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<title>Louisiana ruling shows folly of Supreme Court’s redistricting decisions</title>
<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2987589/louisiana-ruling-shows-folly-of-supreme-courts-redistricting-decisions/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Quin Hillyer]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 21:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In its reasonable decision to throw out Louisiana’s congressional redistricting plan on Wednesday, a federal judicial panel implicitly highlighted, yet again, the confusing mess both Congress and the Supreme Court have made of redistricting law. The result remains a mess, but at least it gets rid of districts that are patently absurd. The back story […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[In its reasonable decision to throw out <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/louisiana/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Louisiana</a>’s congressional redistricting plan on Wednesday, a federal judicial panel implicitly highlighted, yet again, the confusing mess both Congress and the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/supreme-court/?source=%2Fopinion%2Ftime-for-term-limits-for-federal-courts&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=WE_Pmax_Section-News&gad_source=5&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9fTqh6LghQMV0UL_AR1s2Q0bEAAYASAAEgJmmvD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Supreme Court</a> have made of <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/redistricting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">redistricting</a> law.
The result remains a mess, but at least it gets rid of districts that are patently absurd.
The back story is convoluted. The Louisiana legislature’s original map after the 2020 census, like the 2010 map that federal courts accepted, contained one district out of six that had a voting population with a black majority. After 2020, though, District Judge Shelly Dick threw it out, contending that it improperly underrepresented Louisiana’s black voters, who make up almost one-third of the state’s population.
The legislature then drew <a href="https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/louisiana-congressional-map-blocked-by-judges/article_25c6221f-e4de-58fa-8f8a-561bb58aac31.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a new plan</a> with a second black-majority district. That district strangely looks like a long, thin, twisted dog’s toy. It nearly bisects another district shaped like a <a href="https://www.pixilart.com/art/packman-7e0050e4ad28631" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">rectangular, downward-angling Pac-Man</a> who can’t quite close his jaws. The dog’s-toy district stretches some 250 miles, snatching tiny black enclaves along the way. This is as if a black person living in Catholic-Cajun areas in suburban Lafayette has more in common with a black person in rural, Bible-Belt DeSoto Parish or with black residents of urban Baton Rouge than with his Cajun neighbors. (A parish is the Louisiana equivalent of a county in other states.)
Today, a special three-judge review panel <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24628979-callais-2024-04-30-injunction-and-reasons-for-judgment" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">threw out the new map</a>, saying it was unacceptably <a href="https://campaignlegal.org/update/what-gerrymandering" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">gerrymandered</a> based on race.
For decades, courts have ruled, with good reason, that district shapes should be reasonably compact and contiguous, except to take account of geographical features such as rivers or mountain ranges, and that districts, where possible, should not divide natural “communities of interest” such as common cultural heritage or shared economic bases.
Two judges on the panel wrote that the dog’s-toy district violated all those guidelines. They said its shape is “awkward and bizarre,” that it shows “uniquely poor compactness,” that its contiguity is “tenuous,” and that economically and culturally its residents’ interests “more often conflict than harmonize.” Furthermore, “Nor does [the plan] take into account natural boundaries such as the Atchafalaya Basin, the Mississippi River, or the Red River.”
Again and again, legislators who crafted this bizarrity said the racial composition of the district was “the predominate factor” or “fundamental tenet” they considered because they interpreted Dick’s order to require as much.
Therein lies the problem. Today’s judicial panel wrote that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment has been rightly interpreted to forbid, in most but not all circumstances, any district lines “grounded predominately in race.” Yet the Supreme Court has interpreted <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/10301" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Section 2</a> of the Voting Rights Act to favor the creation of districts that give minorities the “opportunity” to elect their “candidates of choice,” which the court essentially means of their own race.
In other words, race should be taken into account, but only with a nudge and a wink, because race must not be taken into account — except when the shifting sensibilities of shifting coalitions of judges and justices say race is a crucial consideration after all. Then again, the courts are at least somewhat in line with Congress’ Voting Rights Act language that on one hand says voting results by race, called “protected class,” is a “circumstance which may be considered” but simultaneously that “nothing in this section establishes a right to have members of a protected class elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population.”
So, race-based proportionality may be valid, but it’s not a right, and by the Equal Protection Clause it isn’t allowed. Go figure.
Now it’s unclear what Louisiana is supposed to do. The judges have set a hearing on May 6 to figure out the next steps. Legislators say there’s no time before the mandatory end of their session to pass yet another plan. It’s not clear if the court has time or resources to have a “special master” draw a temporary plan for the 2024 elections. Defenders of the plan that was just thrown out <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2986116/judges-reject-louisiana-congressional-map-majority-black-district/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">may appeal</a> today’s decision. A court-drawn plan might catalyze more appeals.
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And this is the sort of thing that occurs in state after state, redistricting cycle after cycle, because the Supreme Court and Congress both repeatedly send mixed signals.
It’s time for the Supreme Court to get it right: Racial factors should not play into redistricting decisions. The Constitution is colorblind. Period.
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<title>The new economic ideas Trump advisers are floating for second term — to campaign’s chagrin</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zachary Halaschak]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Trumpworld is flush with economic advisers pushing different policy proposals for a possible second term — to the annoyance of the Trump campaign. Top GOP advisers and those likely to gain places in a second Trump administration are jockeying to advance various economic policy proposals, some of which result in disagreement among the cast of […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Trumpworld is flush with economic advisers pushing different policy proposals for a possible second term — to the annoyance of the Trump campaign.
Top GOP advisers and those likely to gain places in a second Trump administration are jockeying to advance various <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">economic</a> policy proposals, some of which result in disagreement among the cast of characters coming in and out of former President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Donald Trump</a>‘s residence at <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/mar-a-lago" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Mar-a-Lago</a>.
Advisers see a second Trump term as a way to undo some of the economic changes made during the Biden administration and also enact policies that would represent a major sea change in U.S. economic and monetary policy on the global stage.
The posturing and public discussions of some of the ideas have angered top staff on the Trump campaign, which is trying to focus squarely on winning the coming election, according to a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-28/trump-s-economic-confidants-battle-for-sway-on-tax-fed-policy?srnd=homepage-americas" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">report</a> from Bloomberg.
The Trump campaign has emphasized that none of the policy proposals discussed in the media are cannon unless they come from Trump or an authorized member of his campaign team.
Alex Conant, a GOP strategist and a partner at Firehouse Strategies, told the Washington Examiner that the campaign watching these policy debates among Trump’s inner circle play out publicly is likely an annoyance.
“As somebody who has worked on a lot of presidential campaigns, whenever the advisers start talking to the media instead of the campaign, it creates headaches,” he said. “You want everything that’s out there publicly to be what the campaign supports and advancing the candidate’s agenda.”
