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--:-- Georgia Howe: Welcome to Morning Wire. I'm Georgia Howe.
--:-- John Bickley: And I'm John Bickley, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Wire.
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--:-- John Bickley: Amid more reports about the violent Trende Aragua gang, the National Border Patrol Council endorses Donald Trump and issues a stern warning about Harris. If we allow Borders are Harris to win this election, every city, every community in this great country is going to go to hell.
--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Tuesday, October 15th, and this is Morning Wire. As Kamala Harris dramatically shifts her campaign approach, she's being accused of plagiarism. So if you want a president with their own ideas, vote for Donald Trump. If you want a president who copies her own ideas from Wikipedia, vote for Kamala Harris.
--:-- John Bickley: And a Daily Wire report raises legal questions about an influential pro-Harris social media account. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- John Bickley: The Border Patrol Union is endorsing former President Trump and warning against keeping Kamala Harris in power. The endorsement comes as new reports detail the alarming actions of a dangerous illegal immigrant gang.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about the latest on immigration and the campaign for the White House.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Yeah, Trump received the endorsement of the union for the entire U.S. Border Patrol, the National Border Patrol Council. The union chief, Paul Perez, also blasted the Biden-Harris immigration agenda over the weekend and said Trump is the only man who can stop the U.S. from going to hell.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The untold millions of people, unvetted, who she has allowed into this country that are committing murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, and every other crime will continue to put our country in peril. Only one man can fix that. That is Donald J. Trump.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Trump and Republicans have leaned heavily on the immigration issue this election cycle, and for good reason. Americans' preference for the GOP on immigration appears to be at an all-time high after four years of unprecedented migration into the country.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Vice President Harris has made some half-hearted attempts to distance herself from the administration's record at the border. She's portrayed herself as tough on the border, though still pro-amnesty, but she hasn't disowned or even suggested changes to any of Biden's border policies.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Meanwhile, even Bill Clinton admitted on the campaign trail yesterday that Georgia nursing student Lakin Riley would likely be alive if this administration failed to properly vet migrants.
--:-- Tim Pierce: You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn't you? A young woman who'd been killed by an immigrant?
--:-- Georgia Howe: Yeah, well, if they'd all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn't have happened.
--:-- Tim Pierce: A pretty remarkable admission there.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now, in 2016, Trump famously campaigned on the slogan, build the wall. What kind of messaging is he leaning on now?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Crime. Trump and his vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, have really focused on illegal immigrant crime. Not only have millions of people entered the country illegally, but many migrants are themselves dangerous with criminal histories and gang ties.
--:-- Tim Pierce: There was a moment on ABC over the weekend that exemplifies the campaign's approach. It happened when Vance was on with ABC host Martha Raddatz, and Raddatz downplayed gang violence in Aurora, Colorado.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes, and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Only, Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris's open border.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Americans are so fed up with what's going on and they have every right to be.
--:-- Tim Pierce: And I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting because you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Right. Well, that sort of exemplifies the contrast in priorities between Vance and the press.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, we have a little more information about that incident from the apartment management company. What are they saying?
--:-- Georgia Howe: Right. A company called CBZ Management is speaking out. This is a company that manages multiple properties in Colorado and which has had an increasingly tense relationship with local officials, reportedly accruing thousands of dollars in fines for code violations.
--:-- Tim Pierce: That's according to the Denver Post. An ex-account for CBZ Management is now publicly detailing what it says is erroneous press coverage.
--:-- Georgia Howe: According to the Post, Trendy Aragua gang members took over apartment buildings in Aurora, forced tenants out, installed renters of their own, and threatened anyone who tried to interfere.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The company also posted a photo of a CBZ representative with a bloodied face after having been beaten up. Video shared by the company purports to show the brutal attack against him.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Through months of CBZ losing control of the property to what they say are gang members, the company is accusing local officials and law enforcement of refusing to step in.
--:-- Tim Pierce: CBZ says that when it went to the federal government, it was told the situation was just a blip on the radar because Trenday or Agua problems were so widespread.
--:-- Georgia Howe: We've reached out for comment and we'll report back as we learn more.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Well, just imagine being a resident in one of those buildings. It's awful.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Tim, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Good to be on.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: With Donald Trump gaining in the polls, Kamala Harris is scrambling this week to implement a more aggressive strategy.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here to break it all down is Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Hey, Cabot, so the vice president looking to retake the momentum with some significant changes to her game plan here.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Yeah, the VP has been all over the airwaves the past two weeks after really ignoring the press. She now trying to redefine her image with voters. She even agreed to sit down with Fox News Brett Baier tomorrow.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And now she's trying to paint Donald Trump as the candidate who is avoiding the media and campaign trail. One must question, are they afraid that people will see that he is too weak and unstable to lead America?
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now, it's certainly worth noting, Donald Trump has held far more rallies, more interviews, and more press conferences than Kamala Harris throughout this entire campaign.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And despite that relative uptick in interviews lately, there are still plenty of examples of the VP avoiding the press. And that has gotten the attention of even left-leaning outlets.
--:-- Georgia Howe: To that point, according to Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce and owner of Time magazine, quote, despite multiple requests, Time has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris, unlike every other presidential candidate.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: He goes on to say that they, quote, believe in transparency, asking why isn't the vice president engaging with the public on the same level? He later added that, quote, in contrast, Trump talked about his policy vision with a Time reporter for 90 minutes across two interviews.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The vice president is also taking a new approach specifically toward black male voters.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, despite expectations from Democrats that she would dominate with black voters, Black men in particular have shown record support for Donald Trump. For example, Barack Obama won by 81% with black men under 45, Biden with 53%. But on average, Harris is ahead by just 41%. Those numbers hold it would be the worst performance by a Democrat with black men since 1960.
