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www.PROJECTVERITASACTION.COM INTEGRITY & DECEPTION CAMPAIGN 2020 Table of Contents

James o’keefe’s 1 LETTER 20 campaign

John Hickenlooper #expose2020 & Lisa savage 9 political compaign overview 22 campaign

cal cunningham & 10 campaign 23 campaign

Elizabeth Warren local media 16 campaign 24 coverage

campaign earned media 19 Amy McGrath campaign 24 coverage JAMES O’KEEFE CEO & FOUNDER, PROJECT VERITAS ACTION

James O’Keefe founded Project Veritas and Project Veritas how to lie on tax and welfare forms, bury cash in a tin box Action after he had pulled off some of the most consequential underground and how to declare the underage Salvadoran fe- undercover journalism coups in a generation, so he could have males O’Keefe claimed to be trafficking into the U.S. to become an organization dedicated to reviving the craft of undercover prostitutes as his dependents. journalism. These two organizations are non-profits dedicat- Working with Andrew Breitbart, a friend and mentor to ed to investigating corruption, dishonesty, waste and fraud in O’Keefe, he and Giles unleashed one of the biggest political public institutions and the private sector. scandals on Capitol Hill since the impeachment of President The undercover journalism O’Keefe has pioneered at Project Bill Clinton, ten years prior. The series of videos from ACORN Veritas relies on the most modern digital and video technology offices around the country led to the group’s collapse, as it also infused with the legacy of the great investigative journalists of lost federal contracts with agencies, such as the Census Bureau. the past, such as Nellie Bly, Mike Wallace, Gunter Wallraff and As other reporters got involved, including The Wall Street Jour- Woodward and Bernstein. Today, O’Keefe and Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action continue to seek the same opportunities that first motivated him as a Rutgers undergraduate philosophy major. At Rutgers, he founded an independent campus newspaper called The Centurion. In 2007, O’Keefe and Lila Rose recorded Planned Parent- hood staffers ready to accept a donation from O’Keefe would only be used to abort African-America children and working with Rose, pretending to be a pregnant 15-year-old, to conceal her age, so could abort her child without reporting to the police what would be a prima facie statutory nal’s John Fund and ’s Matthew Vadum, rape case. which led to the uncovering of more corruption. Ultimately, The ACORN Investigation the House and Senate, both controlled by Democrats, voted to O’Keefe first walked on the national stage in 2009. At the defund ACORN and President signed it into law. suggestion of Hannah Giles, she and O’Keefe went into offic- In the following years, O’Keefe and Project Veritas journal- es of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations ists released investigative reports led to a reduction of federal for Reform Now, purporting to be a pimp with his prostitute. funding to National Public Radio, as well as numerous NPR Using a camera hidden in O’Keefe’s necktie, they recorded the executives being fired and or retiring. Another investigation staffers in ACORN offices around the country explain to them 3 into the private group Enroll America, led to its director getting the No. 1 trending videos in the . This investiga- fired and a series of congressional field hearings focused on tion exposed CNN’s anti-Trump bias and raised serious ques- fraud inside Obamacare navigator program. tions about the news organization’s credibility. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Just days before the 2017 Presidential inauguration, O’Keefe resigned April 10, 2014, three weeks after the Government Ac- and Project Veritas reporters infiltrated the Antifa-linked Dis- countability Office documented her role in the raising money ruptJ20 movement to conduct an undercover investigation at for Enroll America in her official capacity from organizations Washington’s Comet pizzeria, where the agitators plotted how doing business with her department. to violently disrupt President-elect swearing in Heading into 2014 elections, O’Keefe launched investigations a planning meeting. After viewing the footage, O’Keefe turned in four key battleground states to expose the hypocrisy of Sen- it over to the FBI, the Secret Service and the capital’s Metropol- ate candidates misleading voters: Phil Bredesen, Russ Feingold, itan Police Department, which led to the arrest of Scott Char- and Allison Lundergan Grimes. All four Senate ney, Paul Kuhn, and Colin Dunn, charged with conspiracy to candidates lost at the ballot box. commit an assault. In 2016, Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action released The team kept up the investigative pressure in the 2018 videos exposing key Democrats not only admitting voter fraud Senate races by helping retire incumbent Democratic senators exists, but also showing how to successfully commit it on a in Missouri, North Dakota and Indiana. Undercover journalists massive scale. In , Democratic Election Commis- captured one candidate admitting that she had “a bunch of sioner Alan Schulkin admitted on a hidden camera voter fraud Republican voters” at home, but the she and Obama “essential- was rampant in his city and it was allowed to flourish to the ly have the same views,” and the “people just can’t know that.” benefit of the Democratic Party. Additional videos released that As a result, his team was credited with helping maintain the year exposed consultants hired by the Democratic National conservative balance of power in the U.S. Senate. Committee and ’s presidential campaign con- In 2019, O’Keefe launched the Project Veritas “Be Brave. Do spired to foment violence at rallies held by candidate Donald Something” campaign. The campaign’s focus is to recruit insid- Trump’s campaign. The investigation has been credited with ers at organizations who will come forward to Project Veritas exposing the dark side of the Clinton campaign’s tactics. and choose to become vehicles of change, catalysts for citizen O’Keefe turned his attention to the mainstream media in empowerment and have the will to inspire moral courage. 2017 and the Project Veritas investigations into CNN became These groundbreaking investigations into social media giants, 4 Pinterest, Google and exposed practices, such as This social media awakening culminated with President Facebook’s “deboosting” of users, posts and comments. Donald Trump calling a July 11, 2019 “Social Media Summit” One of the insiders, a Pinterest software engineer, Eric in the White House’s East Room. In the middle of his prepared Cochran, came forward with evidence that Pinterest targeted remarks, the president caught sight of O’Keefe and saluted him posts by the pro-life organization LiveAction, led by Lila Rose. for his impact. Another revelation was when Google engineers were re- “[Gesturing at James O’Keefe] there he is, stand up please! corded revealing Google’s not so hidden agenda in “Algorithmic How good… what a great job. Somebody said he’s controversial. fairness”, news blacklists and “human raters,” once again, the He’s not controversial, he’s truthful. He’s truthful. That was a findings were so compelling that O’Keefe gave the footage to great job. That was one of many. Thank you very much.” – Pres- the Department of Justice, along with more than 950 pages of ident Trump at the White House. July 11th, 2019. leaked documents. One of O’Keefe’s most recent impactful investigations was On Capitol Hill, the investigations led to House and Senate ABC News anchor Amy Robach telling people in the studio, but hearings, where lawmakers grilled social media executives the off-camera, that her bosses at ABC News spiked her expose of contrast between the public statements and the Project Veritas pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The “Good Morning America” an- findings. It was a direct result of these Project Veritas investi- chor told her studio crew her report would have also implicated gations, which reveals the practice of shutting down a user’s President Bill Clinton and she doubts Epstein took his own life. The Robach video was viewed and shared by tens of millions of viewers around the world as America’s mainstream media and international media outlets could not ignore this scoop. Aside from leading Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action, O’Keefe is the author of two best-selling books, Break- through: Our guerilla war to expose fraud and save democracy, published in 2013, and American Pravda: My fight for truth in the era of Fake News, published in 2018. Both books are personal and revealing works about both his experiences on the line of scrimmage of American democracy and his take on what mainstream media has become and what it should be.