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The dollar</h2>
Many supply-side conservatives favor a stronger dollar, and the dollar has remained relatively strong as the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates high to drive down inflation. But other advisers to Trump are <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/finance-and-economy/2977933/trump-advisers-brace-battle-dollar-policy-second-term/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">plotting a radical departure in economic policy</a>, one that would see the U.S. purposely devaluing the dollar in order to boost exports.
The major player pushing this behind the scenes is former U.S. Trade Adviser <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/robert-lighthizer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Lighthizer</a>, who is a trade hawk and one of the designers of the tariffs imposed on China and elsewhere during Trump’s first term in office.
The logistics of such a policy would be daunting. The Fed’s remit would likely have to change and the Treasury would have to take certain administrative actions in order for such a move to work.
And Lighthizer and his allies would face pushback from other Trump advisers such as Stephen Moore, a Heritage Foundation economist who was once nominated by Trump for a seat on the Fed’s board. Moore recently told the Washington Examiner that he does not think purposely devaluing the dollar is a good move.
“I think that we want a stable dollar,” Moore said. “I think it’s really important for our prosperity. If the dollar is devalued, that means that the value of the dollars that you have is less.
“So that’s not a great thing,” he added.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Fed independence</h2>
Trump advisers have discussed overhauls to the Fed and monetary policy more generally.
During his first term in office, Trump at various times was in conflict with Republican Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, whom he appointed. Trump wanted interest rates to be lower. In 2019, the then-president notoriously wrote that his “only question is, who is our biggest enemy” — Powell or Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Some of Trump’s allies, including former administration officials, are working behind the scenes on proposals <a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/trump-allies-federal-reserve-independence-54423c2f" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">to weaken</a> the independence of the central bank, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Trump allies also reportedly argue that he would have the ability to fire Powell as Fed chairman, although he would probably remain on the broader Fed board.
The small group has even reportedly worked up a 10-page policy document that outlines how to erode some of the independence of the Fed.
Conant said it is not unusual to have advisers competing over the nominee’s agenda. He said that in this case, what is unusual is for it to play out so publicly.
“It’s unusual to have advisers constantly leaking ideas that the campaign may be considering,” Conant said.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Flat tax</h2>
Another idea that has been around for years among some conservative economists is the imposition of a flat tax. Some associated with the idea include Moore, former White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, economist Arthur Laffer, and Steve Forbes of Forbes Media.
Forbes said during an April event in New York City that he has been <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/kudlow-forbes-push-trump-to-embrace-17-flat-tax-fewer-tariffs" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">advocating</a> a 17% flat tax across all income brackets that includes “generous” exemptions, according to Bloomberg. That runs counter to a progressive tax system, that increases tax rates as an individual moves up the income ladder.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Trade</h2>
There are disagreements more generally on trade policy within Trumpworld. Some, including Lighthizer, support more tariffs, while others, such as Moore, fall more into the free trade bucket, arguing that higher tariffs could ultimately hurt consumers and cause inflation to rise.
The tariff policy proposals are billed as narrowing the trade deficit and supporting domestic manufacturing jobs. The push is also advertised as safeguarding the country’s supply chains, which, as the pandemic exposed, are often reliant on foreign nations for critical goods such as medicines and certain critical minerals.
Conant noted the varied opinions floating around informal advisers and allies of Trump.
“I think Trump’s worldview is much more fluid and therefore you have pro-free traders and anti-free traders, supply-siders and pro-family tax reformers — you just have, like, these diametrically opposed worldviews that are still part of the campaign and whose ideas could become policy if he wins because it is so fluid with him,” he said.
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When contacted for this story, the Trump campaign directed the Washington Examiner to a statement it put out in December 2023 regarding what policy positions should be considered “official.”
“Let us be very specific here: unless a message is coming directly from President Trump or an authorized member of his campaign team, no aspect of future presidential staffing or policy announcements should be deemed official,” the statement from campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita reads.
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<title>Biden faces Hispanic workforce problem: Report</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zachary Halaschak]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[More than half a million Hispanic workers are missing from the labor force, according to a new report, a shortfall that could present major problems for President Joe Biden‘s effort to win over the critical voting bloc. Since the pandemic, millions of jobs have been added, and the unemployment rate has returned to around where […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[More than half a million Hispanic workers are missing from the <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/tag/jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">labor</a> force, according to a new report, a shortfall that could present major problems for President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Joe Biden</a>‘s effort to win over the critical voting bloc.
Since the pandemic, millions of jobs have been added, and the <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/tag/unemployment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">unemployment</a> rate has returned to around where it was in 2019. However, the labor force participation rate has not fully recovered.
The report from the Libre Institute, a group centered on the Hispanic community that advocates free markets and smaller government, found that Hispanic workers make up a big share of workers missing from the labor force, a factor that may be denting Hispanic support for Biden in a critical election year.
The report found that, if the labor force participation rate were fully back to pre-pandemic levels at the end of 2023, there would be 2.1 million more workers in the labor force, and out of those missing workers, 530,000, or 25%, are Hispanic.
Daniel Garza, president of the Libre Institute, told the Washington Examiner that polling indicates the state of the economy is the most important matter for Latino voters.
“The Biden administration has made it a point to promote that their economic policies have been generating a tremendous amount of opportunity and prosperity across the board, when in fact, report after report shows that that’s not the case,” he said.
Garza said that the dearth of workforce participation adds to other economic woes suffered by Hispanic voters, especially high inflation and high interest rates.
“It turns out that of course, when it comes to the labor participation rate, we’re missing a half million Latino workers, so not everything is lollipops and pastelitos and churros,” he said. “People are suffering here and wages are down too, so it’s not keeping up with inflation.”
The Hispanic population has been a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/01/10/key-facts-about-hispanic-eligible-voters-in-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">growing</a> part of the U.S. electorate. An estimated 36.2 million are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center.
In 2020, Biden won nearly 60% of the Latino vote, but recent polling shows former President Donald Trump making gains with Hispanic voters. A Pew poll found that just a slight majority, 52%, are supporting Biden this year while 44% of registered Hispanic voters are leaning toward a Trump vote.
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Hispanics are projected to represent 78% of net new workers from 2020 to 2030, according to the Libre report, authored by policy director Isabel Soto. 
“There is enormous economic potential within the Hispanic community that can either be met or squandered depending on crucial policy decision[s],” the report reads. “The current direction that this administration has chosen is one that limits worker freedom and choice, harms small businesses and increases the cost of doing business for key industries.”
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<title>F1’s Miami race sends cease and desist letter to Trump hoping to host fundraiser at the event</title>
<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/2981995/f1s-miami-race-sends-cease-and-desist-letter-to-trump-hoping-to-host-fundraiser-at-the-event/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brady Knox]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Miami Grand Prix sent a cease and desist letter to a prominent fundraiser of former President Donald Trump after he planned to use a suite for a fundraiser event. The Formula One race sent the letter to Steven Witkoff, a close Trump ally, who had rented a suite at the race for fundraising purposes, […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[The <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/miami/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Miami">Miami</a> Grand Prix sent a cease and desist letter to a prominent fundraiser of former President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Miami">Donald Trump</a> after he planned to use a suite for a fundraiser event.
