parent group, American Muslims for Palestine, which promotes the Hamas-inspired BDS movement against Israel and has been investigated for allegedly financing Islamic terrorism.

WALZ: Ties to the Islamic Extremist Asad Zaman
While serving as governor of Minnesota between 2019 and 2024, Walz hosted Imam Asad Zaman, executive director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) of Minnesota, on at least five separate occasions. One of those occasions was an MAS-Minnesota event on February 16, 2018, where then-gubernatorial candidate Walz said: “I am a teacher, so when I see a master teacher, I know it…. It was a lesson when Imam [Zaman] told me to go speak to people. I have pushed back through my whole career on the demonization of Islam, on the demonization of immigrants.… In this space, Imam Zaman is right on this, there is Islamophobia, there is a hatred that is being stirred.”

Some noteworthy facts about Zaman:

  • On his Facebookaccount in 2014, Zaman shared a link to a blog post that characterized Jews as the perpetrators of “the real terrorism in Palestine.”
  • In 2015, Zaman posted an online link to “The Greatest Story Never Told,” a video depicting Adolf Hitler as a misunderstood hero whom historians had unfairly maligned.
  • In 2016, Zaman reposteda Hamas press release mourning the death of Motiur Rahman Nizami, a Bangladeshi political leader affiliated with Jamaat e-Islami, a terrorist entity aligning itself with extremist elements in al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other violent factions. Nizami himself was convicted of rape, murder, and leading an armed group that perpetrated torture and extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh’s 1971 war for independence.
  • Just hours after Hamas terrorists had murdered some 1,200 Israelis in a series of coordinated terror attacks on October 7, 2023, Zaman posteda message on Facebook stating that he “stands in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks.”

WALZ: $100,000 for the Muslim American Society
Gov. Walz’s administration in Minnesota gave $100,000 worth of grants to MAS’s national organization, which was founded in 1992 as the U.S. chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood.

WALZ: Admiration for Rep. Ilhan Omar
In a video posted to social media on August 7, 2024, Walz said: “When I’m having a tough day, and I’m feeling kinda down and the world is pressing on me, I think, ‘Ilhan Omar is a congresswoman,’ and it just brightens you up.” Omar is a U.S. House member who has repeatedly

TRUMP: Destroyed the ISIS Caliphate
In June 2014, the terrorist organization ISIS announced the existence of what it called a new Islamic caliphate. Six months after that, an ISIS spokesman announced his group’s genocidal intentions: “We will conquer Europe one day. It is not a question of [whether] we will conquer Europe, just a matter of when that will happen…. For us, there is no such thing as borders. There are only front lines…. Our expansion will be rapid and perpetual.” As of January 1, 2015, ISIS controlled at least 45 separate cities and towns across northern Iraq and eastern Syria.

The Obama-Biden administration greatly hampered the American military effort against ISIS by imposing highly restrictive rules-of-engagement on U.S. bombers capable of striking terrorist targets from the air. Obama-Biden’s weakness in dealing with ISIS had horrific consequences for millions of people in the Middle East. In January 2016, NBC News reported that “at least 18,802 civilians have been killed in Iraq in ISIS-linked violence in under two years,… with millions of others forced from their homes and thousands more held as slaves.”

But the American assault on ISIS intensified dramatically after Donald Trump became president. Within five months, the number of bombs that were dropped each month by the U.S. military onto ISIS strongholds and assets, more than doubled. Moreover, as CNN reported: “Trump decided to equip the anti-ISIS Syrian Democratic Forces — a largely Kurdish militia — with mortars, anti-tank weapons, armored cars and machine guns.”

The Trump administration also gave U.S. military commanders authority to carry out their missions without micromanagement from Washington, a move that played a key role in America’s military advances against ISIS. On December 26, 2017, Fox News reported: “ISIS has lost 98 percent of the territory it once held — with half of that terror group’s so-called ‘caliphate’ having been recaptured since President Trump took office less than a year ago.”

By taking a strong approach in dealing with ISIS, President Trump saved countless thousands of Muslim lives — a reality that thoroughly contradicts the Democrats’ depiction of Trump as “anti-Islamic.”

TRUMP: The Killing of Major Terrorist Leaders
Under President Trump’s command, U.S. forces in August 2019 killed Hamza bin Laden, a high-ranking al-Qaeda member and son of the late Osama bin Laden, in a counter-terrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region.

In October 2019, President Trump authorized a special-forces operation that targeted and killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria.

In January 2020, Trump ordered the CIA to launch a drone strike that killed Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen.

That same month, Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the notorious general who: (a) headed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; (b) had long been considered a terrorist by American officials; (c) headed Iranian-affiliated terrorist operations that trained Iran proxies who were responsible for more than 600 American deaths; and (d) was believed to be in the process of preparing additional attacks on U.S. diplomats in the Middle East.

33) RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

HARRIS: Viewing Catholics As Unqualified to Be Federal Judges
Harris believes that practicing Catholics who take seriously the doctrines of their faith are fundamentally unfit to serve as federal judges, as evidenced by the way she treated Nebraska District Judge nominee Brian Buescher during his November 2018 Senate confirmation hearing. Harris emphasized the significance of Buescher’s 25-year association with the Knights of Columbus (KOC), a charity that embraces Catholic doctrines stipulating that abortion is “a crime against human life.” In a written question to Buescher, Harris asked: “In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as ‘a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.’ Mr. Anderson later said ‘abortion is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale.’ Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?”

