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THE DAILY SIGNAL

Aug 01, 2019

Good morning from Washington, which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has left behind for his latest trip abroad. Traveling with him, Nolan Peterson reports on the secretary’s insistence that the presidential election isn’t driving a withdrawal from Afghanistan. On the podcast, educator Warren Farrell talks about addressing the “boy crisis.” Plus: Monica Burke on the grim harvest of assisted suicide, Victor Davis Hanson on violent rhetoric about the president, Walter Williams on what it takes to be a racist, and Kelsey Bolar and Lauren Evans on what women really think.

	News Media ‘Got It Wrong’ on US Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Pompeo Says “There’s no deadline for this,” the secretary of state says of getting out of Afghanistan. More News Menacing Invective Against Trump Lowers Bar for Violence Former Vice President Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump. More News ACLU Accuses Trump Administration of Separating More Families at Border In a court filing, the American Civil Liberties Union accuses the Trump administration of separating nearly 1,000 migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border after a court order to end the practice. More Commentary Assisted Suicide Is Now Legal in New Jersey. It Could Get Even Worse. Lawmakers claim this policy will promote “humanity, dignity, and respect”—but that couldn’t be further from the truth. More Analysis What’s Driving America’s ‘Boy Crisis’ “About 90% of the mass shooters that I studied since Columbine have been boys brought up in homes that have minimal or no father involvement,” Warren Farrell says. More News Pro-Life Activists Respond to Planned Parenthood Leader’s Asserting It’s ‘Not Political by Nature’ Live Action founder Lila Rose says it is “laughable” to hear Alexis McGill Johnson say the nation’s largest abortion provider is not political, “when Planned Parenthood fired its last CEO for not being political enough.” More Commentary Problematic Women: Do Women Really Have Different Opinions Than Men? Jessica Anderson, vice president of Heritage Action for America, discusses new polling that reveals the top issues of concern to women. More Commentary Being a Racist Is Easy Today Perhaps the easiest way to be labeled a racist is to suggest that a wall be built on our border with Mexico to keep people from Mexico and points south from entering our nation illegally. More

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

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Democrats pull no punches on second night of debate The exchanges showcased many of the deep divides within the party that are taking on greater urgency as the candidates strive to make gains before the field narrows. By Matt Viser, Toluse Olorunnipa and Amy Wang · Read more Highlights from night 2 The 10 candidates showed they were ready for a fight. By Washington Post Staff · Read more   The Fix | Analysis Winners and losers from tonight’s debate Sen. Kamala D. Harris didn’t repeat her star turn, Joe Biden was bruised again, and Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren won in absentia. By Aaron Blake · Read more   Fact Checker | Analysis How 13 policy-oriented claims stack up Candidates attacked each other’s records and defended their own. By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly · Read more   The Take | Analysis Debate turns on character as much as ideology, a foreboding path for Democrats The candidates squabbled over honesty, declining to offer an uplifting message as they pilloried each other more than President Trump. By Dan Balz · Read more   Biden, Harris muddle through confusing health policy during debate Their plans are more moderate than Medicare-for-all but might be harder to explain. Health-care experts said both candidates strained to explain key details. By Jeff Stein and and Yasmeen Abutaleb · Read more   Missed the debate? Read the transcript from our live chat. Read more   Biden, Harris field attacks on criminal justice records “You stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine,” Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) told Biden. By Elise Viebeck · Read more   Analysis: Eric Garner’s death was a major topic at the debate Bill De Blasio’s controversial response to the death of Eric Garner was on display at the presidential debate. By Eugene Scott · Read more   Graphic: Which candidate spoke the most? Read more   Fed cuts interest rates, a move Trump criticizes as insufficient Wall Street investors and President Trump have been calling for large interest-rate cuts by the end of the year. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell refused to promise that and left unclear how much more stimulus the Fed is willing to inject. By Heather Long · Read more   Analysis: If the economy is in good shape, why is the Fed cutting rates? Top Fed officials are calling this an “insurance cut” to counteract Trump’s trade war and weakness overseas. By Heather Long · Read more   Trump, Epstein partied together. Then an oceanfront mansion came between them. Donald Trump has not said why his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein ruptured, only that it happened about 15 years ago. At the time, they were squaring off over a Palm Beach mansion being sold at bankruptcy. By Beth Reinhard, Rosalind Helderman and Marc Fisher · Read more     ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions Joe Biden was brilliantly and gloriously adequate By Dana Milbank · Read more I’m grateful for every woman running for president. Even Williamson. By Alyssa Rosenberg · Read more Biden performed better in the second debate. CNN didn’t. By Jennifer Rubin · Read more Booker broke through. Biden struck back. Harris was in the hot seat. By E.J. Dionne · Read more A Chinese dissident jailed for critical thought deserves the world’s help By Editorial Board · Read more Why my committee needs President Trump’s tax returns By Richard Neal · Read more   ADVERTISEMENT   More News Dallas police laughed and joked as he lost consciousness in handcuffs. Minutes later, he died. Tony Timpa, 32, had called 911 asking for help. His last minutes alive were made public in a disturbing video after a years-long legal battle for access to records related to his death in police custody in 2016. By Reis Thebault · Read more   Equifax promised up to $125 for the hack. Now, the FTC says you’ll get ‘nowhere near’ that amount. The commission said the public response was overwhelming and encouraged people to opt for the free credit monitoring instead of the cash payout. By Eli Rosenberg · Read more   Trump’s pick for managing federal lands doesn’t believe the government should have any In the last three decades, William Perry Pendley sought to undermine protections for endangered species such as the grizzly bear and pressed to radically reduce the size of federal lands to make way for development. By Steven Mufson · Read more   North Korean soldier makes midnight dash to freedom across DMZ The man eluded land mines and other fortifications to reach South Korea, where military officials said he would be assessed. By David Crawshaw · Read more   Police said an officer shot a man who opened a door while aiming a gun. Then the body-cam video came out. The video contradicted the initial police account. “Oh my God, call the cops, please!” the homeowner yelled after being shot inside his home. “I am the cops,” the deputy replied. By Michael Brice-Saddler · Read more   Dubai’s Princess Haya wants protection from the glitzy city’s ruler. She’s not the first. A custody battle between Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum and one of his wives has undermined the deliberately cultivated image of the city as a playground for Western tourists that embraces modern sensibilities. By Ruby Mellen · Read more   Post Reports | Listen Now How Trump wants to one-up Democrats on health care Yasmeen Abutaleb on the White House’s scramble for a health-care win. Moriah Balingit explains how e-cigarettes may lead to more than nicotine addiction. And Heather Long on the Federal Reserve’s gamble on the economy.  By The Washington Post · Read more

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LARRY J. SABATO’S CRYSTAL BALL

IN THIS ISSUE: – Notes on the State of Politics NOTES ON THE STATE OF POLITICS Debate effects can fade; Trump may be running behind his approval; the NC-9 special; a Magnolia runoff? By Kyle Kondik Managing Editor, Sabato’s Crystal Ball

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The polling effects from the first debate largely wore off by the time the second round started. — In 2016, President Trump won some voters who otherwise did not like him, but there are some signs he isn’t benefiting from such a dynamic at the moment. — The NC-9 special House election moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican. — Mississippi’s GOP gubernatorial primary may be headed to a runoff. Debate effects may not endure According to the RealClearPolitics average, here was the national polling average for the Democratic presidential nomination battle on June 26, the day of the first debate (we’re only listing candidates who were at 2% or higher in the average, rounded to the nearest whole percentage point): Joe Biden 32%, Bernie Sanders 17%, Elizabeth Warren 13%, Kamala Harris 7%, Pete Buttigieg 7%, Beto O’Rourke 3%, and Cory Booker 2% (no one else had 2% support or more). On Tuesday morning, the day of the start of the second round of debates, the average was: Biden 32%, Sanders 16%, Warren 14%, Harris 11%, Buttigieg 6%, O’Rourke 3%, Andrew Yang 2%, and Booker 2%. In between then and now, Biden did in fact dip several points — hitting a low of 26% in the average — before recovering to his previous standing. Harris rose as high as 15% and is still several points higher than before, but the debate effects seemed to dissipate. The others didn’t change much at all. So as we wait to see what effect Tuesday and Wednesday night’s debates have on the race for the Democratic nomination, don’t necessarily assume that changes we may see are permanent — if changes occur at all. To our eyes, we didn’t see much from the debates that seems likely to fundamentally alter the race. Trump: Running behind approval? A big part of the reason why Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 was that he captured a not-insignificant percentage of voters who did not necessarily like him but chose him anyway over Hillary Clinton. Only 38% of the electorate reported having a favorable opinion of him, according to the national exit poll, but he won 46% of the vote, meaning that he ran eight percentage points ahead of his favorability. Clinton, whose favorability