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Two decades after saying she regrets that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh didnt destroy The New York Times headquarters, right-wing provocateur Ann Coulter has a byline in the opinion pages of the Gray Lady, weighing in on the state of the Republican presidential race. In an online conversation with Times contributing writer Frank Bruni, Coultera rabid Donald Trump supporter turned harsh critic of the ex-presidentsaid that despite Trumps polling lead in the GOP primary, she doesnt believe hell be the nominee. Rooting for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the In Trump We Trust author added that Trump will lose the general election if he captures the nomination, claiming he says the same old thing over and over and over again. Coulters appearance in the Times, even as part of a roundtable discussion, is more than a bit shocking considering how in a 2002 interview with the New York Observer, she declared, My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building. The arch-conservative pundit has since doubled down on the line, telling Fox News host Alan Colmes in 2006 that her remarks were merely prescient because the paper had leapt beyond nonsense straight into treason. And in a 2012 interview with a conservative site, Coulter said the only thing she would have added to the comment is after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.

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Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted an online conversation with Ann Coulter, who writes the Substack newsletter Unsafe, and Stuart Stevens, a former Republican political consultant, to discuss their expectations for the first Republican debate and the future of American politics.

Frank Bruni: Stuart, Ive done many of these political round tables, but never one at a juncture this titanically and transcendentally bizarre. The first Republican debate of the presidential election season is tonight, the party front-runner is absent, and hes running, oh, infinity points ahead of his Republican rivals despite two impeachments, 91 felony counts and unquantifiable wretchedness. Color me morose.

But also, illuminate me: Given Donald Trumps lead and its durability, does this debate matter, and how? Is there an argument that it could change the trajectory of this contest?

Stuart Stevens: If a candidate enters the debate with a strategy of taking out another candidate, it can change a trajectory. In the 2012 primary, Mitt Romney did this to Rick Perry in their first debate and again in a subsequent debate to Newt Gingrich. (I was the campaign strategist for that Romney campaign.) But you must go into a debate with the attitude one of us will walk off this stage alive. I dont think anyone has the nerve to do that.

Ann Coulter: I think this is Ron DeSantiss to lose. If hed just ignore the media and be the nerd that he is, hell do great.

Bruni: Stuart, do you agree that DeSantis has an underappreciated strength and that theres really a path for him to this nomination? And other than DeSantis, is there anyone on that stage tonight who could have a breakout moment and matter in this nomination contest?

Stevens: DeSantis is Jeb Bush without the charm. He is a small man running for a big job and looking smaller every day. If I were advising Tim Scott or another candidate, Id advise them to use the debate to attack DeSantis and blow him up. This is a man who lost a debate to Charlie Crist.

Coulter: Im sorry, but this just shows that you have zero understanding of the country, much less the party. Also, famous last words, but: I dont think Trump will be the nominee, but youd really do the country a solid if you could get Democrats to stop indicting him.

Bruni: Ann, in just a few sentences, why wont Trump be the nominee? Thats a renegade perspective. (Or, given recent Republican political history, should I say maverick?) Convince me.

Coulter: Trump can barely speak English. Hes a gigantic baby. The only reason he crushed in 2016 is because of immigration the wall, deport illegal immigrants, the travel ban (which imposed limits on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries). That is DeSantis this time without the total lack of interest in carrying it out.

Bruni: OK, but before we move on, is there anyone else in this debate who could break out and matter?

Coulter: No.

Bruni: Stuart, do you too believe Trump will not or might not get the nomination, as Ann does?

Stevens: Trump is what the Republican Party wants to be. Hes a white grievance candidate in a party that is over 80 percent white and has embraced its victimhood. Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson are alternatives, but there isnt a winning market for an anti-Trump message. Trump will be the nominee.

Coulter: I think youre both more focused on personalities and whiteness than the voters are. Its issues. And on the issues, Christie is totally out of step with the G.O.P. and Id say the country. He weeps about Ukrainians killed and raped by Russians, but doesnt seem to give two figs about Americans killed and raped by illegal immigrants in our country.

Bruni: Fair point about personalities, Ann, so lets indeed turn to issues and larger dynamics. Youve identified Ukraine as an issue getting too much attention. What else is getting lots of attention but largely irrelevant to this races outcome, and whats hugely relevant and being overlooked?

Stevens: It is actually all about race. Eighty-five percent of the Trump coalition in 2020 was white non-Hispanic in a country that is about 60 percent non-Hispanic white, and less since weve been chatting. The efforts in 2020 to deny votes was focused in places like Atlanta and Philadelphia. Why? Thats where a lot of Black people voted.

