The number of jobless people applying for the money is going up ….
More people are going to lose their jobs as some states reclose and local and state governments deal with holes in their 2021 budgets…
Congress was talking about ending extra benefits , but THAT has been set aside…
A lesser amount is all but certain to be continued until the end of the year when the next virus/stimulus bill is approved soon…
The American economy is NOT gonna get better anytime soon….
That ‘V’ shaped recovery dream is just that ….
A Dream…
Ignorance in dealing with the virus has cost America in its health and economy’s jobs…
On Thursday, the Labor Department reported that the total number of people claiming unemployment insurance for the week ending July 4 — without any seasonal adjustments — equaled 31.8 million.
Ernie Tedeschi, a policy economist at Evercore ISI, estimates that the actual figure is closer to 30 million, roughly one out of every five workers — a staggering number by any count.
The Labor Department categorizes the claims in separate batches. In one are those filed through states’ regular unemployment insurance systems, a number that rose last week for the first time in months. A second includes people who filed through the federal government’s temporary Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, for workers not ordinarily eligible for state benefits. A third and growing group includes recipients who exhausted their regular benefits but are eligible for an additional 13 weeks of emergency assistance that Congress passed after the coronavirus outbreak.
Over the past couple of months, the labor market showed surprising gains as businesses reopened and rehired workers. The overall jobless rate dipped in June to 11.1 percent from a peak of 14.7 percent in April. But troubling weaknesses may be reflected in the weekly tallies of laid-off workers filing new applications, Mr. Tedeschi said….
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The stubbornly high rate of new weekly claims more than four months into the coronavirus pandemic “suggests that the nature of the downturn has changed from early on,” said Ernie Tedeschi, a policy economist at Evercore ISI. It may mean that businesses are shutting down again as cases surge in some places, or that funds from emergency federal loans through the Paycheck Protection Program are running out, he said — or worse, something more fundamental….
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States have been whittling away at the backlog of unemployment claims, but persistent delays in some places have continued….
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The four-month pause that has protected millions of Americans from eviction cases is set to expire at the end of this week. But that hasn’t stopped landlords across the country from trying to get a head start forcing renters out, reports Matthew Goldstein….
Note…
The Trump Labor Dept. has been a mess with reporting the numbers leaving some to wonder if Trump has interfered with the process….
New Open Thread is HERE….
Trump loses ANOTHER one….
Judge Orders Michael Cohen Released from Prison
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release from prison of President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen by Friday afternoon, CNBC reports.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein found that Cohen was sent back to prison on July 10 in retaliation for failing to agree to not to publish a book about Trump as one of multiple conditions for serving the remainder of his three-year prison term on home confinement.
Said Hellerstein: “I’ve never seen such a clause, in 21 years in being a judge.”
I just wished Ron G Good Luck for next year from us over here…
In what context?
Can you tell him to open up a new P1 comment section so you can “retire?”
Screw U CG!🤪…..
He, he, he…..
I ain’t going anyplace!
Biden polls continue to be stellar….
Friday, July 24
Pennsylvania: Trump vs. Biden FOX News Biden 50, Trump 39 Biden +11
Minnesota: Trump vs. Biden FOX News Biden 51, Trump 38 Biden +13
Michigan: Trump vs. Biden FOX News Biden 49, Trump 40 Biden +9
Thursday, July 23
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
Florida: Trump vs. Biden St. Pete Polls* Biden 50, Trump 44 Biden +6
Florida: Trump vs. Biden Quinnipiac Biden 51, Trump 38 Biden +13
Ron’s site has an “email us” section on it. But since James sent his wishes from “us”, perhaps he can share exactly what he said on my behalf?
I doubt that Ron would remember James from Politics1 days. While I remember Jack, Keith, Scott, DSD, SE, Daniel, the Texan and the prognosticator who no longer wishes to use his name, James rarely had anything to say.
Trump and China move into a diplomatic tit for tat that Trump can’t win….
Morning People…..
Louie Gohmert has tested positive for the virus.
Most likely he’s a super spreader, refusing to wear a mask while he engaged with his Republican colleagues on the floor of the House.
Pathetic conspiracy monger that he is.
Bless his racist heart.
“Rep. Louie Gohmert — a Texas Republican who has been walking around the Capitol without a mask — has tested positive for the coronavirus,” Politico reports.