As columnist Kevin D. Williamson subsequently noted in the New York Post: “[T]he Constitution explicitly forbids imposing any religious test for public office, which is what [Senator Harris] here propose[s] to do for the federal judiciary. The second and related issue is that it is not the Knights of Columbus that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, but the Catholic Church. If a KOC member is ineligible to serve on the federal bench because of the beliefs of that organization, then every Catholic in the United States — and the world, for that matter, all 1.2 billion of them — is ineligible for similar office, since they belong to a much larger and much more prominent organization that is the source of those ‘extreme positions.’”

HARRIS: Health Insurers Must Cover Contraception & Sterilization
Harris has long supported an Obama-era healthcare regulation dating back to August 1, 2011 – nearly 17 months after the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was signed into law – when then-Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius announced a new mandate that required all Obamacare-compliant insurance plans to cover at least one form of female birth control, including sterilization and abortifacients. This mandate was unacceptable to many individuals and businesses whose moral or religious beliefs did not permit them to fund or participate in such insurance plans. Such was the case with Hobby Lobby, an arts-and-crafts store chain owned by devout Christians openly dedicated to “honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles.” Thus, Hobby Lobby asked HHS if, because of its religious convictions, it could be exempt from the Obamacare mandate.

As the attorney general of California, Harris in 2014 filed an amicus brief exhorting the Supreme Court to refuse Hobby Lobby’s request. Asserting that “every American deserves access to quality, comprehensive healthcare,” she argued that “a woman’s access to essential services, including contraception, should not be restricted because of the religious views of her employer—particularly when the right to these services is protected under federal law.” The Supreme Court eventually sided with Hobby Lobby and struck down the Obamacare mandate in 2014.

HARRIS: Religious Liberty & The Equality Act
The Equality Act was designed to force employers and workers to either accept leftwing dogma regarding marriage, sexuality, and gender, or lose their businesses and jobs. A widely publicized example of what the Equality Act sought to achieve involved Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who declined to create a custom cake for a same-sex wedding and was subsequently sued by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC) for discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. As the Alliance Defending Freedom – a Christian law firm “committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life” — explains: “In an exchange lasting about 30 seconds, Phillips politely declined, explaining that he would gladly make them any other type of baked item they wanted, but that he could not design a cake promoting a same-sex ceremony because of his faith.”

  • When the Trump Justice Department in 2017 voiced support for Phillips, Sen. Harris tweeted: “Shameon the Justice Department for siding with discrimination. It has no place in our society.”
  • When the Supreme Court in 2018 issued a 7-2 rulingin Phillips’ favor, Sen. Harris tweeted: “No business should be allowed to discriminate against any American based on who they are or who they love. Our constitution requires equal protection under the law. Full stop.”
  • In January 2019, Sen. Harris tweeted: “Passing the Equality Act won’t only end discrimination against sexual orientation and gender identity, it’s a pivotal part in ending homophobia and transphobia and moving our culture forward to be more inclusive and respectful.”
  • In June 2023, VP Harris stated: “President Biden and I will continue to rigorously enforce federal anti-discrimination protections and fight for the right of all people to participate equally in our society. And as a crucial part of that fight, we continue to call on Congress to pass the Equality Act.”

HARRIS: Religious Liberty & The “Do No Harm” Act
In February 2019, Harris introduced the Do No Harm Act in the U.S. Senate, to counter the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993 and similar legislation that existed at the state level in about 20 U.S. states. As Kenneth Craycraft writes in First Things: “The purpose of RFRA was to … carve out exemptions from generally applicable laws for some religious practices that are fundamental to religious belief. For example, a RFRA law might protect a church from another law that prohibits consideration of sexual orientation for employment, promotion, or retention. Or it might protect a physician who participates in public health reimbursement programs from a law requiring such physicians to perform a broad scope of so-called healthcare services, such as abortion.”

Sen. Harris stated that the Do No Harm Act’s overriding objective was to prevent RFRA laws from “being used to deny” such things as “healthcare access,… coverage or services to which persons are otherwise legally entitled.”

In making her case for the Do No Harm Act, Harris defined “religious freedom” very narrowly as “the freedom to worship,” as guaranteed by the First Amendment. But as Kenneth Craycraft points out:

“In Harris’s tendentious reading, ‘free exercise’ of religion means ‘freedom to worship,’ and nothing more. If the doors of the church are not locked and guarded, or if you are not prevented from praying in your home, you have the full range of ‘the First Amendment guarantee,’ and you are guaranteed nothing more.… Free exercise of religion equals private prayer or conviction, and nothing else.”

BIDEN: Religious Liberty & The Equality Act
In an address to the Human Rights Campaign in June 2019, Joe Biden said, “I promise you, if I’m elected president it [passage of the Equality Act] will be the first thing I ask to be done.” “This is our soul, dammit, this is who we have to be,” Biden expanded. “… This is our real moral obligation.”

In late October 2020, Biden again pledged: “I will make enactment of the Equality Act a top legislative priority during my first 100 days — a priority that Donald Trump opposes.”

BIDEN: Rejecting the Right to Refuse Service Based on Moral Objections
On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled on 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a case that centered around the question of whether creative businesses had a right to refuse to serve LGBTQ+ customers because of a business owner’s First Amendment free-speech rights. In its 6-3 decision, the Court concluded that an evangelical Christian businesswoman had a right to post a notice that said, “no [wedding websites] will be sold if they will be used for gay marriages.”

President Biden criticized the decision in a statement saying that “no person should face discrimination simply because of who they are or who they love.” “The Supreme Court’s disappointing decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis undermines that basic truth,” he added, “and painfully it comes during Pride month when millions of Americans across the country join together to celebrate the contributions, resilience, and strength of the LGBTQI+ community.”

34) REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY

HARRIS: Supporter of Reparations
In January 2019, Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee introduced legislation, H.R. 40, designed to address, by means of reparations payments, the “lingering negative effects of slavery on living African Americans and society.” The bill had 125 co-sponsors, all Democrats. Senator Harris, for her part, said “we need to study the effects of generations of discrimination and institutional racism and determine what can be done, in terms of intervention, to correct course.”

In a March 2019 interview with NPR, Sen. Harris said that “we need to study the effects of generations of discrimination and institutional racism and determine what can be done, in terms of intervention, to correct course.” When NPR host Steve Inskeep asked Harris to outline “one possible form” that “reparations for slavery and racial discrimination … could take,” she answered:

“Sure. You can look at the issue of untreated and undiagnosed trauma. African-Americans have higher rates of heart disease and high blood pressure. It is environmental. It is centuries of slavery, which was a form of violence where women were raped, where children were taken from their parents — violence associated with slavery. And that never — there was never any real intervention to break up what had been generations of people experiencing the highest forms of trauma. And trauma, undiagnosed and untreated, leads to physiological outcomes. […] You need to put resources and direct resources — extra resources — into those communities that have experienced that trauma.”

In April 2019, Sen. Harris delivered a speech at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention. After Harris had finished her remarks, Sharpton asked her if she would, as president, sign H.R. 40 into law. “When I am elected president, I will sign that bill,” Harris replied, eliciting thunderous applause and Black Power fist salutes from those in attendance.

In August 2019, Sen. Harris said: “This stuff [the case for reparations] needs to be studied. Because America needs a history lesson, to be honest about it, and we need to study it in a way that we are having a very comprehensive and fact-based conversation about policies and the connection between those policies and harm if we’re going to have a productive conversation. It can’t just be, ‘Hey … write some checks.’ […] I don’t support an idea or a notion that after all this, we’re going to say, ‘Okay, I’m going to write you a check, and then be quiet.’ Because that won’t solve the problem, which is the systemic issues that are present and will continue to exist, whether or not you write a check.”

In July 2024, Newsweek quoted Harris as having told the black publication The Root: “I think there has to be some form of reparations and we could discuss what that is, but look, we’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery. We’re looking at almost 100 years of Jim Crow. We’re looking at legalized segregation, and in fact segregation on so many levels that exist today based on race, and there has not been any kind of intervention done understanding the harm and the damage that occurred, to correct [the] course. And so we are seeing the effects of all those years play out still today.”

BIDEN: Open to the Possibility of Reparations
In a February 2021 news briefing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that President Biden “certainly would support a study of reparations” by a special commission.

WALZ: His Church Supports Reparations
Walz attends the St. Paul, Minnesota-based Pilgrim Lutheran Church, whose “Pilgrim Advocates for Racial Equity” team recently drafted a reparations program for the church. A similar team, known as the Pilgrim Racial Justice Task Force, hosted a forum titled “Whiteness and Privilege” in October 2019.

35) SOCIAL SECURITY

HARRIS: No Privatization of Social Security
Harris believes that the Social Security system should remain entirely and permanently under federal control, with no movement whatsoever toward any degree of privatization.

WALZ: No Privatization of Social Security
Walz likewise believes that the Social Security system should remain entirely and permanently under federal control, with no movement whatsoever toward any degree of privatization.

TRUMP: Favors Some Privatization of Social Security
Trump believes that people should have at least some control over how their retirement funds are invested, including the option of investing their Social Security income in the stock market or some other private investment vehicle.

In his 2000 book The America We Deserve, Trump wrote: “The solution to the Great Social Security crisis couldn’t be more obvious: Allow every American to dedicate some portion of their payroll taxes to a personal Social Security account that they could own and invest in stocks and bonds. Federal guidelines would make sure that your money is diversified, that it is invested in sound mutual funds or bond funds, and not in emu ranches. The national savings rate would soar and billions of dollars would be cycled from savings, to productive assets, to retirement money. And unlike the previous system, the assets in this retirement account could be left to one’s heirs, used to start a business, or anything else one desires…. Directing Social Security funds into personal accounts invested in real assets would swell national savings, pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into jobs and the economy.”

36) SOCIALISM

WALZ: A Favorite of the Democratic Socialists of America
After VP Kamala Harris picked Gov. Walz as her vice presidential running mate in 2024, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — the largest organization of socialists in the U.S. — cheered in a social-media post: “Harris choosing Walz as a running mate has shown the world that DSA and our allies on the left are a force that cannot be ignored.”

WALZ: Likens Socialism to “Neighborliness”
During a “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom call in early August 2024, Gov. Walz openly advocated for socialism. “Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values,” he said. “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

  • On August 8, 2024, Daniel Pilla of National Review explained the fallacy in Walz’s suggestion that socialism and “neighborliness” resemble each other, writing: “Socialism is a forced economic system under which the government usurps total control of a nation’s means of production, distribution, and exchange (i.e., buying and selling)…. Neighborliness is the antithesis of socialism. Neighborliness involves the voluntary cooperation of individuals freely helping one another without an expectation of economic benefit, solely for the purposes of making the world a better place (or at least one’s small corner of the world).… Voluntary action is the essential definition of neighborliness. By contrast, socialism is force.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: No Response to Trump’s Vow to Reject Socialism
In his 2019 State of the Union address, President Trump said: “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” Republicans stood in applause, while most Democrats remained seated and chose not to applaud.

37) STATEHOOD FOR D.C. & PUERTO RICO

HARRIS & BIDEN: Supporting Statehood for D.C. & Puerto Rico
Statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico would guarantee four additional Democrat seats in the U.S. Senate. Though Harris has been careful not to tip her hand regarding her support for such measures, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced in August 2024 that she and the capital city’s 51 delegates at the Democratic National Convention were enthusiastically supporting Harris. “We know Kamala Harris will fight for our freedom and we will work together to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state!” said Bowser. “The District of Columbia is proud to cast its 51 votes for the next president of the United States, Kamala Harris.”

