{"id":1678194,"date":"2022-10-07T12:17:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678194"},"modified":"2022-10-07T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T16:19:36","slug":"mark-kelly-cant-hide-from-his-embrace-of-joe-bidens-awful-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-kelly-cant-hide-from-his-embrace-of-joe-bidens-awful-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Kelly Can\u2019t Hide From His Embrace Of Joe Biden\u2019s Awful Agenda"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fmark-kelly-cant-hide-from-his-embrace-of-joe-bidens-awful-agenda%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=1678194&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><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s one statistic Sen. Mark Kelly can\u2019t run from: The Arizona Democrat has voted with President Joe Biden\u2019s radical agenda more than <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-congress-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">94 percent<\/a> of the time. With a White House <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-approval-rating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">approval rating<\/a> below 43 percent, that\u2019s not a number to run on during an election cycle historically hostile to the president\u2019s party in power. <\/p>\n<p>On the Arizona <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Bjhdbkn3kA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debate <\/a>stage Thursday night, Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters made it a point right out of the gate to highlight the incumbent Democrat\u2019s record being in lockstep with the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSen. Mark Kelly has messed everything up. Our border is in chaos. We\u2019ve got drugs and illegal aliens just pouring in. Crime is up. The cost of groceries, actually the cost of everything you need to live, keeps going up and up,\u201d Masters said in his opening statement. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like this two years ago. What changed? Joe Biden took over, and in Washington, Mark Kelly backed Joe Biden every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly turning the traditionally red seat into one of the most reliable votes for the White House agenda has already been the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/04\/exclusive-heritage-action-super-pac-drops-seven-figure-ad-buy-in-arizona-senate-race-as-mcconnell-abandons-blake-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">numerous <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/22\/masters-gets-more-support-after-mcconnell-dumps-opportunity-to-help-pick-up-arizona-senate-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ads <\/a>in the state, and for good reason. In 2020, Biden carried Arizona by fewer than 43,000 votes, an even narrower margin than Kelly, who was elected the same year by a margin of fewer than 80,000. <\/p>\n<p>While Masters scored quick hits on crime and inflation in the debate\u2019s first quarter, the knock-out blow came when Kelly couldn\u2019t answer in the affirmative when presented with a critical question posed by the Republican challenger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to ask one question,\u201d Masters said, pivoting to face Kelly to his right. \u201cSir, have you done everything in your power to secure our southern border?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masters asked the question after the junior senator tried to distance himself from Biden, characterizing himself as an independent lawmaker who has \u201cpushed back on this administration multiple times.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>When confronted on stage over his record on border security, Kelly began talking about various tours he took with law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat, my friend, is called evasion,\u201d Masters interjected. \u201cWe have a wide-open southern border so if that\u2019s the best you can do, I respectfully request you resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"neSd8Er5QIQGMu7a99dAe0fHrLhZ3iXo1STPUy7DuLskNCGpxgBVOI54Et0zZRfpYiqxlmjwt2WFYl6hz8cF2vKm3CMoAR6WOTqJ\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MARK KELLY: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been focused on the border since day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BLAKE MASTERS: &#8220;We have a wide open southern border, so if that&#8217;s the best you can do, I respectfully request you resign.&#8221; \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A5KeqsWmQS\">pic.twitter.com\/A5KeqsWmQS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1578370288919511041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On stage, Kelly tried to frame himself as a champion for border security, but the senator has voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/in-midst-of-fentanyl-crisis-vulnerable-democrats-voted-down-opioid-detection-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reject <\/a>reinforcements for law enforcement and denied agents more equipment for drug detection. Kelly also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1171\/vote_117_1_00051.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted <\/a>to end the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy, opening the migrant floodgates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall me old fashioned, but I think the correct amount of illegal immigration is zero,\u201d Masters said. Moments earlier, Masters pointed out Kelly\u2019s vote for an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/10\/irs-hiring-spree-is-the-biggest-expansion-of-the-police-state-in-american-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">army of 87,000 IRS <\/a>agents in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-inflation-reduction-act-is-anything-but-spending-power-supply-demand-imbalance-restrictions-regulation-11659289812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dubiously-named<\/a> Inflation Reduction Act while the Arizona lawmaker denied residents an army of agents to secure the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark Kelly said no to 18,000 more border patrol agents but yes to 87,000 new IRS agents,\u201d Masters said. \u201cThat shows you what his priorities are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the match-up, Kelly sought to frame Masters as an extremist on abortion. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has supported state and national abortion bans that will deny the right for a woman to make this decision by themselves,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>But Masters didn\u2019t shy away from his own platform, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/13\/make-democrats-defend-their-abortion-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">far more in line<\/a> with public opinion and the rest of the developed world than the Democrat Party\u2019s stance of taxpayer-funded, on-demand abortion for any reason at any time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pro-life, and that means I believe in limits,\u201d Masters said. \u201cNow I support restrictions because I don\u2019t believe in being extreme on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Republican venture capitalist branded Kelly as the \u201cabortion radical\u201d for sponsoring the Democrats\u2019 legislation mandating that all 50 states legalize abortion for all nine months of pregnancy up until birth. In contrast, Masters reiterated his support for a state and federal ban on the procedure after 15 weeks, which is the policy in a bill Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced in September.<\/p>\n<p>When the Democrat senator was pressed on his support for late-term abortion, Kelly kept returning to his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/07\/philadelphias-500k-tax-funded-abortion-bankroll-proves-democrats-want-more-than-to-codify-roe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support for the now-extinct Supreme Court precedent in <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you supported sixth-, seventh-, eighth-month [abortions]?,\u201d the debate moderator asked, seeking to nail down whether the senator supported any hard limit. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have supported <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>,\u201d Kelly said in an effort to dodge his own record of voting for a law that was more extreme than the five-decade-old precedent. <\/p>\n<p>Kelly tried to play down his abortion extremism by claiming that \u201clate-term abortion only happens when there\u2019s a serious problem.\u201d But <a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/the-reality-of-late-term-abortion-procedures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according <\/a>to an analysis of the medical literature by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, the majority of late-term abortions are not performed for \u201cmaternal health complications or lethal fetal anomalies discovered late in pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s one statistic Sen. Mark Kelly can\u2019t run from: The Arizona Democrat has voted with President Joe Biden\u2019s radical agenda more than 94 percent of the time. 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