The Formula One race sent the letter to Steven Witkoff, a close Trump ally, who had rented a suite at the race for fundraising purposes, multiple people familiar with the matter <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04/26/trump-fundraiser-miami-grand-prix/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="told">told</a> the Washington Post.
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“It has come to our attention that you may be using your Paddock Club Rooftop Suite for a political purpose, namely raising <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/money" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">money</a> for a federal election at $250,000 per ticket, which clearly violates the Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix suite license agreement,” the letter, obtained by the outlet, read. “If this is true, we regret to inform you that your suite license will be revoked, you will not be allowed to attend the race at any time, and we will refund you in full.”
The suite rented by Witkoff said in its terms that it cannot be used for “advertising, promotional or commercial purposes (including without limitation, prizes, competitions, contests, or sweepstakes) without the prior written consent of Promoter and the F1 entities…”
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While Trump’s attendance wasn’t directly advertised, multiple people who had called about the event said it would be for Trump. The <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/Secret-Service" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Secret Service</a> had reportedly called race officials to coordinate his stay.
“This is something fake, for sure,” Witkoff said when reached for comment by the outlet, declining to elaborate further.
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<title>The trouble with Tulsi: Why the former Hawaii congresswoman is Trump’s worst choice for vice president</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Varad Mehta]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Having secured the Republican nomination in all but name, former President Donald Trump, his inner circle, and outside observers in the media and elsewhere have shifted their focus to the next steps he needs to take on the road to the GOP convention in Milwaukee this July. Steps such as building out his fundraising operation […]]]></description>
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Having secured the Republican nomination in all but name, former President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Donald Trump</a>, his inner circle, and outside observers in the media and elsewhere have shifted their focus to the next steps he needs to take on the road to the GOP convention in Milwaukee this July. Steps such as building out his fundraising operation and expanding his donor outreach in order <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-in-full-sprint-to-close-biden-s-money-lead-as-legal-bills-mount/ar-BB1laGJh" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">to reduce</a> President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Joe Biden</a>’s significant cash advantage, establishing field offices and other campaign infrastructure in battleground states, making overtures to Republicans who cast their ballots for Trump’s rivals in the primaries, even continuing to prepare for his <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2967061/trumps-trial-so-far-former-president-seeks-rare-face-to-face-access-with-jurors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">four criminal trials</a>, the first of which began April 15 in Manhattan.
But the biggest step Trump takes before the convention will be naming his running mate. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/31/inside-donald-trumps-apprentice-style-search-for-a-running-mate-00149827" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Speculation</a> about whom the once and potential future president <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-vp-pick-2024-candidates-odds.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">will select</a> has consequently <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-vice-president-nominee-candidates-2024-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">ramped up</a> in the last few weeks. Numerous names have been bruited about, from the obvious to the implausible, from prominent to obscure, from big states and small ones, from those in high office to those in none. Squint and you can see almost any of them occupying the Naval Observatory. Any of them, that is, except <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/tulsi-gabbard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Tulsi Gabbard</a>, the former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, who is by some distance the worst of all those Trump is supposedly considering for vice president.
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Not that the prospect of a hire blowing up in his face has ever stopped Trump. And so Gabbard, by all accounts, is in contention for the Republican Party’s No. 2 spot. Trump has said so publicly and privately. When Fox News’s Laura Ingraham included Gabbard in a group of possible vice presidents during a February interview of Trump, instead of shooting down the idea, <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-vp-pick-2024-candidates-odds.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">he replied</a>, “All of those people are good. They’re all solid.”
According to a recent New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/us/politics/trump-vice-president-pick.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">article</a>, after meeting with her at Mar-a-Lago, Trump “made clear to advisers that she should be on his list of options” — a list that otherwise is dominated by more conventional choices, any of whom would be a less farfetched alternative even for someone as unconventional as the 45th president. 
It contains, for example, several of Trump’s rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) barely made a noise in the primary and in addition to being an old white guy comes from a reliably red state that is both small and in no danger of falling to Biden. But he’s wealthy, can fundraise, wouldn’t overshadow Trump, and is unlikely to stand in the way of Trump’s anointed MAGA successor should Trump win. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/nikki-haley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Nikki Haley</a> also comes from a small and reliably red state, South Carolina. Disaffected and Never Trump Republicans rained money upon her as the last woman standing in the primary. Like Burgum, she’d help Trump on the cash front. As a woman and minority, her demographic advantages are evident. Yet her standing with Republicans tanked as the race went on, and her identity as the avatar of the Bush-McCain-Romney GOP the base despises might cause it to revolt should Trump choose her. Not to mention that she categorically ruled out being vice president.
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="1024" height="591" src="https://wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEA.Tulsi2_-1024x591.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2980412" srcset="https://wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEA.Tulsi2_-1024x591.jpg 1024w, https://wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEA.Tulsi2_-300x173.jpg 300w, https://wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEA.Tulsi2_-768x443.jpg 768w, https://wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEA.Tulsi2_-1536x887.jpg 1536w, https://wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEA.Tulsi2_-2048x1182.jpg 2048w, https://wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEA.Tulsi2_-150x87.jpg 150w, https://wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEA.Tulsi2_-696x402.jpg 696w, https://wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEA.Tulsi2_-1068x617.jpg 1068w, https://wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEA.Tulsi2_-1920x1108.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Tulsi Gabbard, at left, speaks in North Charleston, South Carolina, March 18, 2023; at right, Kamala Harris at a union event in Big Bend, Wisconsin, Jan. 22, 2024. (Gabbard, Meg Kinnard/AP; Harris, Morry Gash/AP)</figcaption></figure>
Kristi Noem and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are both female governors. Noem has a plus in her looks, Sanders in her tenure as White House press secretary. Both represent reliably red states (South Dakota and Arkansas, respectively) that are small and add nothing to Trump’s electoral coalition. Young, Hispanic, and telegenic, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was once seen as the future of the GOP. Despite flaming out in the 2016 primary, he has suddenly found himself among the front-runners for the opportunity to preside over the Senate. The only problem? Rubio, like Trump, is from Florida, and the Constitution bars electors from voting for a president and vice president from the same state. That would not be a concern if Trump tabbed Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who since crashing ignominiously out of the primary before a vote was cast has reinvented himself as one of Trump’s staunchest surrogates. He’s black and donors love him, two marks in his favor. But like Haley, he hails from South Carolina, a state that counts for little in Trump’s electoral calculus.