access to their online community without notice that the term Follow James O’Keefe “shadow banning” entered the lexicon. The success of the social media investigations forced main- stream media outlets to cover O’Keefe and Project Veritas and it led to non-mainstream media outlets to conduct their own investigations. Even social media celebrities came forward with their own experiences of being shadow banned, suspended or even deplatformed from social media communities, where they had experienced great success. 5

8 #EXPOSE2020 POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS OVERVIEW

For months, undercover journalists from Project Ver- itas Action Fund (PVA) were embedded in Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Their tireless work resulted in the debut of #Expose2020, an investigative series focused entirely on the 2020 election.

The series was so devastating that multiple Sanders staffers including the Deputy Digital Director of the Sanders 2020 campaign locked down their accounts in very quick order.

PVA’s journalists had the cameras rolling as these self-identified “anarcho-com- munist” staffers praised gulags, called for Republican “re-education” camps and violent armed revolution, as well as outright destruction if Sanders were to lose the nomination. Communism has no place in our society and PVA played a vital role in defending our American way of life. 9 #EXPOSE2020

“Kyle Jurek, Iowa Field Organizer, Sanders Campaign: “I’m Ready to Throw Down Now… The Billionaire Class. The F***ing Media, Pundits. Walk into MSNBC Studios, Drag Those M*****F***ers Out by Their Hair and Light Them on Fire in the Streets.”

