Just got a report from an early voter in East Dallas. She said only 1 in 6 voting machines are working at the Samuell-Grand Rec Center. While you can vote early at any early vote site in Dallas, the Congressional District where this site is located is 80% Black & Hispanic.
So…. Not a single poll had Alsobrooks winning by anywhere close to double digits, elections absolutely can break late, and campaigns matter.
Feels like there are some lessons to be learned here for idk future elections.
Liz Cheney to 60 Minutes: "I hope that if you had said to me 4 years ago our constitution is going to be under threat & it will be crucial for the parties to come together & to support VP Harris bc she'll defend the rule of law, I know I would've said that's exactly what I'll do"
Just saying,
@AndyBeshearKY
straight up ran ads promoting the battery production facilities that have come to KY because of Joe Biden’s policies and Cameron attacked him as being a Biden clone. Sorry to ruin the narrative.
Some extremely ~personal news~ to begin the week. David and I are excited to announce that our family is growing. (The dogs are more skeptical.) We are expecting a baby girl in January. This is something we’ve worked toward together for nearly two years.
He keeps saying this over and over again. Mandatory requirements for students are supported between 2/3 and 90% of Americans depending on the vaccine. This is insane.
It is reporting malpractice that you would spread this ridiculous “story” without bothering to mention he was awarded the award but mistakenly left out a word from the organization’s title. Anything for clicks, I guess.
In his 06 campaign, Walz boasted “that in 1993, he ‘was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his service in the education, military, and small business communities.’”
But he wasn’t.
Via
@elianayjohnson
NEW from
@CAPAction
's
@citizenwillis
:
Since Sunday, cable networks are airing 10x more coverage of Biden's polling than this story detailing Trump’s MAGA plot to weaponize the government against his political enemies.
@CNN
: 29x as much
@FoxNews
: 38x as much
@MSNBC
: 3x as much
Wondering what a second Trump term would look like? How about using the Justice Department to get revenge again his critics…Must-read
@iarnsdorf
@jdawsey1
@DevlinBarrett
:
On Tuesday night, we welcomed a healthy, happy baby girl to our family. We are overjoyed and madly in love with her. Thx to
@amprog
and
#PaidFamilyLeave
, I’m going to be spending much less time on here the next several months tending to far more important business.
Biden opened his widest lead in a month in the U.S. presidential race after Trump tested positive for
#COVID19
.
Biden: 51%
Trump: 41%
Other: 4%
Undecided: 4%
@realDonaldTrump
Surprise, Donald Trump is lashing out at a smart, competent woman for his own failure to invoke the Defense Product Act, which would have helped states get the supplies they need, until today.
"Regan would be the first Black man to run the
@EPA
.
He would play a central role in realizing
@JoeBiden
's promises to combat climate change, embrace green energy and address environmental racism."
This is your friendly reminder that Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans are running on a tax agenda remarkably similar to the one put forward by Liz Truss. Don’t take my word for it, that’s what Larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council under Trump, said.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation Thursday after six turbulent weeks in office, making her one of the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.
QUITE the warning from Chairman MCCAUL
“I see a lot of threats out there. One of the biggest threats I see is in that room,” McCaul said of the House GOP Conference
If you’re a Dem comms staffer and fail to blow this up today, you’re not doing your job.
- Unemployment at a more than 50-year low.
- Dems are adding 50k more jobs/month than Trump was PRE-PANDEMIC.
- Equitable recovery narrowing gaps in unemployment rates.
Jobs day: Pretty 🔥
- 3.4% unemployment, matching lowest in >50 years
- 253K job gains, v 185k expected
- 4.4% yearly average hourly earnings gain, v 4.2% exp
Downward revisions to prior months are the sole weak spot. Not the steady slowdown the Fed has been waiting on.