Coulter: So you think the G.O.P. is racist. Wow, never heard that before.

Stevens: In 1956, Eisenhower got about 39 percent of the Black vote. In 2020 Trump got 8 percent. A majority of Americans 15 years and younger are nonwhite or Hispanic white. This is what terrifies Republicans.

Coulter: This is just your excuse for your candidate losing a winnable election in 2012.

Bruni: You and Stuart are both hugely down on Trump as a human and as a candidate. Do you think he loses to Biden despite Bidens age and low approval ratings, or is this a jump ball if Trump gets the nomination?

Coulter: If Trump gets the nomination, I say he will lose. I know it, you know it, the American people know it (to paraphrase Bob Dole).

Stevens: Trump could win. In 2020, he lost by a combined 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin. Otherwise, he would still be president. Biden needs to win by 4.5 percent to carry the Electoral College. So it is inevitable it will be close.

Coulter: Nah. OK, maybe. I think Trump loses, but who knows? Hes not the Trump he was in 2016 its the same old thing over and over and over again. Shifty Schiff, perfect phone call, we won BIG, strong, strongly, strong zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Bruni: Theres sustained chatter that someone significant Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin, Georgia governor Brian Kemp could join and upend the Republican field at a late moment, presented as a savior. Do you foresee that? How would it play out?

Stevens: There is this need among some in the donor Republican class and the National Review types that the Republican Party can revert to being a normal party. Thats insane. Take Glenn Youngkin. He endorsed Kari Lake for her Arizona gubernatorial run. Youngkin didnt change her; she changed him.

Coulter: I hope it doesnt come to that because DeSantis is head and shoulders above every other G.O.P. presidential candidate (or politician) on the three most important issues: immigration, crime and the Covid response. Unless the prime minister of Sweden is running in this race, no one beats DeSantis on the Covid response. Thats the 3 a.m. phone call every state and world leader faced the exact same unseen-before virus. Only those two got it exactly right.

Bruni: Ann, I have to ask you this simply because your pom-poms for DeSantis are so large and exuberantly shaken. How are you comfortable with how negative, vengeful, naming of enemies, slaying of enemies his whole shtick and strategy are? Dear God, you are the biggest Reagan lover I know, and theres no Its Morning Again in America from the Florida governor. Its the darkest night, all the time.

Coulter: So glad you asked that. As I describe in my book In Trump We Trust about the greatest presidential campaign in history (followed by the most disappointing, wasted presidency in history) this Im optimistic! talking point that campaign consultants feed their candidates is absurd. Ronald Reagan was not optimistic in 1980 it was only after four years in office that it was Morning in America. He was not positive or optimistic in 1980 at all.

Its nauseating to see candidates try to pull off the Im optimistic nonsense which I promise you they will in the debate, especially Tim Scott.

Bruni: Well, Im not optimistic, for what thats worth.

Coulter: Yes, Frank youre like most voters! Thats why the Im optimistic idiocy falls so flat.

Stevens: Republican donors looked at a model for Republican success as a big-state governor: Reagan, George W. Bush and Romney won the nomination. But all of those candidates were optimistic, expansive candidates. DeSantis is an angry little man who cant articulate why he wants to be president. He got in a fight with the Happiness Company, Disney, and lost. He created a private police force at a cost of over $1 million to go after voter fraud in his own state, which he had claimed had a perfect election. They arrested 20 people and convicted just one.

Bruni: I still prefer candidates who, I dont know, tell us to try to find the good in, and common cause with, one another rather than identify whom to hate and how much. Im old-fashioned that way. To return to the debate: Is there any chance Trump is hurt by his decision to skip it? Or is he showing considerable smarts? By choosing tomorrow to turn himself in in Georgia, he will compete with and shorten the medias post-mortems on the debate. He will, in his signature manner, yank the spotlight back toward himself!

Coulter: The only reason Trump will stay in the news is that the media keep him there. The weird obsession liberals have with Trump is driving normal people away from the news. Even I, MSNBCs most loyal viewer, cannot watch it anymore. The same words, same arguments, same info, same topics for over two years now! We almost lost our democracy!

Trump is a bore. Please stop covering him.

Bruni: Lets do a lightning round. Fast and quick answers. If something happened soon and Biden couldnt or didnt run, which nationally known Democrat would be the partys fiercest presidential candidate, assuming that candidate had just enough runway to take off, and in a few phrases or one sentence, why?

