The Daily Signal - Trump Wins New Hampshire, Oregon Mulls Pulling Back From Drug Decriminalization | Jan. 24

Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm Brian Gottstein, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, January 24th. Here are today's headlines. Former President Donald Trump defeated former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. Trump's victory in New Hampshire follows last week's blowout win in the Iowa caucuses. In Iowa, the 45th president won with more than 50% of the vote in a four-way race that also included Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Ohio entrepreneur. Vivek Ramoswamy. Both have since withdrawn from the race and endorsed Trump. At just past midnight early Wednesday morning, with 89% of the precincts reporting, Trump had 54.8% of the vote and Haley had 43.7, according to Decision Desk HQ.

Starting point is 00:01:01 He had over 162,000 votes to her nearly 130,000. Both Trump and President Joe Biden declared this the beginning of the general election. The race is over the Trump campaign emailed out following the New Hampshire win. According to the Associated Press, Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said that the results out of New Hampshire confirm that Donald Trump has all but locked up the GOP nomination and the election denying anti-freedom MAGA movement has completed its takeover of the Republican Party. Haley was insistent that she would stay in the race and take the Republican nomination.

Starting point is 00:01:41 This race is far from over, Haley said to supporters after her New Hampshire defeat. I'm a fighter and I'm scrappy and now we're the last one standing next to Donald Trump. The next Republican primary vote takes place in her home state of South Carolina where Trump holds a commanding lead in the polls. Democratic legislators in Oregon announced a new bill that would reverse much of the state's decriminalization of drugs. This follows the passage of a measure in 2020 that decriminalized, hard drugs. There's been widespread public backlash as a result of the exploding fentanyl crisis and the rise of deaths related to drug use. The state has also experienced a sharp increase in crime since 2020. According to the Associated Press, the new legislation would recriminalize

Starting point is 00:02:30 the possession of small amounts of drugs and categorize the crime as a misdemeanor. According to the current version of the legislation, possession of drugs for personal use would be punishable by up to 30 days in jail or at $1,250 fine. The bill would also make it easier to prosecute drug dealers. Senator Ted Cruz is raising the alarm about President Joe Biden's administration partnering with a far-left group that demonizes conservatives in the name of combating domestic terrorism. This is according to a report by the Daily Signal's own, Tyler O'Neill. In his statement to the Daily Signal, Cruz said,

Starting point is 00:03:08 the woke and weaponized bureaucracy of the Biden administration is using the Southern Poverty Law Center's widely debunked database to target conservatives. The Texas Republican was responding to the Daily Signal's exclusive report that SPLC President Margaret Huang bragged in 2021 that the Biden administration had reached out to her organization in its efforts to combat, quote, the domestic terrorism threat. The Southern Poverty Law Center puts mainstream conservative and Christian groups on what it calls a hate map alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC is a one-trick pony, and its song and dance of labeling conservatives' domestic terrorists is tired and fraudulent, Cruz said. He continued,

Starting point is 00:03:52 It's incredible that the SPLC has the audacity to label conservatives' domestic terrorists, while one of its own lawyers is currently being prosecuted for charges of actual domestic terrorism. Cruz was referring to the case of Thomas Webb Juergens, an SPLC lawyer who faces domestic terrorism charges for a riot last March directed against a new police training center opening in Atlanta. The SPLC and the National Lawyers Guild claimed Jergins had been there as a, quote, legal observer, but didn't address whether he dressed an Antifa-style black-block clothing or whether he'd engaged in any of the violence at the riot.

Starting point is 00:04:31 House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair Virginia Fox, a Republican, blasted Harvard's task force on anti-Semitism on Tuesday. Earlier this month, Fox's committee requested record from the school regarding anti-Semitism incidents on campus going back to 2021. It gave the school two weeks to comply. According to the Hill, Fox called the information the school sent to the committee woefully inadequate. Fox said that rather than answering the committee's request in a substantive manner, Harvard has chosen to provide letters from non-profits and student handbooks, many of which are already publicly available. She said that's unacceptable. Harvard must produce the remaining documents in a timely manner or risk compulsory measures.

Starting point is 00:05:15 The school's been besieged by complaints that anti-Semitism is out of control on campus and that the school isn't doing enough to protect students. Former Harvard President Claudine Gay faced criticism when she appeared hesitant in a congressional hearing to criticize protesters who called for the genocide of Jews on her campus. She later resigned from her position but remains employed by the school. And that'll do it for today's episode. Thanks for listening to The Daily Signal's top news. If you haven't gotten a chance, be sure to check out our morning show right here in this podcast feed where we interview lawmakers, experts, and leading conservative voices. Join us tomorrow morning for the Daily Signal interview edition.

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The Daily Signal - Trump Wins New Hampshire, Oregon Mulls Pulling Back From Drug Decriminalization | Jan. 24

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