The 45th American President is the best example of ‘change ‘ that ALL Presidential candidates try to sell voters…
He WAS elected to do so….
And he HAS followed thru…
In doing so?
He has stergtehened the Office of the President…
A Real Estate guy from New York…
A entertainer….
NOT a politician ….
NOT a lawyer…
We ARE standing around watching all this in real time…
People need to stop blaming Trump….
It ain’t his fault…
The American Congress HAS BEEN giving away it’s ability to be a partner in running this country for decades…
The ‘Board’ has argued among themselves and been unable to handle any tough decisions …
It has been shown that even if Congress would disagree with a President?
They simply do NOT have a way to stop a President from such of ANYTHING…
President’s CONTROL the nation’s lawyers and Federal cops…
There is actually NO way to physically stop Donald Trump from becoming King of America for life…
We all counted on a sane leader that would respect the rule’s and historical norms ..
I’m NOT just talking about politics here…
Trump has won the ability to have us taxpayers pay him rent for his vacations…
Trump doesn’t have to tell Americans if he’s getting money from foreign sources…
Trump just got over using the worry of withholding money to country to help his political agenda…
Trump has continued using the government’s Justice Dept. to help his political agenda
Donald Trump’s wins OVER and OVER against his parties lawmakers in Congress , Democrats and even some judges which has shown how powerful the American Presidency has become….
image…slate.com
New Open Thread is HERE!…..
“There is actually NO way to physically stop Donald Trump from becoming King of America for life…”
This is Breaking News.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit complaining that President Donald Trump and his aides are failing to maintain legally required records of his meetings with foreign leaders….
More…
A federal appeals court panel threw out on Friday a lawsuit by 215 Democratic members of Congress accusing President Trump of illegally accepting benefits from foreign governments, saying that individual lawmakers cannot sue the president on behalf of the entire Congress…
More…
New poll out of Utah has approval/disapproval with Romney’s vote at 49/40.
His overall approval is 50% and in a general election there are now as many people saying they are *more* likely to vote for him than less likely. If he would want to run again in 2024 in Utah and for some reason was a pariah in the Republican Party then, he could probably win statewide as an Independent, a la Lieberman.
That same poll showed that 60% of Republicans had a negative reaction to Romney’s vote,while 31% approved.
Since most polls show Trumps approval ratings among Republicans at 85-90% this coincides with the general feeling that Utah Republicans are less approving of Trump than Republicans nationwide.
I would presume that Romney could still win a Republican nomination in Utah despite this vote.
Jussie Smollett has been indicted in Chicago by Special Prosecutor Dan Webb.
He has something in common with…..
Lots of posts coming…
Busy news night….
A win would be a win for Sanders, but he is not doing nearly as well as he did proportionally four years ago. I would have expected Sanders to win tonight by 7 or 8 points. There does seem to be a lot of voters who are worried about electability and they went heavily for Buttigieg and Klobuchar. Both of them can claim to have had a great result out of NH.
Ultimately though, there can only be one “non-Sanders” and Democrats are going to have to decide on that person before it is too late. Otherwise, Sanders divides and conquers a splintered field like Trump did four years ago.
On the other side, Republican primary turnout wound up being pretty high, and it wasn’t mostly to vote against Trump. This is something that is not usually seen when incumbents are running for reelection.
Cults can be very motivated.
I agree CG….
Morning people….
Roy Moore’s political career appears at an end.
The former Sate Supreme Court Judge and Republican Senate nominee a few years ago is at 5% in the latest poll in Alabama for the Senate seat held by Democrat Doug Jones.
Amen….
The guy should stick to riding horses
All the cable news channels are REALLY playing the Stone story like Mueller and the Impeachment sequels,…
Trump of course feels he got over.,,
So?
He’s doubling down on doing what HE want unrestricted and stupid,,.
Nobody can stop him though
He’s his OWN WORST ENEMY.,.
