thelibertydaily--2020-03-10--The Real Reason Democrat States Like California Treat Foreign Invaders With So Much Respect

The real reason a state like California treats its illegal immigrants with so much respect .
Editors ' note : Below is Part 5 of a new essay written by Bruce Hendry : Democrats , Progressives and Socialists .
Stay tuned for the ensuing chapters .
[ See links to previous chapters below this article ] .
The U.S. census is held every 10 years in order to count people , not citizens , and to then allocate congressional seats based on the count .
There are at least 22 million legal non-citizens and 12 million illegal immigrants in our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of 330 million .
They are all non-citizens who will be counted in the census for the purpose of reallocating the 435 U.S. House seats .
This means that 34 U.S. congressional seats will be attributed to non-citizens .
Minnesota , by comparison , gets just eight congressional seats .
This system of counting helps sanctuary states like California gain more congressional seats than if only citizens were counted because of their large illegal alien populations .
No wonder California treats their illegal immigrants with such respect , as those illegals get them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the power and Federal money that comes along with those seats .
At different times in our past , a question on citizenship has been included on the census , but when the Commerce Department announced plans to ask that question on the 2020 census it brought a storm of left-wing protests and lawsuits from New York State and California to stop that question from being asked .
There are some -- even many -- people , like me , however , who think that non-citizens should not be represented in the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illegal entry into our country should not be the beneficiary of federal largess for them .
11 .
Democrats Abuse the Justice System .
Justice in America is supposed to be blind with no tipping of its scales .
Everybody is supposed to be treated equally .
That ’ s the theory , but not the practice .
Prominent Democrats regularly get special treatment , which puts them “ above the law.
” Of the many examples that a figure like Hillary Clinton provides , I choose the recent example of the congressional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ records as Secretary of State .
After she received the subpoena , she erased 33,000 e-mails , then bleach-bit ( erased ) the hard drives and hammered the devices into junk .
In all likelihood , the information on her private server was government business , which is a felony ; destroying government property ( the e-mails ) is another felony ; and destroying subpoenaed information is yet another felony .
Moreover , transferring classified emails to a non-government , non-secure server , which she did , is a violation of the Espionage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her head would conclude that she destroyed those e-mails because of the connection between her government position and money “ contributed ” to the Clinton Foundation .
In one documented incident , Hillary shepherded the approval of Russia ’ s purchase of a 20 % interest in United States Uranium Mining Company .
Later , a “ donation ” of $ 145 million went to the Clinton Foundation by the very same Russians that got approval to buy the Uranium investment .
It ’ s called “ pay for play.
” Or bribery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hillary , but then deposed her without putting her under oath , or videotaping the deposition .
This means that she can ’ t be prosecuted for lying as she could ’ ve been if she lied under oath or simply lied to the FBI .
That doesn ’ t happen to ordinary people .
For instance , famed TV personality Martha Stewart went to prison , not for any deed , but for lying under oath .
Ditto General Flynn , who had the misfortune to work for a Republican White House @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the FBI field office and for the first time in FBI history , according to Wayne Kaufmann , an FBI agent friend of mine , the investigation was pulled up to the main office in Washington that is staffed by political appointees .
Not surprisingly , the Washington office found that Hillary might have been careless , but did nothing to constitute a criminal offense .
It turns out that the Clinton memo exonerating her was written before the “ investigation ” was actually started .
Hillary Clinton should have been charged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other American would ever get away with : mishandling top-secret intelligence , putting it on an outside server , clearly a violation of the Espionage Act , and obstructing justice by destroying those subpoenaed emails and destroying the email devices with a hammer .
Another example of special treatment for special ( Democratic ) people is Jesse Jackson , the so-called minister who has been conducting a shakedown operation for years .
Everybody knows that he does it—it ’ s no secret—but he is bulletproof for three reasons : one , he ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he ’ s black ; and three , the mainly Democrat press corps glorifies rather than investigates him .
As a “ minister , ” Jackson has a tax-exempt “ church ” organization to collect money .
Jackson will go to a large public company like Coca-Cola and demand a tax-deductible contribution to his church in return for not organizing a boycott against Coca-Cola products calling the company “ racist.
” His “ church , ” loaded with these kinds of protection monies , then pays Jackson a huge salary and provides him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his national mission .
This is similar to the protection rackets the mob profits from in Chicago , Jackson ’ s home .
Obama used his presidential powers to limit immigration ; separate children from their parents at the Mexican border and use tear gas to control crowds , all of which Democrats damn Trump for doing -- because he is Trump .
The national press weighs in on all these issues and writes “ shiny object ” stories against Trump and takes pictures of little children and their mothers in great distress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the exact same events occurred in the Obama administration .
Democrats appoint judges that will make political decisions rather than decisions based on the law .
I ’ m not saying that all judges appointed by Democrats do this or the ones that do , do it all the time , but it ’ s a big problem .
In June 2018 , the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court , some five judges , decided in “ Trump vs. Hawaii ” that the law was clear and unambiguous that the President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The law is so simple and clear , you can read it for yourself and don ’ t need a law degree to understand the plain language of the authority .
The Democrat minority on the Supreme Court said in effect , “ We know that the law gives the president the right to limit immigration , but we didn ’ t like what Trump said on the campaign trail and therefore we think he can ’ t limit immigration as the law provides.
” The minority opinion in “ Trump vs. Hawaii @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minority on the U.S. Supreme Court was willing to disregard the law to reach a political result .
Another example is a Ponzi scheme court hearing about defrauding investors that I was involved in .
I was the largest investor and the last person to be defrauded .
My funds were used to pay off the previous investors , some of whom had already received all of their money back .
I asked Donovan Frank , a liberal judge , to return my funds first since I put my money in last , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ previous investors that had already gotten all of their money back .
He refused my request , saying that the previous investors were small investors and they needed the money .
He said that I could afford the loss .
I realized that an appeal to his decision would be costly for me and fruitless too .
For decades the left has effected its agendas with the fine print in legislation and contracts .
Conservatives didn ’ t even know that it was happening .
For instance , public schoolteachers in Minnesota were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order to have a job , so there wasn ’ t a real need to have a restrictive covenant about the notice period required to leave the union , but there was a restrictive covenant anyway .
When the Supreme Court said this year that teachers no longer need to be in a union in order to keep their jobs , we found out that teachers were restricted about leaving the union and may quit the union only one time per year , for one week in September .
Chain migration is another @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to allow the family of a legal immigrant to join him , and so that idea became the law .
Here ’ s the problem .
Africa is still a tribal society and letting one person into the United States with the idea that all of his relatives can join him is an invitation for the entire country to be admitted .
12 .
Democrats Use K-12 Schools and Colleges to Indoctrinate the Young .
We ’ ve known for years that college professors lean left , but now they have taken over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any pretense of being politically neutral .
There are so many leftist college professors now that they make up the majority of those on the hiring and tenure committees .
In other words , the only professors who make tenure or get hired in most modern colleges are Democrats .
Students learn quickly not to question the political leanings of their professors .
My friend Bob Fulton , himself a left-leaning professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota for his whole academic career , says that there is no science in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ longer , only indoctrination .
That ’ s how far this sordid process has gone .
Leftist indoctrination of young minds is the rule in the public school system as well .
Edina , Minnesota , has been known as one of the best school districts in the state and recognized nationally for its academic excellence .
No more .
The left has taken control of the school board and the school system has re-focused its curricula away from academics to social justice issues such as racism and white privilege .
Meanwhile , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ map .
An eight-year-old granddaughter came home from the Edina , Minnesota , school telling her mom that “ she learned in school today that she should be ashamed of her white skin , and that she wishes she had black skin so that she could help those people.
” Her ten-year-old sister found a quarter on the car floor and said to her parents , “ Oh , George Washington is on the quarter !
We learned in school that he was a bad person because he had slaves.
” These two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s happening in the Edina school system , and unfortunately the indoctrination is not limited to just a few schools , but from what I can tell , widespread through the university and K-12 systems nationally .
141 students , including the three grandchildren we were talking about , left the Edina school system this academic year because of the falling academic standards and the political indoctrination of the students .
Mary , the youngest and perhaps the smartest of the three children , was going to stay in the Edina schools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teacher she was going to get the next year , but in a conference with that teacher Mary ’ s parents were confidentially advised that “ Edina is no place to have a gifted student.
” Mary left too .
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a strong supporter of private sector unions .
He felt that they leveled the playing field between the powerful owners and their workers .
He did not , however , approve of and was very much against public sector – or government -- unions because he felt if they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ organize politically and then elect the very people with whom they would be negotiating wages and benefits .
He correctly saw the huge conflict of interest that public sector bargaining would represent .
The Democratic effort to support federal public sector unions occurred with the “ Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.
” What FDR feared actually occurred .
As an example , the State of Illinois is technically bankrupt because of the overly-generous pensions garnered from weak politicians for the teachers and other Illinois public service employees .
A friend of mine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He retired at full salary and gets an automatic guaranteed 3 % increase every year and now makes substantially more in retirement than when he was a full-time government employee .
At his age he can expect to live another 20 years and get another doubling of his generous retirement benefits .
Thank you , Illinois taxpayers .
And Democrats .
I have to admire how Democrats use taxpayers ’ money to finance their elections .
In Minnesota the teachers union is by far the most powerful political force , and they only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the teachers unions .
The kids are a distant afterthought .
Public school teachers are government employees that work in government schools .
100 % of their salary , and therefore their union dues , comes from taxpayers .
All of this taxpayer money flows to teachers , then to their union , and then to the Democratic party .
Minnesota ’ s teachers union , Education Minnesota , collects about $ 57 million in dues each year .
It takes an estimated $ 37 million to run the union and therefore , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to give to left-wing PACs , hire lobbyists , knock on doors , and generally support Democrats in elections .
Add to the huge gulf in financial resources between the parties , the potential of having 55,000 teachers placing political signs in their yards and their boots on the ground , and you have a formidable political machine that has dominated Minnesota politics for decades .
“ Education Minnesota ” is not focused exclusively on collective bargaining or serving its teacher members ; it is a largely a Democratic political operation with little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There is a huge conflict of interest with teachers and other public service unions that is widely known but never talked about .
The conflict of organizing your union with taxpayer dollars , and then electing the public officials that you bargain wages and benefits with , is extreme .
In the Saint Paul school district the median teacher salary , with benefits , is $ 100,000 and the contract calls for 1,040 hours of work .
The contracted number of hours barely exceeds the Federal standard of being classed as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The 1,040 hours of work includes an hour of “ prep time ” and 1/2 hour for lunch .
But that doesn ’ t stop the teachers unions from crying that their members are underpaid and the main problem causing falling test scores is lack of funds .
Our universities have become a citadel of left-wing thought and instruction are largely financed by taxpayers , either through grants from states and the federal government and from taxpayer-supported student loans .
There is also a huge differential of outside campaign money coming into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 5,347,000 came into Minnesota from outside sources .
Democrats received 82 % of that and Republicans 18 % .
Democrats say that Republicans are the party of the rich .
It has been a long time since that was true .
But with their fleecing of the taxpayers , Democrats have the vast advantage in money to use on elections .
In 2016 , Hillary outspent Trump by a factor of 2 to 1 .
In contrast to Democrats , Republicans are paupers .
At the start of the 2018 political season @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 750,000 in debt from the last election .
In the 2018 race for Senate , Amy Klobuchar , the Democrat , raised $ 10,500,000 , receiving $ 7,430,000 from sources outside of the state .
Her Republican opponent raised $ 257,000 .
Ilhan Omar , a Democrat , raised $ 1,000,000 for her successful run for Minnesota ’ s 5th congressional district .
Her Republican challenger raised just $ 23,000 .
Republicans have no comparable source of funds as the taxpayer-financed Democrats and as a result Democrats vastly outspend Republicans in all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ retired businessman who began from humble origins to become a highly successful investor and captain of industry .
He embodies the American dream having earned his way to becoming the president and chairman of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad and Kaiser Steel .
He is one of the leaders of the economic revolution that has made America the envy of the world , and also the target of resentful and spiteful leftists who want to destroy it .
Previous Chapters : Part I , CLICK HERE .
Part 2 , CLICK HERE .
Part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , CLICK HERE .

