GOP, Dems come together to end Daylight Saving over health and economic risks

In 1957, rockabilly singer Bob Ehret repeated, “We’ve got to stop the clock, baby; to spend more time with you” — and in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle strongly considered the benefits of doing so, in a way.

Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Daylight Saving was grounded in good-faith efforts to reduce energy consumption, but that instead it has led to increased auto accidents in the dark, workplace issues and objections from the agriculture sector that relies on early-morning sunlight.

“We find ourselves adjusting our clocks… springing forward and falling back in the fall. For many Americans, this biannual ritual is a minor inconvenience… But when we take a closer look at the implications of changing the clocks, its impact on our economy, our health and our everyday lives, we can see that this practice is more than an annoyance,” Cruz said.

“The idea was simple. Fewer hours of darkness meant less electricity consumption for lighting and heating.”

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However, unlike the early 1900s, when the U.S. economy was heavily reliant on energy consumption tied to daylight hours, today’s effects from sunrise and sunset timings are “de minimis,” he said.

Cruz, along with Massachusetts neurology physician Dr. Karin Johnson, spoke about the health concerns associated with changing the time twice a year and with the permanence of Daylight Saving Time (DST), versus Standard Time.

“Research has shown that the abrupt shift in time, especially the spring transition when we lose an hour of sleep,” Cruz said, as Johnson spoke about the effects on people’s circadian rhythm, vascular system and sleep deprivation.

The panel also hosted an official from the National Golf Course Owners Association, as he and other lawmakers spoke of the increased revenue from evening tee times and other tourist activities only possible during daylight hours.

On the Democratic side, Sen. Lisa Blunt-Rochester of Delaware agreed that it was time to consider a “permanent time for our country.”

She noted a bill from then-Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to abolish DST stalled in the House.

“This body [then] took a harder look at how time changes work state-by-state,” she said.

“What works in my home state of Delaware may not work in Washington state, but I know I speak for many Americans when I say it’s time. It’s time to figure this out.”

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Witnesses to the hearing noted that it is indeed southern states like Florida and Texas where the negative effects of a permanent Daylight Saving Time would be most felt.

Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., spoke about his work shifting Daylight Saving Time twice to help assuage some of the issues that were brought up each time, including better guaranteeing trick-or-treating happens at worst at dusk.

Markey quipped that his decades-long work on this issue earned him the nickname “the Sun King.”

“We need to stop the clock,” Blunt-Rochester said. “We know that changing the clock disrupts sleep, which can lead to negative health outcomes. Several studies have noted issues with mood disturbances increase hospital admissions, and even heart attacks and strokes.”

Lock the Clock movement founder Scott Yates testified about the flawed history of DST, noting a time during the 1970s energy crisis that the Nixon administration briefly made DST permanent.

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Nixon signed the law in December 1973 while embroiled in Watergate — but it took effect the first week the following year — Jan. 6, 1974.

“So you can imagine, the worst Monday of the year already is the one after the holiday break where you have to go back to school and everything — to have an extra hour of sleep robbed away right before that. You can understand why it was so unpopular and why it was repealed,” Yates said, noting that months later, Nixon resigned.

The burglary by the “Plumbers” at the Watergate Hotel also notably occurred during nighttime hours.

“So maybe — if we had more daylight, the Watergate break-in doesn’t happen,” Cruz quipped in response.

“And history would be different.”

White House responds to Democrats claiming ‘insider trading’ after tariff pause

The White House slammed Democrats for playing “partisan games” and calling for an investigation into alleged insider trading after President Donald Trump paused customized reciprocal tariffs for 90 days on Wednesday. 

“It is the responsibility of the President of the United States to reassure the markets and Americans about their economic security in the face of nonstop media fearmongering. Democrats railed against China’s cheating for decades, and now they’re playing partisan games instead of celebrating President Trump’s decisive action yesterday to finally corner China,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in comment to Fox Digital when asked about Democrats claiming Trump manipulated the market. 

Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., wrote a letter on Thursday to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, as well as Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, calling for an investigation into potential insider trading. 

“This sequence of events raises grave legal and ethics concerns. The President, his family, and his advisors are uniquely positioned to be privy to and take advantage of non-public information to inform their investment decisions,” the senators wrote. 