Stevens: Gavin Newsom. Hes a skilled politician who can build the coalition it takes to win. Its not a bad exercise to ask, Could this candidate win X state as governor? Newsom is someone you could see as governor of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Ohio.

Coulter: No one the Democrats would ever nominate for example, Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, Colorado governor Jared Polis, possibly Ohio senator Sherrod Brown.

Bruni: Why?

Coulter: Because theyre all white men.

Bruni: Is the widespread belief that Kamala Harris negatively impacts Bidens prospects for re-election overstated or understated?

Stevens: Overstated. Has anybody actually looked at her record as a candidate? Shes won big, tough races. Until her presidential bid, she never lost.

Coulter: Understated. I heard a discussion on MSNBC yesterday about how shes fantastic one-on-one, a laugh riot, a charm offensive. That just doesnt come out when shes in front of a crowd, you see.

The last person they tried that with was Al Gore, who apparently reached comedic highs alone in his bathtub.

Bruni: Should Clarence Thomas be impeached?

Stevens: Is that a rhetorical question? A Supreme Court justice who acts like an oligarchs girlfriend, flying around on special vacations. Of course. Hes a disgrace.

Coulter: No, he should be made czar of our country. For decades, liberals were mostly OK with the Supreme Court as it was inventing rights like abortion or Miranda or throwing out the death penalty. But now, suddenly theres a major ethics issue about a justice whos gotten the lefts goat since he was nominated.

Thomas votes and writes opinions exactly as his judicial philosophy would predict. The idea that he ruled a certain way because someone took him on a fishing trip is ludicrous.

Bruni: Lastly, rank these American institutions in the order of influence they might have over the final results the winner of the 2024 presidential contest: Fox News, Facebook, The New York Times, the Supreme Court.

Coulter: Fox News: almost zero, unless the nominee is Trump then you can blame Fox. Facebook: 2 percent. New York Times: 8 percent, maybe 10. The political economist Tim Groseclose wrote a book (Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind) estimating the influence of the media on elections and concluded it was about 8 percent. But that was roughly 10 years ago. Its probably more now. The Supreme Court: hopefully zero.

Stevens: The Supreme Court by far. In the history of the country, only five justices were confirmed by senators representing a minority of the countrys population. All five are on the court today. It is completely out of step with the majority of the country, and the results played out in 2022.

I dont think Fox created the Republican Party; the Republican Party created Fox. For the most part, Fox didnt support John McCain, didnt support Romney, didnt support Trump in his nomination campaign. They couldnt affect the outcomes with their own base.

Facebook has the potential to impact the race, as it did in 2016.

I dont think The Times has played a major role in a presidential campaign, and I think thats a good thing its not their job to play a major role.

Bruni: Thank you both for your time, your insights and your energy.

Coulter: Thank you, Frank. Thank you, Stuart.

Stevens: Thanks, all!

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Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens), a former Republican political consultant who has worked on many campaigns for federal and state office, including the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, is the author of the forthcoming book The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy.

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To former Vice President Mike Pence, hes Vih-veck. To a Fox and Friends panelist on Thursday morning, he was Vee-veck. And to some Iowa voters, its Vy-vick if they said his name at all.

Vivek Ramaswamy, a tech entrepreneur running for president who has climbed the polls in recent weeks, has branded himself as a political newcomer who, despite participating in his first Republican debate Wednesday night, seemed at ease bringing the event to near-chaos several times as he sparred with the likes of Mr. Pence and Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor.

A different hurdle he may face, however, is getting others to say his name correctly.

The son of Indian Americans, Mr. Ramaswamy has both leaned into and away from his racial background. He has often expressed gratitude that his parents immigrated to the greatest nation on Earth, and on Wednesday, he echoed a line from former President Barack Obamas speech onstage when he introduced himself as a skinny guy with a funny last name. (Mr. Ramaswamy has said that Vivek rhymes with cake and pronounces his last name Rah-muh-swah-mee.)

When Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, asked after the debate why Mr. Ramaswamy hadnt corrected the mispronunciation sooner, the candidate laughed and said, I appreciate best efforts.

Karthick Ramakrishnan, the director of AAPI Data, said that because Mr. Ramaswamy is running as an insurgent candidate with radical ideas, it wouldnt make sense for him to start policing, or suggesting how others should be pronouncing his name. (One of the 10 commandments in Mr. Ramaswamys platform asserts that reverse racism is racism.)

Its a recognition that different people may be at different stages along the way in terms of even knowing who he is and how to pronounce his name, Mr. Ramakrishnan said. He is trying to activate a generational kind of debate and divide in America that needs to be addressed and to move away from racial identity politics.

