The “rock concert,” “vibey” DNC is in lieu of a convention where the main players are capable and confident enough to discuss the salient issues. They will entertain you, but you pay for it with lower living standards.
President Biden is literally circumnavigating the entire globe in 4 days leading a bunch of critical meetings to make the US more prosperous and secure. Over the past several weeks he protected a million acres of wilderness around the Grand Canyon, visited victims of the Maui
Quite the choice for Trump and Vance to sit out hitting the campaign trail on Labor Day. I don’t recall that ever happening with a major party nominee in a presidential year. Guess they had zero message to deliver to union workers.
Good, hardboiled perspective from
@BernieSanders
. “I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected. Why? Despite my disagreements with him on particular issues, he has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest
Trump: They don’t have people there. All of the people on North Carolina, no helicopters, no rescue. What's happened there is very bad. They are offering $750 to people whose homes have been washed away.
Extremely grateful for the opportunity and honored to serve
@POTUS
.
@WHCommsDir
has built a world class communications team that has won hard fought, come from behind victories, and as the President said, I have big shoes to fill. 1/3
Harris about to announce her VP pick then prepare for her biggest rally yet here in Philadelphia tonight
JD vance is chasing Harris this week-holding rallies on the same day as her in every state she's visiting. Trump is not visiting any battlegrounds this week
@GMA
“As President Joe Biden visited five cities in a multiday trip last week, former President Donald Trump was hardly seen in public, spending most of his time in South Florida. Trump has held just a single public campaign event since he locked up the Republican presidential
I’m forever grateful to work for a deeply honorable man who revitalized the economy when it was flat on its back, restored decency to the Oval Office, strengthened our alliances around the world and never forgot where he came from. Our work continues. Simultaneously, with more
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best
Joe Biden’s Act of Selflessness: “He has made the rarest of choices in the desiccated, demoralized politics of our time: he has sacrificed his own ambition for the sake of the country.” Via
@eosnos
Many of us got to know
@KamalaHarris
when she endorsed
@BarackObama
very early and was one of few elected officials in CA to do so during the primary. She campaigned her heart out and sent her team to help elect him. CC
@DebbieMesloh
-
@KamalaHarris
has been the likely Dem nominee for five days.
-Her opponent has been the likely GOP nominee for nearly four years.
The
@nytimes
Editorial Board is displeased with both campaigns. Equally.
A five alarm fire for the candidate that appointed the justices that overturned Roe “More Voters, Especially Women, Now Say Abortion Is Their Top Issue”
“Erica Marsh has become 1 of the most consistently viral left-wing voices … especially popular with conservatives, who promoted her as a perfect symbol of how overly theatric and inane progressives can be … There’s just 1 problem: She’s probably a fake.”
“There is a powerful sense of loyalty to
@JoeBiden
, whose 1st term has been deemed a success by liberals and whose leadership of the party has helped make Georgia a true battleground.”
Why Georgia Democrats, for now, are holding the line on Biden
Media Matters: National broadcast and cable networks are barely covering Trump’s recent gaffes and incoherent statements. “An analysis by Media Matters found that TV broadcast news has given no coverage to these false and incoherent statements from Trump, and cable news has
15 years ago today in Grant Park. The peak of an improbable journey and the beginning of a whole new one. Forever proud to be a part of this team. Let’s do it one more time.
Holmes: Talking to Trump's senior advisers and those in his orbit, they're a little bit irked right now, the fact that Joe Biden somehow took over the debate narrative…
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re complaining from the sidelines about the campaign and not picking up a shovel and helping, you aren’t doing it right. A month to go, everything on the line …
During his two-hour chat with Jack Posobiec, Tucker Carlson says "we haven't seen big successes from female leaders," claims women politicians are more bloodthirsty and violent than men, blames the Ukraine war "on a woman," and compares Kamala Harris to Pol Pot.
As a proud conservative, I’ve always put America’s Democracy and our Constitution above all else.
And today, as a proud conservative, I am endorsing
@JoeBiden
for reelection!
This is a tipping point moment for the nation – for our values and rights, our democracy, and for the middle class. I’m ready to suit up and help the President and team, which includes many longtime friends and colleagues, finish the job. I will give it my all. 2/3
@jonfavs
Arbitrary and in brief! As you know, events after 6 pm are not some magic metric in politics. We tend to schedule our events before then to hit the national evening tv news, which still has 20 million nightly viewers.
“The Harris campaign said it believed this was the largest digital ad reservation ever in American politics, reflecting the need to reach voters on their phones and other devices. Just $170 million is being reserved so far on television, as traditional television audiences
I will miss my colleagues at BPI. Building this agency over the past 7 years has been a labor of love and I’m so lucky to work with some of the smartest, most talented and innovative people. It was a gratifying and unforgettable experience and I know you'll be in great hands. 3/3
“We were the victims, we lived through it,” Dunn told CNN in an interview. “If I can tell that story a million times, I will. If I can do that, I’ll just be doing my part to save democracy.”