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Trump, ahead of pausing the reciprocal tariffs, posted to Truth Social, “BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before!” and “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT.” The president had previously said he would not pause tariffs but was open to negotiating with other nations. 

Trump paused only the higher, customized tariffs he placed on nations that historically installed trade barriers on U.S. goods, with nations across the world instead facing a lower 10% tariff on goods, as the Trump administration and world leaders hash out negotiations for the reciprocal tariffs. 

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China, however, was not part of the tariff pause and was instead hit with a higher 125% tariff after retaliating with its own additional tariffs against the U.S.

“I’m going to do my best to find out,” Schiff, who has long been a Trump foe, told Time of investigating the president for alleged insider trading. “Family meme coins and all the rest of it are not beyond insider trading or enriching themselves. I hope to find out soon.”

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the customized tariffs were paused due to Trump wanting to be “personally involved” in negotiations as dozens of nations contacted the White House to strike deals.

“We’ve had more than 75 countries contact us. And I imagine after today, there will be more. So it is just a processing problem. Each one of these solutions is going to be bespoke. It is going to take some time. And President Trump wants to be personally involved. So, that’s why we’re getting the 90-day pause,” Bessent said during a gaggle with the media outside the White House on Wednesday afternoon. 

Trump added on Wednesday that he was watching the volatile bond market, calling it “tricky” and making people a “little queasy,” but denied it persuaded him to change course on customized tariffs. 

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“I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy. You know, they we’re getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid, unlike these champions, because we have a big job to do. No other president would have done what I did. … I know the presidents, they wouldn’t have done it, and it had to be done,” Trump added in his remarks. 

Explosive DOD report buried by Biden admin raises new questions about COVID timeline

A 2022 Defense Department report long withheld by the Biden administration has recently surfaced and reveals that seven U.S. service members showed COVID-19-like symptoms after having competed in the World Military Games in Wuhan, China, months before the deadly virus first broke out in the U.S.

The explosive disclosure suggests that the virus was circulating in Wuhan months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019. The games took place in October 2019, two months earlier. 

It also challenges the Biden administration’s public claims in 2021 that there was no evidence that any American participants contracted the virus at those games. The CIA, FBI and Energy Department have all now suggested that the COVID-19 virus pandemic may have originated via a lab leak from the city’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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The 2022 report was legally required to be released publicly online more than two years ago “in a searchable format,” but it only became available some time in late March, when the Trump administration uploaded it to a Defense Department website, The Washington Free Beacon reported. 

The outlet reported that the Biden administration did send copies of the report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in December 2022, but the report was never made available online by the administration. 

The report found that of the 263 U.S. delegation that traveled to the event, seven U.S. members showed COVID-19-like symptoms between Oct. 18, 2019, and Jan. 21, 2020. All symptoms were resolved within six days and could be attributed to other respiratory illnesses​.

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The report also found that there were no significant outbreaks of COVID-19-like symptoms at Defense Department facilities after the athletes returned, although service members were not tested for COVID-19 or antibodies as testing was not available at that early stage of the pandemic.

However, Washington was one of the earliest states to show a spike in COVID-19, and the U.S. team used chartered flights to and from the games via Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Prospect reported.

Then-Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told The Washington Post in June 2021 that the military had “no knowledge” of any COVID-19 infections among the troops that participated in those games.

The Pentagon, during Trump’s first term, said in June 2020 that there was no reason to test members as the event was held “prior to the reported outbreak,” Prospect reported. 

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Other international athletes reported having come down with COVID-19-like symptoms, the Daily Mail reported in June 2021. 

The games have long been suspected as being a “super spreader” event which took place close to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance, partially funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health was conducting gain of function research there. 

“Many of the athletes said ​Wuhan looked like a ‘ghost town’ in October‚ two months before China reported the first case of coronavirus there,” the New York Post reported.

Former Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., in 2021 said that those months were critical and could have helped the United States understand the disease and “shut down travel earlier in order to stop the spread and ultimately save potentially millions of lives.”

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China gets swiftly denied after asking country to ‘join hands’ and fight US tariffs

Australia rejected China’s offer to work together to combat President Donald Trump’s tariffs. 

“We’re not about to make common cause with China,” Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles told Sky News on Wednesday. “We are not going to be holding hands with China in respect of any contest that is going on in the world.”