was 43%, got 48% of the vote, meaning that she only ran five points ahead of her favorability. Additionally, Trump won 47%-30% among the 18% of the electorate who held unfavorable views of both Trump and Clinton. That Trump was able to capture voters who held an unfavorable view of him suggests that perhaps he could do it again in 2020, particularly if the eventual Democratic nominee also becomes unpopular. This helps explain why Trump is desperate to make the election a choice as opposed to a referendum. However, in some early ballot tests, there is some indication that Trump is not only failing to pick up support from people who don’t like him, but in some instances he does not appear to be winning every poll respondent who approves of his job performance. Let’s look at three well-established, live-caller national polls released over the last month that asked both about Trump’s approval rating and tested the president in ballot tests against the leading Democratic candidates: Fox News, NBC News/Wall Street Journal, and ABC News/Washington Post. The Fox News poll released last week found that Trump’s approval rating among registered voters was 46%, but he only attracted between 39%-42% of the vote in matchups against the top-polling Democratic presidential contenders (Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders — Biden usually does the best in these head-to-heads with Trump at this point). The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released in early July found Trump’s approval at 45% among registered voters, but his support in ballot tests against the four top Democrats was just 42%-44%. The ABC News/Washington Post survey conducted right after the first debates found Trump at 47% approval among registered voters, but Trump was only at 43% against Biden: against the three others, Trump was between 46%-48%, effectively equaling his approval. The differences here are slight, but this is something worth monitoring because Trump’s path to victory probably entails him either improving his approval rating so that it’s in the mid-to-high 40s as opposed to the mid-to-low 40s, or running ahead of his approval by capturing a small but significant number of voters who don’t approve of him. But if Trump is actually losing a small number of voters who approve of his job performance, he may have a very hard time cobbling together another Electoral College majority. Just for comparison’s sake, we went back and looked at how Barack Obama was faring against Mitt Romney in surveys from the same outlets at about the same time in his presidency. In an ABC News/Washington Post poll from mid-July 2011, Obama’s approval among all adults was 47%, but he was at 51% against Mitt Romney, who would become his eventual 2012 opponent. Around the same time, Fox News pegged Obama’s approval at 45% among registered voters and he was at 47% against Romney; NBC News/Wall Street Journal had Obama at 47% approval among all adults and 48% against Romney among registered voters. In other words, Obama was running at or ahead of his approval rating more consistently back then compared to Trump now. For what it’s worth, the approval rating of incumbent presidents around the time of Election Day who have run for reelection over the past several decades has correlated fairly well with their final share of the vote. We went back to Richard Nixon’s 1972 reelection for this exercise and used the FiveThirtyEight approval average for each president; however, we omitted Gerald Ford in 1976 because it did not appear as though there was any fresh approval polling in the lead-up to the election, which he narrowly lost to Jimmy Carter. Table 1: Presidential approval at Election Day, 1972-2012 Sources: FiveThirtyEight and Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections Bill Clinton was the only president who underperformed his approval, and that probably had at least something to do with the unusual circumstances of the election, which featured Ross Perot’s second presidential campaign (as it was, Clinton soundly beat Bob Dole 49%-41%, with Perot winning 8%). To be clear, horse race polls this early in an election cycle are not predictive, and there are not huge differences in Trump’s approval and his horse race polling. But one might generally expect an incumbent president to win a share of the vote commensurate with his approval rating. In some national polls, Trump is running behind his approval. It’s worth watching whether that continues as the marathon campaign meanders on. NC-9 Leans Republican Campaigns sometimes confuse us with their decisions to release internal polls. Generally speaking, one has to take these polls with a grain of salt, and it’s usually a safe assumption to believe that they present a rosy picture of whichever campaign releases them. So it was a little odd that the campaign of Dan McCready (D), a Marine veteran running in a special, do-over election in NC-9, released a poll only showing him tied with state Sen. Dan Bishop (R). The poll showed the candidates knotted at 46%, with McCready outperforming a generic ballot in the district, which showed a Republican leading 48%-39%. This is effectively the last election of the 2018 cycle; McCready seemed to narrowly lose last November to former pastor Mark Harris (R), but credible allegations of fraud designed to help Harris prompted a second election. This internal poll is a reminder that