Editors’ note: Below is Part 5 of a new essay written by Bruce Hendry: Democrats, Progressives and Socialists. Stay tuned for the ensuing chapters. [See links to previous chapters below this article].
10. The U.S. Census.
The U.S. census is held every 10 years in order to count people, not citizens, and to then allocate congressional seats based on the count.
There are at least 22 million legal non-citizens and 12 million illegal immigrants in our country or 10.4% of our population of 330 million. They are all non-citizens who will be counted in the census for the purpose of reallocating the 435 U.S. House seats. This means that 34 U.S. congressional seats will be attributed to non-citizens. Minnesota, by comparison, gets just eight congressional seats.
This system of counting helps sanctuary states like California gain more congressional seats than if only citizens were counted because of their large illegal alien populations. No wonder California treats their illegal immigrants with such respect, as those illegals get them additional congressional house seats and all of the power and Federal money that comes along with those seats.
At different times in our past, a question on citizenship has been included on the census, but when the Commerce Department announced plans to ask that question on the 2020 census it brought a storm of left-wing protests and lawsuits from New York State and California to stop that question from being asked.
There are some — even many — people, like me, however, who think that non-citizens should not be represented in the United States Congress, and states that encourage illegal entry into our country should not be the beneficiary of federal largess for them.
11. Democrats Abuse the Justice System.
Justice in America is supposed to be blind with no tipping of its scales. Everybody is supposed to be treated equally. That’s the theory, but not the practice. Prominent Democrats regularly get special treatment, which puts them “above the law.”
Of the many examples that a figure like Hillary Clinton provides, I choose the recent example of the congressional subpoena she received, requesting her e-mail records as Secretary of State. After she received the subpoena, she erased 33,000 e-mails, then bleach-bit (erased) the hard drives and hammered the devices into junk. In all likelihood, the information on her private server was government business, which is a felony; destroying government property (the e-mails) is another felony; and destroying subpoenaed information is yet another felony. Moreover, transferring classified emails to a non-government, non-secure server, which she did, is a violation of the Espionage Act.
Anyone with a brain in her head would conclude that she destroyed those e-mails because of the connection between her government position and money “contributed” to the Clinton Foundation. In one documented incident, Hillary shepherded the approval of Russia’s purchase of a 20% interest in United States Uranium Mining Company. Later, a “donation” of $145 million went to the Clinton Foundation by the very same Russians that got approval to buy the Uranium investment. It’s called “pay for play.” Or bribery.
The FBI was sent to investigate Hillary, but then deposed her without putting her under oath, or videotaping the deposition. This means that she can’t be prosecuted for lying as she could’ve been if she lied under oath or simply lied to the FBI. That doesn’t happen to ordinary people. For instance, famed TV personality Martha Stewart went to prison, not for any deed, but for lying under oath. Ditto General Flynn, who had the misfortune to work for a Republican White House.
The investigation of Hillary was started in the FBI field office and for the first time in FBI history, according to Wayne Kaufmann, an FBI agent friend of mine, the investigation was pulled up to the main office in Washington that is staffed by political appointees. Not surprisingly, the Washington office found that Hillary might have been careless, but did nothing to constitute a criminal offense. It turns out that the Clinton memo exonerating her was written before the “investigation” was actually started.
Hillary Clinton should have been charged. She got away with things no other American would ever get away with: mishandling top-secret intelligence, putting it on an outside server, clearly a violation of the Espionage Act, and obstructing justice by destroying those subpoenaed emails and destroying the email devices with a hammer.
Another example of special treatment for special (Democratic) people is Jesse Jackson, the so-called minister who has been conducting a shakedown operation for years. Everybody knows that he does it—it’s no secret—but he is bulletproof for three reasons: one, he’s a prominent Democrat; two, he’s black; and three, the mainly Democrat press corps glorifies rather than investigates him.
As a “minister,” Jackson has a tax-exempt “church” organization to collect money. Jackson will go to a large public company like Coca-Cola and demand a tax-deductible contribution to his church in return for not organizing a boycott against Coca-Cola products calling the company “racist.” His “church,” loaded with these kinds of protection monies, then pays Jackson a huge salary and provides him with a private jet to carry out his national mission. This is similar to the protection rackets the mob profits from in Chicago, Jackson’s home.
Obama used his presidential powers to limit immigration; separate children from their parents at the Mexican border and use tear gas to control crowds, all of which Democrats damn Trump for doing — because he is Trump. The national press weighs in on all these issues and writes “shiny object” stories against Trump and takes pictures of little children and their mothers in great distress. They did no such coverage when the exact same events occurred in the Obama administration.
Democrats appoint judges that will make political decisions rather than decisions based on the law. I’m not saying that all judges appointed by Democrats do this or the ones that do, do it all the time, but it’s a big problem.
In June 2018, the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court, some five judges, decided in “Trump vs. Hawaii” that the law was clear and unambiguous that the President has the right to limit immigration. The law is so simple and clear, you can read it for yourself and don’t need a law degree to understand the plain language of the authority.
The Democrat minority on the Supreme Court said in effect, “We know that the law gives the president the right to limit immigration, but we didn’t like what Trump said on the campaign trail and therefore we think he can’t limit immigration as the law provides.” The minority opinion in “Trump vs. Hawaii “ is frightening because the entire Democratic minority on the U.S. Supreme Court was willing to disregard the law to reach a political result.
Another example is a Ponzi scheme court hearing about defrauding investors that I was involved in. I was the largest investor and the last person to be defrauded. My funds were used to pay off the previous investors, some of whom had already received all of their money back. I asked Donovan Frank, a liberal judge, to return my funds first since I put my money in last, or at least not to pay the previous investors that had already gotten all of their money back. He refused my request, saying that the previous investors were small investors and they needed the money. He said that I could afford the loss. I realized that an appeal to his decision would be costly for me and fruitless too.
For decades the left has effected its agendas with the fine print in legislation and contracts. Conservatives didn’t even know that it was happening. For instance, public schoolteachers in Minnesota were required to belong to a union in order to have a job, so there wasn’t a real need to have a restrictive covenant about the notice period required to leave the union, but there was a restrictive covenant anyway.
When the Supreme Court said this year that teachers no longer need to be in a union in order to keep their jobs, we found out that teachers were restricted about leaving the union and may quit the union only one time per year, for one week in September.