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Trump issued a 90-day pause on tariffs for nations across the globe — except China. Australia is among the countries that, for the next 90 days, will face only the baseline 10% tariff. 

Australia’s trade relationship with China puts the country in the middle of rising trade tensions. 

According to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in 2023, China bought $219 billion — or 32.5% — of Australia’s total exports worldwide. Meanwhile, the department’s data shows the U.S. made up just 6% of Australia’s export sales. 

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Earlier this month, prior to the tariff pause, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Trump’s decision to impose a 10% tariff was “not the act of a friend.” He also said that the tariffs had “no basis in logic.” However, Albanese made it clear that his government would not retaliate.

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The Trump administration has taken an especially tough stance against China as it imposes tariffs worldwide. As of Thursday, Trump raised the tariff on Chinese imports to 125%, as Beijing put an 84% tariff on American imports.

“By weaponizing tariffs to exert maximum pressure for selfish gains, the U.S. is pitching itself against the rest of the world,” China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in a post on X, a social media platform banned in China. “China doesn’t want a trade war, but we will fight if we must.”

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Trump has not gone easy on China, writing in a post on Truth Social that the increase in tariffs on Beijing is a direct response to the country’s “lack of respect” for the global economy. The president made the comment in the post announcing his 90-day pause on tariffs for countries across the globe.

“At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable,” Trump wrote.

Walz takes stage at veterans rally — and it immediately backfires on him

Veterans heckled Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., for stolen valor claims during remarks at a veterans rally at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul on Wednesday.

As Walz welcomed the veterans to the Capitol for the annual “Veterans Day on the Hill,” he was met by a fiery crowd who called him a “coward” and criticized him for sympathizing with China, according to footage captured by KSTP.

“Coward! You sympathize with the Chinese!” some veterans holding American flags and “take action” signs shouted at the Democratic governor as he welcomed them to the Capitol. 

“Sir, you’re welcome to come… Let me finish!” Walz replied as he tried to ease tensions while another veteran shouted: “Shut your f—ing mouth!” 

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“Woah, hey — there’s some passion in the building, which is a good thing,” Walz said before beginning his address. 

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Footage of the hecklers disrupting Walz’s remarks has gone viral on social media, with conservative influencers celebrating the criticism. 

Walz faced accusations of stolen valor during the 2024 presidential election for inconsistencies describing his military service. 

Walz is a veteran, having served in the Minnesota National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery after transferring from the Nebraska National Guard in 1996. He retired as a master sergeant in 2005.

The former vice presidential candidate was accused of stolen valor for retiring just months before his battalion deployed to Iraq as war raged in the Middle East following the 9/11 attacks. Walz put in his papers for retirement at least five months before his battalion received deployment orders, according to the Minnesota National Guard.

Walz was also discovered to have claimed several times that he retired as a command sergeant major, which is not accurate — he reverted to his previous rank upon retirement because he did not complete the necessary corresponding coursework, the National Guard has said.

Walz’s decades-long ties to China also came to light when Vice President Kamala Harris picked him as her running mate last summer. He worked briefly in China as a teacher, traveling to Guangdong in 1989 for a teaching-abroad program to teach English and American history. 

Walz was initially believed to have made dozens of trips to China over his lifetime, but a campaign spokesperson later tried to walk that number back and said he made approximately 15 visits to China. He also boasted about Minnesota hosting several top Chinese leaders in a letter unearthed by Fox News Digital.

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The 2024 campaign trail brought Walz’s inconsistencies regarding his background into the national conversation. Walz said he “misspoke” when he claimed he visited Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and incorrectly claimed his family used in vitro fertilization. Walz laughed off the missteps, calling himself a “knucklehead.”

The Commanders’ Task Force and Minnesota Association of County Veterans Service Officers hosted the rally in the Rotunda that erupted in boos for Walz on Wednesday. The annual event is designed to streamline communication between Minnesota elected officials and veterans. 

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Once the fury settled, Walz committed to upholding budget protections for veterans during his remarks, in light of Minnesota budget negotiations and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leading efforts to cut spending and lay off federal employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). 