[Des Moines, Iowa] A Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign Field Organizer, Kyle Jurek, was secretly recorded bragging about his extreme left-wing fringe views, calling for violence and death to those who oppose Sanders’ radical policies. PART I-IV #EXPOSE2020: PART 1

Kyle Jurek, who works out of the or it goes to a second round at the DNC Sanders campaign Iowa office, has been Convention, f*cking Milwaukee will paid at least $9,775 since starting in his burn. It’ll start in Milwaukee and when official campaign role. Project Veritas police push back on that, then other cit- Action Fund’s undercover journalists ies will just f*cking (hand explosion).” secretly recorded Jurek’s statements for “The cops are gonna be the ones that months; recording footage on multiple are getting f*cking beaten in Milwaukee. occasions where he lashes out against They’re gonna call up the National Guard Sanders’ Democratic opposition, Presi- for that sh*t. I promise you that.” dent Trump’s supporters, and others. The recordings give insight into the mentality of many Sanders staffers and what they Want to watch these stories? truly believe. In the video, Jurek details his expectations for the 2020 Presidential election and emphatically states that cities will “burn” if President Trump wins re-election. Kyle Jurek believes that Democrats who oppose Bernie Sanders are also enemies of the socialist revolutionary cause, not just conservatives and Trump supporters. In exchanges with PVA jour- nalists, Jurek unloads: “If Bernie doesn’t get the nomination scan the qr codes with your phone! 12 #EXPOSE2020: PART 2

Kyle Jurek, Iowa Field Organizer, Sanders munist, reveals that several of his “…So, that, that was the intention, of Campaign, Says That Stalin Had a Legit- colleagues are also farther left than the Gulags, right? not only to elim- like, re- imate Reason to Use Gulags, Claiming Democratic Socialism the campaign move, like people where were like insidi- Gulags Were “Better Than What the CIA presents to the public. ous to the state from the state, right? Like Has Told Us They Were.” Jurek also implies that there are plen- “hey, you guys are all causing problems, Kyle Jurek: “There are things that are ty of Antifa group members who are part you’re like, working against the revolu- more important than the in of Sanders’ campaign, a group known tion; we’re just going to remove you and the United States” declares that his views for its violent actions in the streets across put you in Siberia, where you learn the are shared by many others within the the United States. The recordings give f*cking value of like being a comrade.” Sanders Campaign; Secret Service noti- insight into the mindset of many Sanders Like, and that’s what it has to be. fied over POTUS assassination concern. staffers and what they truly believe. Like our prisons, in the United States Jurek claims that “...Our prisons, in the On several occasions, Jurek expressed right now, are far worse. Far worse than United States right now, are far worse. his fringe views by suggesting that Amer- anything that they experienced in a Far worse than anything that they icans with opposing viewpoints should f*cking Gulag. experienced in a f**king gulag. Like fight be re-educated in Gulag-style camps or Like people get raped. People get fires in for a dollar. You know maybe even put to death: f*cking, work 12 hours a day. People have what I mean? That’s f**ed up. That’s “There’s a reason Joseph Stalin had to go fight fires in California for a dollar. super f**ked up. Soviet Union didn’t do Gulags, right? And actually, Gulags are a You know what I mean? That’s f*cked that sh*t.” lot better than what the CIA has told us up. that’s super f*cked up. Soviet Union Jurek, a self-described Anarcho-Com- they were…” didn’t do that sh*t.”

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13 #EXPOSE2020: PART 3 [Charleston, S.C.] In last week’s videos, what they truly believe. Project Veritas Action Fund exposed the “I’m already on Twitter, following shocking comments of an Iowa Field Or- numerous groups around the country ganizer for the Bernie Sanders Presiden- that are ready to organize yellow vest tial Campaign, Kyle Jurek. In today’s new protests. I’m ready…I’m ready to start video, a South Carolina Field Organizer tearing bricks up and start fighting…I’m for the Sanders Campaign, Martin Weiss- not – No cap, bro. I’ll straight up – I’ll gerber, is secretly recorded praising the straight up get armed, I want to learn Soviet Union, admitting his fantasies how to shoot, and go train. I’m ready for

about forcing a violent overthrow of the the f*cking revolution, bro…I’m telling United States federal government, and you. Guillotine the rich.” speaking favorably about forcing Ameri- cans into “Re-Education Camps.” He even speaks of decapitating people once his socialist revolution succeeds. Weissgerber, who also describes himself as a Communist, reveals that he has been radicalized from a very young age by both of his parents. The recordings of Weissgerber com- bined with the recordings released last week of Kyle Jurek, give insight into the mindset of many Sanders staffers and what they truly believe. The recordings of Weissgerber com- bined with the recordings released last week of Kyle Jurek, give insight into the mindset of many Sanders staffers and want to be an insider? CONTACT US! [email protected] 14 #EXPOSE2020: PART 4