this district, which extends east and south from the Charlotte suburbs and which Donald Trump won by about a dozen points, leans considerably to the right of the nation. We have little doubt that McCready, a very well-funded candidate, can and will outperform the generic lean of the district, as this poll suggests. But the district may end up being too hard in a political environment that may not be as Democratic-friendly as it was prior to the midterm. According to a compilation of the results by the liberal site Daily Kos Elections, Democrats on average ran 11 points ahead of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 margin in state and federal legislative special elections held between the 2016 and 2018 elections. That’s the kind of overperformance Democrats would need to win NC-9. During this cycle’s legislative special elections, Democrats are still overperforming Clinton’s 2016 showing on balance, but by less on average, six points. This may help provide context for the political environment in which NC-9 is being contested: If this race was happening during the 2018 cycle, it may really have been a Toss-up, as it basically was on Election Night. But now that it’s happening in the 2020 cycle, when the parties may be a bit closer in terms of off-year motivation, it may be that the district is a bit too Republican for the race to feel like a true Toss-up. Special elections are unpredictable, and we still think NC-9 should be close. McCready has a substantial money edge on Bishop, although so far Republican outside groups seem to be making much more of an investment in the race, which will even things out for Bishop (this according to a helpful summary from Politico). All told, we think we’d probably rather be the Republicans here with less than a month and a half to go until the Sept. 10 election. So we’re moving NC-9 from Toss-up to Leans Republican. We also wanted to make note a few other House ratings changes that we have announced on Twitter over the past couple of months but that we have not specifically addressed in the Crystal Ball. These have been predicated on candidate decisions — either incumbents retiring or noteworthy challengers emerging. Table 2: House ratings changes Member/District Old Rating New Rating NC-9 Vacant/Special Toss-up Leans Republican TX-22 Open (Olson, R) Leans Republican Toss-up T.J. Cox (D, CA-21) Likely Democratic Leans Democratic IN-5 Open (Brooks, R) Safe Republican Leans Republican Note: TX-22 change previously announced July 25 via Twitter; CA-21 change announced July 18; IN-5 change announced on June 14.   Most recently, last Thursday, we moved TX-22 from Leans Republican to Toss-up following the retirement of Rep. Pete Olson (R). This suburban Houston seat is one of many that appeared to be very safely Republican until the emergence of Donald Trump as the leader of the Republican Party pushed many voters in affluent, highly-educated suburban areas toward the Democrats. This district shifted from voting for Mitt Romney by 25 points in 2012 to backing Trump by only eight in 2016. This shift continued in 2018, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) only carried the district by less than a point against challenger Beto O’Rourke (D) according to election analyst J. Miles Coleman, and Olson only won by five points against Sri Preston Kulkarni (D), who is running again. It may be that the GOP is eventually favored, but this district was already strongly on both party’s radars even before Olson retired. A couple of weeks ago, we also moved Rep. T.J. Cox (D, CA-21) from Likely Democratic to Leans Democratic after ex-Rep. David Valadao (R) took steps toward a rematch. This is an odd district: Hillary Clinton won the Central Valley-based, majority Hispanic district by 16 points but Valadao won easy victories in 2012, 2014, and 2016 before narrowly falling to Cox last year. On paper, this is not a district a Republican should win in a presidential year, but Valadao is a strong candidate who should not be counted out. In mid-June, we moved IN-5 in the Indianapolis suburbs from Safe Republican to Leans Republican following the retirement of Rep. Susan Brooks (R). It is another highly-educated suburban seat that is newly vulnerable in the Trump era, but it doesn’t seem quite as difficult for the Republicans as TX-22: It is somewhat similar to OH-12, the seat in Central Ohio that Republicans held in a nationally-watched special election last year (Trump won both IN-5 and OH-12 by roughly a dozen points). A number of other Republicans from Safe Republican seats announced their retirements over the last week: Reps. Martha Roby (R, AL-2), Paul Mitchell (R, MI-10), Mike Conaway (R, TX-11), and Rob Bishop (R, UT-1). None of these seats are competitive in a general election. But sometimes retirements can be an ominous sign for a party, because it may signal a lack of confidence in the next election: These are members who wouldn’t have had trouble winning a general election, but serving in the minority is unpleasant and perhaps they do not feel good about the prospects of the GOP winning the majority in 2020. Ultimately, no one except the members themselves know exactly why they retired, and the fact that several Republicans who lost in 2018 appear to be running again — Valadao prominent among them — presents an opposing and more bullish view of GOP confidence about 2020. We wouldn’t read into these