Other prospects have the same sorts of credits and debits. Sen. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/jd-vance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">J.D. Vance</a> (R-OH), maybe the most MAGA figure being contemplated, is in Trump’s own words a “fighter.” But Ohio, too, is reliably red these days, Vance is in his first term in the Senate, and Trump may prove hesitant to pick anyone who might claim to succeed him in leadership of the movement as well as the country. Trump took a shine to Katie Britt, but her poorly received performance delivering the GOP response to the State of the Union address last month suggested the first-term senator from Alabama isn’t ready for prime time. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the No. 3 Republican in the House, is one of Trump’s most ardent defenders in Congress. That she’s a woman is a bonus. But she’s only a congresswoman, and it’s unlikely she’d put Trump’s former home state of New York in play.
These figures and others not mentioned have their strengths and weaknesses. For some, perhaps most, those strengths are vastly outweighed by the weaknesses. But they do have them. Gabbard, on the other hand, scarcely has any strengths at all. In choosing her, Trump would be choosing someone who is all downside and no upside. 
For one thing, Gabbard, though now an independent, spent her entire two-decade career in elective office as a Democrat, beginning when she was elected to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/hawaii" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Hawaii</a> House of Representatives at just 21. She backed Sen. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/bernie-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT) in 2016, resigning her position as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee to do so. After dropping out of the 2020 presidential race, she endorsed Biden. She is a proponent of “Medicare for All” and free college tuition. This is hardly the track record one would expect of someone eying the GOP presidential ticket.
And eying it she is, by her own admission. Asked in March if she’d be amenable to being Trump’s vice president, Gabbard <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4503314-gabbard-signals-open-being-vice-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">conceded</a>, “I would be open to that.” The possibility that she’s on Trump’s short list was a major factor in her <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ex-democrat-catching-trumps-robert-f-kennedy-jrs-eyes-rcna143941" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">decision</a> to spurn independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s offer to be his running mate. Gabbard, a source told NBC News, only turned down Kennedy because she “is convinced that Trump is going to pick her.”
Gabbard’s personal background would also likely become a campaign problem. She was raised in an offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement, which critics have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tulsi-gabbard-science-of-identity-controversial-religious-sect-2022-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">likened to a cult</a> and have accused of being anti-gay and Islamophobic. Gabbard herself <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/politics/kfile-tulsi-gabbard-lgbt/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">once worked for</a> an organization that promoted conversion therapy, for which she has since apologized. She has for many years been a practicing Hindu, which some religious and social conservatives may find off-putting.
While some Republicans may find Gabbard’s religion offensive, even more, especially those who favor a robust, interventionist foreign policy, will balk at her skepticism of American power and dalliances with hostile powers. She drew <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/316430-gabbard-meeting-with-assad-draws-disgust-from-fellow-lawmakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">bipartisan ire</a> for meeting with Bashar Assad in 2017, a move seen as validating the Syrian dictator’s murderous war against his own people. Gabbard has also taken a decidedly soft stance toward Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, chastising Biden and Western leaders for being insufficiently solicitous of Russia’s “legitimate” security concerns about Ukraine’s possible accession to NATO. Distasteful as many in the GOP’s old guard might find these stances, they are what has endeared her to what can be called, faute de mieux, the Tucker Carlson wing of the party, after the former Fox News host who is an ardent admirer of Gabbard in large part because of her views on international relations.
There is, moreover, a clear appetite for those views within the party. Trump himself has sought them out. The former president solicited Gabbard’s advice on “foreign policy and how the Defense Department should be run in a second Trump term,” the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/02/14/tulsi-gabbard-trump-defense/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">revealed</a> in February. This meeting of the minds is why, per NBC News, Trump insiders believe a national security post is a much likelier landing spot for the Iraq War veteran in a second Trump administration than the vice presidency.
In addition to the ideological and philosophical considerations that limit Gabbard’s appeal to Republican voters, there are practical concerns that might give Trump himself pause. The ability to raise money is one of Trump’s main criteria in choosing a running mate. Unlike such contenders as Vance, Stefanik, Burgum, Scott, and Rubio, Gabbard has no constituency in the GOP donor class. Indeed, her positions are more likely to repel the plutocrats who turned to Haley in the forlorn hope that she could vanquish Trump and restore the pre-2015 Republican Party. “Mr. Trump has asked several people about the fundraising prowess of possible running mates,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/us/politics/trump-vice-president-pick.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">reported</a> Michael Bender of the New York Times. When it comes to opening Republican donor wallets and checkbooks, Gabbard is surely at the bottom of the list.
The blackest mark against Gabbard from Trump’s perspective is that she squanders one of his strongest advantages: voter fears that a vote for Biden is really a vote for <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/kamala-harris/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Kamala Harris</a>. Trump and Biden are the two oldest presidential nominees in history. Given this reality, their understudies may be a factor in 2024 in a way they haven’t in decades. 
Harris, the incumbent, is deeply unpopular. Her ratings are worse than Biden’s. From her irritating laugh to her habit of tossing word salad whenever she opens her mouth, she is an object of contempt and ridicule whose most notable accomplishment to date is a series of failed reinventions, each less successful than the last. 
Yet despite her myriad flaws, Harris is a former state attorney general and U.S. senator — i.e., someone who’s been elected statewide multiple times — and not just in any state but in California, the largest state in the union. As vice president, she’s also been on a winning national ticket. Gabbard fans may no more want to hear it than Harris’s numerous detractors on the Right, but as awful as she is, she is simply a more credible potential president than Gabbard. 
Former Vice President Mike Pence solidified Trump’s standing within the party and helped win over skeptical GOP voters. Gabbard seems designed to have the opposite effect. Popular though she may be with a segment of the Republican Party that makes up in volume what it lacks in size, there is good reason to think she would be much less attractive to average Republicans, whose votes are more important to Trump as there are a lot more of them. 
Gabbard has tried to make herself more attractive to Republicans in the last few years by, among other things, abandoning the Democratic Party to become an independent, speaking at CPAC, and even serving as a guest host on Carlson’s Fox News show before the network fired him. But less unpalatable is not the same as more palatable. 
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Trump is looking for a lot of qualities in a running mate. But as the Washington Post <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-donald-trump-wants-in-his-next-vice-president-and-who-he-s-considering/ar-BB1lvivl" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">put it</a>, “More than anything, he wants someone who can help him win.” For a host of reasons, from her unusual upbringing and her decadeslong career as a Democratic office holder to her status as the favorite of a disreputable fringe of the conservative movement, that person is not Tulsi Gabbard.
Or to put it another way: Gabbard would be an interesting choice for vice president. Interesting in the same way a Brit might respond “that’s interesting” upon hearing someone declare his or her intention to surrender worldly goods and go live in a commune. Which is to say, he or she would have to be completely barmy to do it. 
Varad Mehta is a writer and historian. He lives in the Philadelphia area. Find him on X: @varadmehta.]]></content:encoded>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Ross]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When U.S. Air Force serviceman Aaron Bushnell lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., in February, far too many applauded the 25-year-old’s very public, viral, suicide protest. Cornel West called him a “dear brother” and praised his example, saying, “Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell who […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[When U.S. Air Force serviceman Aaron Bushnell lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., in February, far too many <a href="https://en.as.com/latest_news/who-was-aaron-bushnell-the-us-airforce-member-who-died-after-setting-himself-on-fire-in-israel-protest-n/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">applauded</a> the 25-year-old’s very public, viral, suicide <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">protest</a>.
