Morning Wire - Trump’s Twitter Is Reinstated & House GOP To Investigate Bidens | 11.21.22

Episode Date: November 21, 2022

Elon Musk reinstates former President Trump to Twitter amid a tumultuous first few weeks, the newly victorious House GOP announces plans to investigate the Bidens, and how Americans voted. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk has reinstated Donald Trump's Twitter account after the former president was exiled from the platform following January 6th. And Trump's not the only high-profile account being allowed back on. We discuss who else is back and the rumors of Twitter's imminent demise. I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Monday, November 21st, and this is Morning Wire. Fresh off winning a majority of seats in the House, the GOP has revealed some of the investigations it will launch when it takes control, and some of them target the Bidens. We have a lot of questions, and I think all witnesses should be on the table for these

investigations. What are the Republicans' plans, and how will Democrats attempt to counter them? And with the dust finally settling from the midterms, we have more info on how different groups of Americans voted this year and how it changes the political landscape. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. As inflation continues to plague our economy, how are you protecting your savings? Text wire to 9898-9-8, and Birch-Cold will send you a free info kit on diversifying into gold tax-free. With almost 20 years of experience converting IRAs and 401Ks into precious metal IRAs,

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is Daily Wire Culture reporter Megan Basham. So, Megan, this isn't exactly a surprise, but it's still a major development. Right, it is. So Twitter had banned Trump in the aftermath. of the January 6th Capitol riots, as we'll all remember. But in the run-up to taking over the platform, Elon Musk had called that a mistake. And so, by the way, did Twitter's former chief executive and founder, Jack Dorsey, even though he was ultimately the one who made the decision to de-platform Trump in the first place. So it isn't really surprising that Musk ultimately

decided to allow Trump back onto the app, but he did take some time to prepare people. So on November 2nd, after he officially took over, he tweeted that he wouldn't be reinstating any banned or suspended accounts for a few weeks once the company had what he called a clear process for doing so. And then we saw him roll that out in stages over a couple of days. On Friday, Musk announced that both Jordan Peterson and the Babylon B had been reinstated. Both of those accounts had been suspended for tweets that fell a foul of transgender activists. And that evening, Musk posted a poll asking Twitter users if Trump should be reinstated. Well, 15 million people voted and a slim majority said that he should.

That was good enough for Musk, and Trump's account was reinstated by Saturday night. So has Trump started tweeting again yet? Not yet, and whether he's going to want to is still a big question, as Trump is in something of a catch-22 when it comes to Twitter. So on the one hand, the platform was unquestionably one of his greatest weapons in building a political coalition before the 2016 election. And now that he's announced that he's seeking the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election, he's probably going to want to return to his most effective bully pulpit. But on the other hand, he is deeply invested in his own new social media platform, Truth Social. And any return to Twitter could suggest that maybe he realizes,

that that platform can't compete with Twitter in terms of reach and influence. For now, Trump seems to be choosing his business interests over his political interests. When someone asked him Saturday night about being reinstated on Twitter, he replied, and I'll quote, Twitter has a lot of problems.

It may make it, it may not make it. Well, it has sounded like Twitter is in a pretty precarious situation lately. Over the weekend, we saw some reports that a huge majority of the staff have resigned. What do we know for sure? You know, I think it's safe to say that rumors of Twitter's demise

have been pretty premature. Essentially what happened is that last week must give an ultimatum to those employees who weren't laid off that they should commit to working, I'm quoting, extremely hardcore or leave. Well, some engineers,

as well as employees in finance, user safety, and a few other key areas apparently weren't willing to commit to extremely hardcore work, and they did resign. Right now, Twitter is actually operating with about 33% of the staff it had when Musk took over. And this led to a lot of fretting online over the weekend about whether Twitter would crash or get hacked. CBS News was among them. They announced on Friday evening that they would be suspending any activity on their Twitter account out of what they called an abundance of caution over security concerns. But that concern lasted less than two days,

Sunday, the account was active again. And again, despite a drastically reduced staff, there have been no signs of operational or security problems yet. In fact, in some ways, Twitter seems to be making some significant breakthroughs in the last couple of weeks that could actually reassure advertisers that it's a good place to invest their money. To give you just one small but important example, the well-known child exploitation activist Eliza Blue has been pushing Twitter for years to police child pornography more aggressively. And she says she's already seen evidence that Musk has made key changes that are working. One thing she pointed out, thanks to beefed up community reporting systems, the three biggest hashtags used by child abusers selling child sexual abuse material on Twitter

have been virtually eliminated. That's what she was reporting. So we'll see if those kind of improvements continue. Well, that would be big news. Megan, thanks for reporting. My pleasure. That was Daily Wire Culture reporter, Megan Basham. Coming up, the House GOP announces investigations into the Bidens. In an economy as volatile as this one, it's important to have control when you're making a big purchase, like a new car. That's where MonyWire's new partners over at Carzing come into play.