On April 22, 2021, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted to transform Washington, D.C. into a state on a pure party-line vote of 216-208. The Biden-Harris administration expressed its support for the measure, with statements like these:

  • “Establishing [D.C.] as the 51st state will make our Union stronger and more just.”
  • “For far too long, the more than 700,000 people of Washington, D.C. have been deprived of full representation in the U.S. Congress.”
  • “This taxation without representation and denial of self-governance is an affront to the democratic values on which our Nation was founded. H.R. 51 rights this wrong by making Washington, D.C. a state and providing its residents with long overdue full representation in Congress.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Supporting Statehood for D.C. & Puerto Rico
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform says: “We unequivocally support statehood for D.C. […] Democrats support the enactment of the Puerto Rico Status Act/H.R. 2757, and promote full civic and political representation for Puerto Ricans.”

In a September 30, 2020 interview, Democrat Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said that he would seek to turn Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. into states if Democrats were to win both the White House and a majority in the U.S. Senate in the upcoming November elections. “I’m not busting my chops to become Majority Leader to do very little or nothing,” he explained. “We are going to get a whole lot done. And as I’ve said, everything, everything is on the table.” “I would — believe me, on D.C. and Puerto Rico, particularly if Puerto Rico votes for it, D.C. already has voted for it and wants it. I’d love to make them states,” Schumer elaborated.

In a January 30, 2021 interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC, Schumer, who was now the Senate Majority Leader, re-emphasized his commitment to bringing transformational change to the United States: “Well, Rev, we have one goal: big, bold change in America” which would include “dealing with D.C. and Puerto Rican statehood.”

On August 7, 2024, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said: “Let’s assume our worst nightmare—the Democrats went to the White House, the House, the Senate. The first thing they’ll do is get rid of the [Senate] filibuster. Second, you’ll have two new states: D.C., Puerto Rico. That’s four new Democratic senators in perpetuity.”

38) SUPREME COURT

BIDEN: Unwilling to Say if He Would Pack the Supreme Court
In recent years, numerous Democrats have put forth the idea of “packing” the Supreme Court – i.e., increasing the number of justices from 9 to perhaps 13 or 15, with all the additions being activists who could be counted upon to rule in favor of Democrat agenda items. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden repeatedly refused to give his opinion on court-packing: “You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over,” he told reporters in October 2020. When a reporter asked Biden, “don’t the voters deserve to know [your position on Court-packing]?” Biden answered: “No, they don’t.”

BIDEN: Creates a Commission To Study Packing the Supreme Court
On April 9, 2021, President Biden announced that he had signed an executive order creating a commission to study the possibility of packing the Supreme Court with additional Justices. To co-chair the commission, Biden appointed two left-wing partisans who had previously served in the Obama administration: Bob Bauer and Cristina Rodriguez.

HARRIS: She Would Favor Packing the Supreme Court
During a 2020 interview on MSNBC, Sen. Harris stated that she was “1,000 percent” in support of President Biden’s refusal to state publicly whether or not he was in favor of expanding the Supreme Court. Said Harris: “Joe’s been very clear that he is going to pay attention to the fact — and I’m with him on this 1,000 percent — pay attention to the fact that right now … people are voting. They’re voting…. People will be voting up until Election Day, and they have a right, in an election, to elect their next president, who then will make the decision about who will be the nominee.”

In 2019, Harris had said the following about the possibility of packing the Court: “We are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court. We have to take this challenge head on, and everything is on the table to do that.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Propose Expansion of Supreme Court from 9 Justices to 13
At an April 15, 2021 news conference, Rep. Ed Markey unveiled the Judiciary Act Of 2021, which called for expanding the Supreme Court from 9 Justices to 13. The bill was co-sponsored by 59 House Democrats.

TRUMP: Originalist Justices
When Donald Trump first entered the presidential race of 2016, he pledged to appoint only originalists to the Supreme Court — i.e., judges who would strive to discern the original intent of the Framers of the Constitution. Toward that end, he subsequently named Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the nation’s highest court. Trump also applied this same originalist standard to his appointments of 300+ additional judges to the federal bench nationwide.

39 TRANSGENDER ISSUES

HARRIS: Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Surgeries for Prison Inmates
In 2014, Attorney General Harris agreed to a settlement with Rodney Quine, a transgender prisoner who was serving a life sentence for murder without possibility of parole. The settlement — which came after Quine’s attorneys had argued that a denial of their client’s desire to change his genitalia would violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” — permitted the prisoner to undergo a costly sex-change operation at taxpayer expense. Harris called the settlement “an important step forward in the ongoing effort to protect transgender rights in California.”

On another occasion, Harris, who pushed for the use of taxpayer dollars to fund the sex-change operation of a biological man / transgender woman who was in prison for having murdered three people, said: “I made sure that they changed the policy so that every transgender inmate would have access.”

HARRIS: Job Applicants Can Choose from 9 Sets of Gender Pronouns
Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign website allows potential hires applying for a job to select from nine separate sets of gender pronouns. Aside from the traditional “he/him” and “she/her,” applicants may also choose from: “they/them,” “ey/em,” or “xe/xem” “ze/hir,” “hir/hir,” “hu/hu,” and “fae/faer.” The last of those options is used by people who consider themselves to be fairies or witches.

HARRIS: Transgenders Can Use the Public Bathroom of Their Choice
Harris once filed a court brief supporting the position that transgender people should be permitted to access the bathroom of their choice in public places.