Walz did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

Suspect in Texas teen’s brutal murder won’t face death penalty or life without parole

Karmelo Anthony, the 17-year-old suspect in the stabbing death of Frisco, Texas track star Austin Metcalf, cannot face the death penalty or life without parole, according to Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis. 

Willis explained to WFAA that prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty or life without parole because of a Supreme Court ruling in a case called Roper v. Simmons from 2005, that excludes juveniles from those punishments. 

“The Supreme Court has said not only can you not seek the death penalty against someone who committed a crime when they’re 17, you can’t even get them life without parole,” he said. “That would not be something we could do even if we wanted to.”

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Anthony has been charged with first-degree murder in Metcalf’s death. The pair went to different Frisco high schools, but were both at Kuykendall Stadium on April 2 for a track meet, where the alleged stabbing occurred. 

Asked whether a trial would be moved outside of Collin County, Willis says that’s up to the judge. 

“Ultimately, that’ll be a judge’s decision to make at the time of trial, but, yes, this happened in Collin County. I want Collin County citizens to be able to decide this,” he said.

Fox News has confirmed that Anthony’s bond hearing, where his new attorneys plan to argue against his current $1 million bail, is scheduled for Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. 

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While the hearing will be open to the public, cameras will not be allowed inside the courtroom and there will be no live stream of the proceedings. 

An online fundraising campaign for Anthony has climbed steadily all week, and has now surpassed $300,000.

Meanwhile, Dallas activist and head of an organization called Next Generation Action Network Dominique Alexander met with Frisco Police Tuesday behind closed doors. 

Police refused to comment after the meeting, but Alexander held a press conference and told reporters he asked police for increased protection of the Anthony home, claiming that their address had been maliciously shared online. 

“We have saw so many different hateful images, just hateful things and the Next Generation Action Network wants to reiterate Karmelo Anthony has a right to a fair trial, unbiased and removed of racial hate and bigotry,” said Alexander.

Alexander has been critical of police and the justice system in the past. 

Next Generation Action Network held a “George Floyd Week” in 2021 to commemorate Floyd’s death the prior year, according to Spectrum News 1.

“The movement for Black lives must win, that everyone should be protected, and that the statehood of policing must change,” he told the news outlet at the time. 

“Like, one of the things I always say is that every victim, every family doesn’t get the same attention like a George Floyd or a Breonna Taylor,” he said. “It does not mean that their issues are not important, it just means that this oppressive system has won to suppress the facts about the case.”

Anderson did not return a comment request. 

The arrest report from the incident paints a clear picture of what the police and witnesses claim happened during the stabbing inside the Memorial High School track team’s tent. 

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Metcalf reportedly told Anthony that he needed to move out of the Memorial team’s tent, a witness told Frisco police. The report noted that Anthony “grabbed his bag, opened it and reached inside it” and said, “Touch me and see what happens.”

Metcalf then pushed Anthony out of the tent, according to the report. 

In the next moment, the witness told police that Anthony “reached into his bag and the male took a knife out of the bag and stabbed Austin.”

A school resource officer was the first to respond to the scene, and handcuffed Anthony, noting that there was blood on the suspect’s left middle finger. 

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“I was protecting myself,” Anthony said. “He put his hands on me.”

One officer at the scene referred to Anthony as the alleged suspect, and Anthony made a “spontaneous statement,” according to the report: “I’m not alleged, I did it.”

Anthony also asked the officers if Metcalf was “going to be OK” and asked if what happened could be considered “self-defense,” the report said.

Whitmer’s Trump photo-op sparks Democratic outrage: ‘Huge embarrassment’

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is under fire from fellow Democrats after appearing alongside President Donald Trump during a White House signing ceremony, sparking accusations that she was used as a political “prop.”

“Just a f—ing disaster,” said one Democratic operative, who usually supports Whitmer but spoke anonymously to NBC News. 

“It feels like it removes some of the momentum she had as a politically savvy swing-state Dem.”

Whitmer was in Washington, D.C., for what was supposed to be a private meeting with Trump on Wednesday. Instead, she ended up standing off to the side as the president signed executive orders calling for the investigation of two first-term administration aides who were critical of his actions. 

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Many of the orders were not backed by Whitmer, but her presence near the Resolute Desk gave the appearance of support, an image that didn’t go unnoticed by members of her party.

