Blog Posts Not Ordering by Most Recent First (Business Directory Theme)

This seems like a relatively simple problem, but Im not able to find a resolution.
My latest blog posts are not showing up on the top.

I tried various recommended variation to tpl-blog.php (see below), and non seem to work:
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{$posts = query_posts(“paged=”.$paged.”&post_type=post”);
{$posts = query_posts(“paged=”.$paged.”&post_type=post&orderby=post_date&order=asc”);
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If anyone has experienced and solved this issue it would be a great help…
Thanks!