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With the Democratic National Convention six weeks away, an expanding number of the party’s lawmakers is calling for President Joe Biden to step aside as questions swirl about the commander in chief’s mental and physical ability to fulfill the duties of the most powerful office in the world. The Washington Post reported Monday that nine House Democrats had called for Biden to exit the presidential race as of Sunday, with the latest including Reps. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., Adam Smith, D-W.A., Mark Takano, D-Calif., and Joseph Morelle, D-N.Y. Eighteen other top Democrats have raised concerns publicly about Biden’s capacity to serve as president, including Reps. James Clyburn, D-S.C., Nancy Pelosi D-Calif., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif. Also speaking up were Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., as well as Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey. In coming days, the number of lawmakers within the president’s own party to join the list is expected to climb, with Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., reportedly planning to lead a discussion on the topic this week, although some reports say that meeting may not happen. Prominent Democratic strategists are calling for the party to look past Biden in November. Former Bill Clinton strategist James Carville penned a New York Times op-ed on Monday demanding that Barack Obama and Clinton host town hall-style events as a precursor to nominating a new presidential ticket at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. During CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, liberal political commentator Van Jones remarked: “I think people are hoping that [Biden] will recognize we’re running Kamala Harris for president right now. That’s who we’re running.” In response to deteriorating support within the Democratic Party, Biden has remained defiant. During Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, the president called in and stated: “The bottom line here is we’re not going anywhere. I’m not going anywhere.” Biden then declared, “If any of these guys don’t think I should run, run against me. Go ahead, announce for president. Challenge me at the convention.” During a sit-down interview Friday with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the president proclaimed that only divine intervention would compel him to quit the presidential race. “If the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race,’ I’d get out of the race. The Lord Almighty’s not coming down,” Biden said. Meanwhile, reports continued about the White House’s effort to keep details on Biden’s health under wraps. White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor publicly has given the president nothing but clean bills of health since the beginning of his term in January 2021. O’Connor declared in February that Biden is “a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.” But it has since come to light that O’Connor was personally involved with the Biden family’s business ventures, having helped to secure $600,000 in 2017 for the president’s younger brother, James, through a deal with Americore, a rural hospital corporation. House investigators later found that $200,000 of the deal wound up in Biden’s bank account under a check from his brother labeled as a loan repayment. In addition, after The New York Times requested official White House visitor logs, it discovered that an “expert on Parkinson’s disease from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, including at least once for a meeting with President Biden’s physician,” O’Connor. During the July 5 episode of “This Week on the Hill,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, reiterated his call for the president to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment due to his apparent cognitive decline. “[A]ll of us take no great joy in recognizing what is very clear for everybody, unfortunately in the entire world now, is that our current president does not have his faculties and cannot, I think, carry out the powers and duties of the office,” Roy said, adding: That is why the 25th Amendment exists. I believe it is incumbent upon us to recognize that and to pursue protection of our own country with 200 days at a minimum remaining in President Biden’s administration. He carries the nuclear codes. He makes decisions about our safety and security. He is the commander in chief. He is the one negotiating with [other] countries. He’s engaging in Ukraine and … with Russia and China [and] in the Middle East and Iran and Israel. He’s making terrible decisions about Israel right now. He is very clearly diminished. Roy went on to assert that former President Donald Trump’s chances of being elected in November likely will be unaffected if Vice President Kamala Harris takes the reins as commander in chief. “I think President Trump would be equally or even stronger against … Kamala Harris, even if she were to be put in place,” Roy said. “And more importantly, we have a constitutional duty to make sure that we don’t have a president who is undermining our national security while he has no faculties there.” Originally published by The Washington Stand The post Democrats’ Support for Biden Crumbles appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. EU’s law enforcement agency Europol is another major entity that is setting its sights on breaking encryption. This time, it’s about home routing and mobile encryption, and the justification is a well-known one: encryption supposedly stands in the way of the ability of law enforcement to investigate. The overall rationale is that police and other agencies face serious challenges in doing their job (an argument repeatedly proven as false) and that destroying the internet’s currently best available security feature for all users – encryption – is the way to solve the problem. Europol’s recent paper treats home routing not as a useful security feature, but, as “a serious challenge for lawful interception.” Home routing works by encrypting data from a phone through the home network while roaming. We obtained a copy of the paper for you here. Europol appears to want to operate on trust: the agency “swears” it needs access to this protected traffic simply to catch criminals. And if the feature was gone, then ISPs and Europol could have smooth access to traffic. But if the past decade or so has taught law-abiding citizens anything, it is how, given the right tools, massive government and transnational organizations “seamlessly” slip from lawful to unlawful conduct, and secretive mass surveillance. Not to mention that tampering with encryption – in this instance available in home routing as a part of the privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) – in security and privacy terms, means opening a can of worms. It turns out, as ever, that agencies like Europol actually do have other mechanisms to go after criminals, some more controversial than others: one is “voluntary cooperation” by providers outside the EU (in which case Europol has to disclose information about “persons of interest” using foreign phone cards with other countries) as well as issuing an EIO – European Investigation Order. But that barely compares to breaking encryption, in terms of setting up the infrastructure for effective mass surveillance. Europol’s complaint about the available procedures naturally doesn’t mention any of that – instead, they talk about “slow EIO replies” that hinder “urgent investigations.” Europol presents two solutions to the home routing encryption “problem”: One, disable PET in home routing. The second is a cross-border mechanism inside the EU where “interception requests are quickly processed by service providers.” If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Europol Seeks to Break Mobile Roaming Encryption appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Mike Benz, a free speech advocate and former State Department official, said there is still hope for free speech on MRC UnCensored.  MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider spoke with Benz about the devastating impact of the Murthy v. Missouri decision on free speech. In its final decision, the Court refused to stop the U.S. government from inappropriately asking that Big Tech companies do what it cannot–censor Americans. But Benz was undaunted by the Murphy results, telling Schneider, “I’ve not given up hope in any way on the case, even though this hearing, this result is not what we would have wanted. I think the most damaging aspect of it is the time sensitivity in light of the election.” Benz offered a myriad of ways that Americans can fight back against censorship and Big Tech collusion with the government.  “A lot of our work in terms of taking on the censorship industry can be done with or without whatever the Supreme Court’s current ruling is,” Benz said. He suggested that free speech advocates could work on "[c]reating civil lines of action as the states of Florida and Texas have done, creating pressure to be able to pry these censorship mercenaries off their institutions, using the legislative power to be able to hold hearings and investigations and subpoenas and essentially raising the cost of doing the censorship business.” Benz also argued that the Murthy decision would not be the end of the matter, suggesting that the Supreme Court would ultimately have to revisit the issue. The majority opinion for the Supreme Court’s Murthy decision, published on June 26, greatly impacts victims of government-coerced censorship as it largely eliminated their ability to get court injunctions against future government targeting.  The Court did not, however, eliminate censorship victims’ ability to gain retroactive relief, such as receiving monetary compensation from the specific bureaucrats who colluded with tech firms to silence their voices  Benz told Schneider that the ruling “[g]ives us an opportunity” as this case or future cases suing the federal government retroactively make their way through the courts. Free speech advocates and journalists can “actually provide that firepower so that a much stronger case can be brought when the merits are reached on the case,” he said. “I actually do think at that time, the evidence will be so overwhelming that we may be actually able to get a win on the merits,” Benz added. The former State Department official also bashed the “whole of society framework” used by the federal government, describing it as the government acting as the “quarterback” of a censorship team of civil society organizations, fact-checking organizations and media outlets.  Earlier in the discussion, Schneider pointed out an awful example of this collaborative work between the government and the private sector, blasting the Department of Homeland Security over its abuse of the Targeted Violence & Terrorism Prevention Grant Program (TVTP). Schneider noted that TVTP “was using our tax dollars, supposed to be used catching terrorists and instead was training people on how to infiltrate the Heritage Foundation, and Prager University and the Trump campaign with our tax dollars.” He added, “the State Department working with the US Embassy in Germany in Würzburg to train U.S. teachers on how to propagandize kids–in what you and I know as media literacy and then how the Homeland Security Department–then supercharged that effort to bring that training across classrooms all over America.”  In this case, the State Department advanced its censorship program by showing trainees how to bring propaganda tools from leftist “media literacy” groups Ad Fontes and NewsGuard into American classrooms. MRC Free Speech not only exposed this abuse, but had earlier successfully pushed for a provision prohibiting the Department of Defense from working with groups like NewsGuard or Ad Fontes which was signed by President Joe Biden. Conservatives are under attack! Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency on WEF partnerships, clarity on so-called hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

CNN data expert Harry Enten has dismantled one of the Biden campaign's top narratives about election polls. For almost the entirety of the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump has maintained a narrow lead over President Joe Biden in general election polls. The president's campaign has tried to explain away the polls by claiming they underestimate Biden's support and thus cannot be trusted. '... you have to go all the way back to the end of the 20th century, beginning of the 21st century, to find a Republican ahead at this point. Twenty-four years!' "Polling continues to be at odds with how Americans vote and consistently overestimates Donald Trump while underestimating President Biden," the Biden campaign claimed earlier this year. On Monday, Enten faced that narrative head-on and used data to prove that, in fact, the opposite is true. The data that Enten cited showed that, at this time in the 2020 election cycle, Biden had a nine-point advantage over Trump. But when the votes were counted on Election Day, Biden won the national vote by a much smaller margin than polls had predicted, indicating that Trump's support had been significantly underestimated. "The idea that the polls underestimated Joe Biden last time around, simply put, does not hold any water," Enten said. — (@) The principle of polls under-sampling Trump support is not a phenomenon limited to the 2020 election, according to Enten. "Last time around, Donald Trump actually did better in the results than his July polls by five points. You go back to 2016, you see something very similar. That is the July polls actually underestimated Donald Trump. He outperformed his July polls," he said. "So the idea in the Trump era that the polls have underestimated Democrats — whether it be in a Joe Biden matchup, whether it be a matchup against Hillary Clinton, whether it be in the midterms ... simply put, is not true," he explained. Not only is the Biden campaign's narrative not true, but Trump is accomplishing something unusual. The fact that Trump is leading his Democratic opponent indicates his strength, according to Enten, because it has been a quarter-century since a Republican presidential candidate led a Democrat in July. "Go all the way back: Who led in early July polls? Well, right now, Donald Trump is ahead. Go back in 2020, a Democrat, Biden. In 2016, Hillary Clinton, a Democrat — 2008, 2012, a Democrat. Even in 2004, where George W. Bush ended up winning, John Kerry was actually ahead in the polls at this point," Enten explained. "You have to go all the way back to 2000 to George W. Bush being ahead in the early July polls — you have to go all the way back to the end of the 20th century, beginning of the 21st century, to find a Republican ahead at this point. Twenty-four years!" — (@) Despite his bad polling and a growing number of Democrats calling on him to drop out of the presidential race, Biden vowed Monday that he will not step aside."I want you to know that despite all the speculation in the press and elsewhere, I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Trump," Biden told congressional Democrats in a letter. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!