CNN senior reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere called the moment a “huge embarrassment,” while CNN host Audie Cornish said bluntly, “This does not look like the politics of resistance.” 

Dovere also insinuated that the situation was set up by the Trump team, saying, “She [Gov. Whitmer] went for this meeting with the president, and he used her as a prop.” 

Critics said the moment undercut Whitmer’s persona as a rising Democratic leader, especially as Trump praised her on camera, calling her a “very good person” who had done “an excellent job” in Michigan. 

Trump and Whitmer have been working together on keeping Selfridge Air Force Base, outside Detroit, open and funded. They’ve also vowed to tackle an invasive fish posing a danger to the ecosystem of the Great Lakes.  

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During the signing session, Trump called the issues “bipartisan” and joked about standing alongside the Michigan Democrat when the initiatives were completed, saying “we’ll all stand there together and cut a ribbon. Okay, Gretchen?”

Whitmer’s office moved quickly to contain the fallout, stating she was brought into the room “without any notice” and that her appearance was “not an endorsement of the actions taken or statements made” during the event.

In a speech earlier that morning, Whitmer struck a surprisingly sympathetic tone toward the Trump administration’s controversial tariff policy.

“I understand the motivation behind the tariffs, and I can tell you here’s where President Trump and I do agree,” she said. 

“We do need to make more stuff in America.”

Whitmer emphasized shared goals around strengthening U.S. manufacturing in key sectors like cars, steel and computer chips. 

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While she later criticized the tariffs’ timing, warning against bringing out “the tariff hammer to swing at every problem,” her comments marked a notable break from potential 2028 Democratic rivals like Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who have openly opposed Trump’s economic agenda.

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The day’s events sparked fresh questions about Whitmer’s political instincts, just as early jockeying begins for the Democratic presidential field.

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Tennis legend poses question to Democrats amid trans controversies

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has championed fairness in girls’ and women’s sports and has hit out at Democratic lawmakers who have failed to show support for her and others.

Navratilova on Thursday posed a question to Democrats as some states have continued to thumb their nose at President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep males out of girls’ and women’s sports.

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“What are the Dems willing to give up for men who identify as trans?” she asked on X. “Abortion… the Constitution… rule of law… That’s just for starters…”

At the start of the year, Navratilova criticized Democratic lawmakers who killed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The tennis legend called on Democrats to “grow a spine” in a post on social media.

Trump signed the executive order in February and Navratilova lamented that Democrats failed to do what the president did.

“I hate that the Democrats totally failed women and girls on this very clear issue of women’s sports being for females only,” she wrote in a post on X.

High school organizations in Maine, California and Washington have all failed to change policies that currently allow transgender athletes to participate in girls’ and women’s sports.

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Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Jasmine Crockett of Texas have downplayed the issue, even as Trump campaigned on it and soundly defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the general election.

Ocasio-Cortez mentioned the overall subject of Democratic support for the trans community during an interview on “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart” podcast on Jan. 23. 

“When we allow ourselves to constantly be distracted by these culture wars around trans people, it’s a new thing every day, and the answer isn’t that we just let those people be attacked, it’s that we say, ‘What are you doing, man?’ I think we need to make standing up for those folks just such an afterthought that it’s not even a debate,” Ocasio-Cortez said. 

“Like, we need to understand and see the bait for what it is, but we don’t take the bait by letting those rights just erode and go by the wayside.”

Ocasio-Cortez has previously voted in favor of multiple bills that would enable trans athletes to play in women’s and girls’ sports nationwide, including the Equality Act and the Transgender Bill of Rights. She also claimed on Jan. 14 that the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act would empower child sexual predators and that “trans girls are girls.”

In an interview with The 19th, Crockett dismissed the topic of trans inclusion in women’s and girls’ sports as a “distraction,” while minimizing the potential impact they’ve had on the lives of women and families. Crockett made the comments while criticizing Democrats for becoming divided on the issue. 

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“In this election, we allowed ourselves to be divided. We allowed them to distract us, and we allowed them to talk about the trans folk,” Crockett said. “According to them, the trans kids, they want to play sports. That is the biggest issue that we’ve had. Since when? Since when? Find the little trans child that is ruining your life. I mean, I’m just like, what are we doing? Like, what are we doing?”