Chain migration is another example. It sounds reasonable and fair to allow the family of a legal immigrant to join him, and so that idea became the law. Here’s the problem. Africa is still a tribal society and letting one person into the United States with the idea that all of his relatives can join him is an invitation for the entire country to be admitted.
12. Democrats Use K-12 Schools and Colleges to Indoctrinate the Young.
We’ve known for years that college professors lean left, but now they have taken over the universities and colleges and have dropped any pretense of being politically neutral. There are so many leftist college professors now that they make up the majority of those on the hiring and tenure committees. In other words, the only professors who make tenure or get hired in most modern colleges are Democrats. Students learn quickly not to question the political leanings of their professors. My friend Bob Fulton, himself a left-leaning professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota for his whole academic career, says that there is no science in the social science departments at the University any longer, only indoctrination. That’s how far this sordid process has gone.
Leftist indoctrination of young minds is the rule in the public school system as well. Edina, Minnesota, has been known as one of the best school districts in the state and recognized nationally for its academic excellence. No more. The left has taken control of the school board and the school system has re-focused its curricula away from academics to social justice issues such as racism and white privilege. Meanwhile, its academic standards have fallen off the map.
An eight-year-old granddaughter came home from the Edina, Minnesota, school telling her mom that “ she learned in school today that she should be ashamed of her white skin, and that she wishes she had black skin so that she could help those people.” Her ten-year-old sister found a quarter on the car floor and said to her parents, “Oh, George Washington is on the quarter! We learned in school that he was a bad person because he had slaves.” These two stories just scratch the surface of what’s happening in the Edina school system, and unfortunately the indoctrination is not limited to just a few schools, but from what I can tell, widespread through the university and K-12 systems nationally.
141 students, including the three grandchildren we were talking about, left the Edina school system this academic year because of the falling academic standards and the political indoctrination of the students. Mary, the youngest and perhaps the smartest of the three children, was going to stay in the Edina schools one more year because of the outstanding teacher she was going to get the next year, but in a conference with that teacher Mary’s parents were confidentially advised that “Edina is no place to have a gifted student.” Mary left too.
13. Taxpayer Funding of Democrats.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a strong supporter of private sector unions. He felt that they leveled the playing field between the powerful owners and their workers. He did not, however, approve of and was very much against public sector – or government — unions because he felt if they were allowed to form, they would organize politically and then elect the very people with whom they would be negotiating wages and benefits. He correctly saw the huge conflict of interest that public sector bargaining would represent.
The Democratic effort to support federal public sector unions occurred with the “Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.” What FDR feared actually occurred. As an example, the State of Illinois is technically bankrupt because of the overly-generous pensions garnered from weak politicians for the teachers and other Illinois public service employees. A friend of mine is a former Cook County Prosecutor. He retired at full salary and gets an automatic guaranteed 3% increase every year and now makes substantially more in retirement than when he was a full-time government employee. At his age he can expect to live another 20 years and get another doubling of his generous retirement benefits. Thank you, Illinois taxpayers. And Democrats.
I have to admire how Democrats use taxpayers’ money to finance their elections. In Minnesota the teachers union is by far the most powerful political force, and they only support Democrats. Democrats in turn support the teachers unions. The kids are a distant afterthought.
Public school teachers are government employees that work in government schools. 100% of their salary, and therefore their union dues, comes from taxpayers. All of this taxpayer money flows to teachers, then to their union, and then to the Democratic party.
Minnesota’s teachers union, Education Minnesota, collects about $57 million in dues each year. It takes an estimated $37 million to run the union and therefore, the remaining $20 million is available to give to left-wing PACs, hire lobbyists, knock on doors, and generally support Democrats in elections. Add to the huge gulf in financial resources between the parties, the potential of having 55,000 teachers placing political signs in their yards and their boots on the ground, and you have a formidable political machine that has dominated Minnesota politics for decades.
“Education Minnesota” is not focused exclusively on collective bargaining or serving its teacher members; it is a largely a Democratic political operation with little daylight between the union and the Party.
There is a huge conflict of interest with teachers and other public service unions that is widely known but never talked about. The conflict of organizing your union with taxpayer dollars, and then electing the public officials that you bargain wages and benefits with, is extreme. In the Saint Paul school district the median teacher salary, with benefits, is $100,000 and the contract calls for 1,040 hours of work. The contracted number of hours barely exceeds the Federal standard of being classed as a part-time worker at 1,000 hours per year. The 1,040 hours of work includes an hour of “prep time” and 1/2 hour for lunch. But that doesn’t stop the teachers unions from crying that their members are underpaid and the main problem causing falling test scores is lack of funds.
Our universities have become a citadel of left-wing thought and instruction are largely financed by taxpayers, either through grants from states and the federal government and from taxpayer-supported student loans.
There is also a huge differential of outside campaign money coming into Minnesota. In the 2016 election, $5,347,000 came into Minnesota from outside sources. Democrats received 82% of that and Republicans 18%. Democrats say that Republicans are the party of the rich. It has been a long time since that was true. But with their fleecing of the taxpayers, Democrats have the vast advantage in money to use on elections. In 2016, Hillary outspent Trump by a factor of 2 to 1. In contrast to Democrats, Republicans are paupers. At the start of the 2018 political season, Minnesota’s Republican Party was $750,000 in debt from the last election.
In the 2018 race for Senate, Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat, raised $10,500,000, receiving $7,430,000 from sources outside of the state. Her Republican opponent raised $257,000. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, raised $1,000,000 for her successful run for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district. Her Republican challenger raised just $23,000.
Republicans have no comparable source of funds as the taxpayer-financed Democrats and as a result Democrats vastly outspend Republicans in all Minnesota elections.
Bruce Hendry is a retired businessman who began from humble origins to become a highly successful investor and captain of industry. He embodies the American dream having earned his way to becoming the president and chairman of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad and Kaiser Steel. He is one of the leaders of the economic revolution that has made America the envy of the world, and also the target of resentful and spiteful leftists who want to destroy it.
Previous Chapters:
Part I, CLICK HERE.
Part 2, CLICK HERE.
Part 3, CLICK HERE.
Part 4, CLICK HERE.