ALL this IS gonna come back on him…
Polling sidebar updated first time in 4-5 days….
There ARE changes….
Bernie Sanders now leads in the Democratic national poling average…
Joe Biden drops to 2nd place…
Mike Bloomberg has risen to 3rd place….
Both Buttigieg and Klobuchar have risen by several points which look like their gains have cost Joe Biden….
Donald Trump remains at around 45% approval and 50% disapproval…
9 days to the Nevada caucus…
16 day two the South Carolina primary…
19 days to Super Tuesday with 15 states holding primaries
Morning People….
You two want me to make ur comments a post?
Nine U.S. lawmakers who were once on food stamps ask Trump not to shrink program
Susan Cornwell, Reuters
POLITICSFEBRUARY 13, 2020 / 6:04 AM / UPDATED 7 HOURS AGO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A handful of U.S. lawmakers have a unique argument for asking President Donald Trump not to slash the food stamp program – they themselves once relied on it.
The Republican president this week proposed $15 billion in cuts to the $71 billion Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly called food stamps, as part of his $4.8 trillion budget plan.
Trump argues that many Americans receiving food stamps do not need them, given the strong economy and low unemployment. His administration already has tightened eligibility guidelines for the food assistance program.
In their letter to Trump, nine Democratic lawmakers said they had each participated in the program “during times of financial struggle for our families.”
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi said he was a toddler when his parents, immigrants from India, received food stamps for a couple of years in the 1970s.
“My parents don’t like to talk about it,” he said. Krishnamoorthi’s father was an engineering student in New York, whose job as a teaching assistant did not pay much. When that was suspended, “things were really rough” for them, he said.
Asking the administration to “remove all intended cuts” to the program, the lawmakers said in their letter: “We are writing today on behalf of the over 36 million American families who currently depend on SNAP, like ours once did, to make ends meet and help the next generation achieve upward mobility.”
It was signed by Senator Patty Murray and eight House members: Krishnamoorthi, Barbara Lee, Robin Kelly, Rashida Tlaib, Salud Carbajal, Jahana Hayes, Gwen Moore and Alma Adams.
Trump’s proposals for food stamp cuts are not expected to pass….
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-budget-foodstamps/nine-u-s-lawmakers-who-were-once-on-food-stamps-ask-trump-not-to-shrink-program-idUSKBN2071BM
Sanders keeps his bump from all the attention even though Buttigieg leads in delegates ….
A new Morning Consult poll finds Bernie Sanders leading the Democratic presidential race nationally with 29%, followed by Joe Biden at 19%, Mike Bloomberg at 18%, Pete Buttigieg at 11%, Elizabeth Warren at 10% and Amy Klobuchar at 5%…
Politicalwire…
I’m a bit surprised Klobuchar did not go up a bit more but that’s pretty good right now for Buttigieg, and definitely good for Bloomberg.
It’s 53-39 in favor of “electability.” That’s going to be an important lane for someone and if Bloomberg can’t endure a harsher spotlight, then Buttigieg will benefit. It will still take a comeback unseen in political history for Biden to win the nomination.
Klobuchar isn’t gonna be the nominee…
She simply does NOT have the organization, money and juice…
Buttigieg will have to show his stuff in southern state, which I think will be a bust for him….
I’m STILL seeing this as Biden vs Sanders….
Biden trips and falls opens the door for Bloomberg….
David Wasserman did a deep dive into New Hampshire’s record Democratic turnout and it looks like it wasn’t driven by Bernie folks.
i’ll be looking for that Scott…
Senate roll-call on War Powers Act & Iran today:
45 R against
55 D, R & I for
all 45 D
both Independents
Bernie Sanders (Vt) &
Angus King (Me)
and 8 out of 53 Republicans:
Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
Dr Bill Cassidy (La)
Susan Collins (Me)
Mike Lee (Utah)
Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Rand Paul (Ky) &
Todd Young (Ind.)
Morning People….