Side-by-side these interviews could not be any starker:
Trump is unhinged and motivated by revenge and retribution, says states should be allowed to punish women who get abortions
Biden is a steady, capable, commander in chief with the wisdom to lead.
Axios: When the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago tomorrow, the stairs at the delegate entrance (above) will say "History Is In Your Hands" — a quote from Biden's Oval Office address on July 24. As delegates arrive on Monday, when Biden speaks in prime time, digital
The campaign said it had raised nearly $278 million total since Biden officially launched his reelection bid last April. The operation’s $130 million cash on hand is the most ever for a Democratic candidate, the campaign said.
Nato Secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has also responded forcefully, saying: "Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the US, and puts American and European soldiers at increased risk."
Unacceptable. Presidents are elected to serve all Americans. “Helene isn’t the first time Trump inserted politics into a natural disaster. Former WH advisers said Trump hesitated as president to provide disaster aid to California because of the state’s Democratic leanings.”
NEW: Two former Trump White House officials told me they had to show voter data to Trump to get him to release disaster funding to CA wildfire victims. He released it after learning that he had as many GOP supporters in Orange Co. as he did in Iowa.
NEW: Trump’s RNC has now has rehired many of the 60 staffers who were fired when Trump took control last month.
Inside 4 wks of a general election campaign filled with backtracking second-guessing and tension at the highest levels
w/
@AlexThomp
Why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be reelected (with a lot of organizing, hard work and everyone pitching in). A deep dive with
@jomalleydillon
that is worth your time:
#Wisconsin
2024:
#PresidentBiden
leads
#DonaldTrump
in 2-way race, it’s neck and neck when ballot includes third-party candidates; voters 50 – 38% oppose campus protests over Israel’s actions in Gaza
“Democratic voters who appeared at the polls in person on Tuesday felt confident about Mr. Biden's chances of winning Pennsylvania… Most who spoke to CBS News dismissed concerns about the president's age…”
Haley: Despite being a de facto incumbent, Donald Trump lost 49% of the vote in Iowa. In New Hampshire, Trump lost 46% of the vote. What does it say about an incumbent losing nearly half his party? It spells disaster in November.
“You could tell the Trump campaign was thrown off by the Walz pick when the GOP’s vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, attacked the camo-wearing, gun-owning, small-town Midwestern schoolteacher as a ‘San Francisco-style liberal.’ Never mind that Vance lived in the Bay Area for
President Joe Biden raised at least $42 million for his reelection campaign and the Democratic Party in February, campaign officials told CNN, a total fueled by the strongest month of grassroots donations during this election cycle – which campaign officials say demonstrates an
Monday in Chicago:
@JoeBiden
will make a forceful case to defend our democracy once again - and protect the incredible progress we’ve made overcoming a pandemic and an economic crisis - by voting for
@KamalaHarris
and
@Tim_Walz
Q: Will you accept the election results no matter what happens?
VP contender Marco Rubio: No
Q: Will you accept the election results no matter who wins?
Rubio: The Democrats...
Q: Every Democrat that lost conceded their election. Will you accept the election results no matter
Shout out to the staffers in Delaware who just lived through the most stressful five weeks in campaign history, then flipped every piece of branding and content on a dime, raised $100m, recruited 58,000 volunteers, and generally just lit the internet on fire for Kamala Harris.
In her latest column, about the DNC, The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan claims Democrats “stole” faith and patriotism, which she says are “traditional Republican themes,” “and claimed them as their own.”
Amazing: Fox News correspondent
@LucasFoxNews
reports that Biden "continues to face questions about his age, even here in Nantucket" -- citing nothing more than a question
@LucasFoxNews
himself shouted at Biden on Saturday. The epitome of astroturfing a political attack.
Here we go again. Media Matters: “Trump calls his political enemies ‘vermin,’to muted national news coverage. Major broadcast TV and print outlets largely ignored his use of [the] rhetoric.”
“[President Biden] has passed the largest infrastructure, climate, science and technology investments in a generation. Unemployment is 3.4 percent — its lowest level since 1969. Inflation is coming down …” via
@ezraklein
Some notes on current moment:
- Ds ongoing strong electoral performance most important political story
- 6 polls now showing Biden leading/tied
- 2 recent Hispanic, youth polls show Biden at/ahead of 2020
- I remain very optimistic about 2024
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The Harris campaign announces Labor Day Travel:
- VP Kamala Harris solo in Detroit
- Harris AND President Biden in Pittsburgh
- Governor Walz and First Lady Gwen Walz in Milwaukee
- SG Doug Emhoff in Newport News, VA
More lies from Trump, who single-handedly killed the Bipartisan Border Agreement that would surge necessary resources to the border. He wants a problem, not a solution.
FACT CHECK -
@ddale8
:
“Trump falsely claimed that the statistics are specifically about people who are now living freely in the US; the figures actually include people who are currently in jails and prisons serving criminal sentences.”