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Stanford, CA

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rice-cameron was Destined for notoriety ever since coming out as a pro-trump conservati­ve more than two years ago, given that his mother is Susan Rice, the former national security adviser for President Barack Obama who was on Joe Biden’s short list for vice president before he settled on Kamala Harris. In November, Rice-cameron helped bring Ben Shapiro to his school, Stanford University. Flyers hung throughout campus— and featuring an image of the guest speaker with the text “Facts don’t care about your feelings”—were defaced en masse. Staffers at one dorm replaced them with a letter that said, in part, that they did “care about your feelings, your physical and emotional health. You matter and are welcome here in this space. We welcome and center the voices that some may wish to specifical­ly marginaliz­e and target.” While president of the university’s College Republican­s in 2018 and hosting an event supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Rice-cameron insisted that police issue a citation to a female student who “got in my face and proceeded to hit me in the chest area and push me back forcefully,” according to the campus newspaper. Rice-cameron declined an interview request but told

that he agreed with Trump’s immigratio­n policy, support of Israel, deregulati­on efforts and anti-abortion position. As for the other side, he said, “A large contingent of the Democratic Party has a fixation with race and sowing racial divisions.”

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