Should you feel the need for a little humility (and a take-down of your self-image as dyed-in-the-wool political junkie), try this quiz on which I scored only 17/22. A similar quiz for the GOP field in 2016 would no doubt be even more humbling.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/Noldeh/you-can-call-me-bernie
Not to brag, but I know all 22 of those stooges, plus the other seven who didn ‘t get included.
Morning….
One week to Nevada caucus…
Two weeks to South Carolina primary…
Morning….
Interesting?…
Jeffrey Goldberg
@JeffreyGoldberg
“Roughly 92 percent of conservatives said they would be friends with a liberal, and just 3 percent said that they would not have a liberal friend. Among liberals, however, almost a quarter said they would not have a conservative friend.” —
@conor64
:
Morning People….
Laugh of the day….
Stephen King
@StephenKing
Apparently 41% of Donald Trump’s followers are either fake or grown by troll farms.
Vox populi, vox Dei
Staten Island Prosecutors Are Creating A List of Cops They Don’t Trust To Testify
…In recent years, reform prosecutors across the country from Philadelphia to Orlando to St. Louis have adopted similar police witness exclusion programs, sparking clashes with police unions and conservative lawmakers….
More….
Morning…..
Speaking of “Presidential power”, the news out of Chicago today is that an announcement is imminent that Trump will be commuting the sentence of disgraced former Illinois Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich.
He has been said to want to do this for years now, but has been talked out of it in the past by Republicans in the state. We will see if he actually does it this time.
Oh those Illinois Republicans will quickly get on board.
The cult demands it.
Further, if he is going to pardon Blago it’s hard to seriously think he won’t pardon his old hatchet man Roger Stone.
It’s a commutation, not a pardon.
At the very minimum, he should wait until March 15, so it’s officially eight years (the length of two Gubernatorial terms) behind bars. Ten years out of the 14 he was sentenced to was probably better though.
Jack is completely right of course. Trump is, in reality star way, trying to pave the way for a pardon of both Flynn and Stone (since they both know so much).
Poor Rod, he and his ego have always been his worse enemy (along with his big mouth). I have known him since before he was elected to the State Senate. In fact, we used to lift weights together at the Lakeshore Club in Chicago before I moved to DC. He had a strange admiration for Richard Nixon and even launched one day, as he and his wife visited my office on Capitol Hill, of how Nixon was one of our greatest Presidents. I once, years later, got the opportunity to tell him I thought he was a horse’s ass to his face. But, his sentence was unfair in many ways. He deserves to get out of prison and be with his children.
His sentence was not unfair. He did many things, including trying to shake down a children’s hospital. He used the same excuses Trump used. As the saying goes, “birds of a feather…”
He would have gotten out before the 14 years. Nobody would have had a problem with that. But he really deserved at least a decade.
It is true that Blago had a bit of a hero-worship for Nixon. He probably would have been a Republican if not for being politically ambitious in Chicago and of course meeting his future father-in law, whom I am sure Keith once knew well.
Prominent Democrats have been pushing for Trump to do this.
Who?
Dick Durbin, Eric Holder, etc.
Who is etc.?
Well, we can add our own H. Keith to the list of “prominent Democrats” who think Rod deserved to be sprung.
Current Governor Pritzker is of course very much publicly against this move today.
Of course he was captured on FBI wiretap scheming with Blago at the time.
I think his sentence didn’t fit the crime, and I understand why people oppose an early release. Rod is a certified asshole, always has been, and that type doesn’t change.
But, in fairness, his sentence was too long. After all, he didn’t lie to Congress or try to intimidate any witnesses.
So, we can argue all day long about sentencing recommendations. And, if you can get life for being a smug asshole then I have some recommendations for the court.
I was told that I was persona non grata in the Governor’s Office when I told him that he was a jerk to his face, and you should have seen his face when I did. But, his sentence was simply payback for him being a jerk and that is what people are finally reacting to in calling for a commutation. He’s served his jerk time.