HARRIS: Taxpayer-Funded Sex-Change Surgeries for Illegal Aliens
In 2020, the ACLU gave all presidential primary participants a survey asking whether or not they supported the use of taxpayer dollars to fund sex-change operations for illegal aliens. Responding that “transitional treatment is a medical necessity,” Harris pledged to direct “all federal agencies responsible for providing essential health care to provide transitional treatment.” Moreover, she said that she had already supported a similar policy during her tenure as Attorney General of California: “It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition. That’s why, as Attorney General, I pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates … while incarcerated or detained.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors
The Daily Wire explains: “Gender-affirming care is a phrase used by transgender activists and media to mask the more grisly sounding transgender top and bottom surgeries, including removing a biological woman’s breasts, removing a biological man’s genitals, sculpting a fake penis on a biological woman, and more. Social affirmation, puberty blockers, and hormones also fall under the ‘gender-affirming care’ umbrella.” According to DoNoHarmMedicine.org, “gender-affirming” care is “based on the dangerous premise that any child who has distress that he or she thinks is related to their sex should automatically be treated with social transition to the sex of their choice followed by hormonal interventions and then possibly surgery to remove healthy body parts,” while “underlying mental health problems are usually not addressed.”

In a letter dated March 31, 2022, Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General with the Biden-Harris DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, warned all states’ Attorneys General that the DOJ would punish instances of what it viewed as discrimination by which “transgender youth” were denied “gender-affirming care,” including medical and drug treatments (e.g., puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries).

On April 29, 2022, the Biden-Harris DOJ filed a complaint challenging S.B. 184, a recently passed Alabama Senate Bill that made it a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for doctors to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to children seeking to undergo gender transition. Arguing that the criminalization of children’s sexual transitioning violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal-protection-under-the-law for all people, the DOJ wrote: “S.B. 184 … discriminates against transgender youth by denying them access to certain forms of medically necessary care.”

On March 31, 2022 — “Transgender Day of Visibility” — the Biden-Harris administration stated that the “early” use of transgender surgeries, hormone treatments, and affirmations are “crucial” for the physical and psychological well-being of children and teenagers who identify as transgender and nonbinary.

During an April 5, 2023 press briefing, RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “Today Indiana just banned puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and gender transition surgeries for minors. I’m wondering what the president’s reaction is to the Indiana governor signing that bill into law. And does the president have a position on at what age these kinds of therapies and surgeries are appropriate?” Jean-Pierre replied: “That’s something for a child and their parents to decide, it’s not something we believe should be decided by legislators. So I’ll leave it there.”

During her current 2024 presidential campaign, Harris has been careful not to say whether or not she supports transgender surgeries or hormone treatments for minors, but a number of LGBTQ organizations that endorse such procedures for children are enthusiastically supporting the Harris-Walz ticket. Among those groups are the ACLU, GLAAD, Advocates for Trans Equality, and the Human Rights Campaign.

HARRIS & BIDEN: Expand Title IX to Include Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation
In the spring and summer of 2024, twenty-six U.S. states sued the Department of Education and its Secretary, Miguel Cardona, over the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed changes to the rules of Title IX, a 1972 law banning sex-based discrimination at all federally funded schools. The Biden-Harris changes, which extended the original ban to include also discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, went into effect on August 1, 2024. The new Biden-Harris framework:

  • prohibits any policy that “prevents a person from participating in an education program or activity consistent with their gender identity”
  • allows biological men to take scholarship money intended specifically for girls and women, simply by declaring that they identify as females
  • gives biological males who identify as transgender females full accessto women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, school dormitories, etc.
  • mandates that all students, teachers, coaches, etc. in any program that receives federal funding must use biologically incorrect pronouns when addressing or referring to people identifying as transgender – lest they be charged with “hate speech” transgressions
  • can deny future federal funding to any school or other institution that fails to comply with the new changes

HARRIS & BIDEN: Allow Biological Boys to Play on Girls’ Sports Teams
On October 19, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration denounced the Texas legislature’s recent passage of a bill designed to ban biological boys from playing on girls’ sports teams. “This hateful bill in Texas is just the latest example of Republican state lawmakers using legislation to target transgender kids — whom the president believes are some of the bravest Americans — in order to score political points,” said White House spokesman Ike Hajinazarian. “These anti-transgender bills are nothing more than bullying disguised as legislation and undermine our nation’s core values.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Force Doctors to Perform Transgender Procedures on Demand
On April 20, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration filed an appeal seeking to force doctors and hospitals to perform transgender-related procedures and surgeries even if they objected on moral or religious grounds. The appeal was made in response to a January court ruling that had struck down a Biden-Harris effort to punish doctors for “sex discrimination” violations if they refused to perform transgender procedures requested by a patient.

HARRIS & BIDEN: HHS Asks Court to Overrule Order Blocking Transgender Care
In late March 2022, the Biden-Harris Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overrule a 2021 lower court order in the case of Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra, which protected health insurance providers from mandates that would require them to cover the costs of transgender-related medicines, gender-transitioning surgeries, therapies, and procedures.

BIDEN: Banning “Gender-Affirming Care” for Children Is “Close to Sinful”
In a March 13, 2023 interview with The Daily Show, President Biden criticized Florida’s recently enacted bans on: (a) transgender medications and surgeries for children, and (b) the promotion of gender ideology in the classroom. “What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful,” said Biden. “I mean it’s just terrible what they’re doing.”

Added Biden: “It’s not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, ‘You know, I decided I want to become a man or I want to become a woman.’ … They’re human beings, they love and have feelings. … It’s cruel. We [should] make sure we pass [federal] legislation like we passed on same-sex marriage. You mess with that, you’re breaking the law and you’re going to be held accountable.”