Nicole Holliday, a linguistics professor at Pomona College, attributed the struggle for some to pronounce names correctly to a number of factors, including a sentiment that English speakers in general expect to be accommodated everywhere in the world and a lack of foreign language training in the United States from an early age.

Past presidential candidates from diverse racial backgrounds have faced racist insults related to their names. In 2020, David Perdue, then a senator from Georgia, faced a backlash after he appeared to make fun of Kamala Harriss name at a rally just before the November election: Ka-ma-la, Ka-ma-la, Kamala-mala-mala, I dont know, whatever. And some critics of Mr. Obama often invoked his middle name Hussein to falsely claim that he was Muslim.

Of the few prominent South Asians in G.O.P. politics, many have used names friendly to a less-diverse voter base. Bobby Jindal, the former Republican governor of Louisiana, changed his name from Piyush to Bobby when he was young. And Nikki Haley, another Indian American in the 2024 presidential race, has long used Nikki, her middle name, instead of her first name, Nimarata.

While the overwhelming majority of Indian Americans are Democrats, a 2020 survey of Indian American voters found that almost 60 percent said they would be open to supporting an Indian American candidate regardless of their party affiliation.

Mr. Ramaswamys name mispronunciations are all too familiar for South Asian Americans, said Sara Sadhwani, a political science professor at Pomona College. But, she noted, the acknowledgment of such mispronunciations by Mr. Hannity and others may point to a slow recognition among Republicans that not only do we need to diversify, but well have to be respectful to some extent of the folks who were able to bring to the table.

Beyond his name, Mr. Ramaswamy may hit a ceiling as a result of his Hindu faith, predicted Mr. Ramakrishnan, the AAPI Data founder.

On Wednesday, the conservative commentator Ann Coulter made a comment largely condemned as racist, on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, that Nikki and Vivek are involved in some Hindu business, it seems. Not our fight. (Ms. Haley was raised Sikh but later converted to Christianity.)

Ann can tweet whatever she wants to, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Ramaswamy campaign, said of the comment. Vivek has traveled this country and is very grateful for the warm support he has received from Christian voters across the country.

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August 25, 2023 | Austin, Texas | Press Release

Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), and the Texas National Guard are continuing to work together to secure the border; stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into Texas; and prevent, detect, and interdict transnational criminal activity between ports of entry.

Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to over 420,800 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 33,600 criminal arrests, with more than 30,500 felony charges reported. In the fight against fentanyl, Texas law enforcement has seized over 426 million lethal doses of fentanyl during this border mission.

Texas has also bused:

Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps created by the Biden Administration's refusal to secure the border. Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Biden's open border policies.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS FROM OPERATION LONE STAR:

Governors Abbott, Noem, Pillen, Reynolds, Stitt Band Together To Secure Border

Governor Abbott on Monday held a press conference in Eagle Pass with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to provide an update on their joint efforts under Texas' Operation Lone Star to respond to President Biden's reckless open border policies. The border visit comes after Governor Abbott sent letters to America's Governors in May requesting support for Texas border security mission following President Biden's decision to end Title 42.

"These Governors here with me today are deploying military and law enforcement officers to help Texas secure the border," said Governor Abbott. We, as states, share an obligation and that's to step up and address this unparalleled catastrophe caused by President Biden."

Prior to the press conference, Governor Abbott held a border security briefing with his fellow Governors where they received updates from DPS Director Steve McCraw, Texas Adjutant General Major General ThomasSuelzer, and Texas Border Czar Mike Banks on the multitude of effective strategies used by Operation Lone Star to secure the border, including Texas' floating marine barriers installed in the Rio Grande River.

As of this week, 14 statesArkansas, Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyominghave stepped up to support Texas' efforts and deployed personnel and resources to secure the border in President Biden's absence.

Texas Border Czar Banks: Marine Barriers Effectively Deter Illegal Migrant Crossings

Texas Border Czar Banks this week explained how Texas' floating marine barriers are safely deterring dangerous and illegal river crossings. As President Bidens open border policies continue to sow chaos along the southern border, there have been no illegal crossing attempts at these barriers in the Rio Grande River.

The buoys work, and they prevent migrants from making the dangerous crossing and putting themselves at risk, said Border Czar Banks.

Watch Border Czar Banks' explanation here.

