Lauren Boebert’s Attempted District Swap Not Going as Planned

by | Jan 23, 2024 | Aggregate

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) is a conservative firebrand with a very respectable session score of 84% on the Heritage Action scorecard. But despite her national profile, Boebert has never had an easy general election and her margin of victory has dwindled.

She said her recent decision to change districts from the Colorado 3rd to a district more than a hundred miles away from her residence was motivated by uncertainty surrounding her chances at re-election.

Unfortunately for Boebert, the anger and confusion created by her district swap is resulting in that same uncertainty rearing its head in the Colorado 4th District as Boebert faces a tough primary fight on the Colorado front range. In addition to constant attacks from the mainstream media about her personal life she faces a tough primary foe in Trent Liesy, a Navy veteran with deep ties to the district and the organizer of pro-Trump convoy rallies in the aftermath of a ruling that removed President Trump from the ballot in the state.

It remains to be seen how Boebert will be embraced by a district she’s unfamiliar with but many former supporters in her old district have spoken out against the congresswoman.

In a scathing Facebook post Savannah Wolfson, a former volunteer of Boebert blasted the congresswoman for abandoning the district saying “I’ve watched her lose the grassroots support in her district and ditch the district altogether instead of listening to us.”

“She is our Jamal Bowman,” Wolfson added. Because “she hurts us and humiliates us, then snubs any criticism while pretending to feel sorry.”

Wolfson also claims Boebert’s “new campaign manager reports directly to Ronna Romney McDaniel and the RNC.”

Drew Sexton, who worked for the RNC before joining Boebert’s team as Campaign Manager, has so far declined to comment to a Gateway Pundit request for comment.

Despite the gripes against Boebert it will be hard to defeat the rising star. She’s already picked up a major endorsement from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R- LA) who issued a statement saying he would “fully support her campaign:”

She has stayed true to her conservative principles and fought to produce real results for Colorado, from defending energy producers to increasing critical resources for our veterans and supporting rural ranchers and farmers. I am proud to endorse and fully support her campaign for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District because we need fighters like Lauren Boebert in Congress.

Her opponent Trent Leisy disagreed with that assessment.

“Lauren Boebert has switched to a district on the complete opposite side of the state” Leisy told The Gateway Pundit. “A district that I am running as the America First candidate in. Colorado needs as many pro-Trump fighters as possible. Sadly, Lauren has proven that she’s not a fighter by giving up the fight to keep her district red,” he added.

Trent Leisy and President Trump

Like in any modern Republican primary contest, the “X factor” will be the Trump endorsement, which hasn’t happened for Leisy or Boebert yet.

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Unelected House of Lords Imposes Defeat To British PM Sunak, Approves Motion Calling for Delay in His Plan To Deport Illegal Migrants to Rwanda

by | Jan 23, 2024 | Aggregate

The never-ending ‘Rwanda Plan’ British soap opera had another dramatic chapter yesterday.

The unelected House of Lords, the upper chamber of Parliament, imposed a political defeat to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in his pledge to start flying the illegal migrants to Africa in a couple of months.

Reuters reported:

“British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a setback to his plans to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda after parliament’s upper house backed a largely symbolic motion to delay ratification of a treaty aimed at overcoming a legal block.

Under the Rwanda plan, which has yet to be carried out, asylum seekers who arrive on England’s southern coast in small, inflatable boats would be sent to Rwanda.”

To clarify the legal and political quagmire: the UK’s Supreme Court ruled the original Rwanda Plan to be unlawful over safety concerns for the migrants once they arrive in Rwanda.

To overcome the judicial decision, Britain signed a treaty last year with Rwanda detailing safety measures to be undertaken to protect the migrants.

Now, the government is trying approve legislation in parliament to block legal challenges to the deportation plan.

Sunak has approved the bill on the House of Commons, and now fights the unelected Lords to get the plan to the final line before the upcoming General Elections.

Ministers could ignore the Lords’ motion, but the approval by 214 votes to 171 is a clear sign of the scale of opposition to the legislation in the upper chamber.

“Peter Goldsmith, an attorney general under former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who laid the motion, said before the vote it was the first time that lawmakers in the Lords had used parliamentary powers to vote to halt the ratification of a treaty.