[Charleston, SC] Two South Carolina Field presidency. In Baird’s view, creating a mil- first have to feel it out before you get into Organizers for the Sanders Campaign, itant labor movement that is institution- the crazy stuff…You know we were talking Mason Baird and Daniel Taylor, are se- alized by the federal government would about more extreme organizations like An- cretly recorded admitting that the Sanders be the best route to consolidate Sanders’ tifa, you were talking about, Yellow Vests, campaign attracts “truly radical people.” power. Here are the statements Baird made all that but we’re kinda keeping that on the They are also recorded brushing off the during conversations with a PVA journal- back-burner for now.” human rights atrocities committed by the ist: “We have all this momentum, where Soviet Union and planning violence as a “I’ve canvassed with someone whose do we go, regardless of the outcome, after back-up plan depending on the outcome an Anarchist, and with someone who’s it’s all over? Change won’t come easily, of Sanders’ election effort. Most revealing, a Marxist/Leninist so we attract radical, regardless. Even if Bernie is elected, change Mason Baird says that these ideas are not truly radical people in the campaign but will not come swiftly or easily, so the “outward facing,” potentially signaling that obviously that’s not outward facing…” connections we make now in the campaign the Sanders campaign wants to hide these Daniel Taylor, also a Sanders Field with people, and volunteers, it’s important intentions from the public. The record- Organizer in South Carolina, hinted at we retain that regardless of the outcome. ings of Mason Baird and Daniel Taylor how there are preparations underway for It’s unfortunate that we have to make plans combined with the recordings released of “extreme action” regardless if Sanders wins for extreme action but like I said, they’re Kyle Jurek (Iowa) and Martin Weissgerber or loses the election. Taylor speaks of the not going to give it to us even if Bernie is (South Carolina) in the last few weeks “extreme organizations” that would partic- elected.” give insight into the mindset of the people ipate in such actions: Sanders surrounds himself with and what “For me personally, I have no problem they truly believe the future holds if Sand- going all in on the campaign stuff because ers wins the Presidential Election. you’re planting a seed…yeah, the whole In the recorded conversation, Mason socialist thing four years ago was a whole Baird (South Carolina Field Organizer) lot more toxic than it is today…” elaborated on how he envisions a Sanders “We don’t want to scare people off, you

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[Iowa City, IA] An Presidential Campaign Field Organizer, Angel Ali- cea, was secretly recorded admitting to his frustrations of extreme political cor- rectness taking place within the Warren Campaign.

Angel Alicea, who works out of the Warren Campaign Iowa office, says that although he cares about transgender people, Democrats are losing elections for prioritizing gender pronouns over economic issues. ELIZABETH WARREN #EXPOSE2020 PART 5

[Iowa City, Iowa] An Elizabeth Warren being a heterosexual male in the office standard of living, that’s wrong.” Presidential Campaign Field Organizer, and not having gender pronouns in his JOURNALIST: “Yeah, you’re right.” Angel Alicea, was secretly recorded Twitter bio description. The recordings ANGEL ALICEA: “And when you admitting to his frustrations of extreme give insight into the conflicts among come from where I come from, no one political correctness taking place with- Warren staffers, how they view the cur- gives a f**k about a G** d**n pronoun. in the Warren Campaign. rent political landscape, and how they People want to know how to create a Angel Alicea, who works out of the prioritize certain campaign policies job.” Warren Campaign Iowa office, says over others. that although he cares about transgen- Angel Alicea believes that Elizabeth der people, Democrats are losing elec- Warren and the Democratic Party are tions for prioritizing gender pronouns misguided when it comes to the Amer- over economic issues. ican people’s priorities. He also thinks Project Veritas Action Fund’s under- that his fellow Warren Campaign staff- cover journalists secretly recorded Ali- ers are part of the problem: cea’s statements on multiple occasions ANGEL ALICEA: “At the end of the where he vents about other campaign day if we’re gonna prioritize pronouns staff members singling him out for over making sure people have a decent

