Joe And Jill Biden Reportedly Try To Quietly Weasel Back Into Democratic Leadership
'Who’s going to want Joe Biden back in the game'
New DNC Chair Promotes From Within Despite Dems’ Brutal 2024 Losses
Campaign manager for Warren's ill-fated 2020 presidential bid
DNC anti-'misinformation' account caught pushing provocative fake audio of Donald Trump Jr.
The Democratic National Committee's rapid response account FactPostNews, established in January as part of an initiative to "combat online misinformation," was caught Wednesday pushing a fake audio clip purporting to show Donald Trump Jr. voicing support for turning against Ukraine and arming Russia.
"The audio in question, which was amplified by the official X account of the DNC, along with countless other major anti-Trump accounts, is 100% fake," a spokesman for Donald Trump Jr. told ABC News. "It appears to be an AI-generated deepfake."
Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the co-founder of GetReal Labs who is an expert on digital forensics and synthetic media, appeared to agree, suggesting that the audio viewed millions of times and shared at least 6,600 times on X was most likely generated by artificial intelligence.
The clip was presented as an excerpt from the Feb. 25 episode of Don Jr.'s podcast ... even though the episode still had not been uploaded.
In the fake audio clip shared by the DNC's FactPostNews account, thousands of other partisan accounts, and foreign outfits like Visegrád 24, a voice made to resemble Trump Jr.'s says, "I honestly can't imagine anyone in their right mind picking Ukraine as an ally when Russia is the other option."
"I mean, just think about it: Massive nuclear power loaded with natural resources everyone needs, literally the biggest country on the planet. And ha ha, there's Ukraine, which has Chernobyl and some radiation-proof dogs," continues the voice. "Meanwhile, the Biden administration is like, 'Oh, yeah, this is definitely the ally we need. Let's dump all our money into them.' Honestly, if anything, the U.S. should have been sending weapons to Russia."
Mediaite reported that there were immediately suspicions about the authenticity of the audio, especially since the clip was presented as an excerpt from the Feb. 25 episode of Don Jr.'s podcast, "Triggered with Donald Trump Jr.," on Spotify, even though the episode still had not been uploaded to the platform as of Thursday morning. In the full Feb. 25 episode that aired on Rumble, the remarks were nowhere to be found.
Andrew Surabian, a Republican strategist and spokesman for Donald Trump Jr., tweeted, "This is 100% fake AI generated audio, but I'm sure that won't stop anti-Trump resistance accounts from continuing to dishonestly spread it."
Citing a policy against "misinformation," a spokesman for the DNC told ABC News that the post was removed as soon as it was learned that the audio spread online was fake.
When Democrats launched FactPostNews, DNC chief mobilization officer Shelby Cole said in a statement, "The Republican disinformation machine is powerful, but we believe a stronger weapon is giving people the facts about how Trump and his administration are screwing over the American people."
The DNC does not appear to have bothered issuing a public apology for presenting provocative Russia-based falsehoods to its audience as "facts."
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‘I Just Don’t Get It’: Former Dem Fundraiser Roasts Kamala Harris Over ‘Endless Word Salads’ In Interviews
'Why is it so hard for you to be human?'
‘Level Of Jackassery’: James Carville Outraged At Dems Over 2 ‘Stunningly Stupid’ Moves
'Jackass stupid things'
DNC chair candidates unanimously reveal the party's not done accusing Americans of racism and misogyny
The Democratic National Committee will pick a new chair on Saturday to replace Jaime Harrison. Ahead of the party's election, MSNBC co-hosted an event Thursday with Georgetown University affording potential replacements with an opportunity to discuss their proposed messaging strategies and how they might win back the multitudes of voters the party has done its apparent best to alienate.
All eight candidates for chair — among whom Minnesota's Ken Martin and Wiconsin's Ben Wikler are reportedly the front-runners — made abundantly clear during the forum that the Democratic Party will not jettison the failed identity-centered thinking and messaging that helped them lose the White House and both chambers of the U.S. Congress.
MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart, who with former Biden campaign official Symone Sanders and former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki put questions to the candidates whenever the crowd was able to refrain from interrupting, asked, "How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Kamala Harris' defeat?"
All the candidates raised their hands.
"That's good. You all pass," said Capehart, who then stated as though it were a fact that President Donald Trump "consistently employed racist and misogynistic rhetoric on the campaign trail."
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Blaming racism and misogyny may have been an easy way to account for Harris' relative unpopularity; however, doing so deterred Democrats from addressing the issues actually driving voters away, such as their candidate's radicalism; Harris' positional weakness on important matters such as the cost of living, the fallout of open-border policies, and crime; her monomaniacal focus on attacking Trump; her choice of running mate; her candidacy's reliance on the effective voiding of the Democratic primary elections; the strength of her competitor's pitch; and the sense that a Harris administration would simply continue failing where former President Joe Biden left off.