Sunak has said he wants the first deportation flights to leave in the next few months – ahead of a general election expected in the second half of this year – so he can meet one of his five pledges to ‘stop the boats’.”

The House of Lords is expected to start debating the bill at the end of January.

“The Lords are likely to add make amendments to the legislation and could in extreme circumstances delay the bill for a year, which would mean it could not be passed until after the next election.”

This non-binding motion is the first vote of its kind, calling for the UK-Rwanda treaty to be delayed until Kigali improves its asylum procedures.

BBC reported:

“Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron urged his fellow peers to back the bill. ‘It’s not acceptable to have people travelling from a perfectly safe country – France – to another safe country – Britain – and to be able to stay, and that’s what the Rwanda plan is all about’, he said.”

Sunak has already applied political pressure on the Lords, calling on them not to block the ‘will of the people’ by voting down the bill.

“The UK-Rwanda Treaty forms a central plank of the government’s plan to deter migrants from crossing the Channel in small boats.

The treaty was drafted in response to the Supreme Court ruling that the Rwanda policy is unlawful.

Home Secretary James Cleverly signed the new legally binding treaty in Kigali, which he said would ensure people relocated to Rwanda are not at risk of being returned to a country where their life or freedom would be threatened – a process known as non-refoulement.”

Read more:

UK’s Rishi Sunak Quells Tory Rebellion as MPs Approve His Plan To Send Migrants to Rwanda – Bill Now Faces Stiff Opposition in the House of Lords

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Speaker Johnson Says He Confronted Biden to His Face About the Border: ‘Do Your Job’

by | Jan 23, 2024 | Aggregate

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana says he directly confronted President Joe Biden about the border crisis and told him in no uncertain terms, “Do your job.”

Johnson appeared on the Fox News show “The Ingraham Angle” on Wednesday and was asked about how Democrats seem unwilling to go to the nation’s southern border to witness the conditions there firsthand.

The speaker also was asked if he would succumb to pressure to accept the Democrats’ plans for the border.

“No one is strong-arming me. I told the president — I looked right across the table from him in the Cabinet officials’ room and I said, ‘Mr. President, you have the authority right now to end this catastrophe. It’s your actions that created it,’” Johnson said.

He said he presented Biden with 64 documented instances of actions by his administration that led directly to the border crisis.

The speaker said the ball is really in the president’s court and no new laws are needed to solve the problem — Biden needs to start enforcing the laws we already have.

“I’ve cited to him — read him the legal authority on the phone on Thursday of last week that he could take,” Johnson said of the president.

He went on to say that Biden insisted he was ready to do “big things” about the border crisis.

“Well, Hallelujah. Mr. President — President Biden, do your job. Fix the catastrophe that you’ve created,” the speaker said. “It’s an unspeakable humanitarian catastrophe. A national security catastrophe.”

Host Laura Ingraham asked Johnson if a bill being prepared by Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford includes a wave of new green cards and amnesty for illegals and a provision to limit expulsions of illegals, as reports have indicated.

Langford has said such reports are false.

For his part, Johnson said we all must wait to see the text of Langford’s bill before commenting.

“I’m hopeful that they’ll [in the Senate] come up with something meaningful,” he said.

The speaker noted the House has passed legislation — House Bill 2 — introduced by Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida last year.

“But what I have said from the very beginning is that we have to have HR 2 or the functional equivalent thereof,” Johnson told Ingraham.

“It has very important provisions. We reform asylum and the broken parole process. We restore the Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico‘ policy, which is essential. And you end catch-and-release,” he added.

“We need to rebuild the wall. There are other elements as well, but some of those are essential to stop the flow,” the speaker said.

It is unclear just how many “big things” the president is prepared to do on the border. According to the New York Post, Biden has admitted that there is a problem there but has refused to take the blame for creating the crisis.

“No, it’s not,” Biden said when asked if the border was secure. But he then appeared to blame Republicans for the issue, adding, “I haven’t believed that for the last 10 years, and I’ve said it for the last 10 years. Give me the money.”

Still, many in his administration, his Cabinet members and agency heads, have denied that the border is out of control.

During a 2019 Democrat presidential primary debate, Biden himself said, “I would in fact make sure that there is — we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum, they deserve to be heard, that’s who we are. We’re a nation that says if you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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