18 “On the surface, he tries to portray himself as left of moderate, so that all the Georgians, not us Georgians, but all the rednecks and all that stuff will be like, ‘oh, JON OSSOFF he’s kind of cool,’” said Dino Nguyen, a self-professed progressive looking forward because the people to a career in politics. here are not open “If John was running as a progressive minded,” he said. within like the 5th District of Georgia, “There is maybe 40 which is all-black, that’s the one that John percent that are, or Lewis, the Civil Rights activist, was run- 45 percent--the rest ning for, he could win that, pretty much a are a different breed landslide, but he wants to go for senator,” or a different kind.” Nguyen said. Dino Nguyen: “You have to appeal to the whole state. “He has to win this Our whole state isn’t progressive. It’s more election. He is not moderate, right?” he said. going to win the Nguyen said to our undercover journal- election as a progressive, and that’s basical- thing that keeps you pumped up, especially ist that despite this strategy, the journalist ly it. At a certain point we have to wait for because I know he’s going to win. We know should be confident to spread the word. the boomers to die off.” he’s going to win, right? He’s going to do “You can spread that to your other pro- Journalist: “Do you think like the Geor- what it takes to help us out. And then it’s gressive friends but keep this on low key.” gians are stupid enough to—” going to take the rest of the states as well, Georgia voters are not ready for new Nguyen: “Yeah. You can spread that to because change doesn’t happen with just ideas, he said. your other progressive friends but keep one person.” “Jon is genuine to a certain point, but this on low key, but he’s not so far to the he can’t show his true self 100 percent of left that I’m not cool with it. But deep the time, so that’s the tough part about down, he’s low key progressive. It’s some- campaigning in purple or red states, AMY MCGRATH [COVINGTON, K.Y. – SEPTEMBER 16, 2020] The U.S. Senate clock” and emphasizing how McGrath has to appear to be sup- campaign for Democrat Amy McGrath was caught on portive of President Trump, and Pro-life even though her person- hidden camera sharing conflicting viewpoints, imploring staff al views are in complete contradiction. to appear “more moderate” and neglecting to correct voters who “It’s not that she [McGrath] like supports him [Trump], but may otherwise vote for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in order to like do this thing we’re trying to do, that’s sorta what’s even if “its not true.” required,” said Cox. “The way we need to do it (win the election) Footage released today by Project Veritas Action Fund (PVAF), is not by like talking about policy.” a not for profit investigative journalist organization, shows Abby Recent polls suggest the Bluegrass State which elected a Cox, Northern Kentucky Field Organizer for McGrath “off the Democratic governor in 2019 was in play for McGrath. However, the state has received mixed messaging from the candidate, her campaign and website. “I have to wonder, how much integrity does McGrath and her campaign have if they “selectively edit out” all of the actual policies that will be enacted once elected?” asked James O’Keefe, Founder and CEO of PVAF.

FOLLOW US ON @PROJECTVERITASACTION 19 MARK KELLY ing about how Americans are so stupid like; can we just trick them?” Alan Bederka: “You can, but you got to remember that there are other people trying to trick them to thinking the oppo- site way at the same time. You got to beat their propagandists. That’s the problem. Journalist: How do we do that? Bederka: “I arrest them.” Bederka also described how his organization, Everytown for Gun Safety, uses press releases to coordinate with other committees to circumvent federal election law—and how if the National Rifle Association found out about the coordination it would be catastrophic.

[Westchester County, N.Y.—Oct. 8, 2020] Bederka said the ban Kelly wants is far Mission for field organizer Project Veritas Action Fund journalists ex- more extreme that anything posted by Anjelica Carpio posed conflicted campaign staffers work- his campaign. ing to elect retired Navy Capt. Mark Kelly to Alan Bederka: “[Kelly’s] probably in “Even the staffers are kind of con- the US Senate representing Arizona. favor of a general assault weapon ban fused, like we want him to come full Another operative working to elect and what that would mean is no more force out, but the problem is this is such the retired astronaut turned Democratic senatorial candidate is Alan Bederka, a data manager for Everytown for Gun Safety who told a Project Veritas Action Fund journalist it is Kelly’s strategy to downplay his true gun control agenda. “[Kelly] just doesn’t make it a main focal point of his campaign,” Bederka said. “I mean, I work in politics. I’m used to people being liars.” Kelly is not in a position to change the opinion of Arizona voters on gun rights, so the strategy is to de-emphasize his gun control agenda—until he gets into the Senate, he said. “There’s a higher prob- ability of being able to enact the kind of legislation you’re hoping to see get in an manufacturing, assault weapons for a consequential state,” said Anjelica Car- enacted.” general consumer consumption. pio, who is a field organizer for Mission Bederka said one of things Kelly wants Journalist: “In what Arizona?” for Arizona, an affiliate of the Arizona to enact into law is a ban on so-called Bederka: “Yeah, in any state in the Democratic Party, which provides voter assault weapons. United States.” outreach and field operations for Kelly’s Alan Bederka: “Things like an assault In another exchange, Bederka com- Senate campaign. weapons ban, which would be freakin’ plained that the anti-gun rights move- “I think he’s trying to get elected and lovely.” ment has not successfully made its case then he’ll implement the measures,” she Journalist: “Does Mark Kelly support to the voters—despite the stupidity of the said. “You always can’t trust politicians, I that?” American people. mean like everybody on the staff would Bederka: “Oh yeah, absolutely. Journalist: “Remember you were talk- say this, like every politician, not every- 20 cannot get elected if he emphasized his full gun control agenda. “Arizona is very Republican state in general, like a red state and I know, actually right now it’s purple technical- ly, but I just think he wants to get those Independents,” she said.

