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opinion
Big Tech Silences Election Integrity Effort in Presidential Race
Facebook on Thursday removed a group called “Stop the Steal,” a pro-Trump group organizing public calls for election integrity as several states still have not finished counting ballots. The group had grown to more than 361,000 members in 24 hours. Facebook justified the decision by alleging the group “called for violence” and was trying to “delegitimize” the election process…. -
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Leftists Changed Rules of 2020 Election
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and manager of Heritage’s Election Law Reform Initiative, joined Mark Levin’s Fox News show over the weekend to discuss the 2020 election. Here’s von Spakovsky’s segment about how the rules were changed for the 2020… -
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Pfizer’s Coronavirus Vaccine Over 90% Effective, Company Says
A promising coronavirus vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, a German biotechnology firm, was over 90% effective compared to a placebo injection and did not produce any safety concerns, according to an analysis by a third-party data monitoring committee. “I would say it’s a historical moment,” said Kathrin Jansen, Pfizer’s head of vaccine research… -
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George W. Bush Congratulates Joe Biden, Says Donald Trump Has Right to Request Recounts
Former President George W. Bush congratulated former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, in a statement Sunday after several outlets projected the Democrats' election victory. Bush also congratulated President Donald Trump and his supporters for their “hard-fought campaign” and for earning more than 70 million votes. Multiple outlets, including Fox News and The… -
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Election Wins and Losses for Pro-Life Movement
The pro-life movement can celebrate some victories after last week’s election. Chelsey Youman, Texas state director and national legislative adviser for Human Coalition Action, joins the show to discuss the significance in Texans’ decision to keep a pro-life majority in the state House, and to reelect Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a staunch advocate for the… -
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7 Big Items on Biden’s White House Agenda
Amnesty for illegal immigrants, taxpayer funding for abortions, and a transition from using oil for energy were key to former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign for the White House. Biden laid out many policy proposals during his campaign to unseat President Donald Trump, which major media outlets called in the Democratic challenger’s favor Saturday even… -
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6 Things I Saw at Dueling Trump-Biden Rallies in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA—In the City of Brotherly Love, which skews heavily Democrat, there was a lot of rejoicing Saturday—and spewing of hatred of Donald Trump. Crowds of thrilled Joe Biden supporters—buoyed by media outlets calling the presidential contest for the former vice president—gathered in the blocks around City Hall and the Convention Center, at times breaking into… -
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‘Networks Don’t Get to Decide Elections, Courts Do’: Giuliani Announces Lawsuit
The Trump campaign is moving ahead with a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, saying President Donald Trump was denied a “fair count” of votes in his contest against Democratic challenger Joe Biden and that poll watchers were not able to properly oversee the process. Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s attorneys and the former mayor of New York… -
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Media Outlets Project Biden Victory as Trump Says Election ‘Far From Over’
Several major news outlets on Saturday projected former Vice President Joe Biden to have won a prolonged presidential election, even as ballot counting and litigation continue. President Donald Trump has not conceded the contest, and his campaign team note pending legal challenges across several closely contested states. “The simple fact is this election is far… -
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A Pro Bono Lawyer for Trump Campaign Shares What He Saw in Pennsylvania
Tom Ranieri is a lawyer who volunteered as a representative of President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, working at an Election Day hotline. He was there from Oct. 30 to Nov. 3 and joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share what he observed. “The Daily Signal Podcast” is available on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Pippa, Google Play,… -
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COVID-19 Restrictions on Schools, Businesses Drive State Jobless Rates
The unemployment rate dropped more than expected in October, to 6.9%—from 7.9% in September—as 638,000 jobs were added or regained. Moreover, the number of people reporting lost work (either reduced hours or none) because their employer closed or lost business due to the coronavirus pandemic plummeted by 4.3 million, to 15.1 million. While the unemployment… -
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The Problem of False Chinese Economic Data
China has a long history of opaqueness when it comes to reporting economic statistics. Although the communist regime claims the economic numbers it reports are factual, a new report by the New York Federal Reserve shows China’s gross domestic product growth volatility is incredibly—and unbelievably—low compared to other countries. The report details how China’s reported… -
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Birth of the Coalition of Normal People May Be Upon Us
Throughout this election, there were signs of the birth of a coalition of normal people unhappy with the radical turns our country has been taking. Regardless of how the presidential race turns out, the potential political realignment is unmistakable. Hispanic and blue-collar workers are shifting noticeably away from the overtures of the left-wing, “defund the… -
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It’s Time to Elect Civility
Looking out the windows today, the skies are blue, but it’s eerily quiet. In Washington, D.C., where I live, businesses have boarded up their windows in preparation for violent protests. Anxiety and trepidation hang in the air. It’s almost palpable. There has been so much tension in the run-up to our recent election. But I… -
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Democrats Grapple With Impact of ‘Socialist’ Label
Jinhui Chen is a 47-year-old immigrant from China who says he went through the steps to become a U.S. citizen last year so he could vote for Donald Trump. Chen came to this country 21 years ago as a student at the University of Cincinnati. He went on to study at Northwestern University before… -
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Brands Are Virtue-Signaling Progressive Values to Kids
It’s not enough that kids are learning about social justice issues in school or via TikTok. Increasingly, brands have jumped on the woke train to virtue signal to kids what they should think about controversial ideas, normalizing them for the sake of advancing a collective progressive ideology that values identity politics over individualism. Recently, Oreo… -
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You’ve Come a Long Way, Florida
Election Day 2020 was many things to many people—depending on your age, philosophy, and geography. It’s probably a Rorschach test for the country. It’s a reminder that our nation is large and complicated, with diverse perspectives crossing numerous cultural lines. For millions of us in Florida, however, Election Day was something else. It was a… -
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Pennsylvania Lawsuit Alleges 21,000 Dead People Still on Voter Rolls
A legal group filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleging that the state has tens of thousands of deceased people on its voter rolls and that there is evidence of voting activity among the deceased. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, which is not associated with President Donald Trump’s campaign, filed the lawsuit Thursday arguing that Pennsylvania… -
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What to Know About Litigation Being Waged Across US to Preserve Trump Presidency
We all knew Election Day 2020 wouldn’t be normal. And yet it still seems remarkable that we don’t know yet who will be the president of the United States on Jan. 20. And we may not know for some time if we’ll have four more years of President Donald Trump or a newly inaugurated President Joe Biden. Even if… -
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‘Show Us the Evidence’: Chris Christie, Sen. Pat Toomey Cast Doubt on Trump’s Vote-Counting Concerns
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie challenged President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud made during White House remarks Thursday evening. “I saw the president’s speech last night and it was very hard to watch,” Toomey said on “Today” Friday morning. “The president’s allegations of large-scale fraud and theft of the election…