“Gohmert was scheduled to fly to Texas on Wednesday morning with President Trump and tested positive in a pre-screen at the White House.”
Manu Raju: “I’ve spent a lot of time in House gallery watching Gohmert frequently interact with colleagues and not wearing a mask. He doesn’t maintain social distance and talks at length with members.“
Politicalwire…
“But I’ve never even been to China…”
It gets worst…..
After testing positive for the coronavirus, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) went back to his Capitol Hill office, ABC News reports.
He told staff members he wanted to inform them in person instead of finding out from news reports…
Politicalwire…
“Louie Louie, oh baby, me gotta go
Okay, let’s give it to ’em right now”
jack will know that one
I certainly do.
“Louie, Louie, oh baby, we* gotta go” (and I’m takin’ all of you with me).
*[my misheard lyric for a mere half-century]
A whole lot of different theories about what the lyrics to “Louie, Louie” really are…
….’said we gotta go now…..’
Gohmert Required Full Staff In Office Without Masks
July 29, 2020 at 1:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Just after reports that Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) had tested positive for coronavirus, Politico got an email from one of his aides:
“Thank you for letting our office know Louie tested positive for the Coronavirus. When you write your story, can you include the fact that Louie requires full staff to be in the office, including three interns, so that ‘we could be an example to America on how to open up safely.’ When probing the office, you might want to ask how often were people berated for wearing masks.”
One of the great stories of this era will be the mindless politicizing of a public health measure by the Kooky Republicans.
Yesterday Mississippi Gov Reeves said that the reason he wasn’t mandating masks was because that would cause people not to wear them!
Obviously he was referring to the Republican nutjobs.
In other news of Republican kooks,SC Congressman Ralph Norman introduced those doctors that Trump was boosting .Did you know they have a surefire “cure” for Covid ?This was the film that featured that idiotic doctor who teaches about demons.
As I continue to illustrate,Republicans are increasingly irrational.
But Jack, I thought the Governor of Mississippi was getting high marks for his handling of the virus.
The video that Trump retweeted is getting millions of views. Folks all over Facebook are saying the virus can be cured easily. This is like an out-of-body experience, like we are watching a bad science fiction movie.
The response yesterday from some of the House Republicans yesterday in their refusal to wear a mask was amazing. And today, one of the main douche Republicans has tested positive.
We may be witnessing the end of the Republican Party, they are all killing themselves.
Reeves was far more resistant on openings than other southern Governors and that was noted many times in the media.
Reeves must have been giving himself “high marks.”
He joins DeSantis, Kemp,Abbott ,McMaster and now Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee in his ineptitude in handling the virus.
Just yesterday Lee denied Trump Advisor Deborah Birx plea to close all bars in an effort to bring down infections.
I never knew Republicans were so fond of bars?Must be those “evangelicals.”Theyre pretty hypocritical about everything else ,why not their opposition to “demon rum?”
We have been through this before, but the people gathering at bars and other parties and causing an increased spread of the virus are unlikely to be Republican.
Not everyone is as political as we are.
Then close the bars down.
That’s easy.
Who closes down the house parties?
Anything to take the heat of the Republicans.
My goodness the answer has been clear all along and we didn’t even realize it…
The time has come for the Prohibition Party! Led by none other than their Presidential nominee, our old friend from P1 Phil Collins!
Lee in Tennessee specifically refused to do so even though Birx , a Trump science advisor, asked him to.
Why?
It’s like Republicans simply refuse to do anything constructive about trying to lessen the impact of this catastrophe.
Inexplicably.
I think you might need to get out more Corey, being safe and socially distant of course. You can still tell a person’s political affiliation simply by the fact that they will wear a mask. Our President even told you that.
So, by extension, and given the fact that Republicans, like Louie Gohmert and Gym Jordan are against mask wearing (down to the fact that Louie thinks he got the virus from his mask) I find it the height of denial to think that the people who are stupid enough to go into an enclosed bar space without a mask are not also Republicans.
The young people going to bars (not that I do not know of people in their 70s and 80s are back to going to bars now….no not my parents, just their friends) and those having large House parties that are being livestreamed on Facebook, etc. are demographically the least likely to be Republican.
Just say they aren’t white. We know where you are going here with “demographic s”
Young people of all races. None of them are likely to be Trump supporters. The people at the bars and beaches (and beach bars) and pools tend to be white. The specific activity of having large house parties that are shown live on Facebook seem to be more related to African-Americans.
