“The View” cohost Sunny Hostin admitted that in her attempt to give Vice President Kamala Harris a softball, it actually backfired and might have been one of the things that resulted in the VP’s loss in the election to President-elect Donald Trump. During the show’s “Behind the Table” podcast, Hostin said even she was surprised with the answer after she asked Harris if there was anything “she would have done differently” from President Joe Biden in the last four years. Harris’ response — “there is not a thing that comes to mind” — was immediately used in Trump campaign ads across the country. “I followed up because I was surprised at the answer,” Hostin admitted. “Look, I think it wasn’t so much about the question, but it was really more about the answer. The reason I followed up was because that wasn’t a gotcha question. That was a layup, really.” Hostin said she thought the question was a chance for Harris “to explain to all the people who are saying ‘I want a change agent’” that she was that person based on things like having a different “lived experience” from Biden. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “And I thought she would then say, ‘I would build on the wins we’ve had,’ and I had a laundry list of wins in my head, and she didn’t answer it that way, she said not a thing comes to mind,” Hostin explained, adding that it showed Harris’ loyalty to Biden. Sunny Hostin admits that she tried giving Kamala a softball question… but then it backfired and might be why she lost pic.twitter.com/WNGimcmdAn — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 13, 2024 Hostin said she wasn’t going to “opine” now whether the VP’s answer was right or wrong, but she does admit it surprised her. “I will just say I was surprised at the answer because it was a question that really could have inured to her benefit, it was a question that could have been a change maker,” the ABC host said. “But again, it was not planned to tank her run,” she added, shutting down claims from people on the Left, like James Carville, that she had some kind of power to influence the election. Hostin was a staunch Harris supporter during the election, even downplaying evidence in polls that the VP was losing ground with certain parts of the electorate, as well as an NBC poll that showed that any lead the vice president had garnered from the September 10 debate has since evaporated, as previously reported. “Look, I think that Kamala Harris has been running a flawless campaign,” the host said, arguing that she would not have been able to raise $1 billion if there was no real momentum behind her. “I think it’s because people believe in her, and I think people are showing that by the amount of money that they are willing to give to the campaign.” “I think we have the press to blame for a lot of this,” she added. “Whoopi, you always say that you don’t believe in polls. I’m with you now, because I’m reading the press. First it was, ‘Kamala’s not doing enough press.’ Then she goes on this huge press tour, she was here, with us, I thought she was fantastic.” Virgina Kruta contributed to this piece.

Collegiate women’s volleyball players filed multiple lawsuits on Wednesday against the Mountain West Conference over the inclusion of trans-identifying male players in their sport. A dozen women have cited violations of their First Amendment rights and Title IX protections in response to San Jose State University’s biologically male star player Blaire Fleming’s participation in the MWC, prompting four schools in the conference to forfeit games against SJSU, OutKick reported. Several of Flemings’ SJSU teammates, like Captain Brooke Slusser and two former Spartans — along with female athletes from four other colleges — are part of the suit against the conference, its commissioner and SJSU officials over the conference’s adoption of the “Transgender participation policy” in September after the first school, Boise State, forfeited its game. The suit said that the policy is “intended to chill protests and other expressive conduct, including boycotts, on a women’s rights issue” of women athletes in the MWC. It also claims that the trans policy was adopted outside the “normal course of MW rules and procedures” and that it was an effort to prevent schools from exercising their First Amendment Rights, the outlet noted. This is HUGE. Female volleyball players in the Mountain West conference drop a bombshell lawsuit against the @MountainWest citing First Amendment & Title IX violations. Several of his SJSU teammates signed on as well. This is the way. Hold the line!!! ??https://t.co/Co6bFPUfEo — Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) November 13, 2024 “Recently, the MWC, SJSU, and the other Defendants have collectively manipulated MWC rules, diminished sport opportunities for women, spread inaccurate information, used their positions to chill and suppress speech with which they disagree, and punished dozens of female collegiate volleyball student-athletes for taking a public stand for their right to compete in a separate sports category, all