He broke many laws.
Trump doesn’t care because public corruption is par for the course for Trump just like it was for Blagojevich.
Blagojevich ran, primarily, on “cleaning up corruption” from his predecessor who also served prison time (and did not have his sentence commuted.) So, what’s the message to Illinois Governors when someone takes office and merely acts worse than the person who had the job before him?
And based on everything we know about Keith, his stance on public corruption is not a surprise either.
My point is I seriously doubt that Stone depends much time in jail.
He’s got to be in there at least long enough to add to his Watergate Tattoo Hall of Fame.
Whatever happened to Donald Segretti?
Despite comments here that Trump would “do something “ about Bill Barr’s comment that Trumps tweets were preventing him from doing his job,Trump today in effect admitted that may be true.
Furthermore ,he said he had complete confidence in Barr.
So the great Barr hoopla of last week which was called “big” here?
Nothing but the proverbial tempest in a teapot and a glaring irrelevancy to anything.
I saw Trump make those comments Jack. Barr was trying to contain the firestorm at Justice. It was a lot of sound and fury. You can expect it to start again when Stone is actually sentenced next week. He lied to Congress and threatened a witness, any bets on the sentence length?
Yeah it was nothing but Barr trying to cool the outcries at the Justice Department.
It was Nothing.
I think Barr was genuinely trying to send a message to Trump to shut up and I think Trump instinctively was angered by it.
There is no need to read anything into it beyond that.
In regards to Roger Stone (and jack himself has now said that he thinks the sentencing guidelines were too harsh), apparently there really was something going on in the Justice Department to change the sentencing recommendation *before* Trump’s Tweet.
Well if Barr is dense enough to think that Trump will quit tweeting becuse of what he said?
He ought to resign with the simple remark,” I’m obviously too dumb to be here!”
In Barr Trump has finally found his Roy Cohen (another lifelong Republican who has no regard for the law).
If CG’s supposition turns out to be true, then Donald Trump (in his usual fashion) managed to mismanage affairs in exactly the opposite way from his desires. The only (perverse) satisfaction he might have is that he succeeded in outraging the Establishment and the left.
Had he not tweeted, then the review would have followed what I understand to be normal channels without it making it harder for the judge to show clemency, causing such an uproar in the Justice Department and the entire legal community (including, I would imagine, many staunch members of the Federalist Society), or making the position of GOP lawyers in Congress incredibly uncomfortable.
It’s probably true. Trump should have just stayed out of it. Apparently, the U.S. Attorney thought the sentence was too steep but backed off when the prosecutors threatened to quit (which they eventually did.)
I’m opposed to all sentencing”guidelines.”
Nothing more that legislators at the state and national level posturing for votes.
What do you think is the fairest sentence for Stone then?
About three years,maybe less.
I think Stone deserved more than that. He was threatening witnesses (and their dogs). He made references to assaults on law enforcement agents.
Illinois Republican Leadership is all expressing disapproval of the commutation.
Of course they will be careful of speaking too ill of Trump himself.
Rod and Patti will be on Fox News thanking Trump and backing for him for reelection in a matter of days though.
[Time for a new open thread, I think; this one’s buried by more recent stories and already holds 70 posts.]
In Their First Debate, Kennedy Calls For Stronger Leadership While Markey Asks Voters To Look At His Record
By Arjun Singh
[WGBH, Boston, PBS]
February 18, 2020
In their first debate, Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy III were in agreement on most major policy areas, but sparred over who was the right person to occupy Massachusetts’ junior Senate seat in the age of President Donald Trump.
“This one counts,” Kennedy said. “For this moment, we have to make sure that we have a United States senator who is giving everything that you have.”
In contrast, Markey called on voters to look at his record in Congress, which includes his work on environmental issues, health care policy and gun control legislation — where he recently helped pass a budget amendment that gave $25 million to the CDC to fund gun research.