developments too much either way about the outlook for next year, which is still a long time away anyway and will hinge on several factors that are as-yet unknown. Overall, we have 224 House seats rated as Safe, Likely, or Leans Democratic, 194 Safe, Likely, or Leaning Republican, and 17 Toss-ups. Splitting the Toss-ups roughly evenly, let’s say nine for the Republicans and eight for the Democrats, would result in a 232-203 House, or a net loss of three for the Democrats. Republicans need to net at least 18 seats to win the House (depending on what happens in NC-9). A Mississippi runoff? The primaries for the Mississippi governor’s race are next Tuesday. Even though Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (R) has long been the favorite, he may have to face a runoff. A Mason-Dixon poll released earlier this week showed Reeves with 41%, followed by former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller, Jr. at 31%, and state Rep. Robert Foster lagging back at 13%. Foster has made the most national news, thanks to his refusal to allow a female reporter to follow him on a campaign trip without a male colleague tagging along, but the real story is that Waller appears to really be pushing Reeves. The runoff would be Aug. 27. State Attorney General Jim Hood (D), a social conservative with an impressive electoral track record, is the likely Democratic nominee. Republicans are gunning for their fifth-straight gubernatorial victory in racially-polarized Mississippi, where a unified and Democratic African-American voting bloc is typically outvoted by a slightly-less unified but significantly larger Republican white voting bloc. While Hood is the strongest-possible Democratic candidate, this is still the GOP’s race to lose given the state’s Republican leanings. We rate this race as Leans Republican, which is the same rating we’ve given to Kentucky’s governor’s race, where unpopular Gov. Matt Bevin (R) faces a very credible challenge from state Attorney General Andy Beshear (D). The other gubernatorial race this year, in Louisiana, we rate Leans Democratic as Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) seeks a second term. That race features an all-party primary on Oct. 12; if no one gets over 50% — Edwards hypothetically could but probably won’t — there will be a runoff on Nov. 16. Edwards’ two leading challengers are Rep. Ralph Abraham (R, LA-5) and businessman and political donor Eddie Rispone (R). Abraham is favored to face Edwards in the runoff but Rispone is spending a lot of personal money to catch up, and it would hardly be surprising if a business figure surpassed an elected official in a GOP primary setting. Out Now: The Blue Wave, the UVA Center for Politics’ book on the 2018 election Our new book on the 2018 midterm elections, The Blue Wave: The 2018 Midterms and What They Mean for the 2020 Elections, is now available from Rowman and Littlefield. Edited by University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry J. Sabato and Crystal Ball managing editor Kyle Kondik, The Blue Wave features top journalists, academics, and analysts who explore the 2018 midterm from all angles and look ahead to the monumental presidential election coming in 2020. Use code RLFANDF30 for 30% off at Rowman and Littlefield’s website. The Blue Wave features the following contributors and chapters: — Larry J. Sabato: The Blue Wave: Trump at Midterm — Alan I. Abramowitz: The Trump Effect: The 2018 Midterm Election as a Referendum on a Polarizing President — Rhodes Cook: The Primaries: Democrats Shine in the Shadow of Trump — David Byler: Humpty Dumpty’s Fall: How Trump’s Winning Presidential Coalition Broke Down in 2018 — Kyle Kondik: The House: Where the Blue Wave Hit the Hardest — James Hohmann: The Senate: The Republicans’ Bright Spot — Madelaine Pisani: The Governors: Democratic Wave Falls Short of a Wipeout — Michael Toner and Karen Trainer: The Money Wars: Emerging Campaign Finance Trends and Their Impact on 2018 and Beyond — Emily C. Singer: Women Rule: The Surge of Women in Congress — Theodore R. Johnson: Hindsight in 2020: Black Voting Behavior and the Next Presidential Election — Matt Barreto, Gary Segura, and Albert Morales: The Brown Tide and the Blue Wave in 2018 — Diana Owen: Presidential Media and the Midterm Elections — Joshua T. 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THE RESURGENT

The Resurgent’s Morning Briefing for August 1,2019 View this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day.  At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day.  You can listen live here.   Barack Obama Was Pretty Damned Divisive It was not Donald Trump who told supporters to take guns to knife fights. It was not Donald Trump who told Hispanic voters that Republicans were their enemies. It was not Donald Trump who encouraged people to report their neighbors for lying about him and his healthcare plan. It was not Donald Trump who built an app to show you if your neighbor was a Republican. It was not Donald Trump who derisively referred to some as clinging to their guns and religion. That was all Barack Obama. It was Barack Obama who divided the nation between us and them. It was Barack Obama who targeted Christians for ridicule and sought to punish nuns and Christian small businesses. It was Barack Obama who targeted Catholic charities. It was Barack Obama who used a strategy of “othering” and division to win