Cornel West called him a “dear brother” and praised his example, <a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/aaron-bushnell-death-sees-wave-us-pro-palestine-support" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">saying</a>, “Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell who died for truth and justice.” 
Green Party presidential hopeful Jill Stein honored Bushnell and <a href="https://www.wdtv.com/2024/02/27/green-party-presidential-candidate-honors-aaron-bushnell/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">exclaimed</a>, “May his sacrifice deepen our commitment to stop genocide now.” 
What is happening right now on college campuses around the nation was no doubt encouraged by his radical act. The <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/TikTok" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">TikTok</a> generation aches for belonging. Unlike their elders, they share their lives and much of their demands online. A quick observation of Generation Z and you can tell social contagion is real.
How they experience and interact with the world is far different from their parents and grandparents. But in other ways, they are just a repeat of the former. Disquiet and detachment among young people are nothing new. 
Members of this generation were born between 1997 and 2012. They make up most of the aggressive pro-Palestinian protesters we see at universities nationwide. Their collective focus is <a href="https://x.com/AkaLazarus/status/1782901644398850498" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">not releasing</a> Hamas’ hostages. This is quite telling. 
Instead, they are <a href="https://x.com/jeremotographs/status/1783138727591838020" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">quick to talk</a> about the supposed evils of the Jewish community, Israel, and Zionism. They are dishonest about the circumstances that led to the current conflict and more than willing to <a href="https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1782420497159819685" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">intimidate</a> those who oppose them. 
Hamas is responsible for the murderous rampage, taking of hostages, and the related suffering that follows. But this is never mentioned because it would make their protests meaningless. 
They join the mob, even if they’re <a href="https://x.com/AnthonyCabassa_/status/1783169007870505141" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">admittedly uneducated</a> about the situation. They are willing to <a href="https://x.com/EFischberger/status/1783229827694174359" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">defy orders</a> and get <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1783237229252346194" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">arrested</a> or <a href="https://x.com/UMNSDS/status/1782882408016015638" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">suspended</a> for the cause. In their minds, they are brave revolutionaries blazing a trail in a history-making stance against oppression. In reality, they are privileged young adults who exist in a bubble and who know little of life.
The images, sounds, chants, insults, and threatening nature of these protests are jarring. There is clear antisemitism on display. Jewish students feel unsafe. Numerous administration and faculty members support this behavior. The legacy media cheers it on. It is also another example of this universal truth: The youth are often wrong. 
As an older millennial, I witnessed the angst of my generation in our early adult years. I’ve read and heard about the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/students" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">student</a> and civil unrest in my parents’ generation, most notably during the Vietnam era. The same type of hysterical nonsense and clamorous mob behavior is on repeat. The fact that any of these protests are hostile and sustained does not make them right.
There’s a tendency for some to view exhibitions like this as worthy because they go against the “ruling class” and the standard social order. For the young adults who are participating, it’s new, fresh, bold defiance. For anyone who has taken stock of the generations before, it’s the same game. This time, it’s more constantly shoved in our faces thanks to our online world. But that doesn’t make the youthful mob correct. 
Perhaps figures such as West and Stein praise extremism because they’ve never fully grown up. But approval is no proof that protests are morally right. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/first-amendment" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">First Amendment</a> protections don’t disqualify anyone from criticism or further action as deemed necessary by institutions of higher learning.
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We can have conversations about measures taken to disperse protesters and bring order back. But there is nothing wrong with dealing with mobs who park themselves on <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/college" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">college</a> lawns, openly support the actions of a terrorist group, and harass others. 
The younger generation is passionate and can easily assemble in protest for a cause. So what? It doesn’t mean anyone must bend to their whims. After all, we’ve seen this before. 
Kimberly Ross (<a href="https://twitter.com/SouthernKeeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">@SouthernKeeks</a>) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog and a columnist at Arc Digital.
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<title>56 years later, Democrats may again reap the Chicago convention whirlwind</title>
<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2978594/56-years-late-democrats-may-again-reap-the-chicago-convention-whirlwind/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Schindler]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With a divided party base buffeted by campus radicalism, the Democrats’ national convention in Chicago is a riot-plagued shambles. Tarred with extremism and lawlessness, President Joe Biden loses a winnable presidential election to a controversial Republican with his own ample baggage. Will that be the history of summer 2024? It happened in 1968, after all. […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[With a divided party base buffeted by campus radicalism, the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Democrats</a>’ national convention in Chicago is a riot-plagued shambles. Tarred with extremism and lawlessness, President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Joe Biden</a> loses a winnable presidential election to a controversial <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/Republican" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Republican</a> with his own ample baggage.
Will that be the history of summer 2024? It happened in 1968, after all.
The radicalism of four summers ago, when Black Lives Matter-inspired activists brought disorder to dozens of cities, has been given a surge of new rocket fuel by the war in <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Gaza</a>. The radical Left is out in the open now, demanding action against <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Israel</a>, and even an intifada in America. This can no longer be dismissed as a mere campus matter, however. Biden and his party find themselves in a difficult spot, needing to placate more centrist Democratic donors, some of whom are Jewish, while keeping pro-Palestinian Zoomers inside the party tent. That’s a tall order for any politician, much less one who’s elderly and frequently appears confused.
Holding the party convention in Chicago this year practically begs for a repeat of the 1968 mayhem. The Israel-Palestine issue won’t be resolved by August. Moreover, the campus protests are suspiciously well organized and supplied, indicating that well-funded activists will use Chicago as a grand stage to showcase their radicalism as the country watches. That’s good news for former President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Donald Trump</a> and Republicans.
But it’s bad news in the big picture. It’s wise to remember that, in the aftermath of 1968 and Democrats losing the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/White-House" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">White House</a>, left-wing extremism got considerably worse and birthed a major wave of domestic terrorism. This has been airbrushed out of history by many liberals, who use euphemisms about “community organizing” and “direct activism” to describe sometimes lethal leftist terrorism.
The violent extremism that took root across the West after 1968 wasn’t an American problem alone. But it lasted more than a decade, peaking in the United States in the early 1970s. In those tumultuous years, bombings, bank robberies, and airplane hijackings by leftist terrorists were commonplace. Fortunately, the era of mass-casualty terrorism had yet to arrive, so this terrorism wave caused relatively few deaths compared to later jihadists. Still, the number of attacks ran into the hundreds. One of the best-known groups, the Weather Underground, executed more than two dozen bombings, including of the U.S. Capitol and the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/Pentagon" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Pentagon</a>, plus numerous law enforcement targets.