BIDEN: Permit Lessons on Sexuality & Gender in Early Grades
In February 2022, the Florida legislature was considering a bill designed to forbid instruction on sexual orientation, gender identity, and transgenderism to children in kindergarten through third grade. Democrat and leftwing opponents of the legislation dubbed it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, falsely implying that the bill sought to forbid the use of the word “gay” in classrooms for younger children. President Biden opposed the legislation from the start. On February 8, 2022, he tweeted: “I want every member of the LGBTQI+ community — especially the kids who will be impacted by this hateful bill — to know that you are loved and accepted just as you are. I have your back, and my Administration will continue to fight for the protections and safety you deserve.” The Florida legislature eventually passed the bill on March 8, 2022.

WALZ: Transgender Children Should Have Access to Bathroom of Opposite Sex
In a 2017 town hall, Rep. Walz said he believed that children as young as 10 years of age could identify as members of the opposite sex. Regarding policies designed to regulate the use of school bathrooms by such children, he stated: “These are children my son’s age, a fourth grader, a 10-year-old who, just wants to go to the bathroom … and their identity is male or female and they just go in that bathroom and use it.”

WALZ: No Minimum Age on Transgender Procedures
In a March 2023 executive order, Gov. Walz’s administration opened the door to state-funded genital surgeries for minors when it removed, from Minnesota’s state healthcare policy, age restrictions on most transgender medical and surgical procedures.

Also in March 2023, Walz described conservative governors as “bullies,” for seeking to ban hormone treatments, puberty blockers, and radical surgeries for minors who claimed to be transgender.

WALZ: Making Minnesota a “Refuge” State for Transgender Procedures
In March 2023, Gov. Walz signed an executive order formally making his state a “refuge” for people seeking doctors willing to help them access irreversible “transgender” surgeries, sterilization procedures, and drugs/hormones. “Today, Minnesota joins other states and a growing number of municipalities that have acted in solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community,” the order declared. “We stand with this community by maintaining a refuge for those who seek and provide gender affirming health care services.” While signing his executive order, Walz held the hand of 12-year-old boy who claimed to identify as a transgender girl.

Walz’s March 2023 executive order also:

  • directed all state agencies to protect, “to the fullest extent of their lawful authority,” anyone “providing, assisting, seeking, or obtaining” such transgender interventions
  • ordered various governmental departments to issue bulletins instructing health insurance companies to cover the costs of all drugs and procedures deemed “medically necessary” for transgender-related matters
  • placed a moratorium on permitting the state to assist any investigation that could potentially result in doctors or parents facing legal or financial consequences for providing “gender-affirming care”
  • authorized the governor to use “discretion to decline requests for the arrest or surrender” of anyone [in Minnesota] accused of violating another state’s restrictions against “transgender” procedures

“As states across the country move to ban access to gender-affirming care, we want LGBTQ Minnesotans to know they will continue to be safe, protected, and welcome in Minnesota,” Walz said in a March 2023 statement. “In Minnesota, you will not be punished for seeking or providing medical care.”

WALZ: Banned the Practice of Conversion Therapy
In April 2023, Gov. Walz signed a bill that banned the practice of conversion therapy, which WebMD defines as “any emotional or physical therapy used to ‘cure’ or ‘repair’ a person’s attraction to the same sex, or their gender identity and expression.” Specifically, the legislation:

  • barredany medical or mental healthcare practitioner from offering such therapy to minors or to “vulnerable” adults
  • made it illegal for any entity to publicly advertise their ability to change a person’s sexual orientation or perceived gender identity
  • outlawed the dissemination of advertising materials referring to transgenderism as “a mental disease, disorder or illness”
  • forbade insurance companies and healthcare plans from covering the costs of conversion therapy

WALZ: Tampons in Boys’ School Bathrooms
In late May 2023, Gov. Walz signed into law an education finance bill requiring all school districts and charter schools in Minnesota to make available, free of charge, tampons and menstrual pads in all school bathrooms for students in grades 4 through 12, including boys’ bathrooms. The bill’s language stated that “the products must be available to all menstruating students.” By supporting the bill, Walz explicitly endorsed the idea that boys should be permitted to use girls’ bathrooms, and vice versa.

WALZ: Opposes Notifying Parents That Their Children Claim to Be Transgender
Walz believes that schoolteachers and administrators should not notify parents if their children suddenly begin to claim that they are, or may be, of another gender.

WALZ: Supports Biological Males Competing in Female Sports
A strong advocate of permitting biological males to compete in female school sports, Walz said in March 2022: “I’m not concerned about making life more difficult for children who already have an incredibly high suicide rate—children and people who want to be who they are.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform condemns what it describes as Donald Trump’s “extreme plan to punish doctors who treat transgender youth and to ban gender-affirming care.” The platform also pledges to “vigorously oppose state and federal bans on gender-affirming health care.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Opposed to “Conversion Therapy” for Transgenders
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform says that “Democrats will continue to fight for LGBTQI+ youth by building on President Biden’s historic actions to ban so-called ‘conversion therapy,’” which WebMD defines as “any emotional or physical therapy used to ‘cure’ or ‘repair’ a person’s attraction to the same sex, or their gender identity and expression.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Supportive of Biological Males Competing in Female Sports
On April 20, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives passed The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, a Republican-sponsored bill aimed at preventing biological males from competing as transgender females in girls’ and women’s sporting events at schools nationwide. The legislation passed in a 219-203 vote, where Republicans cast all the “Yes” votes, and Democrats cast all the “No” votes.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Opposed to Notifying Parents That Their Child Claims to Be Transgender
On February 16, 2023, the Democrat members of the Virginia Senate’s Education and Health Committee voted to block Sage’s Law, legislation mandating that parents be notified if their child decided, in school, to socially transition to another gender. All nine Democrats on the committee voted against the bill, and all six Republicans voted for it.

