The Republicans at CPAC make false statements about Biden and Zelensky
In search for Biden, Trump, and DeSantis: What has he learned? What has happened in the first few months of 2020?
Now, we don’t necessarily know that Biden’s approval rating is falling because of the discovery of the classified documents and the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the matter. Gas prices have also been rising, which has been a problem for Biden over his presidency.
In the first month of 2020, Biden was thrust into the spotlight when some classified documents were found at his Delaware home and his Washington DC office.
It does not seem to have hurt Trump’s bid. If anything, it has helped. When the results of the November election were known, Trump’s national polling numbers were in a state of free fall. Democrats have made Trump a focal point of their attacks.
Roughly half the people who searched for either Biden or Trump searched for Biden. This is the highest percentage Biden has reached when compared with Trump since the late summer and fall of 2021. Searches for Biden relative to Trump peaked in early September 2021, right after the US withdrew its final troops from Afghanistan.
Neither of these are big dips, and both are within the polls’ margin of error. In the context of the average of polls, they are noteworthy because Biden’s approval rating is down 2.5 points from two weeks ago.
Last week, after more people searched for Biden’s name on Google, a number of polls appeared to confirm a drop in his approval rating. It went from 47% to 44% among registered voters in the Marquette University Law School poll. The CNN/SSRS survey put his approval rating at 46% among registered voters, a drop from 48% in December.
As the spotlight has shone on Biden, Trump has seemingly been taking a step back from it. After declaring his third run for the Republican nomination late last year, Trump only went on the campaign trail this weekend in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
The story of Trump’s lack of activity is shown in the number of people looking for him on the internet. Fewer people have looked him up in the month of August than in any other month since he started campaigning.
In concrete numbers, Trump’s national polling lead of about 30 points over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a hypothetical Republican primary dropped to low double-digits almost overnight.
The question is what happens when Trump gets back into the limelight, as he has been this weekend. Will it remind Republicans of what they like about him? Or will it remind voters of what they don’t like about Trump?
The False Claims About Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky During a White House Talk at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland
The Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland is underway. The members of Congress, former government officials, and conservative figures made false claims about a variety of topics while speaking at the conference.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden. The claim about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was made by a Georgia lawmaker. Tuberville used two incorrect statistics as he talked about the state of the country. Former Trump White House official Steve Bannon repeated his regular lie about the 2020 election having been stolen from Trump, this time baselesly blaming Fox for Trump’s defeat.
Marjorie Taylor Greene said the Republican Party has a duty to protect children. She said that Zelensky should leave his hands if he wants to threaten our sons and daughters.
Zelensky predicted at a press conference in February that if Ukraine lost the war against Russia, Russia would enter the Baltics. Under the treaty that governs NATO, an attack on one member is considered an attack on all. Ukraine is not a NATO member, and Zelensky didn’t say Americans should fight there.
The out-of-context video was shared by a group of people on the social networking site. You can read the full quote of Zelensky with a full fact-check here.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/politics/fact-check-cpac-2023/index.html
Facts About the 2023 Election: When the U.S. Congress Decided to revoke the 2024 Presidential Campaign: A Comment on Bannon and Fox News
Right-wing commentator and former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon criticized right-wing cable channel Fox at length for, he argued, being insufficiently supportive of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Among other things, Bannon claimed that, on the night of the election in November 2020, “Fox News illegitimately called it for the opposition and not Donald J. Trump, of which our nation has never recovered.” Later, he said Trump is running again after “having it stolen, in broad daylight, of which they [Fox] participate in.”
This is not true. On election night in 2020, Fox accurately projected that Biden had won the state of Arizona. The results of the election were the same even though media outlets have projected different results, and Biden won Arizona and the election. The 2020 election was not “stolen” from Trump.
Facts First: Jordan inaccurately described the 100-day deportation pause that Biden attempted to impose immediately after he took office on January 20, 2021. The US wouldn’t deport anyone who comes. It explicitly did not apply to anyone who arrived in the country after the end of October 2020, meaning people who arrived under the Biden administration or in the last months of the Trump administration could still be deported.
It was not possible for Biden to extend his 100 day pause to those people who were suspected of terrorism or espionage, had their right to remain in the US revoked, or were seen as posing a national security risk.
A federal judge blocked the pause shortly after it was announced, and the Department of Homeland Security conducted a review of immigration enforcement practices that were supposed to have started after that.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/politics/fact-check-cpac-2023/index.html
A CNN News Report on the Mar-a-Lago Residence of Tommy Tuberville, the Former President of the United States, and the Attack on Faith
The media were tipped off to the August search of the Mar-a-Lago home of Trump by the FBI, while the subsequent searches of properties connected to the former president were concealed.