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So Tim, who can expect a subpoena first from this new Republican majority in the House? Not Joe Biden, ironically. Congressman Jim Comer is the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee and will likely be its next chairman. He wants to investigate Biden's role in his family's foreign business deals, which were largely struck by Biden's son Hunter and brother James. Comer said last week that Hunter is already in the crosshairs. President Biden, though, is not. Subpoenaing a sitting president would start battles over executive privilege, that Comer doesn't want to fight right now.

But Comer says the investigation needs to go forward in the interest of U.S. national security. South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace sits on the Oversight Committee. Aside from the president, she says the committee is open-minded about potential targets. I think anybody is on the table right now.

I would love to see the FBI come in to the Oversight Committee or judiciary and tell us why they told media to bury the story. That's a start. I would like to see some of Hunter Biden's business partners come in and talk about the big guy and his involvement. What did it mean when they gave keys to the office to Joe Biden and others, including

folks aligned with the Communist Party of China? What other investigations are Republicans working on? Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan is expected to chair the Judiciary Committee next year. He has his own plans for investigations, which will in part focus on the suppression of stories about Hunter Biden's laptop prior to the 2020 election. We're going to try to help Representative Kulmer and the team here at Oversight with our work on judiciary, but with a specific focus on what the FBI was doing. A colleague of mine said, when is the FBI going to quit interfering with elections?

In 2016, they spite on President Trump's campaign. 2018, it was the Mueller investigation. 2020, they suppressed information about the Hunter Biden story. In 2022, they're ridden to president's home 91 days before an election. All right, so how will the White House and Democrats fight this? What can they do about these investigations? Well, as the minority party, there's limited action they can take from inside Congress. It looks like Democrats will most rely on outside Democratic groups, such as the Congressional Integrity Project and Facts First USA.

Both of those groups and others are funded by Democrat donors to serve as attack dogs for the party. The Congressional Integrity Project was dormant for the first two years of Biden's presidency, but Democratic operatives plan to resurrect it to, as CIP Executive Director Kyle Herrick put it, investigate the investigators. They'll fight back against Republican investigations by conducting opposition research into the lawmakers themselves. Well, we'll see if any Republicans are intimidated by that. Tim, thanks for reporting. That was DailyWire's Tim Pierce.

Following the midterm elections, new information is shining a light on how Americans voted by gender, race, and age, and where each party picked up and lost support. Here to discuss is DailyWire senior editor Cabot Phillips. Cabot, we're starting to get a better idea of what happened on Election Day. Tell us what we've learned about voting trends. Well, a number of large outlets conducted massive exit surveys. on Election Day, profiling tens of thousands of Americans about who they voted for and why. And it's giving us a better idea of how Democrats were able to pull off that surprisingly strong showing. For example, the Associated Press surveyed 115,000 registered voters, and the results

were fascinating. So let's start with Republicans. Where do they perform best? First off, suburban white women, who looked like they were becoming a solid blue voting block after going for Democrats by four and then five points to the last two cycles, swung back for Republicans on election day by a seven point margin. That is very important moving forward from an electoral standpoint. Another positive sign that really surprised a lot of people was Republican performance with black voters, especially younger ones. In 2020, black voters aged 18 to 44, went for Democrats by a 76 point margin. This year, it was cut down to a 54 point margin. All right, so more than a 20 point drop off there. Yeah. Now, Republicans got 23% this cycle,

which doesn't sound great on its face, but that's more than, double what they've seen the last few cycles and definitely a positive trend that bodes well. We also saw a 10-point swing towards Republicans among Hispanic voters as well, with Republicans pulling in 41 percent. And finally, from a population standpoint, Republicans once again dominated and less densely populated more rural districts across the country. They won 92 percent of rural House seats. Now, not surprisingly, Democrats had the same kind of success in more densely populated urban areas. They won 92 percent of those seats. So it really is the country versus the city there.

Now, let's get to the Democrats beyond urban areas. Where did they have the most success? Even though turnout among Gen Z and millennials was surprisingly low in early voting, on election day, over a quarter of 18 to 29-year-olds showed up. That is the second highest youth turnout for any midterm on record. That's according to Tufts University. And according to exit polls, Democrats won that demographic by a 28-point margin. No other age group saw more than a 12-point margin among the parties.

So young people really turned out for Democrats. They did, and they really could have saved some races for the Democrat Party. Now, another interesting nugget in the data is how voters swung based on their own economic situation. So among those who say that they're better off now than they were two years ago, Democrats held a 75 to 23 advantage. They also got 73 percent of voters who said that their economic situation was about the same as 2020.

But among the roughly 50 percent of Americans who say their situation was worse off this year, Republicans dominated 79 to 19. There was also an interesting breakdown between married versus unmarried voters. Tell us about that. Yeah, so this one was fascinating. According to a CNN exit poll of almost 20,000 voters, the GOP won married women by 14 points. They won married men by 20 points. And Republicans also won among unmarried men by seven points.

But get this, among unmarried women, Democrats won by 37 points. seven and ten unmarried women went for Democrats on election day. So more than enough to offset the Republican advantage among married voters. Fascinating and potentially game-changing stuff there. Cabot, thanks for reporting. That's Daily Wire's senior editor, Cabot Phillips. Another story we're tracking this week. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel on Friday to oversee two investigations into former President Trump.

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