The last major American attack came in November 1983, a bombing of the U.S. Senate, which narrowly missed killing several legislators. Anyone who claims January 6, 2021, was the worst attack ever on Congress is lying to you. The terrorists were revolutionary communists, <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1980s-far-left-female-led-domestic-terrorism-group-bombed-us-capitol-180973904/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mainly female</a>, who moved from campus radicalism to bomb-making. They also bombed two military bases in Washington, DC, and tried to assassinate Henry Kissinger.
Anybody who thinks this ugly history can’t repeat, with frustrated leftists moving from marches and riots to organized murder and mayhem in the service of the mythical “revolution,” is dangerously naïve. Democrats bear blame here since they have normalized radicalism and allowed extremists into the heart of their party.
What is the “Squad” but the Democratic Socialists of America, some of whose members are <a href="https://twitter.com/dsacommunists" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">open communists</a>. The DSA is also uncomfortably close to antifa, which leading Democrats claim <a href="https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110938/documents/HHRG-116-JU00-20200728-SD037.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">doesn’t exist</a>, but which U.S. law enforcement is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/01/intelligence-law-enforcement-report-leftwing-terrorists-charlottesville" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">well aware</a> indeed exists. As an analogy, DSA is the overt face of antifa just like, during Northern Ireland’s “Troubles,” Sinn Féin was the political arm while the Provisional Irish Republican Army was the terrorist wing of the movement.
It doesn’t help that former terrorists have been rehabilitated by leading Democrats. Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers entered Chicago politics after his bomb-making period and played a key role in the rise of Barack Obama. When this came up in the 2008 presidential race, Obama <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/28339-obama-and-bill-ayers-together-from-the-beginning/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">dismissed</a> his domestic terrorist buddy as “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood.”
Similarly, Susan Rosenberg was part of the communist cell that bombed the Senate in 1983 — her group also killed two police officers and a security guard in 1981 — yet was set free from prison, her sentence commuted by President Bill Clinton on his last day in the White House. Rosenberg reentered progressive politics, as if nothing had happened. She became a lecturer in Women and Gender Studies at New York’s Hunter College, which <a href="https://hunter.cuny.edu/people/susan-rosenberg/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">describes</a> her as “a human rights and prisoners rights advocate.” In 2020, Rosenberg was <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a> to be the vice-chair of Thousand Currents, a financial backer of Black Lives Matter.
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You get more of what you encourage, per the hoary cliché, and if Democrats keep treating domestic terrorism as a youthful indiscretion on the road to progress, we will soon be experiencing more of it. FBI Director Christopher Wray has been <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-director-concerned-lone-wolf-small-groups-draw/story?id=109109335" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">practically shouting</a> that more terrorism is headed America’s way, thanks to the Gaza war, though it may be radical Americans doing the terrorist acts, not far-away jihadists.
Watch Chicago this summer.
John R. Schindler served with the National Security Agency as a senior intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer. ]]></content:encoded>
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<title>A turning point for American foreign policy?</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Barone]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Was the passage by the House last Saturday and the Senate on Tuesday of the foreign aid package with money for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan a turning point in American foreign policy? It certainly was a turnabout in rhetoric and in partisan behavior. Speaker Mike Johnson led the narrowly Republican House to pass by resounding […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Was the passage by the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/house-of-representatives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">House</a> last Saturday and the Senate on Tuesday of the foreign aid package with money for <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Ukraine</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Israel</a>, and <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/taiwan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Taiwan</a> a turning point in American foreign policy?
It certainly was a turnabout in rhetoric and in partisan behavior. Speaker Mike Johnson led the narrowly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/us/politics/house-foreign-aid-bill.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Republican House to pass</a> by resounding margins bills to aid Ukraine (311-112), Israel (366-58) and Taiwan (385-34), and to sanction Iran and force the sale of TikTok (360-58). The narrowly Democratic Senate passed the whole kit and kaboodle by a similarly lopsided margin (79-18).
These results are broadly in sync with public opinion. Republican members who voted against aiding Ukraine seem to represent only a minority of Republican voters, and, thanks to Johnson’s adopting former President Donald Trump’s suggestion of <a href="http://,%20https:/thespectator.com/topic/lessons-foreign-aid-votes-ukraine-israel-tiktok/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">calling the aid a loan</a> rather than a grant, they’re more skeptical of helping Ukraine than the former president.
The vocal and, on campuses, violent left-wingers who oppose aid to Israel have got President Joe Biden worried enough that he felt obliged, after condemning “the antisemitic protests,” to also <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/useless-biden-cant-help-but-botch-his-response-to-campus-antisemitism/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=top-stories&utm_term=first" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">condemn</a> “those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” It’s a comment that deserves the treatment that Trump got for talking, without specifying exactly whom he meant, about “very fine people on both sides” at Charlottesville.
As <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/four-historic-votes-for-action-israel-ukraine-taiwan-aid-house-df9497a9?mod=opinion_recentauth_pos1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Walter Russell Mead</a> wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “Friends and foes who thought American foreign policy was paralyzed by internal dissension are taking another look.”
But that is no reason for complacency. Bipartisan agreement on an aid package does not make a dysfunctional foreign policy functional. As Mead writes, the Biden administration’s “failures to deter Russia in Ukraine and Iran in the Middle East, and fears of what a similar failure of deterrence could mean in the Indo-Pacific, have created bipartisan majorities for a more activist, better armed” America.
The failures go back a ways. The initial failure of Presidents Bush and Obama to gauge Vladimir Putin’s potential for evil, the collapse during Xi Jinping’s incumbency of the plausible <a href="https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/d/former/zoellick/rem/53682.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">hopes</a> that trade ties would make China a “responsible stakeholder” in world trade and politics, and the Obama administration’s inexplicable cozying up to the mullahs of Iran, have only now become clear.
Just as Nazi Germany formed an Axis with Japan in 1937 and an alliance with Stalin’s Soviet Union in 1939, America is faced now with a working alliance of revanchist dictatorial powers determined to alter the balance of power in their favor. The historian Niall Ferguson has no compunction about <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-21/china-russia-iran-axis-is-bad-news-for-trump-and-gop-isolationists?embedded-checkout=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">comparing</a> aid opponents’ complaints about Ukraine with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 description of Hitler’s demands on Czechoslovakia as “a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.”
Republican aid opponents have their own history to cite. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) argues that the establishment is making “the same exact talking points 20 years later” as those for the invasion of Iraq in 2002-03. But aid is not invasion, Ukraine is not Iraq, and Vance’s arguments are no more compelling than the arguments made in 1990-91 that the Gulf war would be another Vietnam.
Ferguson seems more persuasive in saying that we are now in Cold War II, only this time with China united with Russia and in possession of an advanced economy intertangled with ours.
The Biden administration’s latest move to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-takes-aim-at-chinese-banks-aiding-russia-war-effort-fcf76dcc?page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">cut off Chinese bank financing</a> of the Russian war effort seems to recognize this. Similarly, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s complaints last month that China is building “overcapacity” in solar energy and lithium-ion batteries.
