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Democrats outnumbered Republicans more than 6-to-1 among commencement speakers at top U.S. colleges this year, according to a new report examining graduation ceremonies at elite universities<\/a> across the country.<\/p>\n

The College Fix found that Democratic or Democratic-leaning speakers made up 86% of partisan commencement speakers at schools ranked in U.S. News & World Report\u2019s top 100 universities.<\/p>\n

“The Fix reviewed public statements and donation records to determine the political leanings of speakers,” The College Fix reported<\/a> Friday. “The numbers only include the speakers at either the main commencement ceremony, or if there are multiple events, the undergraduate ceremonies. Other speakers did not publicly indicate a political leaning and were counted as not applicable in the analysis.”<\/p>\n

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The six Republican or right-leaning commencement speakers that The College Fix identified include Arthur Brooks, former president of the American Enterprise Institute, who gave Vanderbilt University\u2019s commencement address on May 7;\u00a0Dario Gil, undersecretary for science at the Department of Energy under President Donald Trump<\/a>, gave the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute commencement address on May 16; and former University of Texas quarterback and NFL player Colt McCoy gave The University of Texas at Austin\u2019s commencement address on May 9.<\/p>\n

Francis Fukuyama, who was identified as a conservative speaker by The College Fix even though he reportedly endorsed former President Barack Obama<\/a> for president in 2008, was the graduation speaker at William & Mary University\u2019s commencement ceremony on May 15. Eric Dickerson, a former Southern Methodist University running back, was SMU\u2019s commencement speaker on May 16, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee will deliver Yeshiva University\u2019s commencement address on May 28.<\/p>\n

Democratic commencement speakers this year identified by The College Fix included Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill<\/a>, who will give the New Jersey Institute of Technology\u2019s\u00a0commencement address; Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who addressed Michigan State University; and Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who gave Virginia Tech\u2019s graduation address.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Sen. Raphael Warnock<\/a>, D-Ga., gave Georgia Tech\u2019s commencement speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other Democratic commencement speakers this year included Dee Dee Myers, former President Bill Clinton<\/a>\u2019s White House Press Secretary, at Santa Clara University; Alison LaCroix, former President Joe Biden\u2019s appointment to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court, at the University of Illinois-Chicago; and Alison Nathan, U.S. circuit judge for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, nominated by Joe Biden in 2021 and identified as the second openly LGBTQ+ woman to serve on a federal circuit court, at the University of California Irvine.<\/p>\n

Democratic speakers from the entertainment sector include actresses Kristin Davis at University of Colorado<\/a> Boulder, Sarah Jessica Parker at Northwestern University, Jane Lynch at Cornell University, and William Adams, a singer and\u00a0rapper known as “will.i.am,” gave Worcester Polytechnic Institute\u2019s commencement address.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Democratic authors identified by The Fix giving commencement speeches included James Patterson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; John Green at Rice University; Xochitl Gonzalez at Brown University; and Min Jin Lee at Yale University<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Conservative speakers have routinely faced hostility on campuses. Chloe Cole announced last week that she was canceling<\/a> a scheduled University of Washington speech after citing alleged threats from Antifa<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In April, Republican Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette told Fox News Digital<\/a> that South Carolina State University rescinded their invite for her to give a commencement speech because she supports President Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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