TRUMP: Opposed to Permitting Biological Males to Compete in Female Sports
In February 2021, Trump said: “Joe Biden and the Democrats are even pushing policies that would destroy women’s sports. Now young girls and women are in sets that they are now being forced to compete against those who are biological males. It’s not good for women. The records that stood for years, even decades, are now being smashed. If this is not changed, women’s sports as we know it will die.”

40) UNIONIZATION OF THE WORKPLACE

WALZ: Opposed to Giving Workers the Option Not to Join a Union
In October 2018, Rep. Walz spoke against right-to-work legislation. According to Investopedia: “A right-to-work law gives workers the freedom to choose whether or not to join a labor union in the workplace. This law also makes it optional for employees in unionized workplaces to pay for union dues or other membership fees required for union representation, whether they are in the union or not.”

41) VOTING RIGHTS

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Opposed to Safeguards Against Election Fraud
In 2005, a landmark report by the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, known informally as the Carter-Baker Commission, advised all U.S. states that in order to guarantee free and fair elections, they should:

  • increase voter ID requirements
  • minimize the use of mail-in ballots, which “remain the largest source of potential voter fraud”
  • disallow ballot harvesting by third parties
  • purge voter rolls of all ineligible or fraudulent names
  • allow election observers to monitor ballot-counting processes without restraint or obstruction

These recommendations were widely watered down, and in some cases entirely ignored, in the elections of November 2020 — chiefly because of Democrat efforts to circumvent and change existing election laws by unconstitutional and illegal methods. Those Democrat efforts were wholly consistent with the party platform’s pledge to “make voting easier and more accessible for all Americans by supporting automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration [on Election Day], early voting, and universal vote-from-home and vote-by-mail options.” All of those Democrat proposals dramatically increase opportunities for voter fraud, particularly in light of the fact that state voter rolls are already known to include at least 24 million ineligible or inaccurate voter registrations.

HARRIS & BIDEN: The For The People Act
The Heritage Foundation has reported that H.R. 1, The For the People Act of 2021, sought to:

  • “seize [for the federal government] the authority of states to regulate voter registration and the voting process by forcing states to implement early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, online voter registration, and no-fault absentee balloting”
  • “make it easier to commit fraud and promote chaos at the polls through same-day registration, as election officials would have no time to verify the accuracy of voter registration information and the eligibility of an individual to vote …”
  • “degrade the accuracy of registration lists by requiring states to automatically register all individuals (as opposed to ‘citizens’) from state and federal databases”
  • “constitute a recipe for massive voter registration fraud by hackers and cyber criminals through online voter registration”
  • “make it a criminal offense for a state official to reject a voter registration application … because the official believes the individual is ineligible to vote”
  • “require states to count ballots cast by voters outside of their assigned precincts, overriding the precinct system used by almost all states [to] prevent election fraud”
  • “mandate no-fault absentee ballots, which are the tool of choice for vote thieves”
  • “ban witness signature or notarization requirements for absentee ballots”
  • “require states to allow … vote harvesting … so that any third parties—including campaign staffers and political consultants—can pick up and deliver absentee ballots”
  • “prevent election officials from checking the eligibility and qualifications of voters and removing ineligible voters”
  • “ban state voter ID laws by forcing states to allow individuals to vote without an ID and merely signing a statement in which they claim they are who they say they are”
  • “require states to allow 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to register”
  • “require states to restore the ability of felons to vote the moment they are out of prison, regardless of uncompleted parole, probation, or restitution requirements”
  • “transfer the right to draw congressional districts from state legislatures to ‘independent’ commissions whose members are unaccountable to voters”
  • “authorize … the IRS to investigate and consider the political and policy positions of nonprofit organizations before granting tax-exempt status”

In a March 1, 2021 statement of policy, the Biden-Harris White House said of H.R. 1: “[T]his landmark legislation is urgently needed to protect the right to vote and the integrity of our elections and to repair and strengthen American democracy.”

On June 22, 2021, VP Harris stated: “I want to be clear that our administration remains determined to work with Congress to pass The For The People Act.”

During a July 13, 2021 speech in Philadelphia, President Biden said: “Vice President Harris and I have spent our careers doing this work. And I’ve asked her to lead, to bring people together to protect the right to vote and our democracy. And it starts with continuing the fight to pass H.R.1, The For the People Act. That bill — that bill would help end voter suppression in the states…. Last month, Republicans opposed even debating, even considering [The] For the People Act. Senate Democrats stood united to protect our democracy and the sanctity of the vote. We must pass The For The People Act. It’s a national imperative.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: Opponents of Election-Integrity Legislation
On July 12, 2021, at least 51 of the 67 Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives fled their state and flew to Washington, D.C., so as to deny Texas Republicans the quorum needed to pass new voter-integrity bills to which the Democrats objected. The proposed legislation called for such things as: (a) ID requirements for people voting by mail, and (b) prohibitions barring local election officials from sending vote-by-mail applications to people who had not requested them. Sen. Harris praised the Democrats who left the state, saying: “I applaud them standing for the rights of all Americans and all Texans to express their voice through their vote, unencumbered.” “I will say that they are leaders who are marching in the path that so many others before did when they fought and many died for our right to vote,” she added.