thelibertydaily--2020-03-10--Barbarians are Storming the Gates, But Europeans Still Won’t Pull in the Welcome Mat From Muslim Inv

Barbarians are Storming the Gates, But Europeans Still Won’t Pull in the Welcome Mat From Muslim Invaders

In 1683 a massive army of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to the Christian city of Vienna .
After two months , an allied force that consisted of men from all over the Holy Roman Empire and from other central European states , including Hungary , and that was led by John III Sobieski , the King of Poland and Lithuania , turned the Ottoman soldiers back , preventing the potential Islamization of the continent .
In recent days , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , president of the Ottoman Empire ’ s successor state , Turkey , has unleashed thousands of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ age , upon the European Union , today ’ s not-so-holy but increasingly imperial reincarnation of the Holy Roman Empire .
More specifically , Erdogan , in violation of an agreement with the EU that netted him billions , has allowed – and encouraged – these people , who have been routinely described in the Western media as “ refugees ” and “ migrants , ” to storm the border separating his country from the EU ’ s southeasternmost satrapy , Greece .
Indeed , he ’ s lent them active support , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the border , which they ’ ve attacked with rocks , “ makeshift battering rams , ” and tear-gas canisters ( supplied by Ergodan ) while setting fires and shouting “ Allahu akbar !
” Photos taken at the border underscore just how perverse it is to call these thugs “ refugees ” or “ migrants.
” Seems like old times .
What ’ s different this time around is that whereas seventeenth-century Europeans understood that they were confronting , in the Islamic invaders of their day , an existential threat to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their descendants don ’ t seem to have a clue about what they ’ re dealing with .
On Tuesday of last week , and again on Saturday , thousands of Germans , rallying in Berlin and other cities , demanded that the “ migrants ” on the Greek borders be allowed to pour into the continent and to find their way to Germany , if they wish , so that they can help form “ a solidarity society ” in which there will be “ no more suffering.
” The youth division @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Party sent out a similar message , calling on Europeans to “ Open your hearts – and your borders ” and let the hustling hordes “ come here and become part of our society.
” In the Swedish cities of Gothenburg ( last Wednesday ) and Stockholm ( Friday ) , crowds gathered in support of open borders ; the latter demo was organized by the group Feminist Initiative , which , in a show of goodwill , has apparently decided to overlook the tendency of Muslim male arrivals to treat their own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like sex dolls .
It was only five years ago that German chancellor Angela Merkel made the fateful decision to allow into her country tens of thousands of Muslims who were said to be Syrian refugees .
Then as now , the Western world ’ s mainstream media distributed images of suffering women and children ( not a few of which were staged ) .
Ultimately , it turned out that the overwhelming majority of the “ migrants ” were not Syrian families fleeing war but , yes , young males of military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Nonetheless Merkel ’ s action was applauded by many of her country ’ s citizens , who , desperate as ever to prove that they aren ’ t Nazis , gathered at railroad stations to welcome these aspiring malefactors and welfare recipients with hugs and kisses .
One consequence of Merkel ’ s irresponsible move was that upwards of a thousand German women were sexually assaulted by their colorful and exotic new countrymen while celebrating New Year ’ s Eve 2015-16 in the central squares of Cologne and several other major cities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but hardly a brand-new phenomenon in a continent where the last few decades of Muslim immigration have led to an ever-rising incidence of violent crimes and to drastic funding cuts in everything from education to health care in order to feed , clothe , and house the restive , and not especially appreciative , denizens of ever-expanding sharia enclaves .
A few of the would-be conquerors who are charging the Greek border are indeed Syrians .
But most , as an article in the British Metro acknowledged last Friday , are from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ( Plus Pakistan , Bangladesh , etc . )
Have Europeans forgotten the lessons of the 2015 debacle ?
Well , some of them obviously never learned them in the first place : the CUF ’ s chairperson , Ida Alterå , who is all of 22 years old , has reportedly expressed the view “ that the main problem of the 2015 migrant crisis was that Europe did not let enough migrants in.
” Stephen Erlanger of the New York Times , who is presumably somewhat older than Ms. Alterå , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he called “ the mismanaged chaos of the 2015 influx of migrants and refugees.
” While stating that that inundation “ produced horrible pictures of dead children , masses of unregistered people wandering the roads , political divisions and a significant boost to far-right populism across the Continent , ” Erlanger avoided mentioning that the tide of immigrants also led to countless rapes and other weighty challenges to European freedom and security .
Some European leaders have taken these challenges seriously by acting to protect their nations , but here ’ s how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Viktor Orban in Hungary to Matteo Salvini in Italy and the Alternative for Germany party have profited from the chaos of 2015 and the influx of more than a million people , mostly Muslim .
The populists have vowed loudly to defend European and national borders , and identity.
” So it is that responsible attempts by leaders to protect their own citizens are reduced to cynical , self-serving , and probably racist political moves .
As for the Greek government , it ’ s doing its best to push back the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no choice .
Greece is an economic basket case and has already been overrun with more Muslims than it can ever hope to handle .
As Patrick Strickland admitted last week in a long report on the border crisis for the New York Review of Books ( NYRB ) , Greece – which at first reacted with hospitality to the arrival of Muslim masses on its shores – has long since become a “ refugee warehouse ” in which the residents of some islands are outnumbered by the needy and raucous newcomers .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ savaging Greece for trying to save itself .
Amnesty International has accused Greece of violating EU and international law by putting an emergency one-month hold on accepting new asylum applications .
The UN High Commissioner on Refugees adds that Greece is in breach of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees .
Human Rights Watch ( HRW ) , maintaining that there ’ s “ no legal basis or justification ” for Greece ’ s stance , has called on the EU to “ respond with compassion to the arrival of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their dignity and humanity at the center of its response.
” And Edouard Rodier of the Norwegian Refugee Council has urged European countries to take in the Muslims : “ Europe needs to take responsibility for what is happening now at its external borders .
It can not suspend people ’ s right to seek asylum.
” A few questions .
If the governments of Europe are obliged “ to take responsibility for ” foreigners – most of whom , frankly , are healthy-looking young males – what responsibility do those governments have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the elderly , the infirm , the women who are already scared to walk the streets at night , and the girls who are the same age as Britain ’ s grooming-gang victims ?
If the Muslims at the Greek border have a “ right to seek asylum , ” exactly what rights do the taxpayers of Europe have ?
Do they deserve the “ compassion ” to which HRW refers ?
Why should the “ dignity and humanity ” of Muslims from other continents trump the “ dignity and humanity ” of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this decades-long Islamic tsunami will it be acceptable for the people of Europe to say “ enough ” without being called bigots ?
Strickland , in his NYRB piece , introduced us to two men , “ twenty-five-year-old Omar al-Daloo and thirty-year-old Saber al-Kolak , ” whom he met at a Greek migrant camp .
Both were from the Gaza strip ; both had left home with the goal of reaching “ Germany or somewhere else in Western Europe ” ; and both “ have wives and children at home , and hope @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reunification.
” Strickland was plainly out to gin up reader sympathy for these gents and their kinfolk .
But they ’ re not refugees .
They have absolutely no right of asylum in Europe .
They ’ re economic migrants , plain and simple , who seek to exploit the present situation in order to relocate their broods to welfare states that already are diverting too much taxpayer money to pay for the upkeep of alien freeloaders .
The irony here is that the countries Omar and Saber are eager to fleece have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gaza , money that was intended to relieve poverty and that has instead been used for a range of other purposes , all of them nefarious .
“ With everyone living on top of one another ” at the Greek refugee camp , reported Strickland , “ fights over food and water distribution and spots in the morning queue to see the doctor ” have become “ a daily reality.
” Note to Strickland : people live “ on top of one another ” in a great many cities around the world without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before Strickland ’ s visit to the camp , “ some Palestinians and Somalis had clashed after a minor disagreement , over exactly what no one could recall .
There were threats , stones thrown , knives pulled out , and several men ended up being carted off to the hospital.
” Yes , by all means let ’ s throw open the gates of Europe for these delightful folks .
In a report published last Thursday , Marie Jégo outdid Strickland in the sob-sister department , waxing poetic about the “ haggard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the people she encountered at a migrant camp in northwestern Turkey .
“ Distraught , demoralized , they no longer know where to go….Their most ardent dream , to live a dignified and peaceful life under the European sky , was shattered.
” Jégo ’ s piece appeared in Le Monde , the most prominent newspaper in France , where millions of Frenchmen can no longer lead “ a dignified and peaceful life ” because their rulers , without ever consulting them , have set their country on the path to becoming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day that Jégo ’ s article appeared , a writer for the Swedish daily Aftonbladet also engaged in a bit of hand-wringing : “ Who will take responsibility for these people ’ s lives and freedoms ?
” Let ’ s turn that question around : why is the welfare of everybody from everywhere on the planet the responsibility of Europeans ?
The Aftonbladet writer called it “ absurd ” to suggest that “ Sweden has no more room ” for migrants – this in a nation that ’ s on the brink @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the huge number of Muslim immigrants it ’ s taken in .
Not to be outdone , Turkey ’ s deputy foreign minister , Yavuz Selim Kiran , sent out a tweet on Saturday in which he compared Greece ’ s treatment of “ innocent migrants crossing the border ” to the incineration of Jews at Auschwitz .
Yesterday , Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was scheduled to meet Angela Merkel in Berlin .
Meanwhile Erdogan was headed for Brussels to butt heads with officials of the EU , which disclosed yesterday that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children currently living in Greek migrant camps .
Is there any good news here ?
Just this : while Western European politicians , activists , and commentators keep virtue signaling , the leaders of the Visegrad countries – Czechia , Hungary , Poland , and Slovakia – have affirmed their readiness to help Greece guard its borders .
On Sunday , Cyprus announced it would pitch in as well .
At least one weekend report indicated that the EU , too , is prepared to take action on behalf of Greece ; if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point .
In any event , how appropriate is it people from pretty much the same places whose inhabitants defended Vienna in 1683 are standing with Greece in the year 2020 ?
Somewhere up there , one likes to imagine , John III Sobieski is smiling .