The debate, hosted by WGBH News, touched on a variety of issues from immigration to housing to healthcare to the environment. On many of the issues, the candidates were largely in agreement. Both are co-sponsors of Medicare for All legislation and both support the Green New Deal, of which Markey is a co-author along with New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
One area where the candidates disagreed was on foreign policy. When the debate turned to the war in Afghanistan, Kennedy appeared to be calling for an immediate troop withdrawal. Markey, while agreeing with Kennedy on the need to bring down the American presence in Afghanistan, cautioned that a sharp drawback of troops could lead to instability in the nation.
“When I visit Afghanistan I can see the incredible tension still on the streets of that country,” Markey said. “Draw down the troops, do it as much as you can while you’re guaranteeing that any agreement is in fact working.”
Kennedy stopped short of calling the 19-year war a complete failure, but he did cite the lack of a clear goal as the primary reason for pulling back troops.
“We still have no idea after 20 years what our mission is, what success looks like, how long it’s going to take or the burden we are putting on our men and women in our uniforms and our families,” Kennedy said. “Yes, we need to make sure we are protecting innocent civilians in Afghanistan, but we have been doing that for 20 years at grave cost.”
In one of the few moments of clear disagreement between the two, Kennedy criticized Markey for voting present on a resolution in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that would have authorized the use of force against Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad in 2013. At the time, Kennedy was a member of Congress and not given the chance to vote on a similar resolution.
“Not no, not yes, on a matter of war and peace, but present,” Kennedy said. “I think that speaks for itself.”
Markey defended his decision, and said he did not want to rush to judgment. He said that when he voted present there was still insufficient information provided to him and the committee to make a fair decision on whether to engage in Syria.
“There was a rush to judgment. There was an attempt to force a vote without complete information being given to the committee,” Markey said. “I said, ‘I’m waiting until I get everything I need to know whether or not we should be bombing Syria or bombing Assad for 60 days.’”
In another tense exchange, Markey and Kennedy diverged on whether progressive political action committees should be allowed to spend in Massachusetts elections. Prior to the debate, Kennedy had called on Markey to sign a “People’s Pledge” to prevent outside money from entering the senate race. Kennedy’s initial request came days after the group Environment Massachusetts announced they would work with the Environment America Action Fund to spend $5 million dollars in support of Markey.
“Dark money is dark money. … Massachusetts walks the walk when it comes to progressive values. We need to do it now,” Kennedy said. “You open the door to this, you open the door to an absolute landslide of money coming in to distort the electoral framework we have been so proud to be able to keep alive.”
Markey disagreed. He took issue with the characterization of environmental groups as dark money, and said that states like Massachusetts should allow activist groups to participate in elections, so long as they disclose their funding sources.
“We should not silence these progressive groups. We should encourage them. We should celebrate their desire in the era of Donald Trump in the White House trying to destroy every one of our values,” Markey said. “If they want to come into this debate, speak positively, disclose their funding sources, we should welcome and celebrate it, but keep out the dark money and keep out the negative voices.”…
https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2020/02/18/in-their-first-debate-kennedy-calls-for-stronger-leadership-while-markey-asks-voters-to-look-at-his-record
Full video of whole debate (via C-Span)
Good Morning….
News Flash!!!!
Bernie Sanders has now declared the Democratic nominee
He has disbanded the DNC….
Democrats will now be Independent Socialists …
He is running on a campaign of tax there middle class ….Lock up the Rich in detention cells…
There will be no gun contriol…
Blacks and Women are OVERWHELMINGLY supporting him…
Bill Barr has agreed to work for Sanders in protecting Presidential power…
America is leaving the UN and NATO…
And in surprise move….
Sanders has formed an alliance with Russia and China for the common GOOD of Communism and Socialism….
Sorry….
I just woke up from a bad dream🙄….
The Trump campaign wants to speak to you about your “dream.” Are you willing to appear in an ad for them?