Brian Stelter, who was CNN’s chief media correspondent at that time, wrote in his article that “by the time local TV news cameras showed up outside the club, there was almost nothing to see.” The search for the resort was not dramatic, since there were no photos of it.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a former college and high school football coach, said, “Going into thousands of kids’ homes and talking to parents every year recruiting, half the kids in this country – I’m not talking about race, I’m just talking about – half the kids in this country have one or no parent. And it’s because of the attack on faith. People are losing their faith because of the attack on God.
It is true that the amount of children living in households with two parents has declined over time. Still, Tuberville’s statistic significantly exaggerated the current situation. His spokesperson told CNN on Thursday that the senator was speaking “anecdotally” from his personal experience meeting with families as a football coach.
Facts First: This is false. While many Americans do struggle with reading, there is no basis for the claim that “half” of high school graduates can’t read a basic document like a diploma. “Mr. Tuberville does not know what he’s talking about at all,” said Patricia Edwards, a Michigan State University professor of language and literacy who is a past president of the International Literacy Association and the Literacy Research Association. There is no evidence to back up Tuberville’s claim. She also stated that people who can’t read at all are not likely to finish high school.
The Tuberville spokesman said the senator was speaking informally after being briefed on a report that half of Americans can’t read a book at an eighth-grade level.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/politics/fact-check-cpac-2023/index.html
When the U.S. is “Wavelets against Half the Country,” Rep. A.J. Biden in his 2020 White House Address on Gas Stoves
In the speech, in which he never used the word “fascists,” Biden warned that “MAGA Republicans” like Trump are “extreme,” “do not respect the Constitution” and “do not believe in the rule of law.” But he also emphasized that “not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans.” In other words, he made clear that he was talking about far less than half of Americans.
Trump earned fewer than 75 million votes in 2020 in a country of more than 258 million adults, so even a hypothetical criticism of every single Trump voter would not amount to criticism of “half the country.”
According to the congressman, average citizens should acknowledge and accept that the entire federal government is weaponized against them. Perry said moments later, “The government doesn’t have the right to tell you that you can’t buy a gas stove but that you must buy an electric vehicle.”
The Biden administration has tried to encourage and incentivize the adoption of electric vehicles, but it has not tried to forbid the manufacture or purchase of traditional vehicles with internal combustion engines. Biden wants half of all new vehicles sold in the US to be electric by 2030.
There was a January controversy about a Biden appointee to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, Richard Trumka Jr., saying that gas stoves pose a “hidden hazard,” as they emit air pollutants, and that “any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.” The president does not support banning gas stoves, according to the White House press secretary. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is independent, doesn’t ban gas stoves.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/politics/fact-check-cpac-2023/index.html
Where Did The Drug Come From? The Case Of Biden And His Ex-Mom, A CNN Activist Revisited
I saw it this morning and I don’t know if you saw it. Biden was laughing at the mom who had her two sons die and he said the drug used to kill them came from the previous administration. Where did it come from? Norman said the fact that it is here.
Kiessling has demanded an apology from Biden. She is entitled to her criticism of Biden’s remarks and his chuckle – but the video clearly shows Norman was wrong when he claimed Biden was “laughing at the mother.”
Williams, who was a legal analyst at the time, said in an email on Thursday that he had “no idea” what Cammack was checking out on his account. He clerked for two federal judges and used to prosecute violent crimes. Any suggestion that I’ve ever encouraged harassment of anyone – and particularly any official of the United States – is insulting and not based in reality.”
Cammack’s spokesperson responded helpfully on Thursday to CNN’s initial queries about the story Cammack told at CPAC, explaining that she was referring to her February exchange with Williams. CNN asked if the exchange with Williams was correct and if there wasn’t any evidence of him encouraging the harassment of the judge.
And while the economy added about 6.7 million jobs under Trump before the pandemic-related crash of March and April 2020, that’s not the “8 million jobs” Kennedy claimed – and the economy ended up shedding millions of jobs in Trump’s fourth year. The economy lost over 2 million jobs during Trump’s four years in office.
Facts First: It is false that February 2020 has the lowest unemployment in American history. The unemployment rate was 3.5% at the time – tied for the lowest since 1969, but not the all-time lowest on record, which was 2.5% in 1953. The most recent unemployment rate, 4.3% for January 23, was better than the previous one, which was 4.7% in the year of the CPAC conference.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/politics/fact-check-cpac-2023/index.html
Fentanyl is still circulating in the US, and it is no longer smuggled by the illegal drugs of the border
On the other side of the border, where there is no one, they are running this poison in, and it’s killing 100,000 Americans annually.
It is true that there are more than 100,000 deaths of Fentanyl each year. There were 106,699 deaths from drug overdoses in the US in 2011. The number of overdose deaths involving synthetic other than opium, including Fentanyl, is smaller.
It’s also worth noting that fentanyl is largely smuggled in by US citizens through legal ports of entry rather than by migrants sneaking past other parts of the border. Contrary to frequent Republican claims, the border is not “open”; border officers have seized thousands of pounds of fentanyl under Biden.