Less prone to Trump brain washing?
Red state governors seem to be especially gullible …
Age is a demographic
And we’ve also been through how you got that “finding” out of your ass.
Me?
We all have seen polls and past voter studies that show the younger a person is, the less likely they are to be a Republican, especially these days. I imagine there might be a Trump voter or two among the crowds, but most likely, the people going to bars and partying are not doing so i support of DJT. They aren’t thinking of him at all.
The same can be said for the large house parties thrown by young African-Americans (not that white kids do not do the same thing), but that are specifically livestreamed on Facebook. There are probably not a lot of MAGA backers there.
I hope Scott is doing his part and staying away from the bars until this is over.
Iv3 only been going to outdoor patios where it is possible to social distance. And I always wear a mask. The people I know who complain about the mask requirements or bars that are closing indoor service are all either Republican or libertarian types.
Over 50 percent of all Republicans believe that the virus is not a serious health threat. They believe the President and his new voodoo doctor lecturing us all about demon sperm.
Do the math. The vast majority of all virus deniers are Republicans. If they don’t feel threatened by the virus then they will be less likely to wear a mask. (Remember, Louie thinks he got the virus from wearing one.)
So it only follows that mask skeptics skew Republican.
They tend to be anti-science and anti-education — and they resent the rules that keep them from their “freedom.”
Yes Keith and u might wanna add that they are as dumb as rooks
The old legal adage that no one has the right to yell fire in a crowded theater rested on the proposition that such would cause panic likely resulting in physical harm and possibly death to another .
Tell me the difference in that and refusing to wear a mask whereby one could transmit a potentially fatal disease to another person.
“Freedom “ is not absolute.Never has been.It is limited in many instances by legislative enactments.One mans “freedom” can be another mans straight jacket.
In this national health emergency ,which will likely be the defining moment of our times, to use the word “freedom” as some kind of defense against mask wearing or even as an argument against mandating it is absurd.
In my travels to rural counties that voted 75-80% Republican in 2016 I’ve been the only person with a mask inside any of the businesses.
Lots of people are saying very positive things about demon semen. It could be a great cure which would be a tremendous, tremendous thing. What do we have to lose?
There was a panel of 2016 Trump voters on CNN yesterday (half of which will not vote for him now) and one of his remaining supporters is a woman who said her in laws got Covid 19 probably because with masks on they were breathing in their own germs. People are giving this virus to themselves.
Louie Goehmert is now claiming that wearing a mask might have caused his contracting the virus.
The guy is a certified asshole…..
According to one article, that I do not necessarily believe, Biden is down to a choice between Bass or Duckworth.
Sounds a bit like someone deciding on a menu item or a hunting/fishing quandary.
If that’s true, then I would say Bass.
Given all that’s happened and what seems to be Bidens inclination, I can’t see him Not picking a Black female.
I admittedly don’t know a whole lot about her but I wish Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama was being considered for VP.
If she were on the ticket she could help boost Doug Jones in a close race.
Bass and Duckworth Sounds like someone trying to sell someone…
I could be wrong ….
But i just DO NOT think Biden should or would be picking someone who has little or no high government experience….
You don’t consider the Congress “high government experience?”
That’s funny!
Not the executive branch….
Nope….
Neither Biden nor Obama had spent a day in an executive branch position when they were elected as a ticket. Same for JFK and LBJ.
Good point CG….
Cept they didn’t have as big a mess as Biden is gonna have to clean up, eh?
Oh you’re so transparent.
Look everyone here knows this is nothing more than you trying to “disqualify “ all the talked about VP candidates except Susan Rice,your favorite.
Maybe she will be the VP candidate but your absurd formulation is ridiculous on the face of it.
Apparently,using your “logic,” Biden should have told Obama he wasn’t “qualified “ to serve as VP.
You’re always babbling about “alternate universes.”
Which one are you in?
Donald Trump mess makes a difference is my view….
I’m glad to hear urs
Indeed the only recent candidates who could be said to have had “executive branch experience”Before appearing on a national ticket were George H Bush and Dick Cheney.
Sarah Palin
He, he, he🤪
Well actually since the discussion was revolving around James’s attempt to “disqualify “ everyone mentioned ,but his favorite Susan Rice, I was talking about “national executive experience.”
If we are also speaking of state level ,then Bill Clinton and George W Bush would join Palin.