In 1683 a massive army of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to the Christian city of Vienna. After two months, an allied force that consisted of men from all over the Holy Roman Empire and from other central European states, including Hungary, and that was led by John III Sobieski, the King of Poland and Lithuania, turned the Ottoman soldiers back, preventing the potential Islamization of the continent.
In recent days, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of the Ottoman Empire’s successor state, Turkey, has unleashed thousands of Muslims, mostly young males of military age, upon the European Union, today’s not-so-holy but increasingly imperial reincarnation of the Holy Roman Empire. More specifically, Erdogan, in violation of an agreement with the EU that netted him billions, has allowed – and encouraged – these people, who have been routinely described in the Western media as “refugees” and “migrants,” to storm the border separating his country from the EU’s southeasternmost satrapy, Greece. Indeed, he’s lent them active support, providing many of them with free transport to the border, which they’ve attacked with rocks, “makeshift battering rams,” and tear-gas canisters (supplied by Ergodan) while setting fires and shouting “Allahu akbar!” Photos taken at the border underscore just how perverse it is to call these thugs “refugees” or “migrants.”
Seems like old times. What’s different this time around is that whereas seventeenth-century Europeans understood that they were confronting, in the Islamic invaders of their day, an existential threat to their way of life, many of their descendants don’t seem to have a clue about what they’re dealing with. On Tuesday of last week, and again on Saturday, thousands of Germans, rallying in Berlin and other cities, demanded that the “migrants” on the Greek borders be allowed to pour into the continent and to find their way to Germany, if they wish, so that they can help form “a solidarity society” in which there will be “no more suffering.”
The youth division (CUF) of the Swedish Center Party sent out a similar message, calling on Europeans to “Open your hearts – and your borders” and let the hustling hordes “come here and become part of our society.” In the Swedish cities of Gothenburg (last Wednesday) and Stockholm (Friday), crowds gathered in support of open borders; the latter demo was organized by the group Feminist Initiative, which, in a show of goodwill, has apparently decided to overlook the tendency of Muslim male arrivals to treat their own wives like chattel and treat Swedish women like sex dolls.
It was only five years ago that German chancellor Angela Merkel made the fateful decision to allow into her country tens of thousands of Muslims who were said to be Syrian refugees. Then as now, the Western world’s mainstream media distributed images of suffering women and children (not a few of which were staged). Ultimately, it turned out that the overwhelming majority of the “migrants” were not Syrian families fleeing war but, yes, young males of military age from all over the Muslim world. Nonetheless Merkel’s action was applauded by many of her country’s citizens, who, desperate as ever to prove that they aren’t Nazis, gathered at railroad stations to welcome these aspiring malefactors and welfare recipients with hugs and kisses.
One consequence of Merkel’s irresponsible move was that upwards of a thousand German women were sexually assaulted by their colorful and exotic new countrymen while celebrating New Year’s Eve 2015-16 in the central squares of Cologne and several other major cities. That was a particularly tough night, but hardly a brand-new phenomenon in a continent where the last few decades of Muslim immigration have led to an ever-rising incidence of violent crimes and to drastic funding cuts in everything from education to health care in order to feed, clothe, and house the restive, and not especially appreciative, denizens of ever-expanding sharia enclaves.
A few of the would-be conquerors who are charging the Greek border are indeed Syrians. But most, as an article in the British Metro acknowledged last Friday, are from “other Middle Eastern states and Afghanistan.” (Plus Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.) Have Europeans forgotten the lessons of the 2015 debacle? Well, some of them obviously never learned them in the first place: the CUF’s chairperson, Ida Alterå, who is all of 22 years old, has reportedly expressed the view “that the main problem of the 2015 migrant crisis was that Europe did not let enough migrants in.”
Stephen Erlanger of the New York Times, who is presumably somewhat older than Ms. Alterå, had an equally fatuous take on what he called “the mismanaged chaos of the 2015 influx of migrants and refugees.” While stating that that inundation “produced horrible pictures of dead children, masses of unregistered people wandering the roads, political divisions and a significant boost to far-right populism across the Continent,” Erlanger avoided mentioning that the tide of immigrants also led to countless rapes and other weighty challenges to European freedom and security.
Some European leaders have taken these challenges seriously by acting to protect their nations, but here’s how Erlanger characterized their moves: “populists from Viktor Orban in Hungary to Matteo Salvini in Italy and the Alternative for Germany party have profited from the chaos of 2015 and the influx of more than a million people, mostly Muslim. The populists have vowed loudly to defend European and national borders, and identity.” So it is that responsible attempts by leaders to protect their own citizens are reduced to cynical, self-serving, and probably racist political moves.
As for the Greek government, it’s doing its best to push back the barbarians at its gates. It has no choice. Greece is an economic basket case and has already been overrun with more Muslims than it can ever hope to handle. As Patrick Strickland admitted last week in a long report on the border crisis for the New York Review of Books (NYRB), Greece – which at first reacted with hospitality to the arrival of Muslim masses on its shores – has long since become a “refugee warehouse” in which the residents of some islands are outnumbered by the needy and raucous newcomers.
Nonetheless, all the usual suspects are savaging Greece for trying to save itself. Amnesty International has accused Greece of violating EU and international law by putting an emergency one-month hold on accepting new asylum applications. The UN High Commissioner on Refugees adds that Greece is in breach of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Human Rights Watch (HRW), maintaining that there’s “no legal basis or justification” for Greece’s stance, has called on the EU to “respond with compassion to the arrival of people fleeing conflict and persecution by putting their dignity and humanity at the center of its response.” And Edouard Rodier of the Norwegian Refugee Council has urged European countries to take in the Muslims: “Europe needs to take responsibility for what is happening now at its external borders. It cannot suspend people’s right to seek asylum.”
A few questions. If the governments of Europe are obliged “to take responsibility for” foreigners – most of whom, frankly, are healthy-looking young males – what responsibility do those governments have to their own citizens – among them the elderly, the infirm, the women who are already scared to walk the streets at night, and the girls who are the same age as Britain’s grooming-gang victims? If the Muslims at the Greek border have a “right to seek asylum,” exactly what rights do the taxpayers of Europe have? Do they deserve the “compassion” to which HRW refers? Why should the “dignity and humanity” of Muslims from other continents trump the “dignity and humanity” of native Europeans? At what point in this decades-long Islamic tsunami will it be acceptable for the people of Europe to say “enough” without being called bigots?
Strickland, in his NYRB piece, introduced us to two men, “twenty-five-year-old Omar al-Daloo and thirty-year-old Saber al-Kolak,” whom he met at a Greek migrant camp. Both were from the Gaza strip; both had left home with the goal of reaching “Germany or somewhere else in Western Europe”; and both “have wives and children at home, and hope that obtaining asylum will afford them family reunification.”
Strickland was plainly out to gin up reader sympathy for these gents and their kinfolk. But they’re not refugees. They have absolutely no right of asylum in Europe. They’re economic migrants, plain and simple, who seek to exploit the present situation in order to relocate their broods to welfare states that already are diverting too much taxpayer money to pay for the upkeep of alien freeloaders. The irony here is that the countries Omar and Saber are eager to fleece have already poured untold sums into their native Gaza, money that was intended to relieve poverty and that has instead been used for a range of other purposes, all of them nefarious.
“With everyone living on top of one another” at the Greek refugee camp, reported Strickland, “fights over food and water distribution and spots in the morning queue to see the doctor” have become “a daily reality.” Note to Strickland: people live “on top of one another” in a great many cities around the world without constantly resorting to violence. A day before Strickland’s visit to the camp, “some Palestinians and Somalis had clashed after a minor disagreement, over exactly what no one could recall. There were threats, stones thrown, knives pulled out, and several men ended up being carted off to the hospital.” Yes, by all means let’s throw open the gates of Europe for these delightful folks.
In a report published last Thursday, Marie Jégo outdid Strickland in the sob-sister department, waxing poetic about the “haggard eyes” and “drawn features” of the people she encountered at a migrant camp in northwestern Turkey. “Distraught, demoralized, they no longer know where to go….Their most ardent dream, to live a dignified and peaceful life under the European sky, was shattered.” Jégo’s piece appeared in Le Monde, the most prominent newspaper in France, where millions of Frenchmen can no longer lead “a dignified and peaceful life” because their rulers, without ever consulting them, have set their country on the path to becoming an Islamic dystopia.
On the same day that Jégo’s article appeared, a writer for the Swedish daily Aftonbladet also engaged in a bit of hand-wringing: “Who will take responsibility for these people’s lives and freedoms?” Let’s turn that question around: why is the welfare of everybody from everywhere on the planet the responsibility of Europeans? The Aftonbladet writer called it “absurd” to suggest that “Sweden has no more room” for migrants – this in a nation that’s on the brink of social and economic collapse because of the huge number of Muslim immigrants it’s taken in.
Not to be outdone, Turkey’s deputy foreign minister, Yavuz Selim Kiran, sent out a tweet on Saturday in which he compared Greece’s treatment of “innocent migrants crossing the border” to the incineration of Jews at Auschwitz. Yesterday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was scheduled to meet Angela Merkel in Berlin. Meanwhile Erdogan was headed for Brussels to butt heads with officials of the EU, which disclosed yesterday that it might take in 1,000 to 1,500 children currently living in Greek migrant camps.
Is there any good news here? Just this: while Western European politicians, activists, and commentators keep virtue signaling, the leaders of the Visegrad countries – Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – have affirmed their readiness to help Greece guard its borders. On Sunday, Cyprus announced it would pitch in as well. At least one weekend report indicated that the EU, too, is prepared to take action on behalf of Greece; if true, this might mark a turning point. In any event, how appropriate is it people from pretty much the same places whose inhabitants defended Vienna in 1683 are standing with Greece in the year 2020? Somewhere up there, one likes to imagine, John III Sobieski is smiling.


thelibertydaily--2020-03-10--Chi-Com Dictator Xi Jinping Makes First Visit to Wuhan Since Virus Outbreak

Chinese leader Xi Jinping outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing , China on Aug. 31 , 2017 .
( Jason Lee/Reuters ) Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Makes First Visit to Wuhan Since Virus Outbreak BEIJING—Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Wuhan , the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak , on March 10 , marking the first time he has done so since the epidemic began late last year .
During his trip to Wuhan , he will “ visit and express regards to medical workers , military officers and soldiers , community workers , police officers , officials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the epidemic on the front line , as well as patients and residents during the inspection , ” state news agency Xinhua said .
His arrival in the city at the epicenter of the outbreak came as a surprise to many as there had been no previous announcement .
State-media Hubei Daily reported on Tuesday that Hubei province , of which Wuhan is the capital , is studying plans to allow people in areas at a medium or low risk of contracting the coronavirus to start traveling , citing a meeting chaired by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ying Yong .
The meeting said people may be permitted to start traveling by using a mobile-based tracking technology rolled out by many local authorities in China in recent weeks .
Meanwhile , the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) has directed officials across the country to ramp up propaganda efforts portraying the authorities ’ efforts to contain the virus in a positive light , The Epoch Times has learned from an internal government document .
The central government recently declared 113 medical teams and 506 medical staffers as “ model citizens ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
At the same time , internet censors continue to aggressively monitor and delete social media posts critical of the regime .
With state-owned media hyping up news that it is outperforming other countries in containing the virus , and that the spread of the virus in China has greatly slowed in the past week—including the claim that over the last three days , there have been no new locally transmitted coronavirus cases outside of Hubei—the regime has managed to convince some Chinese citizens to return from other virus-hit countries like South Korea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state-owned media has had dedicated news coverage highlighting the fact that these infected travelers returning from overseas hot spots , such as Iran , Italy , and South Korea now present a risk to China because they ’ re importing the virus .
Meanwhile , non-official channels , like social media posts that have yet to be censored , show a growing number of netizens from different Chinese provinces claiming that their cities have begun a second round of quarantine measures , with stricter rules .
On Saturday , a small hotel used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fujian province collapsed , killing at least 20 , while 10 are still missing .
Of the 71 people inside the hotel in Quanzhou city at the time of the collapse , 58 were in under quarantine , the Quanzhou city government said .