But just saying “don’t,” as Biden said to Israel before it launched its retaliatory strikes against Iran last week, is not enough.
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In the wake of the Hitler-Stalin pact, which gave those two totalitarian allies control of most of the Eurasian landmass by the summer of 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt persuaded Congress to vastly increase military spending, to allow aid to Winston Churchill’s Britain and to institute a military draft — at a time when <a href="https://news.gallup.com/vault/265865/gallup-vault-opinion-start-world-war.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">more than 80%</a> of Americans opposed going to war.
As hard as it may be to imagine either Biden or Trump carrying out such an enterprise, there’s a strong case that some significant military buildup and some demonstrated determination to resist aggression is necessary to deter this Cold War’s axis of evil from plunging into war with damage — destruction of lives, of economies, of human rights — far greater than the horrors inflicted on Ukraine and Israel.
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<title>Grudge rematch: First presidential rerun in 68 years set for November</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mark]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Golden State Warriors in 2017 and 2018 beat the Cleveland Cavaliers for the NBA championship (the teams squared off four straight times starting in 2015, with Northern California fans getting a trophy in three of those seasons). The Dallas Cowboys beat the Buffalo Bills in the 1993 and 1994 Super Bowls. The New York […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[The <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/golden-state-warriors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Golden State Warriors</a> in 2017 and 2018 beat the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/cleveland-cavaliers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Cleveland Cavaliers</a> for the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/nba/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">NBA</a> championship (the teams squared off four straight times starting in 2015, with Northern California fans getting a trophy in three of those seasons). The <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/1465495/chris-christie-knocks-super-bowl-chances-for-dallas-cowboys/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Dallas Cowboys</a> beat the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2617442/dont-let-the-buffalo-bills-scam-taxpayers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Buffalo Bills</a> in the 1993 and 1994 <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/super-bowl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Super Bowls</a>. The <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/new-york-yankees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">New York Yankees</a> won the 1977 and 1978 World Series over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
While championship round rematches are relatively rare in <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/sports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">sports</a> — as the stats about professional basketball, football, and Major League Baseball reflect — they happen even less in their political equivalent, presidential campaigns. But eventually, they do happen, and this is the year, with President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/joe-biden//" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Joe Biden</a> set to face his vanquished 2020 Republican rival, former President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Donald Trump</a>.
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This will be only the second time a losing presidential candidate has come back to challenge the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/white-house/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">White House</a> occupant who beat him, with Democratic President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/grover-cleveland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Grover Cleveland</a> in 1892 scoring an easy knockout of Republican President Benjamin Harrison, the 1888 winner. And it’s been 68 years since party nominees even ran against each other again, with GOP President <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/dwight-eisenhower/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> easily defeating Democratic opponent Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and 1956.
Here are the presidential rematches, ranging from barnburners to boring. 
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">1796, 1800 — John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson</h2>
This was the first competitive presidential election since the nation’s first commander in chief, Revolutionary War hero George Washington, effectively won the first two by acclamation. This early presidential fight foreshadowed some of the more admirable aspects of political campaigns — high-minded arguments over complex public policy matters. Along with tactics so cynical, craven, and devious that they’re viewed now as low-tech versions of the social media-infused, slash-and-burn style employed by campaigns today.
Vice President John Adams, a Federalist, faced Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state and a Democratic-Republican. The pair had profound disagreements about how close the fledgling country should grow toward monarchical European powers and a range of other matters, which gave the U.S. electorate a real choice.
But the 1796 campaign’s low blows also stand out. An Adams-aligned newspaper accused Jefferson of having an affair with one of his female slaves. While the less-than-svelt Adams was accused of being overweight and given the nickname “His Rotundity.”
Adams won and Jefferson was elected vice president under the rules of the Constitution at the time. Four years later, Jefferson ran against and beat the incumbent Adams. That campaign was also mean and bitter, to the point that Adams refused to attend Jefferson’s inauguration, slipping out of Washington, D.C., on horseback after midnight on March 4, 1801, hours before his term as president ended.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">1824, 1828 — John Quincy Adams vs. Andrew Jackson</h2>
The day after Trump was inaugurated as president in 2017, he filed paperwork to seek reelection for the next race, 2020 — a technicality that allowed his campaign to raise money. He declared his candidacy for another White House run shortly after the 2018 midterm elections. This seemed like another extension of the already “permanent campaign” by presidential hopefuls. Yet nearly 200 years earlier, America witnessed another long and drawn-out election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
John Quincy Adams, son of the former president and, by 1824, secretary of state under President James Monroe, won the White House by prevailing in a four-way race. He beat former Gen. Andrew Jackson, House Speaker Henry Clay, Treasury Secretary William H. Crawford, and Secretary of War John C. Calhoun.
Nobody came close to claiming an Electoral College majority, so the race went to the House for a contingent election. In repeat balloting, Clay, who had been eliminated, used his influence to swing the vote in Adams’s favor, handing him the presidency. Once in office, Adams, coincidentally or not, appointed Clay as secretary of state.
That, in turn, touched off furious charges by Jackson and his supporters that the two men had conspired in a “corrupt bargain” and effectively launched Jackson’s 1828 campaign — nearly four years in advance. Jackson and his supporters spent the time attacking Adams and building a new party, the Democrats, to take him on. In 1828, Jackson won clear popular- and electoral-vote victories, and he went on to serve two terms as president.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">1836, 1840 — Martin Van Buren vs. William Henry Harrison</h2>
Martin Van Buren, an upstate New York political boss, became Jackson’s vice president and one of the main architects of the Democratic Party. Van Buren ran for the top job himself in 1836. But opponents of the Jackson-Van Buren administration were coming together into a new national party: the Whig Party.
The Whigs were still a work in progress in 1836, and Van Buren ended up facing multiple “opposition” candidates who ran in different states. The most successful was retired Gen. William Henry Harrison, a native of Virginia’s gentry and slaveholding class who remade himself as a frontier soldier, as the first governor of the Indiana territory, followed by other offices that led to a stint as senator from Ohio in the late 1820s. In 1836, Harrison lost the presidential race to Van Buren but built up his national profile.
By 1839, the Whigs were organized enough to hold a national convention, which nominated Harrison for the following year’s election. Van Buren’s popularity, meanwhile, had plunged due to the Panic of 1837 and the perception that he was an effete, out-of-touch aristocrat.
“After a campaign marked by such innovations as sloganeering, mass rallies, image-creation and what today we would call PR stunts, Harrison won the popular vote by 6 percentage points and beat Van Buren decisively in the Electoral College,” <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/16/a-biden-trump-faceoff-in-2024-wouldnt-be-the-first-presidential-rematch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Pew Research Center noted</a> in a May 2023 report.