in a concerted effort to stamp out debate over women’s rights in sport,” the lawsuit read. “The NCAA, Mountain West Conference, and college athletic directors around the country are failing women,” Bill Bock, lead attorney for the plaintiffs and the pro-woman organization Independent Council On Women’s Sport (ICONS), which is funding and backing the lawsuit, said. “Because the administrators don’t have the courage to do their jobs, we have to ask the federal courts to do their jobs for them,” he added. The lawsuit requests emergency injunctive relief in advance of the MW women’s volleyball tournament in Las Vegas, which starts on Nov. 27. It also calls on either disqualifying SJSU and Fleming from competing in the tournament and/or removing the losses from the records of teams who forfeited SJSU games and therefore the wins from SJSU. Five schools have forfeited playing SJSU in protest of the biologically male star player on the CA team. Those schools include Southern Utah University, Boise State University, the University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and the University of Nevada. Related: University Finally Scraps Match After Women’s Team Refuses To Play Team Whose Star Player Is Male

Shortly after Donald Trump’s upset election victory in 2016, official State of Texas business brought me to two ICE immigration detention centers in South Texas. I ran an intelligence group for the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division. What I learned there has informed my beliefs about illegal immigration ever since. Back then, part of my routine was to help the feds interview apprehended aliens from Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, and Afghanistan and collect intelligence about potential Islamic terrorism. The South Texas Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas, some one hundred miles from the Mexican border, was always filled to the brink with detainees.  But to my surprise, for the first time, it was as empty as a football stadium in baseball season. The same was true of ICE’s larger, ever-packed-to-capacity Port Isabel Service Processing Center near Brownsville, Texas. “Where is everyone?” I asked the ICE intelligence officers, separately, at both facilities. The same surprising answer went something like this: People throughout Latin America heard Trump on the campaign stump vowing illegal immigration crackdowns, and they decided to stay home rather than risk smuggling money for nothing. If the perceived odds of successfully getting in and staying a long time to earn money is high enough, they’ll come. If the perceived odds are higher that they’ll be blocked and deported, they’re sheltering in place. It was the first time I’d heard such a thing, although it seemed so obvious. The number of Border Patrol apprehensions, however, proved it. In November of 2016 there were 63,361 border apprehensions but by March of 2017 that number dropped to 12,193, the lowest count in decades. Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images After interviewing migrants south of the border, some in the U.S. media also noticed. They began to call the link between the candidate’s rhetoric and deterring impact on migration plans “The Trump Effect.” Well, act two of The Trump Effect is now in play. While it’s too early for data to prove it, my recent pre-election interviews with immigrants in deep southern Mexico struck a very familiar chord. “If after election day [Kamala Harris] is elected, we know that everything is good, then we can enter,” one Ghanaian man told me in Tapachula, Mexico’s downtown plaza. Otherwise, he stated, he would stay put in Mexico for years if necessary. That sentiment was ubiquitous in mid-October.  “We know that if Donald Trump wins, all the migrants will be kicked out of the United States,” a middle-aged Venezuelan man in the plaza said. “We hope that he doesn’t win.” But border hawks should not get complacent. The Trump Effect’s sustainability over time is hardly guaranteed. The first Trump Effect showed that real action must follow campaign rhetoric. It didn’t last, as Liberal groups challenged every one of Trump’s policies and bogged them down in court. “No president has been sued over his immigration policies as much as Donald Trump,” one November 2019 Forbes article pointed out. In 2021, a National Bureau of Economic Research study concluded that Trump’s rhetoric and policies led to a “large, abrupt decline in apprehensions beginning around January 2017.” “We would argue this was one of the more important changes in the U.S. immigration space in recent years,” wrote researchers Mark Hoekstra and Sandra Orozco-Aleman of their discovery that political communications by politicians do influence immigrant decisions. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images But they too noticed that The Trump Effect didn’t last long. By May 2017, apprehension rates began to increase and had returned to pre-election trends by the summer of 2018. It just got worse before it got better. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ By late 2018, with litigation and political opposition of every stripe bogging down Trump’s best laid plans, hundreds of thousands of migrants were pouring in and would do so until mid-2019 when the administration came up with some policy innovations enabling major crackdowns –and court decisions that eventually went Trump’s way. But today, the whole world will be watching for Trump to follow through with a promised mass deportation program, fast removals of every immigrant caught illegally crossing, and the dismantling of Biden-era open border policies. And once again, aspiring migrants will rely on their many allies inside the United States to bog things down. The New York Times recently reported that battalions of immigration lawyers are preparing to battle Trump in court again. “We literally have a blueprint of what they are planning to do, and so we had months and months to figure out how to protect people,” Becca Heller, founder of the International Refugee Assistance Project, told the paper. “The Trump team might think they are ready, but so are we.” Expect some large-scale test charges on Border Patrol between ports of entry and on the U.S.-Mexico bridges before and after Trump’s inauguration. The hundreds of thousands of immigrants caught downstream by the U.S. election result will be glued to their cell phones and encrypted social media apps, paying close attention to what becomes of those up-trail — those who test the Trump administration’s will to stop and deport them. How Trump handles them will matter greatly. Credit: Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. For border hawks and anyone who wants to see an end to four years of unimpeded mass migration, however, there are silver linings in that 2025 is not 2017. For starters, many of the policies that Trump 2.0 will bring back are already court-battle tested, such as Remain in Mexico, which allows the Border Patrol to instantly return border-crossers back to Mexico to await the years of their asylum claim adjudications. So too have the courts upheld a Trump 1.0 policy allowing denial of asylum claims by people who passed through a perfectly safe third country and didn’t claim asylum there already. And more besides. But mainly, Trump 2.0 is unlikely to have to weather high political heat for closing the border down after the nation saw and felt 11 million apprehensions over the last four years. Every poll for the last year, plus the overwhelming re-election of Trump on his illegal immigration shutdown plans shows the American public strongly supports them. * * * Todd Bensman is a Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies and a two-time National Press Club award winner. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a 23-year veteran newspaper reporter. He is the author of “America’s Covert Border War,” and “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.” The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Warm birthday greetings are in order as King Charles celebrates his 76th birthday on November 14. It’s been a challenging year for the head of the monarchy after revealing a cancer diagnosis for himself and his daughter-in-law, Kate Middleton. So this celebration feels particularly sweet. The royal family isn’t shy about birthdays and celebrating milestones. Prince William and Kate Middleton shared a fun picture on their Instagram of the King to honor him on his big day captioned, “Wishing a very Happy Birthday to His Majesty The King!”’ King Charles’ Birthday Celebration Picture Was From A Recent Trip To Samoa In the photo, the king is wearing a pair of sunglasses and a traditional lei and looks happy and in good health. The palace also shared a photo of King Charles for his birthday on the royal family’s Instagram. In this shot, he appeared a bit more traditionally stately in a blue suit. The caption reads, “Wishing His Majesty The King a very Happy Birthday today.” Seeing the king on his birthday, many people were happy. Thousands shared their good wishes with Charles. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Royal Family (@theroyalfamily) Someone wrote on the royal family’s Instagram, “Happy Birthday HM king Charles wishing you good health and joy for the year ahead God bless.” This person agreed, “Happy birthday, your Majesty!! Wishing a very long life to you, sir!” The birthday greetings came from all over the world. A royal fan from New Zealand wrote, “Happy birthday your royal highness, big love all the way from Aotearoa. New Zealand!” “From Ecuador, congratulations to his Majesty, the King Charles III of the United Kingdom, that God bless to you in company of the Royal Family and of this British People,” read a wish from South America. Another was “Wishing His Majesty The King Charles III a very Happy 76th Birthday from Venezuela.” This story’s featured image is by Pete Hancock via Shutterstock. The post Kate Middleton & Prince William Share Message & Fun Photo As King Charles Marks 76Th Birthday appeared first on InspireMore.

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