the election. It was Barack Obama who tried to shame gun owners and target the Koch Foundation and the NRA. The Obama Administration did this all with ruthlessness that included using the Internal Revenue Service to harass conservatives. The post Barack Obama Was Pretty Damned Divisive appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Joe Biden Wins the Round Over two nights, the Democratic presidential candidates battled it out on stage. Consider how many candidates there were and consider that there are some candidates who did not even make it to the stage. The first night of the CNN debate was all white. The second night was all fight. The fighting involved every candidate hitting Joe Biden. Biden is the front runner and the man polls show is most capable of beating Donald Trump. Democrat voters say they are more interested in beating Trump than getting someone who agrees with them on every issue. The post Joe Biden Wins the Round appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » What We’re Up Against In 2020 I never thought we would be debating capitalism versus socialism in my lifetime. However, after watching the Democratic presidential debates this week, it has become clear that we are in an ideological war for the future of our Republic. Throughout the current presidential campaign, Democrats have proposed increasingly radical socialist policies. Bernie Sanders said “you’re […] The post What We’re Up Against In 2020 appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Montana Woke Senate Candidate Agrees With New York Race Baiter That Trump is Offensive Wilmot Collins became Helena’s first black mayor a little over a year ago but quickly grew tired of the job and threw his hat in the ring for Senate.  And despite being the Democrats’ front-runner to challenge Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) next year, Collins isn’t much interested in that job, either. Because if he was […] The post Montana Woke Senate Candidate Agrees With New York Race Baiter That Trump is Offensive appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » They Really Do Hate Us, Don’t They? Ask a question you don’t want an answer to, and expect an answer one might not want to hear. One cannot look at the rhetoric and pandering coming from the left and its leadership without openly wondering whether this might indeed be the case. Does the political left in this county actually hate us? To […] The post They Really Do Hate Us, Don’t They? appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Donald Trump Has More Humility Than Pete Buttigieg Even I am shocked that I would talk about President Trump and humility, but in this one regard he actually does exercise more humility than Pete Buttigieg. President Trump has said more than once he has never felt the need to repent for anything. That raises questions about his salvation that I have explored in […] The post Donald Trump Has More Humility Than Pete Buttigieg appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » The Media Still Don’t Get Donald Trump But he gets them—probably more than they would like. The post The Media Still Don’t Get Donald Trump appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » CNN Got the Debate Right. More Like This Please. While there are things to nitpick, I have to say the CNN debate was well done and thoughtful. With the exception of Don Lemon at one point insisting on a yes or no answer after the network said there would be none of that, I think they were able to navigate a range of relevant […] The post CNN Got the Debate Right. More Like This Please. appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser »   Recent Items: Elizabeth Warren Won the Debate Capital Punishment and Abortion: A Helpful Refresher for Liberal Activists Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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View this email in your browser “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”  THEODORE ROOSEVELT Advertisement: Good morning,  Residents in West Baltimore described to our reporter a culture of danger and drugs and a wish for better living conditions.  The area, which was propelled into the national debate last week, has a murder rate which is 25 times higher than the national average.  Read the full story here   Reform of Food Stamp Program Triggers Debate Judge Overturns 2006 Terror Conviction of California Man Fed Cuts Interest Rates for the First Time Since 2008 Lawmakers Call on US to Halt Sales of Tear Gas to Hong Kong   One day after a federal judge dismissed the Democratic National Committee’s Russia-collusion lawsuit against his 2016 campaign, President Trump pointed to an ongoing inquiry by the Justice Department into the origins of what he called “the greatest political scam in the history of our country.” Read more Children are being rented, bought, kidnapped, and recycled so that single adults, mostly men from Central America, can gain quick release into the United States after crossing the border illegally. The cost of renting a child varies. Read more A tentative trial date for the high-profile case of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was set by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, which he said could change in the coming months, for June 8, 2020. Read more In the eyes of Trump White House insider and criminal justice reform champion Brooke