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meritocracy approve of this decisiony ap. a few d just a few days ago, cbs newss ran a poll asking americans about this very issue. ver70% responded that colleges should not be allowed to use race in college admissions. a new york times poll recentlyam found 60% of democrats also oppose race as a factor in admissions. americans across the country have rejected affirmative action at the ballot box, too, evenat the b in blue state calia in the 2020 election. democratic leaders in the state put affirmative action on the ballot. the pre action oo affirmative an activists, the governor, both supp senators, even the golden state warriors, pushed voters to support the initiativthey oe they outspent opponents of oppon affirmative action by 19 to 1. and in the end, nearly 60% of californians voted to kill affirmative action. . it didn t work. no matter how hard the democratic party matte trieo matter how much money spen wpin, the american people have rejected the view that we should b
today after filing paperwork. mikes christie says hean couldnn announce in the coming days. and mike pence s allies are launching a super pac, but all eyes are on ron desantis. racee the florida governor is expected to officially get into the race next week and he is giving his biggest tease yet . i he just completed what i would say is the the boldest and most far-reaching agenda that we ve seen in the modern history of the republican party. k at wha been ableif you look an able to accomplish, there is something in there forth anybody in terms of the issues that we tackled at the end of the day, what our country needs to be about is this idea that it really doesn t matter whereel you start from, thate have peope have an opportunity to do big things in this country. and that s been true historically. and we neede to makeag sure it s true again to look att he i desantis also reportedly telling donors that he is the only republican who can beat president biden. but righght n
the central question we must face is this. what leaked from the wuhan lab? why was it there? after we answer that question which we were the first to do in january 2021. we come to the conclusion based on the available evidence that this was not the china virus. it was the fauci virus designed and filled with your money. it s about doing all we can to make sure it doesn t happen again. we have to say it s the u.s. government, now the just the chinese regime. rogue elements who broke the rules put in place by the obama and truck administration and commissioned the reckless gain of function research which is still the only explanation for the origin of the covid virus. these men must be held accountable. and former director of the nih francis collins. in 2011 they wrote, quote, generating a potentially dangerous virus in the laboratory is a risk worth taking. they took that risk and it looks like the worst pandemic in a century is the result. we ll lay out the evidence pointing
can you imagine finally owning something in this country and the government tellinge wors you how to run it, making life worse? they want to take back.ak they want to take the black community back to a time whereis it was illegal for us to own firearms with policies like gune control. the law ma y have not been made is ou for us, but it s ours now and we don t plan on giving it back. this systemic progressive ism starts at the top, though. here s the president othf the united states earlier today. watch. the colleges could use rac e nottor fo as a determining factor for admissions , but as one ofding the factors among many in deciding who to admiitt froma qu a quote from a qualified, already qualified pool of al. today th today, the court once again walked away from decadesce of precedent and make. as the dissent has made clear. the dissent states and today s decision, quotdissent es back decades of precedent and momentountous progress