{"id":1474819,"date":"2022-05-13T18:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T22:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474819"},"modified":"2022-05-13T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T22:14:44","slug":"harvey-weinstein-linked-biden-adviser-liberal-group-created-maga-smear-during-six-month-research-project-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvey-weinstein-linked-biden-adviser-liberal-group-created-maga-smear-during-six-month-research-project-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein-Linked Biden Adviser, Liberal Group Created \u2018MAGA\u2019 Smear During Six-Month Research Project: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvey-weinstein-linked-biden-adviser-liberal-group-created-maga-smear-during-six-month-research-project-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474819&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Untitled-design-24-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Outgoing White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki recently implied that the president\u2019s new nickname for Republicans \u2014 some variation of MAGA, like \u201cUltra-MAGA\u201d \u2014 was something that he created on his own accord. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/13\/biden-ultra-maga\/\">new report<\/a> from The Washington Post casts doubt on that claim as it revealed that the nickname was actually the result of a six-month research project conducted by a progressive group in Washington, D.C., as well as a public relations adviser who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/stevenperlberg\/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein\">allegedly assisted<\/a> convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein prior to his trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden\u2019s attempt to appropriate the \u2018MAGA\u2019 brand as a political attack was hardly accidental,\u201d The Washington Post reported on Friday. \u201cIt arose from a six-month research project to find the best way to target Republicans, helmed by Biden adviser Anita Dunn and by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a liberal group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunn worked for the Biden administration until August of last year. She was recently re-hired by the administration. Now, it appears that during her time away from the executive office, she was in part working on this research study to craft the best way to smear Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/stevenperlberg\/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein\">reportedly<\/a> helped the disgraced Hollywood mogul Weinstein conduct damage control after it was revealed he had illegally used his immense position to pressure Hollywood actresses to perform sexual favors in exchange for movie roles. He was convicted of rape after six women came forward against him.<\/p>\n<p>The extent to which she helped him during that time remains unclear, but her previous employer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/stevenperlberg\/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein\">confirmed<\/a> that a friend had asked Dunn to speak with Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Center for American Progress Action Fund assisted in the research project to zero in on Biden\u2019s new talking points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of that extremism gets captured in that brand,\u201d Navin Nayak, president and executive director of CAP Action Fund, said of the term. \u201cWe are not trying to create a new word. This is how they define themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe polling and focus group research by Hart Research and the Global Strategy Group found that \u2018MAGA\u2019 was already viewed negatively by voters \u2014 more negatively than other phrases like \u2018Trump Republicans,\u2019\u201d the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>It was not reported how much capital was spent on this effort, but it might have been a giant waste of money. Many Republicans have already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump-embraces-bidens-great-maga-king-nickname-and-conservatives-follow-suit\/\">embraced<\/a> the nickname, including President Donald Trump, whom Biden called \u201cthe Great MAGA King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Regardless of its impact, this story means that when Biden recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/really-joe-this-maga-crowd-is-the-most-extreme-political-organization-in-american-history\">said<\/a> that \u201cthis MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that\u2019s existed in American history, in recent American history,\u201d he likely made that claim in part out of a focus-group-tested poll that said the best way to get liberals to view their fellow Americans in a negative light is to call them \u201cMAGA.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">That is quite the<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> abandonment of the lofty rhetoric about unity that Biden expressed during his inauguration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki recently implied that the president\u2019s new nickname for Republicans \u2014 some variation of MAGA, like \u201cUltra-MAGA\u201d \u2014 was something that he created on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1482925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}