In the middle of an economic expansion,
@SenatorCollins
had no problem giving a $1.9T tax cut that gave 83% of gains to the top 1% (families that make over 538k) but is worried about families making < $300k getting a direct payment during an economic crisis. Make it make sense.
NEW: Bipartisan group of senators pushback on White House Covid-19 plan, telling administration officials that the stimulus spending provides too much money to high-income Americans
My mom is a nurse of 40 years in Plano, TX.
She just texted me that her hospital is "starting to run out of masks & hand sanitizer."
Donald Trump's failure to invoke Defense Production Act threatens health care workers' lives.
What are you doing to fix this TODAY
@GovAbbott
?
@SenatorLoeffler
1) Now do your stock trades,
#CorruptKelly
.
2) A $500 billion bailout for big corporations without protections for working families is not in the interest of the American people.
@GOPLeader
My dude, your party just wasted an entire day in the Rules Committee to force this previously scheduled vote into the night so that you could have a talking point. Spare us. The American Rescue Plan has the support of 3 in 4 Americans.
No parent should have to worry that they could be subjecting a child to lead poisoning. Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Biden's Lead Pipe & Paint Action Plan, we can spare families like Deana's from this fate and ensure their peace of mind.
OMG!! This is the line to vote at 7:30 am in Pearland Texas, a Houston suburb. Polls don't open until 9. I've lived her 13 years and NEVER had a line to vote.
#BlueWave
#TurnTexasBlue
.
@politico
: "More than 100 public health experts have thrown their support behind
@neeratanden
,
@POTUS
's pick to lead the White House budget office and are urging the Senate to speed along her confirmation."
NEW from
@amprog
: Recent data suggest the economy is successfully transitioning frm a strong, swift recovery to a period of steady & stable growth. This is a result of
@POTUS
's agenda creating jobs, tackling inflation, & giving families more breathing room
“While a majority (53%) approved of Democrats' messaging and programming at
@DemConvention
, only 37% said the same about the Republican gathering. Just under 6 in 10 Americans (59%) disapproved of the RNC.”
New ABC/Ipsos poll:
Trump gets zero boost in his favorability rating after his convention. It now stands at 31 percent.
By contrast, Biden's is 46 percent, up from 40 percent before both conventions.
When asked what his health care replacement plan is, Trump says: “It doesn’t matter.”
Trump has no respect for people with chronic conditions. He’s willing to lie directly to their faces. 👏 to
@GStephanopoulos
for acknowledging the ACA’s many preexisting condition protections.
In a special
@abc2020
,
@GStephanopoulos
presses Pres. Trump on claim he is preserving pre-existing conditions, even as his administration argues in court against Obamacare, which protects them: "You've been trying to strike down pre-existing conditions."
Not only is this dumb dumb because Biden appointed Rohit, it also ignores the fact that Republicans in Congress and the far-right Supreme Court are straight up working to eliminate CFPB entirely.
NEW in
@NEJM
: 2 doses of the Pfizer vaccine offer 88% protection against symptomatic disease caused by the delta variant. Just slightly down from 94% against the alpha variant (B.1.1.7) that was first discovered in Britain & became dominant across the globe earlier this year.
BREAKING: Airlines will now have to pay you when they mess up.
The Department of Transportation has issued a new rule requiring airlines to give you an automatic refund if your flight is canceled or delayed or if they lose your bags.
It’s a game changer for U.S. travel.
If you’re covering Biden today and failing to mention
#COVID19
cases are projected to surge 82 percent between this week and November 15, you’re doing it wrong.
Biden isn't traveling tomorrow. Instead, he'll be focused on Covid, getting briefed by public health experts and then speaking on "his plans to beat COVID-19, lower health care costs, and protect Americans with pre-existing conditions," his campaign says.
.
@neeratanden
has been a policy advisor to 2 presidents, was a chief legislative aid on the Hill, and has led one of 🇺🇸's premiere think tanks for over a decade. In each role, she brought stakeholders together to make positive change in people's lives. She'll do the same at OMB.