WATCH: DPS Lt. Olivarez Discusses Support From Other States For Border Mission

DPS Lt. Olivarez joined NewsNation to discuss the support Texas is receiving from other states for border security amid President Bidens ongoing refusal to secure Americas southern border. Lt. Olivarez pointed out that despite the assets and personnel deployed to the border by Texas and our partner states, meaningful change will require a new President to enforce federal immigration laws to stem the flow of illegal immigration.

The only way to stop people from crossing the river illegally is to have consequences and policies in place, but having additional support from other law enforcement and National Guards does provide value to the operation and what were doing for the state of Texas and entire country, said Lt. Olivarez. We see threats that are very significant to public safety and national security. Were still seeing 5,000-6,000 daily encounters between ports of entry. That does not include gotaways or the number of people who are being released at the ports of entry. The numbers have not decreased. As long as you do not have consequences in place, people are going to continue to cross that river.

WATCH: DPS Trooper Arrests Human Smugglers In Kinney County

A DPS trooper, with assistance from the Florida Highway Patrol, stopped a vehicle in Kinney County and discovered several illegal immigrants trying to conceal themselves inside.

The driver, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and the passenger from Florence were arrested and charged with smuggling of persons and unlawful carrying of a firearm. Three illegal immigrants from Mexico were referred to Border Patrol.

WATCH: Driver Leads DPS On High-Speed Pursuit With Five Illegal Immigrants

A driver from Houston led DPS troopers on a high-speed vehicle pursuit in Kinney County. The smuggler eventually bailed out and attempted to evade on foot. After a short pursuit, the driver was arrested and charged with smuggling of persons and evading arrest. Five illegal immigrants were apprehended and referred to Border Patrol.

WATCH: Texas National Guard Stops Human Smugglers On Raft In Rio Grande

Texas National Guard soldiers stopped human smugglers attempting to use a raft to cross the Rio Grande River last week. In coordination with state and federal law enforcement partners, soldiers helped repel the smugglers back into Mexico.

Soldiers utilize advanced tracking hardware and software to accurately detect the positions of migrants and use their knowledge and experience of tracking people through the terrain that surrounds the southern border. Migrants will often hide in the tall reeds and thick brush that line the banks of the river before they are taken by smugglers further into the United States.

Its like a game of hide and seek, said Spc. Ragland, Alpha Company, Task Force Center. "If law enforcement calls out a raft of illegal immigrants coming across the river, we go down there. Usually when they see us, they head back into the river and cross back into Mexico.

DPS Troopers Recover Four Unaccompanied Children Abandoned By Smugglers

In the span of just 24 hours, DPS troopers recovered four unaccompanied children who had been abandoned by human smugglers near the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass.

Operation Lone Star Partners Locate Backpack With Russian-Made Ammunition

DPS and Texas Game Wardens serving as part of Operation Lone Star located a backpack containing Russian-made 7.62 ammunition. The bag had been abandoned near the Rio Grande River in Starr County.

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Biden administration officials have dramatically reduced the number of criminal aliens arrested and removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), despite claims that their immigration policies would increase focus on criminals. One of the ways the administration has reduced enforcement against criminal aliens is by refusing to cooperate with state and local law enforcement partners in the important 287(g) program. Through this program, local law enforcement officers have been trained on how to identify criminal aliens in their jails, notify ICE, and assist with the safe transfer of these individuals into ICE custody.

The Biden administration has changed the ICE webpage a number of times in an attempt to downplay the 287(g) program. In the most recent update, the administration admitted that it put a hold or pause on onboarding any new partners to the 287(g) program and admitted further that 23 pending partnerships are not operational despite having already been signed by both ICE and a sheriffs department. This admission was on ICEs website for only about a week before it was taken down:

Below are the descriptions of the program as they existed on January 19, 2021, and August 21, 2023.

This is how the description of the 287(g) program appeared on the ICE webpage under the Trump administration, which championed the program and expanded it to about 150 agreements, from only a few dozen under the Obama administration:

This is how the Biden administration describes the 287(g) program, today. The tepid language makes it clear the Biden administration is not interested in celebrating law enforcement cooperation on our nations illegal immigration problem:

Prior to the Biden administration, ICE also included language highlighting some of the programs successes. This language was quickly removed by the Biden administration:

The Biden administration also immediately stopped producing the monthly 287(g) reports launched by the Trump administration. These reports were the first time the public could see the various successes of the program and each contains brief case studies from various jurisdictions. The goal was to expand these further and provide additional information, but the Biden administration apparently didnt want to showcase the program and likely had fewer success stories to tell in any case. Those reports were briefly removed from ICE.gov and are available here in case they are taken down in the future:

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