BEIJING—Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, on March 10, marking the first time he has done so since the epidemic began late last year.
During his trip to Wuhan, he will "visit and express regards to medical workers, military officers and soldiers, community workers, police officers, officials, and volunteers who have been fighting the epidemic on the front line, as well as patients and residents during the inspection," state news agency Xinhua said.
His arrival in the city at the epicenter of the outbreak came as a surprise to many as there had been no previous announcement.
State-media Hubei Daily reported on Tuesday that Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, is studying plans to allow people in areas at a medium or low risk of contracting the coronavirus to start traveling, citing a meeting chaired by the province's party chief, Ying Yong.
The meeting said people may be permitted to start traveling but will be monitored using mobile-based tracking technology that was rolled out by many local authorities in China in recent weeks.
Visitors are filmed by artificial intelligence security cameras using facial recognition technology at an international security expo at the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing on Oct. 24, 2018. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has directed officials across the country to ramp up propaganda efforts portraying the authorities' efforts to contain the virus in a positive light, The Epoch Times has learned from an internal government document.
The central government recently declared 113 medical teams and 506 medical staffers as “model citizens” for their participation in the outbreak response. At the same time, internet censors continue to aggressively monitor and delete social media posts critical of the regime.
With state-owned media hyping up news that it is outperforming other countries in containing the virus, and that the spread of the virus in China has greatly slowed in the past week—including the claim that over the last three days, there have been no new locally transmitted coronavirus cases outside of Hubei—the regime has managed to convince some Chinese citizens to return from other virus-hit countries like South Korea.
At the same time, the state-owned media has had dedicated news coverage highlighting the fact that these infected travelers returning from overseas hot spots, such as Iran, Italy, and South Korea now present a risk to China because they're importing the virus.
Meanwhile, non-official channels, like social media posts that have yet to be censored, show a growing number of netizens from different Chinese provinces claiming that their cities have begun a second round of quarantine measures, with stricter rules.
Rescue workers are seen on the site where a hotel being used for the novel coronavirus quarantine collapsed in the southeast Chinese port city of Quanzhou, Fujian province, China on March 7, 2020. (CNS Photo via Reuters)
On Saturday, a small hotel used to quarantine people under observation in southern Fujian province collapsed, killing at least 20, while 10 are still missing.
Of the 71 people inside the hotel in Quanzhou city at the time of the collapse, 58 were in under quarantine, the Quanzhou city government said.


thelibertydaily--2020-03-10--Investors Prepare to Ride Resumed Economic Boom After Coronavirus Fears Subside

Twitter is panicking about the market crash .
Many in mainstream media are screaming doom and gloom ahead .
But investors on Wall Street and business owners around the country are seeing real opportunity on the horizon .
Why ?
Because they realize the panic-driven market crash is a temporary setback that will reverse shortly and take the economy on the ride of our lifetimes .
Economic policies usually drive conditions on Wall Street , which is why we have been on such a sustained growth trend for so long .
It started following the crash of 2008 when there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up .
It was managed through the Obama administration thanks in large part to Republicans taking control of the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014 .
But once President Trump took office and Capitol Hill passed tax reform less than a year later , the good economic times were destined .
All good things come an end , which is why financial prognosticators have been anticipating an economic downturn for two years .
But it didn ’ t come .
The economy continued to grow .
The jobs market flourished .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ why the downturn never came , but they were clever enough to keep riding despite efforts by mainstream media to turn things around for the worse .
Then , the coronavirus happened .
In recent weeks it has sparked panic by consumers as well as investors .
At least , that ’ s what we ’ re being told .
But both narratives are manufactured for effect .
The panic by consumers who are clearing shelves of toilet paper isn ’ t actually a coronavirus panic but a panic… panic .
In other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up on toilet paper are doing so because other people are stocking up on toilet paper .
They are less concerned about the coronavirus killing off masses of people and more concerned that masses of people are going to take all of the toilet paper .
As for investors panicking , this is also a false narrative .
They ’ re not panicking , they ’ re taking a long-overdue breather while anticipating the money they ’ re going to make when the rebound starts .
Think of it like a big crash @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the crash and investors are all pulling into the pit stops .
But when the green flag flies , which should happen very soon , they ’ ll zoom out of the economic pit stop with full tanks of gas , new tires , and windshields cleared .
Investors are licking their chops as they see the coming market boom .
They ’ re planning their purchases and preparing to ride the wave that will start before the coronavirus scare subsides .
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Twitter is panicking about the market crash. Many in mainstream media are screaming doom and gloom ahead. But investors on Wall Street and business owners around the country are seeing real opportunity on the horizon. Why? Because they realize the panic-driven market crash is a temporary setback that will reverse shortly and take the economy on the ride of our lifetimes.
Economic policies usually drive conditions on Wall Street, which is why we have been on such a sustained growth trend for so long. It started following the crash of 2008 when there was really no place to go but up. It was managed through the Obama administration thanks in large part to Republicans taking control of the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014. But once President Trump took office and Capitol Hill passed tax reform less than a year later, the good economic times were destined.
All good things come an end, which is why financial prognosticators have been anticipating an economic downturn for two years. But it didn’t come. The economy continued to grow. The jobs market flourished. Wall Street didn’t quite understand why the downturn never came, but they were clever enough to keep riding despite efforts by mainstream media to turn things around for the worse.
Then, the coronavirus happened. In recent weeks it has sparked panic by consumers as well as investors. At least, that’s what we’re being told. But both narratives are manufactured for effect. The panic by consumers who are clearing shelves of toilet paper isn’t actually a coronavirus panic but a panic… panic. In other words, most people who are stocking up on toilet paper are doing so because other people are stocking up on toilet paper. They are less concerned about the coronavirus killing off masses of people and more concerned that masses of people are going to take all of the toilet paper.
As for investors panicking, this is also a false narrative. They’re not panicking, they’re taking a long-overdue breather while anticipating the money they’re going to make when the rebound starts. Think of it like a big crash at a NASCAR race. The coronavirus is the crash and investors are all pulling into the pit stops. But when the green flag flies, which should happen very soon, they’ll zoom out of the economic pit stop with full tanks of gas, new tires, and windshields cleared.
Investors are licking their chops as they see the coming market boom. They’re planning their purchases and preparing to ride the wave that will start before the coronavirus scare subsides. With toilet paper selling out, is it time to buy Procter & Gamble?
Investors are licking their chops as they see the coming market boom. They’re planning their purchases and preparing to ride the wave that will start before the coronavirus scare subsides. With toilet paper selling out, is it time to buy Procter & Gamble? https://t.co/QxxJ1oM9jg — JD Rucker (@JDRucker) March 10, 2020
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thelibertydaily--2020-03-10--Trump Derangement Syndrome Stops Democrats From Uniting the Country to Stop Spread of Coronavirus