'This DNC chair race is important for sending a signal to voters that Democrats have learned a lesson and will do things differently going forward.'
For instance, rather than figure out why Harris' promise of legal dope wasn't enough to win over black male voters or why the very suggestion might come across as deeply offensive, former President Barack Obama presumed the once-reliable Democratic voting bloc just wasn't "feeling the idea of having a woman as president."
Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost (Fla.), seeing similar polls indicating an aversion to Harris, suggested in October that "there's still a lot of this bigotry in this country in terms of sexism, in terms of racism, and we still have to work at getting over that."
Democrats' allies in the media have played the same losing game.
Ahead of her first failed presidential run, Harris suggested America might not be "ready for a woman and a woman of color to be president of the United States of America."
ABC News dutifully raised the question, "Is Kamala Harris proof that America isn't ready for a woman of color as president?"
Alicia Jones, a black Howard University alumna, told the liberal outfit at the time, "I didn't vote for Barack Obama just because he was black. I voted for him because he was smart. I voted for him because he had a record that showed me the things that he did. It didn't matter that he was only a senator for five minutes."
"I think that what she did was dirty. And I think she's way beyond and way above what she did," Jones added, referring to Harris' statement.
Following Harris' crushing defeat last year, Fox News resident Democratic commentator Juan Williams said, "I'm not sold on this idea that it was the cost of eggs."
"I worry that it was, 'Well, I'm not voting for this woman.' Or 'I'm not voting for this black woman,'" said Williams.
Williams' fellow panelists pointed out that the identity-centered explanation for Harris' loss was undercut by various factors, including Trump's simultaneous drop in support among whites and increase in support among black men and Hispanics, and by black male voters' stated reasons for ditching Democrats.
Disputing German economist Isabella Weber's assertion that "many working Americans felt that Democrats had abandoned them with respect to their pocketbook struggles and ended up casting a ballot for Trump," the Nation's race-obsessive "justice correspondent" Elie Mystal adopted a similar line to Williams, claiming that Harris' loss was "not the economy, stupid. Trump ran on pure, unadulterated white identity politics and hate, and white-hot hate won."
"This DNC chair race is important for sending a signal to voters that Democrats have learned a lesson and will do things differently going forward," Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told the Guardian. "If it sends a signal that we stand for the status quo and want to do everything the same, that will be a turnoff both to the Democratic base and to swing voters who want to see that Democrats are doing something different."
By the candidates' show of hands, it appears that Democrats are keen to keep attributing past and future losses not to remediable messaging and policy issues but to imagined bigotry.
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DNC Chair Candidate Ken Martin Promises Party Will Only Take Money From ‘Good Billionaires’ Going Forward
'But we’re not taking money from the bad billionaires'
Marianne Williamson launches her bid for DNC chair
On Thursday, former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson announced her campaign to chair the Democratic National Committee.
Williamson, who ran for president in 2020 and in 2024, launched her bid to serve as DNC chair in an attempt to correct the devastating loss Democrats endured on November 5.
"This year’s election of a DNC chair feels different than in past years," Williamson said. "Before now, the party had faced defeats to be sure. But our playbook still basically worked. The waters were turbulent at times, but our ship was steady."
"This year, the party faces a more critical problem than we have ever faced before," Williamson continued. "The MAGA phenomenon now challenges the very way that politics are done in America, and the traditional tool kit of party organizing will not be enough to meet the moment."
'In fact, it’s important that we recognize the psychological and emotional dimensions of Trump’s appeal,' Williamson continued. 'We need to understand it to create the energy to counter it.'
Williamson recognizes that the only political viability for Democrats going forward is to reinvent their playbook by abandoning the social and political policies that turned people away. Rather than continuing to demonize and discredit President-elect Donald Trump, Williamson insists that Democrats work to understand his appeal.
"President Trump has ushered in an age of political theater — a collective adrenaline rush that has enabled him to not only move masses of people into his camp but also masses of people away from ours," Williamson said. "It does not serve us to underestimate the historic nature of what he has achieved."
"In fact, it’s important that we recognize the psychological and emotional dimensions of Trump’s appeal," Williamson continued. "We need to understand it to create the energy to counter it. MAGA is a distinctly 21st-century political movement, and it will not be defeated by a 20th-century tool kit."
Williamson is not the only Democrat who has set sights on DNC leadership roles. Gun-control activist David Hogg announced earlier in December that he would be running for vice chair of the DNC.
Like Williamson, Hogg has been critical of the Democratic Party's performance in the most recent election.
"You raised an absurd amount of money," Hogg said of the Harris campaign. "This was our race to [win], and we lost it. And it's time to really peel back the curtain and say 'OK, what did we do wrong?' instead of just protecting the consultants that brought us into this place in the first place."
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