If I can get the dream out in a whole piece……
Leaving the once-free U.S. of A. under the dark cloud of autocratic tyranny and terror that now engulfs once-free Scandinavia and New Zealand…
Please be real, James.
One of Winston Churchill’s blunders in campaigning against Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in 1945 was saying that Labour’s programme would require some kind of Gestapo.
Winston Churchill, 4th June 1945 (this is the relevant paragraph from his radio speech):
“No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil.”
Clement Attlee’s response (5th June 1945)
“The Prime Minister made much play last night with the rights of the individual and the dangers of people being ordered about by officials. I entirely agree that people should have the greatest freedom compatible with the freedom of others. There was a time when employers were free to work little children for sixteen hours a day. I remember when employers were free to employ sweated women workers on finishing trousers at a penny halfpenny a pair. There was a time when people were free to neglect sanitation so that thousands died of preventable diseases. For years every attempt to remedy these crying evils was blocked by the same plea of freedom for the individual. It was in fact freedom for the rich and slavery for the poor. Make no mistake, it has only been through the power of the State, given to it by Parliament, that the general public has been protected against the greed of ruthless profit-makers and property owners. The Conservative Party remains as always a class Party. In twenty-three years in the House of Commons, I cannot recall more than half a dozen from the ranks of the wage earners. It represents today, as in the past, the forces of property and privilege. The Labour Party is, in fact, the one Party which most nearly reflects in its representation and composition all the main streams which flow into the great river of our national life.”
https://oedeboyz.com/2015/07/10/winston-churchills-gestapo-speech-4th-june-1945-2/
Of course, the iron grip of Labour’s Venezuelan-type one-party dictatorship allowed for only four Conservative governments after that, lasting a trifling 13 years (1951-64), 4 years (1970-74), 18 years (1979-97) and ten-years-plus (2010 until, at earliest, 2024).
And Conservative-leaning (and even Liberal-leaning) newspapers and writers have been suppressed violently for the last 75 years — which is why Rupert Murdoch is now awaiting execution in the Tower of London, after a kangaroo court martial, while no one has ever explained the suspicious (and no doubt bloody) disappearance of Boris Johnson.
It was satirical DREAM DSD…..
But I had a few co worker’s ALREADY. preview the communist / socialist association ….I had to explain the difference
Not for me….
BUT?
IT’S IT IS ALREADY HERE…
Trump WILL ride as far as he CAN….
It’s gonna come down the dust settling after Super Tuesday….
If Democrats are lucky, Sanders will not have it wrapped up after Super Tuesday.
The most likely outcome is that everyone else has been knocked out except for Bloomberg because he has the money. (Buttigieg and Klobuchar have had mini-surges, but mini will not be enough. One of them and Biden will have to drop out before it is clear if the other one can survive down the road) Bloomberg will have to burn down the forest in negative ads against Sanders, rendering him unelectable (the very same ads Trump will run against him anyway.) It will be a very hardball tactic and will leave a lot of harsh feelings. If people want to get rid of Trump though, they will have to get over it.
Sanders and his supporters are carpet bombing social media ….
Bloomberg should call everyone’s bluff in the debate tonight.
He ought to say that besides himself, only Klobuchar is electable against Trump and that it is crucial that Sanders, the front-runner, be stopped, and there is only way for someone other than him to do so.
Thus, Bloomberg should turn to Biden, Buttigieg, and Warren and say that all of them on the spot should agree to drop out of the race and support Klobuchar and that he, Bloomberg, will put serious money in her SuperPAC to help her get nominated.
The look on Amy’s face will be priceless, but there is zero chance that Biden, Buttigieg, or Warren will agree to it, so it’s going to get even nastier until a nominee is found.
Reportedly, Trump is nominating Richard Grennell to be Director of National Intelligence.
He better not kiss his husband at the swearing-in ceremony..
Jesse Helms just rolled over in his grave and …, endorsed Bill Weld?