Neera Tanden=accomplished policy expert, would be 1st Asian American woman to lead OMB, has lived experience having benefitted from a number of federal programs as a kid, looking ahead to the committee votes this week and continuing to work toward her confirmation
"My god, they went after cat people. Good luck with that. Turn on the internet and see what cat people do when you go after them."
@Tim_Walz
is so damn good at this.
The number of people I’m seeing on social media discuss the VP pick by saying "anyone but X" is thoroughly depressing.
Get over it.
We have an election to win.
Week 14 of
@NavigatorSurvey
tracking poll: While everyone is going 👀over that new NYT poll, we've got our weekly Navigator release out this AM too. And guess what? It's just as crappy for the President, with a job rating at 41%/58%, including 24%/69% with Independents.
@kadefilippi
@DyjuanTatro
@PatRyanUC
One more for this v good list:
Republicans are nominating candidates even more radical than Molinaro in swing states/districts.
"Biden did nothing less than help tame the world. He passed major legislation, led Dems to a successful midterm, organized a coalition to support 🇺🇦, & pushed back against 🇨🇳 hegemony. Before these events, momentum [was] w/ Biden’s adversaries, now [it] is w/ Biden/his friends."
Always read
@RonBrownstein
: "A clear message from... yesterday is that, however disenchanted voters are w/ the country’s direction, Democrats can still win elections by running campaigns that prompt voters to consider what Republicans would do with power."
@PressSec
@realDonaldTrump
You promised 27 million tests by the end of March. We have tested 4 million. That's a failure, and it makes it impossible for states to re-open.
arrival of 1st grandchild reduces grandmothers’ earnings by 3.4 % relative to grandfathers’ earnings...
5 years later: Largely the same
10 years later "grandchild penalty" is 8.6 %
grandmothers penalty primarily driven by move out of FT work, not shifts to lower payed jobs
“You can’t say he’s fine & he’s going home tmro & btw he’s on dexamethasone." The concern is it can suppress the immune system’s activity broadly. While helpful in severe illness, giving it too soon could hinder the immune system from fighting the virus."
Another House Republican on his party’s wasted majority in
@PunchbowlNews
this AM:
“Look at what we’ve accomplished. The answer is nothing.” vis
@RepVanOrden
THREAD: More and more Republicans are rejecting MAGA extremism and backing Democratic candidates.
"As a lifelong Republican, I do not take this decision lightly, but
@krismayes
is the only candidate I trust."
🎙ENDORSEMENT ALERT 🎙 Honored to have the endorsement and trust of former Maricopa County Attorney, Rick Romley. Rick, a lifelong Republican, knows that I care as deeply about public safety & fighting crime as he does. I will be a
#LawyerForThePeople
for ALL Arizonans.
Boston pre-k lottery winners “were less likely to be suspended or sentenced to juvenile incarceration. 70% graduated from HS vs. 64% of lottery losers, a substantial difference for 2 similar groups. Winners were more likely to take the SAT, go to college.”
Great piece from
@RonBrownstein
.
"Biden could be ✂️ribbons every week through the 2024 campaign—which would probably be fine with him... [He] is most comfortable... focused... on delivering kitchen-table benefits to people who work with their hands."
“The bill Biden signed in to increase the use of green energy & electric cars while expanding domestic manufacturing appears to be yielding results. A 🇰🇷 solar company announced today it would spend $2.5B to build a large manufacturing complex in Georgia”
In 2017,
@neeratanden
brought DEM & GOP governors together to identify policies needed to stabilize the individual insurance markets. Their insight informed this proposal & ultimately gained bipartisan champions in
@PattyMurray
and Lamar Alexander.
.
@neeratanden
has both the practical experience of knowing how to get things done, as well as the personal experience of knowing how important the programs behind the huge budget numbers are to families & communities. She's an excellent choice to lead OMB & should be confirmed.