In March 2021, the Georgia state legislature passed a law (SB 202) that contained provisions designed to eliminate voter fraud and election corruption — most notably, by increasing requirements for voter ID. President Biden characterized the law as racist, describing it as “Jim Crow on steroids.” On another occasion, he said that such “most pernicious” “new Jim Crow laws” were “antithetical to who we are” and “mak[e] Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.” Biden pledged, moreover, to do “everything in my power” to prevent the enactment of other, similar laws. On June 25, 2021, the Biden-Harris DOJ announced that it was suing Georgia over SB 202.

During a July 13, 2021 speech in Philadelphia, President Biden said: “This year alone, 17 states have enacted — not just proposed, but enacted — 28 new laws to make it harder for Americans to vote, not to mention — and catch this — nearly 400 additional bills Republican members of the state legislatures are trying to pass. The 21st century Jim Crow assault is real…. This is election subversion. It’s the most dangerous threat to voting and the integrity of free and fair elections in our history…. We’re are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That’s not hyperbole. Since the Civil War.”

During an August 2024 presidential campaign rally in Arizona, VP Harris vowed that she would “finally pass” the Freedom to Vote Act, which would: (a) enact no-excuse mail-in voting for every eligible voter in the country; (b) permit all registrants to use drop boxes to submit their absentee ballots; and (c) automatically register voters unless they proactively chose to opt out.

HARRIS & BIDEN: DOJ Sues Arizona over Voter Citizenship Requirement
The Biden-Harris administration objected strongly to a 2022 Arizona law requiring people to show documents proving their U.S. citizenship before they could vote in a presidential election or vote by mail in any federal election. The law was slated to take effect at the start of 2023.

On June 27, 2022, Kristen Clarke, the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, sent Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich a letter threatening a federal lawsuit designed to block the aforementioned statute. On July 1, Brnovich replied to Clarke with a letter claiming that his state’s new law was a “common sense” measure, and questioning whether the federal government was “attempting to undermine our [Arizona’s] sovereignty and destabilize our election infrastructure.”

On July 5, 2022, the DOJ sued to block the enactment of the Arizona law. According to Clarke, the statute’s “onerous documentary proof of citizenship requirement” constituted a “textbook violation” of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which required all states to accept a federal voter-registration form that asked voters to attest under penalty of perjury that they were citizens, but did not require them to show documented proof of their citizenship. “For nearly three decades, the National Voter Registration Act has helped to move states in the right direction by eliminating unnecessary requirements that have historically made it harder for eligible voters to access the registration rolls,” Clarke stated in a press release. “Arizona has passed a law that turns the clock back on progress by imposing unlawful and unnecessary requirements that would block eligible voters from the registration rolls for certain federal elections.”

HARRIS & BIDEN: DOJ Sues Virginia for Removing Non-Citizens from Voter Rolls
On October 11, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it was filing a lawsuit against Virginia and its Board of Elections because of that state’s efforts to enforce a 2006 law mandating the removal of non-citizens from its voter lists. Those efforts were being made in compliance with an August 7th executive order by which Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin required “all registrars” to “cancel the registrations of non-citizens who have registered to vote in a local, state, or federal election by falsely claiming that they are a citizen, including the forging of documentation or any other means of improper registration.” When making the case for his executive order, Youngkin stated that “79,867 deceased voters” had been removed from Virginia’s voter rolls in 2023 alone, and another “6,303 non-citizens” had been removed between January 2022 and July 2024.

WALZ: Voter ID Laws Are Racist
Walz believes that voter ID laws are racist and are designed to suppress voter turnout among nonwhite minorities.

WALZ: Restoration of Voting Rights for Convicted Felons
In 2024, Gov. Walz’s official website has highlighted his support for “restoring voting rights for over 55,000 formerly incarcerated people in Minnesota.” (Note: such individuals overwhelmingly vote for Democrats)

WALZ: Automatic Voter Registration
In May 2023, Walz, calling it “a great day for Democracy,” signed into law the “Democracy for the People Act,” which implemented “automatic voter registration” for all individuals whose names appear in government databases. According to a Heritage Foundation report, such a practice promotes the registration of “large numbers of ineligible voters, including aliens, and [can] cause multiple or duplicate registrations of the same individuals.”

WALZ: Pre-Register 16-&-17-Year-Olds
In May 2023, Walz signed into law the “Democracy for the People Act,” which allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote. A Heritage Foundation report states that such a practice, “when combined with a ban on voter ID and restrictions on the ability to challenge the eligibility of a voter,” “effectively ensure[s] that underage individuals [can] vote with impunity.”

WALZ: Create a Permanent Absentee Voter List
In May 2023, Walz signed into law the “Democracy for the People Act,” which created a permanent absentee voter list of people who would thenceforth automatically receive a ballot whenever there was an election. Such a policy of course encourages absentee and mail-in voting, a practice highly conducive to voter fraud.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Opposes Proof-of-Citizenship Requirement for Voters
In July 2024, the U.S. House voted on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which sought to require people to provide proof of their American citizenship when seeking to obtain for voter registration forms. The bill passed by a margin of 221 to 198.

  • Republicans supported the measure unanimously, 216 to 0.
  • Democrats overwhelmingly opposed it, 198 to 5.

TRUMP: Supports All Recommendations by the Carter-Baker Commission
Trump has spoken out frequently and forcefully in favor of all the recommendations made by the landmark 2005 report by the Carter-Baker Commission, which advised all U.S. states that in order to guarantee free and fair elections, they should:

  • increase voter ID requirements
  • minimize the use of mail-in ballots, which “remain the largest source of potential voter fraud”
  • disallow ballot harvesting by third parties
  • purge voter rolls of all ineligible or fraudulent names
  • allow election observers to monitor ballot-counting processes without restraint or obstruction

This DiscoverTheNetworks feature was written by John Perazzo in October 2024.

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