Shane Harris
@shaneharris
Confirming @maggieNYT and @julianbarnes reporting, Trump will name US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell as new acting director of national intelligence. washingtonpost.com/national-secur… Developing. More soon.
i will have a piece a bit later on the new DNI…..
It seems to be going over like a lead ballon….
White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney in an unscripted moment of candor has admitted that Republicans are nothing but hypocrites when it comes to the “deficit.”
Mulvaney says that the Republicans were all over Obama about the deficit.
Now, with a Republican in the White House?
Republicans have never cared about “deficits” as history plainly shows?Its never been anything by a campaign gimmick to further their line about Democrats,”tax, tax, tax, spend,,spend ,spend.”
With Republicans it’s,”spend,spend,spend, tax cut, tax cut, tax cut.”
Morning people…
My debate after action report post is up…
The polling sidebar has been up dated….
I’ve added Trump vs Sanders to the listing…
Biden is still ahead by a measly .2%
Sanders is in double digits ahead of Biden in the national polling average …
Biden’s South Carolina margin has shrunk also…
In the big Super Tuesday state’s averages Sanders has California …
Biden has Texas….
Stone gets 40 months…
Election Projection has Trump ahead for the General election now…
290 to 248 in Electoral votes…
Losing the popular vote 46.4% to 48.6%….
….
That election projection is based on the Democrats taking back exactly one state, Michigan (16 Electors), dropping Trump from 306 to 290, and raising the nominal (although not-actually-cast) Democratic electoral vote from 232 to 248. All fifty of the other Electoral College delegations (49 states + DC) stay on the same side of the column as in 2016.
In the 2020 races for the U.S. Senate, Election Projection foresees no change in the Republican margin: 53-47, after flipping the seats of Doug Jones (D-Alab.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)
https://electionprojection.com/senate-elections.php
I think McSally will lose in AZ as well as Collins in ME leading to a 51-49 GOP Senate.
Depending on how things go we could possibly get GA and IA too, leading to a Democratic majority.
Actually Tillis in NC might flip before Ernst in IA.
Morning….
I am reading in twitter ….
You’d think Bernie Sanders has won the nomination instead of narrowly wining one primary in a 95% white little state…
No one — except some of his most-terrifiable critics — thinks that Bernie Sanders is, even before SuperTuesday, sure of being nominated.
It wasn’t that way in 2008, nor was it in 2016.
The social media narrative IS…
But i’m just over sensitive ….
Sorry….
Morning People….
No sooner did word emerge that White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney label Republicans as “hypocrites “ on the deficit than it also came to light that he said that the United States needed more immigration because there were too few workers for jobs needed.
Of course this totally repudiates his boss’s line that immigrants are “taking” jobs.
This guy is way off the Cult reservation.
Apparently this all caught the attention of Cult “advisor” Tucker Carlson who bashed him on last nights broadcast.(like the old Tass news agency which served as the official voice of the Soviet Communist Party,Carlson along with fiery fruitcake Lou Dobbs often lay down the “party line” for cultists seeking guidance for their role as cadres of “ Chairman Trump”).
Mulvaney needs to do a mea culpa lest his days in the upper echelon of the cult be numbered.
Bernie Sanders IS the flavour of the week….
You’ll noice even here he gets top billing….
Biden and Warren have dropped and so has Money Mike Bloomberg…
Bernie Sanders is today the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination.
Your continuing flight from reality is labelling him a “flavor “ of the week is absurd.
He, he, he….
Just get it right Jack….
Flavors-of-the-month* so far (courtesy of Howard Johnson’s, landmark for hungry Americans):
K. Harris
E. Warren
A. Yang
[T. Steyer for 2 weeks only]
P. Buttigieg
A. Klobuchar
M. Bloomberg
* (A.k.a. anyone-but-Biden-or-Sanders)
Yup….Bounces around ….
Translation?Anyone but Biden
I said i’ll take Bloomberg as a reluctant second choice
Morning All….