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-I’m like defaming my campaign right of their main issues is guns,” said Carpio now.” to a Project Veritas Action Fund under- “Yeah. even if it’s not the fullest extent cover journalist. of like complete gun ban, he still wants “I don’t think he’s fully like being out to do something substantial and that there saying like, I want like a full gun would be assault weapons and universal control type measure,” she said. “I think DO SOMETHING. background checks,” Carpio said. it’s because he just wants to get elected “[Kelly] wants to get those Republicans first and then he wants to go further.” that don’t trust Trump anymore, and one Carpio said the problem is that Kelly FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! @PVERITAS_ACTION

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[DENVER—Oct. 15, 2020] Senate campaign body gonna vote staffers for former Colorado governor John for that? No. Will W. Hickenlooper Jr. told a Project Veritas they vote for that Action Fund journalist they are confused eventually? Yes.” about the Democrat’s stand on fracking. Another Maisha Fields, a senior advisor to campaign staffer the Hickenlooper’s Senate campaign, Quinn Egan told acknowledged the conflict in the former the Project Veritas governor’s fracking position in a conver- Action Fund jour- sation with an undercover journalist. nalist that she is Journalist: “It’s, again, don’t get me also confused. wrong, [Hickenlooper] has my vote, but I “Honestly, I just wish he would denounce fracking.” have no idea. It’s you’re lying but, like you know I’d still, I’m not---like what’s Maisha Fields: “Yeah—” like, I don’t know, worse?” she asked. “Something that he’s wishy washy on or Journalist: “That is my biggest thing. because it’s so con- voting for Cory Gardner? It’s sh*tty that we have to decide that, I don’t understand why it’s necessary, I tradictory. Like, I but like, still it’s like the two-party system at its finest.” guess.” don’t know,” said “I don’t think he fundamentally opposes fracking,” Egan Fields: “Policy is about baby steps, Egan, who is a po- said. “He’s said before that he like thinks it should still contin- because no one wants to, no one, we litical fellow with ue.” are a country where although we say we Hickenlooper’s James O’Keefe, the founder and CEO of the Project Veritas want change, we can only really accept Senate campaign. Action Fund, said, “If the staffers are confused about Hicken- change incrementally and so that is why “Like what else looper’s position on fracking, then it should not be a shock if it’s so difficult. It’s not like he wants that can you do, you’re the voters are confused.” same thing—but, realistically is every- like, eh, I think LISA SAVAGE

if Maine voters elect her to the Senate she will seek out Sen. Bernie Sanders (I.-Vt.) and the Democratic Party, but he is not extreme enough for her taste. Journalist: “When will the party embrace our agenda, the socialist agenda?” Lisa Savage: “The Democratic Party?” Journalist: “Yeah.” Savage: “Never.” Savage said Sanders is a potential ally, but he is too main- stream. “I don’t think Bernie is too radical. I think Bernie isn’t radical enough,” she said. [PORTLAND, MAINE—Nov. 2, 2020] A Project Veritas Action “His big mistake was trying to run as a Democrat,” Savage Fund journalist recorded Senate candidate said. in Deering Oaks Park here, when she revealed her support of “I’m happy to be called a socialist. But the Democrat party socialism and Australian-style firearms confiscation in a report is a machine, and they would never nominate somebody like released today. that,” she said. Savage supports socialism, thinks Sanders is not socialist “Why does he keep going to the Democratic Party? How enough could he not realize they’ll never nominate you? Never,” she Savage, who was arrested in 2019 protesting at the shipyard said. Bath Iron Works, told the Project Veritas Action Fund journalist 22 RAPHAEL WARNOCK

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