Still, the euphoria was short-lived. As presidential scholar Tevi Troy <a href="https://mishpacha.com/round-two/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">wrote</a>, “Unfortunately for Harrison, he didn’t get much time to enjoy his prize. He died 31 days after being sworn in, serving the shortest tenure in presidential history.”
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">1888, 1892 — Grover Cleveland vs. Benjamin Harrison</h2>
Biden vs. Trump Part II is already shaping up as one of the meanest, toughest presidential campaigns in U.S. history. Biden, 81, faces unrelenting attacks over his age. While Trump, facing four indictments and 85 cumulative charges, is running a split-screen campaign between campaign rallies and various courtrooms.
Yet the closest analog to this president versus former president race, between Democrat Grover Cleveland and Republican Benjamin Harrison in the late 19th century, doesn’t measure up. Benjamin Harrison’s win in 1888 and his loss four years later were relatively docile campaigns. Policy differences weren’t particularly stark between Benjamin Harrison, a classic Midwestern, corporation-friendly Republican, and Cleveland, a conservative-leaning Democrat who often sided with business over labor unions.
Still, Cleveland was a Democrat and, in 1888, was vulnerable, having alienated many important industries by advocating lower tariffs. Republicans, who favored high “protective” tariffs, nominated Benjamin Harrison, grandson of one-month President William Henry Harrison. He had spent a single, six-year term as senator from Indiana, which, at the time, was a key swing state in the Electoral College puzzle. Though Cleveland won the popular vote, Benjamin Harrison prevailed in the Electoral College.
As Cleveland left the White House, his wife reportedly told the staff to “take good care of all the furniture and ornaments in the house … for I want to find everything just as it is now when we come back again four years from today.” Although Cleveland stayed out of politics at first, by 1891, he was openly criticizing the Benjamin Harrison administration and the Republican-controlled Congress for raising tariff rates and increasing the money supply by coining more silver dollars.
Democrats renominated Cleveland in 1892, and President Benjamin Harrison didn’t put up much of a fight in his reelection bid, as the health of first lady Caroline declined. She died from tuberculosis two weeks before the election, on Oct. 25.
A bit over four months later, as Mrs. Cleveland had predicted, she and her husband, the past and present president, returned to the White House.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">1896, 1900 — William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan</h2>
One wildcard question in the 2024 presidential race is how much, if at all, the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. It’s not that most voters are avid watchers of the U.S. central bank. But its decisions very much affect inflation, which ran sky-high during the COVID-19 pandemic and is still sticking voters with higher prices for food and a range of other everyday necessities.
Gilded Age voters grappled with a version of the inflation question in the 1896 election, the first of Republican William McKinley’s two wins over Democratic rival William Jennings Bryan, in the fight about whether U.S. currency should be pegged to silver or gold, a now seemingly obscure monetary battle that seems all the more distant in a time of diminished cash use, with credit and debit cards the norm.
The conflict went back to shortly after Cleveland’s reelection. The economy plunged into a deep depression. That, along with labor unrest, led Democrats to make a leftward turn, the first step toward the progressive coalition Democrats are known as today. In 1896, the Democrats turned to Bryan, 36, a former four-year House member from Nebraska and a forceful opponent of the gold standard. Bryan instead advocated “free and unlimited coinage of silver,” which he said would help debt-ridden farmers and working people by inflating the money supply.
The Republicans nominated William McKinley, a business-oriented conservative and former Ohio governor who favored high tariffs and the gold standard, which he called “sound money.” McKinley’s campaign raised an unprecedented sum from big corporations and used it to forge a coalition of industrial workers and urban dwellers, especially immigrants, in the Northeast and Midwest.
Despite traveling thousands of miles and giving hundreds of speeches, Bryan came up short in both the popular and electoral votes. But he came close enough that he had no real opposition for the Democratic nomination in 1900 when he faced McKinley again.
But by the 1900 presidential race, the free-silver matter had receded somewhat, and the economy was improving. McKinley won easily, with a higher share of the popular vote than four years before. He also flipped six states Bryan had carried four years earlier, while Bryan changed only one.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">1952, 1956 — Dwight D. Eisenhower vs. Adlai Stevenson</h2>
In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower easily ended 20 years of Democratic White House rule. Eisenhower had a lot going for him in his defeat of Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, a favorite of the Democratic intelligentsia but hardly a candidate with broad appeal. Eisenhower had led the Allied armies to victory in Europe during World War II and was popular with members of both parties.
Eisenhower, though a political newcomer, proved to be a formidable campaigner, attacking the Democrats over “Korea, Communism and corruption.” He ended up taking 55% of the popular vote in 1952, winning all but nine states.
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Four years later, with the Korean War over and the economy booming, Eisenhower had even greater success against Democratic nominee Stevenson. The incumbent president rolled to victory with 57% of the popular vote and the electoral votes of all but seven states.
Though one state, oddly, flipped from red to blue. Missouri backed Stevenson, marking the only time in the century from 1904 to 2004 that it didn’t support the presidential race winner, long making it the premiere presidential bellwether.
David Mark is managing editor of the Washington Examiner magazine.
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<description><![CDATA[Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) seemingly won over Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) with his voting strategy over the weekend, as the Democratic representative proclaimed his opposition to vacating the speaker. Khanna appeared on This Week Sunday to express his support for Johnson, despite the fact that the two hail from opposing parties. As […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker of the House <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/tag/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) seemingly won over Rep. <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/tag/ro-khanna" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Ro Khanna</a> (D-CA) with his voting strategy over the weekend, as the Democratic representative proclaimed his opposition to <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/tag/speaker-of-the-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">vacating the speaker</a>.
Khanna appeared on <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="This Week">This Week</a> Sunday to express his support for Johnson, despite the fact that the two hail from opposing parties. As a Democratic politician, Khanna claimed he disagrees with Johnson “on many issues” and admitted he’s “been very critical of him,” but approved of Johnson’s effort to split a previous bill into four bills that were all passed Saturday. These bills pertained to foreign aid to Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine, in addition to a ban on app stores from hosting TikTok as long as it’s foreign-owned.
“We had one issue, which was give individual votes. Don’t lump things together, and I would give him credit for doing this. I would vote to table any motion to vacate him,” Khanna said. “I think here you have Speaker Johnson who not only put this up for a vote, but he also separated the bills, which I thought was courageous. He let people vote their conscience on Taiwan, on the offensive aid to Israel, and on Ukraine, and I give him credit for that.”
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Still, Khanna predicted that House Minority Leader <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/Hakeem-Jeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Hakeem Jeffries</a> will take over Johnson’s leadership role in 2025. Currently the Republican Party holds a slight majority with 218 Republican members against 213 Democratic members. Johnson is up for reelection in 2024, as is Khanna. Both entered the House the same year after they won their respective districts in 2016.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are behind a motion to oust Johnson. Neither of them were involved in voting out Johnson’s predecessor Rep. Kevin McCarthy last year.
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