Again?
Biden will be dealing with POST Trump garbage….
None of the other guys had such a mountain to climb
Trump says Fauci wants to close down the country for a couple of years.
No word from Fauci.
Not getting to throw that pitch out really got to the Con
Fauci did totally botch the curve with that pitch.
EVERYBODY was off on the virus numbers CG…
I was making reference to the way Fauci threw a baseball.
He can’t throw a curve, but maybe he has a great “Shutdown Slider.”
No spitballs allowed though this season!
It just shows how diffficult it is to flatten the curve.
No one was wrong more than James. I recall how two weeks into the pandemic James was complaining that he couldn’t see his grandkids. But most, if not all of the rest of us on this site recognized the pandemic was serious.
I see them now….
NY vs other places is 180 degrees….
July 26 RCP Polling….
Florida: Trump vs. Biden CNN Biden 51, Trump 46 Biden +5
Arizona: Trump vs. Biden CNN Biden 49, Trump 45 Biden +4
Arizona: Trump vs. Biden NBC News/Marist Biden 50, Trump 45 Biden +5
Ohio: Trump vs. Biden CBS News/YouGov Biden 45, Trump 46 Trump +1
Michigan: Trump vs. Biden CNN Biden 52, Trump 40 Biden +12
Michigan: Trump vs. Biden CBS News/YouGov Biden 48, Trump 42 Biden +6
General Election: Trump vs. Biden CBS News/YouGov Biden 51, Trump 41 Biden +10
Arizona Senate – McSally vs. Kelly NBC News/Marist Kelly 53, McSally 41 Kelly +12
Arizona Senate – McSally vs. Kelly CNN Kelly 50, McSally 43 Kelly +7
Michigan Senate – James vs. Peters CNN Peters 54, James 38 Peters +16
RCP….
(Ohio…Hmmmm?…July 22 Ras poll had Biden up +4 in Ohio)
Did someone else mention that Trump Will NOT throw the first pitch at the Yankee game next month?
Morning….
It just keeps going…..
Larry Sabato
NORTH CAROLINA—New NBC-Marist Poll has Biden up 51-44%. This +7 for Biden compares to +4 in March. NC is close to a must-win for Trump who carried it handily in 2016. So a new week begins as the old one ended—good polling news for Biden.
These are national polls….
They will be a forecast of the popular vote which Trump is SURE to lose….
Biden Holds Wide Lead Nationally
A new AP-NORC poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race by 12 points, 46% to 34%.
A new CBS News/YouGov poll finds Biden leading 51% to 41%.
A lot of undecideds in that poll–20%–I’m guessing they didn’t press respondents. Most others do. I’ve heard the best polling comes from questions that try to get a little more of an answer and reduce undecideds. But you can also press too much.
Trump at 34% is crazy. But a fair amount of eventual Republican voters are in that 20% undecideds. That said Biden would see his numbers likely improve a bit too in that scenario
Trump will be throwing the first pitch at a Yankees game in August
Considering his track record as of late I fully expect the ball to somehow catch fire and burn the whole stadium to the ground.
I can’t imagine him actually going through with it.
Fauci DID want to wait for the widespread vaccine originally …
He’s bent to the reality that things simply won’t wait ….
The pundits seem to be buying into Duckworth and Bass at the lead. I find all this really hard to believe.
I would hope for Val Demings. I realize she might be a stretch in terms of lack of “experience”, but at least the messaging and geography makes sense (and she is telegenic.)
Duckworth is a genuine American hero and of course I enjoy the contrast between her and Trump on the service aspect, but I have followed her political career since 2006 and she has been my House Rep and Senator, and she’s just not much of a scholar, to be as polite as possible.
Bass seems like a really nice person and I understand that Biden bonds with her because they have both lost children. If picked, she is going to create an issue in Florida because she basically fawned over Fidel Castro when he died and used a specific term to refer to him that angers many in the Cuban-American community. What can she really bring politically coming from one of the most heavily Democrat House districts in the country?
The thinking is that Biden might be inclined to pick Bass because for one she is unmarried, and he would not have to ever share a stage with the VP’s husband, and more so that she is believed to have zero Presidential ambition and he does not want anyone to “outshine” him. He thinks he is going to be President for eight years and then the next nomination should be up for grabs. Politically, it would be smarter to groom someone to take over either eight years in the future or more realistically four years.