Following 9/11 , the two parties came together to fight for Americans against our common foe .
The same thing happened in 2008 when both John McCain and Barack Obama paused their presidential campaigns to work together and stop the financial meltdown that threatened the global economy .
Throughout our history as a nation , opposing political sides joined forces to stop major threats to the nation .
Those days are gone .
Today , we ’ re irredeemably polarized politically .
Neither side does anything that can not score them political points , cause damage to the other side @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both sides for this , but let ’ s be clear about how it started .
Democrats are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome .
They will continue to suffer from this until 2024 .
It has dominated their thoughts for four years and it will continue to dominate their thoughts for another four years .
Some would argue that President Trump and the Republicans have done the same thing in isolating themselves from the Democrats , but I would counter by noting that the President pushed for bipartisanship from the beginning , only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the last year or so since they made it clear they were unwilling to do anything that could possibly benefit him in any way .
Lest we forget , he tried on multiple occasions to reach across the aisle and put deals together for the sake of America .
From embracing Chuck Schumer ’ s stance on trade with China to banning bump stocks to criminal justice reform to embracing the Democrats ’ infrastructure plan , the President used to try to work with them .
Heck , one of the reasons I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beginning was because I thought he was doing too much to reach across the aisle .
Today , that ’ s impossible , and it ’ s currently hurting the President in light of the coronavirus outbreak .
But that political pain is temporary and in many ways it ’ s setting him up for election day gold as prospects of an economic rebound are already taking shape .
When the coronavirus is contained and the stock market skyrockets back upward , Democrats are going to realize they made a terrible mistake by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is actually a tremendous opportunity for Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to stand side-by-side with President Trump and declare that Washington DC as a whole is working together to stop this problem , overblown as it may be .
President Trump would embrace the gesture instantly and the American people would cheer .
But they can ’ t .
Pelosi , Schumer , and the rest of their ilk are too dominated in thought and feelings by Trump Derangement Syndrome that the concept of pausing their various coup attempts is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kelly and The Blaze ‘ s Steve Burguiere discussed the lack of bipartisanship , bias in mainstream media , and the Democrats ’ desire to harm President Trump superseding doing anything that would actually help America .
The coronavirus represents a huge potential win for Democrats if they ’ d work to unify DC in the fight against it .
But it ’ s not good enough for them or America to win if President Trump isn ’ t hurt by it as well .
Their foolishness is their downfall .
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Following 9/11, the two parties came together to fight for Americans against our common foe. The same thing happened in 2008 when both John McCain and Barack Obama paused their presidential campaigns to work together and stop the financial meltdown that threatened the global economy. Throughout our history as a nation, opposing political sides joined forces to stop major threats to the nation. Those days are gone.
Today, we’re irredeemably polarized politically. Neither side does anything that cannot score them political points, cause damage to the other side, or both. We can blame both sides for this, but let’s be clear about how it started. Democrats are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. They will continue to suffer from this until 2024. It has dominated their thoughts for four years and it will continue to dominate their thoughts for another four years.
Some would argue that President Trump and the Republicans have done the same thing in isolating themselves from the Democrats, but I would counter by noting that the President pushed for bipartisanship from the beginning, only changing tunes against working with Democrats over the last year or so since they made it clear they were unwilling to do anything that could possibly benefit him in any way.
Lest we forget, he tried on multiple occasions to reach across the aisle and put deals together for the sake of America. From embracing Chuck Schumer’s stance on trade with China to banning bump stocks to criminal justice reform to embracing the Democrats’ infrastructure plan, the President used to try to work with them. Heck, one of the reasons I was skeptical of his presidency in the beginning was because I thought he was doing too much to reach across the aisle.
Today, that’s impossible, and it’s currently hurting the President in light of the coronavirus outbreak. But that political pain is temporary and in many ways it’s setting him up for election day gold as prospects of an economic rebound are already taking shape. When the coronavirus is contained and the stock market skyrockets back upward, Democrats are going to realize they made a terrible mistake by not embracing bipartisanship to tackle the coronavirus.
This is actually a tremendous opportunity for Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to stand side-by-side with President Trump and declare that Washington DC as a whole is working together to stop this problem, overblown as it may be. President Trump would embrace the gesture instantly and the American people would cheer. But they can’t. Pelosi, Schumer, and the rest of their ilk are too dominated in thought and feelings by Trump Derangement Syndrome that the concept of pausing their various coup attempts is a nonstarter.
The First‘s Jesse Kelly and The Blaze‘s Steve Burguiere discussed the lack of bipartisanship, bias in mainstream media, and the Democrats’ desire to harm President Trump superseding doing anything that would actually help America.
The coronavirus represents a huge potential win for Democrats if they’d work to unify DC in the fight against it. But it’s not good enough for them or America to win if President Trump isn’t hurt by it as well. Their foolishness is their downfall.
The coronavirus represents a huge potential win for Democrats if they’d work to unify DC. But it’s not good enough for them to win if @realDonaldTrump isn’t hurt by it as well.@JesseKellyDC @StuDoesAmerica @TheFirstonTV @theblaze #WuhanMediaVirus https://t.co/YazLsYtN2Q — JD Rucker (@JDRucker) March 10, 2020
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thelibertydaily--2020-03-10--Breadline Bernie Asked if He Would Close the Borders to Prevent Coronavirus Pandemic; He Says ‘NO’

Senator Bernie Sanders is so desperate to rejuvenate his plummeting nomination chances that he went on Fox News to do a Town Hall .
But even a simple question , one that is at the heart of the news cycle today , found the 78-year-old socialist torn for a split second before going to his default open borders rhetoric .
Town Hall moderator Bret Baier asked , “ If you had to would you close down the borders ?
” He was referring to the coronavirus pandemic as the cause for the move .
President Trump imposed travel bans at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the Chinese , Democrats , and the World Health Organization .
All three now consider it an appropriate move .
Sanders considered the question for just enough time to be a noticeable pause .
Then , he recovered with his standard anti-Trump stump speech .
“ No .
I mean , what you don ’ t want to do right now… we have a president who has propagated xenophobic , anti-immigrant sentiment from before he was elected.
” What the President ’ s perspectives on immigration have to do with closing down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
These are two completely different circumstances .
The President ’ s desire to build a wall and slow down illegal immigration is one issue .
Dealing with the coronavirus is completely different .
But Sanders doesn ’ t make a distinction , which seems to be the general case regarding his entire ideological set .
There are no exceptions , not compromises , and no decisions based on relevant data .
All Sanders know is he likes open borders and that means open borders at all times .
President Trump ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so far , which rankles the Democrats greatly .
They have turned to manufacturing a false crisis to drive down stock markets and scare people into stocking up on toilet paper .
But this will pass even though they ’ re missing the opportunity to show bipartisanship .
Joe Biden may be a senile Manchurian Candidate for the Deep State and the Swamp , but we would hope he wouldn ’ t intentionally put people ’ s lives at risk by sticking with a failed ideology despite the facts .
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Senator Bernie Sanders is so desperate to rejuvenate his plummeting nomination chances that he went on Fox News to do a Town Hall. But even a simple question, one that is at the heart of the news cycle today, found the 78-year-old socialist torn for a split second before going to his default open borders rhetoric.
Town Hall moderator Bret Baier asked, “If you had to would you close down the borders?” He was referring to the coronavirus pandemic as the cause for the move. President Trump imposed travel bans at the beginning of last month despite objections from the Chinese, Democrats, and the World Health Organization. All three now consider it an appropriate move.
Dangerous: Bernie Sanders said that he would NOT close down the border if it become unsafe during a Sanders administration Open borders are a national health crisis Bernie would be a disaster as President We can’t let him near the White House RT!pic.twitter.com/wG6VbTrFUn — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 10, 2020
Sanders considered the question for just enough time to be a noticeable pause. Then, he recovered with his standard anti-Trump stump speech. “No. I mean, what you don’t want to do right now… we have a president who has propagated xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment from before he was elected.”
What the President’s perspectives on immigration have to do with closing down the border during an emergency is unknown. These are two completely different circumstances. The President’s desire to build a wall and slow down illegal immigration is one issue. Dealing with the coronavirus is completely different. But Sanders doesn’t make a distinction, which seems to be the general case regarding his entire ideological set. There are no exceptions, not compromises, and no decisions based on relevant data. All Sanders know is he likes open borders and that means open borders at all times.
President Trump’s reaction to the coronavirus has been spot-on so far, which rankles the Democrats greatly. They have turned to manufacturing a false crisis to drive down stock markets and scare people into stocking up on toilet paper. But this will pass even though they’re missing the opportunity to show bipartisanship.
Joe Biden may be a senile Manchurian Candidate for the Deep State and the Swamp, but we would hope he wouldn’t intentionally put people’s lives at risk by sticking with a failed ideology despite the facts. Bernie Sanders holds ideals over American lives.
Joe Biden may be a senile Manchurian Candidate for the Deep State and the Swamp, but we would hope he wouldn’t intentionally put people’s lives at risk by sticking with a failed ideology despite the facts. Bernie Sanders holds ideals over American lives. https://t.co/mtfiGSuMGi — NOQ Report (@NoqReport) March 10, 2020
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thelibertydaily--2020-03-10--Alex Rodriguez Indicates Interest in Buying the NY Mets

Alex Rodriguez danced around a question about his reported interest in buying the Mets before leaving the door open .
Host Jimmy Fallon asked the former Yankees slugger and current Fox and ESPN baseball analyst on “ The Tonight Show ” Monday if it was “ true you are interested in buying the New York Mets.
” Rodriguez went on to opine about his love for New York City and being a Mets fan growing up before giving some insight .
“ I will say this , if the opportunity [ to buy the Mets ] came up I would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
The Post reported in February that Rodriguez emerged as a potential suitor to buy the Mets and that he was “ kicking the tires ” on the idea after billionaire Steve Cohen walked away from his deal to purchase the team after issues apparently arose with the Wilpons over control of the club during the next five years .
Cohen was willing to pay $ 2.6 billion to buy 80 percent the Amazin ’ s .
If Rodriguez — who made around $ 450 million during his playing days — was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would need to put together an ownership group much like former Yankees teammate Derek Jeter did with the Marlins and Magic Johnson with the Dodgers .
Rodriguez , who flirted with playing for the Mets in 2000 , jokingly offered the opportunity to Fallon , a Yankees fan .
A-Rod ’ s fiancee Jennifer Lopez is also a known Yankees fan .
“ Maybe you can buy them with me , ” Rodriguez told Fallon .
“ I need a partner !
” The Wilpons plan to sell the Mets through an auction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investment banker Allen & Co .

