{"id":2367831,"date":"2024-11-12T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-could-make-hail-mary-effort-to-stop-trumps-return-byron-york-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:37:25","slug":"democrats-could-make-hail-mary-effort-to-stop-trumps-return-byron-york-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-could-make-hail-mary-effort-to-stop-trumps-return-byron-york-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats could make \u2018Hail Mary\u2019 effort to stop Trump\u2019s return: Byron York &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fdemocrats-could-make-hail-mary-effort-to-stop-trumps-return-byron-york-washington-examiner%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=2367831&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--><p>Byron York from the Washington Examiner discusses the \u2064potential actions Democratic\u2062 lawmakers \u2063might consider to prevent Donald Trump&#8217;s return \u200bto\u200c the\u2064 presidency as his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-california-gop-convention-trump-blasts-left-wing-liars-losers-creeps-perverts-and-freaks-ruining-state\/\" title=\"Trump criticizes &#039;left-wing liars, losers, creeps, perverts, and freaks&#039; ruining California at GOP Convention.\">inauguration approaches<\/a> in January 2025. He indicates that these efforts could become increasingly desperate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-north-korean-defector-yeonmi-park-announces-upcoming-book-on-candace\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: North Korean Defector Yeonmi Park Announces Upcoming Book On \u2018Candace\u2019\">drawing parallels<\/a> to their attempts in 2016. York speculates that\u200d Democrats may invoke the Fourteenth Amendment, which bars individuals involved \u200din insurrection from holding office, in\u2063 a \u200clast-ditch effort to \u200dblock\u200b Trump. He remarks on the current\u2062 leadership\u2063 vacuum within the \u200bparty \u2062following their\u2063 electoral\u2064 setbacks, questioning who will lead the Democrats into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-rogan-says-tucker-carlson-could-win-2028-presidential-race\/\" title=\"Joe Rogan predicts Tucker Carlson&#039;s victory in 2028 presidential race.\">2028 presidential race<\/a>. York concludes that without control over Congress or the presidency, the \u200bDemocratic Party could find itself sidelined \u200din Washington.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Democrats could make &lsquo;Hail Mary&rsquo; effort to stop Trump&rsquo;s return: Byron York<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1879834\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/byron-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Byron York<\/a> suggested that Democratic lawmakers could make last-ditch efforts to prevent President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> from returning to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a>, with these attempts becoming more &ldquo;desperate&rdquo; as January 2025 draws closer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>A week after the election, York cited how Democrats sought an effort &ldquo;behind the scenes&rdquo; in 2016 to prevent Trump from entering office and suggested new efforts using the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits one who engaged in insurrection against the United States from holding office, could be made in the wake of Trump&rsquo;s second victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3220757\/what-happens-donald-trump-president-elect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>WHAT HAPPENS NOW THAT TRUMP IS PRESIDENT-ELECT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And so I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bidens-performance-was-so-bad-people-started-to-wonder-if-he-hallucinated-audience-during-debate\/\" title=\"Watch: Biden&#039;s Performance Was So Bad, People Started to Wonder if He Hallucinated Audience During Debate\">wouldn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t be surprised if there&rsquo;s some sort of &lsquo;Hail Mary&rsquo; thing with the 14th Amendment,&rdquo; York, the <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s<\/em> chief political correspondent, said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>The Ingraham Angle<\/em>. &ldquo;Who knows what they might try, but they are clearly, I think, going to get very desperate as the weeks go by and January 20th gets closer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2691178&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=4da991173dc69d5ca1d14d7fed56a5af\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Beyond what Democratic lawmakers could do ahead of Trump&rsquo;s inauguration date next year, York also assessed how the party currently lacks a leader following its election losses for both the White House and the Senate. York noted this leaves the question of who could be the party&rsquo;s 2028 presidential candidate unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If this is what we think will happen, they&rsquo;re going to be completely aced out in the House and the Senate, and of course they won&rsquo;t control the White House, there will be zero Democratic leaders in Washington,&rdquo; York said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden is planning to attend Trump&rsquo;s inauguration in January next year, approximately two months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3226413\/arlington-gop-welcome-trump-back-white-house-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the two meet together Wednesday for a postelection meeting<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">president-elect&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s wife, Melania Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3226714\/melania-trump-wont-join-husband-white-house-meeting-bidens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">will not be joining her husband for this meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following his victory, Trump began assembling his Cabinet, which included asking Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3226677\/trump-picks-mike-waltz-national-security-adviser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Waltz<\/a> (R-FL) to be his national security adviser. Trump is also reportedly expected to name Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3226705\/trump-name-marco-rubio-secretary-of-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Marco Rubio<\/a> (R-FL) as his secretary of state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1879834\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1879834\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats may attempt a desperate move to block Trump&#8217;s return, says Byron York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2367833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-Byron-York-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[37928,3685,44866,3634],"class_list":["post-2367831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-byron-york","tag-democrats","tag-hail-mary","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-Byron-York-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367831","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367835,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367831\/revisions\/2367835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}