Today was M’s first day at child care. We survived, though I definitely 😢. Grateful to be able to send her to a safe, high-quality program with welcoming and warm educators. It will make returning to work possible and easier to process. Every family should have this opportunity.
Very much looking forward to the certain to come stories on whether Biden is focusing “too much” on abortion.
Just ridiculous and embarrassing coverage.
.
@washingtonpost
editors just bending over backwards to say whatever Joe Biden does is strategically wrong.
They hit him for not cancelling his NM climate event - nevermind record temperatures, extreme weather - because of the OH referundum? What?
👀
@DanCrenshawTX
tells
@PunchbowlNews
on the speaker fight: "I’ll tell you what – whoever that 20 wants, I will never vote for that person. I do not care who it is.”
@ABCPolitics
@GStephanopoulos
@SenatorCollins
Donald Trump promised as a candidate to only nominate justices who would overturn Roe v Wade. Susan Collins never decried such a move, rather she enthusiastically supported his nominees.
"The Inflation Reduction Act makes Florida eligible for some $350 million in energy efficiency incentives. But Gov. Ron DeSantis has rejected the funding and other measures"
@jenhab
“
@RepKatiePorter
worries that by splitting up the infrastructure plans, a day could come when, ‘Golly gee, there's no money left to help make it possible for women to recover economically.’”
Everyone is reacting to Trump admitting he only cares about himself, but the real tell is that Trump essentially admitted the economy is currently doing well under Biden.
.
@morningmika
reacts to Trump saying last night he hopes the economy crashes so he can blame President Biden: Oh okay, Trump hopes millions of Americans lose their money from their 401ks and retirement savings within the next 12 months so he doesn’t look bad
🚨 Dr. Oz promoted a plan to PRIVATIZE Medicare — and I quote — “for ALL” in
@Forbes
. And to pay for this insurance industry windfall, he proposed increasing payroll taxes 20 percent. Yikes!
#PASEN
NEW: Dr. Oz is pushing Medicare privatization.
The 'miracle cure' TV doctor from New Jersey wants to privatize Medicare — and tax workers to boost the profits of insurance giants whose stock he owns.
Aaaaand, we back at
@amprog
for the first time since March 11, 2020 and parental leave. Missing my little girl, but we can do this.
If we haven’t talked in a while, I look forward to catching up soon. Advance warning: there will be baby 📸 . LOTS of baby pics.
BREAKING: About 800 public health experts and professionals call on President Trump to
#DropTheLawsuit
to take health care away from 23 million Americans during the
#Coronavirus
pandemic.
#ProtectOurCare
The Trump administration’s lawsuit to repeal the ACA would once again make it legal to deny someone health care coverage for having a pre-existing condition.
We won’t go back.
#ProtectOurCare
Are you kidding me with this
@politico
? His opponent, JD Vance, just denied the results of the 2020 election -- news which is nowhere on your homepage.
.
@ewarren
is using her grassroots fundraising list to raise money for
@JoeBiden
today. It sounds small, but this is the perfect example of why she will be more effective at advancing a progressive agenda under a Biden administration than Bernie will be.
Bernie Sanders tells
@elizacollins1
he will use his online platform to promote Biden—but won’t fundraise for him, instead using his database of supporters to solicit donations for progressive candidates down-ballot.
"A letter from 800 public health officials beseeching Trump to reverse support for the [ACA] lawsuit… contends that the prospect of losing coverage could fall hard on essential workers in health-care settings & grocery stores affected by
#COVID19
."
If Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act when experts told him to rather than cowering to
@USChamber
and its members who are making 💰 by pitting states against one another and driving up prices, then this wouldn’t be necessary.
He put their profits before the people.
@adamkelsey
@BernieSanders
The man is literally suing in federal court to take health care away from 20M people and threw a party in the Rose Garden after House Republicans passed a bill to weaken protections for pre-existing health conditions.