Alex Rodriguez danced around a question about his reported interest in buying the Mets before leaving the door open.
Host Jimmy Fallon asked the former Yankees slugger and current Fox and ESPN baseball analyst on “The Tonight Show” Monday if it was “true you are interested in buying the New York Mets.” Rodriguez went on to opine about his love for New York City and being a Mets fan growing up before giving some insight.
“I will say this, if the opportunity [to buy the Mets] came up, I would certainly look at it,” A-Rod said.
The Post reported in February that Rodriguez emerged as a potential suitor to buy the Mets and that he was “kicking the tires” on the idea after billionaire Steve Cohen walked away from his deal to purchase the team after issues apparently arose with the Wilpons over control of the club during the next five years. Cohen was willing to pay $2.6 billion to buy 80 percent the Amazin’s.
If Rodriguez — who made around $450 million during his playing days — was going to buy the Mets, he would need to put together an ownership group much like former Yankees teammate Derek Jeter did with the Marlins and Magic Johnson with the Dodgers. Rodriguez, who flirted with playing for the Mets in 2000, jokingly offered the opportunity to Fallon, a Yankees fan. A-Rod’s fiancee, Jennifer Lopez, is also a known Yankees fan.
“Maybe you can buy them with me,” Rodriguez told Fallon. “I need a partner!”
The Wilpons plan to sell the Mets through an auction conducted by the team’s longtime investment banker Allen & Co.


thelibertydaily--2020-03-10--LIVE: Second Super Tuesday Results

LIVE: Second Super Tuesday Results

Voters in six states and Democrats living abroad are making their voices heard in the Democratic presidential primary on this second Super Tuesday .
All eyes are on Michigan , where Sen. Bernie Sanders ( I-Vt. ) enjoyed a blowout win in 2016 against Hillary Clinton .
This time around , former Vice President Joe Biden enjoys a healthy lead ahead of Bernie , according to the polls .
If Biden gives the `` democratic '' socialist a good shellacking in Michigan this evening , that might largely seal the deal .
After Biden 's strong win in the South @ @ @ @ @ @ @ endorse the former vice president .
Even 2020 primary rivals who harshly criticized the frontrunner , such as Sens .
Kamala Harris ( D-Calif. ) and Cory Booker ( D-N.J. ) have come around .
Bernie will be looking for a win tonight in order to combat the narrative of a Biden bounce — but the polls suggest he may be out of luck .
PJ Media is partnering with Decision Desk HQ to bring you live election results from Idaho , Michigan , Mississippi , Missouri , North Dakota , and Washington @ @ @ @ @ @ @ returns for all the Super Tuesday II contests and scroll down to track the number of delegates won by each of the candidates in real-time .
Polls in some states close at 8 p.m. Eastern , so expect to see some results shortly thereafter .
Reminder : Voters in some early-voting states have already cast ballots for candidates no longer in the race , so their results will appear here as well .

Voters in six states and Democrats living abroad are making their voices heard in the Democratic presidential primary on this second Super Tuesday. All eyes are on Michigan, where Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) enjoyed a blowout win in 2016 against Hillary Clinton. This time around, former Vice President Joe Biden enjoys a healthy lead ahead of Bernie, according to the polls. If Biden gives the “democratic” socialist a good shellacking in Michigan this evening, that might largely seal the deal.
After Biden’s strong win in the South Carolina primary, Democrats have flocked to endorse the former vice president. Even 2020 primary rivals who harshly criticized the frontrunner, such as Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) have come around. Bernie will be looking for a win tonight in order to combat the narrative of a Biden bounce — but the polls suggest he may be out of luck.
PJ Media is partnering with Decision Desk HQ to bring you live election results from Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, and Washington. Hover over the map to see returns for all the Super Tuesday II contests and scroll down to track the number of delegates won by each of the candidates in real-time.
Polls in some states close at 8 p.m. Eastern, so expect to see some results shortly thereafter. Reminder: Voters in some early-voting states have already cast ballots for candidates no longer in the race, so their results will appear here as well.


thelibertydaily--2020-03-10--Biden, Bernie Cancel Rallies Over Coronavirus

Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and socialist Bernie Sanders canceled rallies they had planned in Ohio tonight over fears of the coronavirus , which originated in China .
“ Out of concern for public health and safety , we are canceling tonight ’ s rally in Cleveland .
We are heeding the public warnings from Ohio state officials , who have communicated concern about holding large , indoor events during the coronavirus outbreak , ” the Sanders campaign said in a statement .
“ Sen .
Sanders would like to express his regret to the thousands of Ohioans who had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ All future Bernie 2020 events will be evaluated on a case by case basis , ” the statement concluded .
The Biden campaign announced that they would cancel their rally several minutes after the Sanders campaign announced their decision .
“ In accordance with guidance from public officials and out of an abundance of caution , our rally in Cleveland , Ohio tonight is cancelled .
We will continue to consult with public health officials and public health guidance and make announcements about future events , ” the Biden campaign said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Biden thanks all of his supporters who wanted to be with us in Cleveland this .
Additional details on where Vice President Biden will address the press tonight are forthcoming.
” The news comes as the U.S. has 955 cases of the coronavirus spread out over 36 states with at least 29 people having died from the virus .
“ Health officials in California , Oregon and Washington State have all reported incidents of the virus turning up in people with no high-risk travel history and have warned of significant community spread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ Several school districts and universities have called off classes , and officials in some places have urged residents , especially older people , to avoid large gatherings .
On Monday , officials in Santa Clara County , Calif. , where dozens have become ill with the virus and one person has died , announced a ban on large gatherings.
” The news that both campaigns had canceled their rallies comes as they prepare for primaries in six states tonight : Idaho , Michigan , Mississippi , Missouri , North Dakota and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 100 delegates and both candidates view Michigan as the crown jewel of the night as it has 125 delegates up for grabs .
The two candidates have a CNN debate on Sunday in Phoenix , Arizona , which has also involved controversy as the Sanders campaign has accused the Biden campaign of pushing for a seated debate instead of a standing debate .
Bernie Sanders ’ campaign is accusing Joe Biden of pushing for a sit-down format at the March 15 presidential primary debate in Phoenix , according to a new report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former vice president ’ s stamina and cognitive ability .
Sanders ’ team raised the alarm about the sit-down format during a Friday call with CNN , which is set to moderate the debate along with the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) , Politico reported this weekend .
All previous primary debates this cycle have required candidates to stand at podiums ; and during his one-on-one debates with Hillary Clinton in 2016 , Sanders stood alongside her .
Senior Sanders advisor Jeff Weaver responded by saying , “ Why does Joe Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sanders on the debate stage March 15 and have an opportunity to defend his record and articulate his vision for the future ?
” This is a breaking news story , refresh the page for updates .

Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and socialist Bernie Sanders canceled rallies they had planned in Ohio tonight over fears of the coronavirus, which originated in China.
“Out of concern for public health and safety, we are canceling tonight’s rally in Cleveland. We are heeding the public warnings from Ohio state officials, who have communicated concern about holding large, indoor events during the coronavirus outbreak,” the Sanders campaign said in a statement. “Sen. Sanders would like to express his regret to the thousands of Ohioans who had planned to attend the event tonight.”
“All future Bernie 2020 events will be evaluated on a case by case basis,” the statement concluded.
The Biden campaign announced that they would cancel their rally several minutes after the Sanders campaign announced their decision.
“In accordance with guidance from public officials and out of an abundance of caution, our rally in Cleveland, Ohio tonight is cancelled. We will continue to consult with public health officials and public health guidance and make announcements about future events,” the Biden campaign said. “In the coming days. Vice President Biden thanks all of his supporters who wanted to be with us in Cleveland this. Additional details on where Vice President Biden will address the press tonight are forthcoming.”
The news comes as the U.S. has 955 cases of the coronavirus spread out over 36 states with at least 29 people having died from the virus.
“Health officials in California, Oregon and Washington State have all reported incidents of the virus turning up in people with no high-risk travel history and have warned of significant community spread,” The New York Times reported. “Several school districts and universities have called off classes, and officials in some places have urged residents, especially older people, to avoid large gatherings. On Monday, officials in Santa Clara County, Calif., where dozens have become ill with the virus and one person has died, announced a ban on large gatherings.”
The news that both campaigns had canceled their rallies comes as they prepare for primaries in six states tonight: Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and Washington.
Biden leads Sanders by fewer than 100 delegates and both candidates view Michigan as the crown jewel of the night as it has 125 delegates up for grabs.
The two candidates have a CNN debate on Sunday in Phoenix, Arizona, which has also involved controversy as the Sanders campaign has accused the Biden campaign of pushing for a seated debate instead of a standing debate.
Fox News reported:
Bernie Sanders’ campaign is accusing Joe Biden of pushing for a sit-down format at the March 15 presidential primary debate in Phoenix, according to a new report that highlights mounting concerns over the 77-year-old former vice president’s stamina and cognitive ability. Sanders’ team raised the alarm about the sit-down format during a Friday call with CNN, which is set to moderate the debate along with the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Politico reported this weekend. All previous primary debates this cycle have required candidates to stand at podiums; and during his one-on-one debates with Hillary Clinton in 2016, Sanders stood alongside her.
Senior Sanders advisor Jeff Weaver responded by saying, “Why does Joe Biden not want to stand toe-to-toe with Sen. Sanders on the debate stage March 15 and have an opportunity to defend his record and articulate his vision for the future?”
This is a breaking news story, refresh the page for updates.