Duckworth also has a Blagojevich problem from her time in state government, and you can bet that Blago is desperate to get on tv anyway he can these days and of course is completely committed to Trump.
Weak argument for Bass who i think is just getting the spotlight because she has done a good job for the party…
Duckworth ain’t that bright u say?
The woman picked will have to be ready to assume the Presidency from day one…
The examples of other VP choices do not have anything to do with Biden’s situation right now…. Virus…. Economy…. Trade…Foeign Affairs…A crook to succeed…A VERY ROUGH Midterm election 2 years from now and being 82 in 2024….
Joe Biden does NOT someone who has NO experience on the upper levels of government…
Harris and Rice seem to me the best choices and Rice would be my choice again…
She has MORE time on the top level…
Joe Biden should be announcing his choice in no less than 2-3 weeks…
A Good Morning to Everyone….
North Dakota’s Rep Governor Doug Burgum has condemned the North Dakota Republican Party for adopting an anti Gay resolution.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a Nevada church’s request to block the state’s cap on attendees for religious services amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The court voted 5 to 4 against the request, filed by Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the liberal-leaning justices. The decision keeps in place a limit of 50 people in houses of worship due to the pandemic.
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The church had argued the cap was an unfair attack on its First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion. It pointed out that the state allowed higher caps for restaurants and casinos — 50 percent capacity — but would not let its 90-person congregation assemble, even with social distancing protocols. A federal court upheld the state’s policy, and the church sought an appeal last month at the 9th Circuit….
More…
Morning …..
It appears that Trump has successful brought BACK MORE protests across America with his spotlighting the Portland situation ….
Antifa!
The new rallying cry for the Republicans…and joins their favorite bugaboos from the past…
Benghazi!
The “ Caravan!” Remember that?,whatever happened to it?
Bums(Nixon’s name for Vietnam War protesters)
Anarchists
And on and on
Somehow, Commie and Fellow Traveler don’t seem to pack the punch that once they did (when Richard Nixon called incumbent Sen. Helen Gahagan Douglas [D-Calif,] the Pink Lady and George Smathers called incumbent Sen. Claude Pepper [D-Fla} the Red Pepper).
Harder to do when a dog-whistle from the Kremlin incites Pavlovian saliva at the White House, although the G.O.P. will helpfully inform us of the Squad and all the Marxists in The Other Party.
I believe the caravan was supposed to scare suburban voters into voting GOP in 2018.
Instead suburban districts made up the bulk of the 40 House seatflips that year.
Noe instrad of fear of foreigners it’s fear if Americans in the cities that Trump is thinking will save his hide in tbe burbs.
As I’ve mentioned fhr cities and suburbs aren’t as different politically as they used to be. The kind of suburban voter it appeals to–older insular anc already unlikely to venture into the city the live near–is already voting Republican
Yeah remember how Fox News and the rest of the “conservative “ media would breathlessly report the advancing “caravan .”
It was similiar to reporting on an approaching Hurricane,complete with maps ,panic reporting , etc.
The aim was to scare suburban voters that this mass of foreign humanity was to be let loose upon the land to rape, pillage and God knows what else.
It was crummy ,racist garbage.
And will get worst probably going towards the election…
Wow, this guy really cares about people….will have to become an Independent soon. Maybe he can run against Cramer or Hoeven for the Senate since neither one seems to be doing much for North Dakota. North and South Dakota with a combined population of 1.7 million people get to have 4 Senators. It would nice if one them actually cared about something other than tax breaks for the well to do.
First Race of the Day- Alabama U.S. Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2020/07/race-of-day-alabama-us-senate.html
National Security Advisor Robert OBrien has tested positive for the Covid 19 virus.
Trump says he hasn’t seen him lately.
Presidents typically meet daily with their NSC Advisor.
He must have been tweeting and hadn’t noticed his absence.
Or more than likely?
Trump has no interest in what OBrien would tell him.
After all there are important national security matters like Portland to worry about!
I did a post on this….
In the beginning they did TRY to brief Trump…
First he’d get pissed if anything negitive was said about the Russians…
Then?
They had to deal with the attention span thing…
He had none…
They went from the Bush II and Obama book reading in to one page… To one thing repeated over and OVER…
He gets his briefings from Fix News when they a good poll running ..
Remember …
Trump doesn’t like or trust the intelligence community which includes the FBI…
They in turn probably don’t trust him either…
And of course Trump IS a serial liar….