--:-- Georgia Howe: So in response, Harris announced that she'll begin hosting, quote, black men huddle up events. She's also this week rolling out a policy plan aimed specifically at that demographic.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: It'll offer small business loans specifically for Black entrepreneurs, mentorship programs for Black workers in high-demand industries, and even a federal health program focused on medical issues that, quote, disproportionately impact Black men.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Obviously, a lot of legal questions still to be answered there.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The strategy shift comes amid some serious new plagiarism allegations against the VP.
--:-- Georgia Howe: What are the claims there?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Right. So back in 2019, ahead of her run for attorney general in California, Harris published a book titled Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.
--:-- Georgia Howe: But according to a new report from Stefan Weber, a well-known self-described plagiarism hunter, that book included numerous examples of what he calls vicious plagiarism.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Throughout the book, Harris lifts entire paragraphs from news reports, press releases, and research papers without proper attribution or quotation marks. At other points, she even copied long passages, almost word for word, directly from Wikipedia.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The VP has yet to respond to the story, but J.D. Vance, for his part, took to X, saying, I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, before we go, there was big election news out of Virginia this week.
--:-- Georgia Howe: What's happening there?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So for context, with rising concern over illegal immigrants voting in our elections, a number of states have undertaken efforts this year to audit their voter rolls and remove non-citizens. One of those states was Virginia, where Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order back in August requiring election officials to remove any voters who had filled out forms at the DMV indicating they were non-citizens.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Those folks were then given 14 days to prove their citizenship. If they did not, they were removed from voter rolls. But on Friday, the Biden-Harris administration sued Virginia in an effort to block that effort, saying it was illegal and discriminatory.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Governor Youngkin, for his part, vowed to fight the lawsuit, saying, quote, Virginians and Americans will see this for exactly what it is a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth.
--:-- Georgia Howe: So we be watching to see if that order is allowed to stand before the election. I certainly can have ineligible people voting.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Right, Kevin thanks for reporting.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Anytime.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A new Daily Wire report dives into the popular X account Kamala's Wins and finds that its creator might be breaking federal law.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Here with more is one of the authors of the story, Daily Wire Deputy Managing Editor Tim Rice.
--:-- Tim Rice: Yeah, good morning, Georgia. At first glance, it seems like one of the many political fan accounts out there. Kamala's Wins shares endorsements, news clips, and generally supports the Harris campaign. And it's racked up nearly a million followers.
--:-- Georgia Howe: But the account, which began in January 22 as Biden's Wins, is actually part of a massive Democratic influence operation that pushes false narratives to voters.
--:-- Tim Rice: And its founder, Ethan Wolfe, may be violating federal law by running it.
--:-- Georgia Howe: When Wolfe launched the account, he was fresh out of Ohio State University and working as deputy political director for Illinois Democrat Brad Schneider's re-election campaign.
--:-- Tim Rice: The account quickly became a favorite among Democrats, including then White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain. In June 2023, Wolfe was hired as a communications specialist for the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration, where he makes $94,000 a year.
--:-- Georgia Howe: So in general, a very rapid rise for a recent college grad, but it sounds like there's a potential legal issue. What's that?
--:-- Tim Rice: Well, if Wolf is still running the account, it would put him in violation of the Hatch Act, a law that bars federal employees from engaging in political activity while on duty or in a federal building.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Daily Wire couldn't reach Wolf for comment, and the Commerce Department wouldn't say whether or not Wolf was still running the account, but simply noted that all Department of Commerce employees are subject to the Hatch Act.
--:-- Tim Rice: But Wolfe seems to have violated the Hatch Act multiple times on his personal ex-account, sharing political content during work hours as recently as September 25th.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now, we obviously know, though, that Ethan Wolfe is a Democrat partisan. That's why he was appointed to the position in the administration.
--:-- Tim Rice: It would seem like this law is very easy to run afoul of for a lot of people, though, no?
--:-- Georgia Howe: It is. And every administration racks up Hatch Act violations at one point or another. But the difference is that there was wall-to-wall coverage in the legacy media whenever a Trump administration official was even suspected of violating the act.
--:-- Tim Rice: Meanwhile, when Biden-Harris officials like Ron Klain, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and Health and Human Services Secretary Javier Becerra are charged with Hatch Act violations, it doesn't get much coverage.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Of course, that's coming from the same media that made a big deal about how the Biden-Harris administration would be different and, as Time magazine put it, reset, quote, the ethical norms Trump trampled as president.
--:-- Tim Rice: And what does the Harris campaign say about the account?
--:-- Georgia Howe: As of this recording, the Harris campaign has not responded to the Daily Wire's request for comment.
--:-- Tim Rice: The campaign has said that it was not affiliated with the account after Kamala's winds came under fire for lying about the size of one of J.D. Vance's rallies.
--:-- Georgia Howe: But it sure seems like Harris and the administration have worked closely with Wolf from the beginning of his career.
--:-- Tim Rice: And there's evidence to suggest that before joining the administration, Wolf engaged in some social media pay for play. Shortly after launching the account, Biden's wins and a slew of similarly named accounts like Clinton's wins and Democratic wins reposted a campaign video for Shadia Martini, a Democratic candidate for Michigan state representative.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Two days later, Martini's campaign paid Wolf's company $2,000.
--:-- Tim Rice: So at the very least, a lot of questions need to be answered.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Tim, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Tim Rice: Anytime. Listeners can now read the full Kamala's Wins investigation now on dailywire.com.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Thanks for waking up with us. We'll be back this afternoon with more news you need to know.
