Publication: Washington Examiner

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Months of campaigning with the bombastic Minneapolis representative not only couldn’t lock down the state, but it didn’t even help deliver Omar’s congressional district. Instead, Sanders lost by more than 60,000 votes in a state he won in 2016.

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The way left-wing activists have exploited the teenager is simply unconscionable.

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The national media so desperately wanted former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg to be a thing, and, like Beto O’Rourke, he naively bought into it.

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Ocasio-Cortez may be having the last laugh. Not only has Sanders emerged as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, but the young Bronx socialist can claim part of the credit. 

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Attorney General William Barr has a Herculean task in running the Justice Department in these contentious times, but he will succeed in his task of cleaning out the Augean stable. A true insider at the Justice Department, he knows what a clean stable looks like.

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In the midst of a contentious back-and-forth, Sanders eventually delivered the following whopper: “What every study out there, conservative or progressive, says: Medicare for All will save money. ”  That statement is not remotely true.

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Not having to worry about a tough, combative press is how you get incidents such as the 2020 Democratic front-runner being totally unprepared to answer the most obvious criticism of his campaign. If Sanders’s disastrous handling of Bloomberg’s no-brainer broadside is a portent of things to come, the general election meat grinder will be a straight-up bloodbath for Democrats.

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Since his release from prison, Milken has led an exemplary life and is a huge philanthropist, and that alone would merit a pardon. His foundation tackles medical illnesses, especially prostate cancer, from which he suffers. But simply as an innovator who took on a financial establishment, helped turn our economy around, and was unfairly prosecuted for his efforts, Milken deserved the pardon.

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Despite Obama’s concerns about racial and wealth inequality, these gaps only began to close after he left office. Under Obama, beginning in the second half of 2009, African Americans and the bottom 10% of workers saw their earnings grow only modestly. Their earnings have grown twice as fast under Trump…

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Sorry, capitalism. Democrats just aren’t that into you.

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As South Bend’s mayor, Buttigieg tackled the surprisingly contentious issue of pet chip scanners within city limits, but that doesn’t mean he is prepared now to tackle Iran, Russia, or North Korea. He may have presided over a successful redesign of South Bend’s flag, and the new one really is an improvement, but that does not qualify Buttigieg to hold the nuclear codes.

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Michael Avenatti, #Resistance lawyer-turned-alleged domestic abuser and convicted felon, has no one more than the media to thank for his five minutes of fame.

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If anything, Trump isn’t the reason millions of people are supposedly unbothered by lies. He’s the effect of years of the national media lying with impunity. They’re always lying or instigating or inducing panic for no other reason than that it pays to keep readers and viewers in a constant state of anxiety.

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Sanders would have the government take an almost unprecedented role in controlling our economy. Were his full agenda ever to be enacted, federal spending would account for roughly half of the economy. Sanders would nationalize entire industries, from healthcare to the internet. 

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The Secret Service paid $2,200 a month to rent a cottage on the Bidens’ Wilmington, Delaware, property so that agents could be there on-site to protect the vice president. This is relevant today because of the similarities to and differences from the Secret Service’s hefty rents paid to Trump-owned properties during the Trump administration.

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In the midst of the longest bull run in history, our unemployment has hovered around a half-century low, plucking the majority of newly employed workers from outside of the labor force. As a result of this extremely tight labor market, our labor force participation rate is the highest since the economic recovery began, as is the rate of real wage growth, and disproportionately so for low-income workers.

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The Democrats are on a roll. The past couple of weeks have been a political parade of one disaster after another, all to the benefit of President Trump’s reelection campaign.

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So it has now been normalized to seek foreign intelligence services’ assistance in obtaining opposition research. A candidate may pay a political price for getting caught seeking such aid, including investigation and even impeachment, but not a criminal one. In the future some ambitious but struggling candidate from either party will think of last week’s precedent, and seek derogatory information on their opponent from abroad.

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If there were any Trump speech to clap for placidly, this was it, and if there were any moment to do so, now, on the eve of the conclusion of an impeachment trial claiming to appeal to a return to decorum and normalcy, was the time to do it. And yet, the dregs of the Democratic Party couldn’t help throwing themselves into the spotlight and making a mockery of their moderate colleagues that won them the House.

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We shouldn’t pretend the results are a total mystery. From data reported by campaigns and media outlets, three things are pretty clear: 1.) Joe Biden bombed, finishing a distant fourth. 2.) Bernie Sanders was at or near the top of the field. 3.) Pete Buttigieg outperformed the polls to finish at or near the top.

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It was just a short spot during a first-quarter commercial break of Sunday night’s Super Bowl, but the criminal justice reform advertisement President Trump ran featuring Alice Johnson was brilliant. The advertisement touted his criminal justice reform record, a rare bright spot where Trump truly has delivered what no other president in recent history could.

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A political betting site that allows people to buy and sell shares that reflect the odds of an event occurring shows President Trump’s chances of completing his first term in office have grown steadily since impeachment began.

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Nothing says more about the decline of the Democrats than the difference between the two Robert Francises — Robert F. Kennedy and Beto O’Rourke. They stand at the opposite ends of the sixty-year chasm between them. Beto was laid back and ephemeral; Bobby was intense. Bobby’s swimming coach at Harvard called him “heavy in the water” — drownable, dense. Beto, by contrast, seemed light as a feather, as if even a strong breeze could blow him away.

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Nobody is saying Ukraine should be written off. Ukraine is obviously important to the Ukrainians. It’s quite important to the Europeans as well. Nobody wants a frozen conflict on the Eurasian continent. But let’s put Ukraine in the proper perspective: It’s not a vital U.S. national security interest.