Biden gonna have a shit load damage repairing to do…
Someone asked about Herman Cain
Former presidential candidate Herman Cain (R) is still in the hospital undergoing oxygen treatment more than three weeks after first being hospitalized with the coronavirus on July 2, Axios reports….
Politicalwire
The guy IS in an Alternate Universe …..
Trump Says Twitter ‘Trending’ Is Illegal
July 27, 2020 at 9:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 259 Comments
President Trump on Twitter:
“So disgusting to watch Twitter’s so-called ‘Trending’, where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one. They look for anything they can find, make it as bad as possible, and blow it up, trying to make it trend. Really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!”
You can’t knock the head guy in places where the leader has the job for life….
THAT isn’t America so far…
More RCP polls….
Minnesota: Trump vs. Biden Trafalgar Group (R)* Biden 49, Trump 44 Biden +5
North Carolina: Trump vs. Biden NBC News/Marist Biden 51, Trump 44 Biden +7
North Carolina Senate – Tillis vs. Cunningham NBC News/Marist Cunningham 50, Tillis 41 Cunningham +9
Herman Cain has now passed away from Covid 19.
I’m sorry to hear that.
Unfortunately Cain ,like so many Republicans ,insisted on downplaying this virus.
Perhaps others will heed this warning.
I recall that Cain came down with this shortly after attending the Trump rally in Tulsa.
Definitely sad. He lived an inspiring although perhaps complicated life.
A 74 year old man who had survived advanced cancer like Mr. Cain had, should never have gone to that rally. He should have watched it on tv.
Morning…..
Slowly the Trump family is losing it….
Twitter temporarily limited Donald Trump Jr.’s account after the president’s son shared a video that broke the platform’s coronavirus misinformation policies, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday.
Trump Jr. will have some functionality — like being able to tweet or retweet — limited for 12 hours.
He is not suspended from the platform, although his spokesperson claimed otherwise in a statement….
More…
Races of the Day:
Alabama Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2020/07/race-of-day-alabama-us-senate.html (in case it was missed)
Alaska Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2020/07/race-of-day-alaska-us-senate.html
On this rerun of Diff’rent Strokes, Mr. Drummond is in a High School hallway protecting Willis from Andrew Dice Clay and other bullies, and he pulls out a gun. Things were “diff’rent” in the 80s alright.
Now, Kareem Abdul-Jabar is a substitute teacher and accidentally knocks Gary Coleman to the floor.
Morning All…
The Trump campaign has pulled ads in Michigan. Seemingly conceding the 16 electoral votes that along with Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were critical in pushing Trump to Electoral College victory in 2016.
It’s also worth noting that 9 out of 10 dollars Trump is spending on ads is in states he already won in 2016. The campaign is no longer bragging that it can pick off states like Minnesota, Nevada, and New Hampshire that were close Clinton wins four years ago.
In 2012 one of the few things Republicans took solace in was that President Obama was reelected with a smaller popular and electoral vote margin than he was first elected with. This is something that rarely happens. Of course Obama had a nearly 100 EV margin over the GOP in 2008 (365 EVs) so losing 33 of those still kept him at a comfortable 332-206 Electoral Vote margin.
Except for his cheerleaders on social media (who often have Confederate flags in some manner as their avatar) no one is suggesting that Trump can increase his margin from 2016. The best he can hope for is to win the Electoral College by an even slimmer margin than last time–at least according to talk that matters most, his ad dollars.
Trump’s burn rate has to be bothering his people also…
Louie went back to his office to tell his staff (sans mask) face-to-face that he tested positive. The stupidest man in Congress.
I can think of other stupid Republicans too, but yes, Gohmert is tough to beat.
But watch out for 2020 when some QAnon candidates are likely to get elected. They might pass Gohmert in stupidity.
Im surprised the demon sperm “doctor” isn’t a GOP Congressional candidare yet
Gomhert said he has been wearing a mask and by moving it around a lot he likely got some virus on the mask and gave the virus to himself from the mask
I think he said specifically “I sucked it in.”
Next thing you know, a condom will cause a man to get pregnant.
Highest number of Covid-19 deaths today since May 27,
Morning…..
Bad days for Trump continue …
He now signals he’s knows he’s in deep shit….
Well that liberal bastion of Branson, Missouri now has a mask requirement.