Rollins, what is it like to work for President Donald Trump? Watch video   In connection with a lawsuit for child custody, a former employee of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services asserts in an affidavit obtained by The Epoch Times that the agency falsifies evidence to justify taking children from their parents. Read more Google has been cooperating with a leading artificial intelligence (AI) research body at Tsinghua University, a prestigious Chinese academic institution that also conducts AI research for the Chinese military. Read more   See More Top Stories ‘Freedom Road’ Maoists Aid Maduro Regime and Latin American Marxist Revolution By Trevor Loudon American Maoists are working to support the embattled regime of illegitimate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and to strengthen ties with Latin American communism. In mid-July, the militant Chicago Teachers Union sent a delegation to Caracas to build “solidarity” with socialist Venezuela. According to delegation leader and… Read more What Beijing’s Official Statement on Hong Kong Reveals By Cang Shan In a rare news conference, the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council made its first official statement about events in Hong Kong since the anti-extradition bill protests began. The statement reveals that the CCP’s traditional Hong Kong governing agencies have been deprived of the power to make specific policies… Read more   See More Opinions (March 14, 2018) The Illusion of Free Trade By Valentin Schmid Anything President Donald Trump does usually provokes a backlash from the status quo. In early March, the focus is on trade, as Trump walked the walk and slapped import tariffs on steel, aluminum, washing machines, and solar panels not just from China but also other countries. The backlash from popular media and the affected countries’ politicians blames Trump for ruining the beautiful “free trade” system built up around the… Read more Children are being rented, bought, recycled, and kidnapped so that single adults, mostly men from Central America, can gain quick release into the United States after crossing the border illegally. The cost of renting a child varies. Illegal Immigrant Bought Baby for $80 in Guatemala to Get Priority Release in US Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account.

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View this email in your browser Thursday, August 1, 2019 Debate Night II In the second night of the Democratic primary debate, “the ideological divisions gripping the Democratic Party intensified on Wednesday as presidential candidates waged an acrimonious battle over health care, immigration and race that tested the strength of early front-runner Joe Biden’s candidacy.” AP News From the Left The left argues that Booker did well, Biden cleared a low bar, and Harris did not rise to meet expectations.  “The New Jersey senator had a very good debate. Aside from his dumb derision directed at so-called ‘Republican talking points’… Booker was a happy warrior — balancing attacks (primarily against former Vice President Joe Biden) with an optimistic demeanor. Booker spoke powerfully about criminal justice reform and immigration. And he made a very good point when he noted that Biden was trying to have it both ways when it came to former President Barack Obama — taking credit when it works for him and distancing himself from the Obama legacy when that is more politically convenient. Booker has considerable natural gifts as a candidate — and they shone through on Wednesday night.” Chris Cillizza, CNN “New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker made an uncomfortable but necessary point during the second Democratic primary debate: The bar for action on climate change is higher than it used to be, and pledging to rejoin the Paris climate agreement is too low of a bar for presidential candidates… It’s high time to acknowledge that the goal posts on climate change have moved and the US will have to take more ambitious actions on a more aggressive time scale to meet its already tepid climate change goals.” Umair Irfan, Vox   Regarding the Biden-Harris healthcare debate, “this is not an issue where either candidate is entirely comfortable. Harris has struggled throughout the campaign to give clear answers on key questions, like whether private plans should be permitted under Medicare-for-all, and her campaign’s new proposal seemed to be designed to settle those doubts once and for all. Biden, on the other hand, appeared to casually mix up copays with deductibles in one of his debate answers… The core disagreement between the two leading candidates on the stage remained the same from beginning to end: Harris wants to fundamentally overhaul the system to cover everyone and Biden wants to build on the system we have to cover many more, but not all, people.” Dylan Scott, Vox   “Harris, for her part, was unable to replicate her dominating star turn of the first debate… She seemed more hesitant, and her answers on health care continue to sound unclear, though she recovered in the second half of the debate. Harris and Booker have the same problem: they need Joe Biden to collapse, and for the moment, that isn’t happening.” Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine   “Biden was . . . perfectly adequate. He wasn’t the most eloquent or stylish debater on the stage. He struggled to find words at times, he seemed over-rehearsed, he seemed not to grasp how texting works (‘Go to Joe 30330’), he cut himself off when his allotted time expired and, at times, he seemed stunned by the ferocity of the barrage — which, in fairness, was stunning. But in contrast to his lifeless performance at the first debate, Biden was energetic and prepared. He returned fire with fire and, for the most part, he held his own.” Dana Milbank, Washington Post   “Biden isn’t the only one trying to have it both ways on Obama… The candidates were all quick to praise Obama the man even as they seemed to be running against certain Obama policies… “It’s surprising to see Obama almost discarded as a party asset, given that it’s been less than three years since he left office, and that he remains very popular—63 percent of Americans approve of him, Gallup found in 2018. More to the point, almost nine in 10 Democrats approve of Obama. The Democratic Party is moving leftward, and there’s a vocal faction in the primary in favor of more progressive policies. But it’s probably not a coincidence that the candidate who is tying himself most closely to the former president—Joe Biden—continues to lead the polls. To borrow a phrase, it may be that Obama is still likable enough.” David A. Graham, The Atlantic From the Right The right argues that Biden did well, and that Harris’s performance was underwhelming. “The former vice president delivered his message compellingly and convincingly… On health care, in particular, Biden displaying his in-depth policy knowledge while also rebutting repeated attacks from Harris. Biden gave a strong defense of his pragmatic plan to strengthen ObamaCare, while the confusion and lack of clarity around Harris’ plan hindered her position… [But] despite Biden’s strong performance and solid frontrunner status, it is clear that the party has seismically shifted away from the centrist Democratic Party of the 1990’s, making his path to the nomination far from certain.” Doug Schoen, Fox News “While Biden was the go-to punching bag of candidates during the debate, he was not left speechless or stuttering to defend himself like in the NBC debate. And by ganging up on Biden, the progressives on stage further solidified his role as the front-runner.” Amber Athey, Daily Caller “The weirdest aspect of the attacks on Biden was the suggestion that the Obama presidency was some sort of right-wing nightmare, full of draconian deportation enforcement, Americans desperately yearning for health care and having no way to get it, a Department of Justice that shrugged at police abuses… almost everyone assumes that Barack Obama will remain on the sidelines during this primary process. But if Biden is the lone defender of the Obama legacy, and every other upstart is painting the previous presidency as a failure, maybe Obama will come out and formally endorse his old wingman.” Jim Geraghty, National Review Biden “has decided that you cannot beat Donald Trump with a program of open borders and killing private health insurance. And he is going to risk losing the primaries in order to win the general. Which, by the by, will strengthen his hand if he faces Trump, because he’ll be able to point to the real fight he had with the progressive wing of his party on this issue. He’ll say that he faced them down and won. ‘Open borders’ would come off the table as a serious Republican weapon…  “Harris got positively slaughtered on healthcare, because she now occupies a No Man’s Land where she wants to kill private insurance, but not for ten years. So if you’re the type of Democrat who really wants to kill the insurance companies, why would you settle for her? And if you’re the type of Democrat who thinks that maybe we should keep private insurance around as a fail-safe, then you don’t want what she’s selling.” Jonathan V. Last, The Bulwark “Harris was thrown off balance by a newly invigorated Joe Biden. She was challenged over her immigration plan to effectively decriminalize illegal immigrant border crossings. She was challenged over her record as California attorney general. There, Tulsi Gabbard went for the jugular on Harris’ record with regards to drug crimes and sentence length… Repeatedly challenged over her plan’s removal of the right to employer based healthcare coverage, Harris was uncertain. She tried to change the subject, but it didn’t work. And it didn’t work for a simple reason: because Harris knows she cannot pretend her healthcare plan is anything other than what it is: a slightly milder version of Bernie Sanders’ socialist plan.” Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner “Trump won tonight… Biden looked old and disconnected. Harris looked nervous and unprepared. And all of [the candidates] moved further to the left in their positions… Over the past two nights, almost every one of these candidates has been so blindly focused on winning the nomination that they have completely ignored what general-election voters will think of the positions they’re taking. Most of them are staking out very liberal positions, well out of the mainstream, that could cost them the general election.” Terry Sullivan, Politico On the bright side… Las Vegas pizzeria serves up grasshopper pie after giant swarm. NBC News Our volunteer team spends hours each night scanning the news, fact-checking, and debating one another, so your 5 minutes each morning can be well spent. If you’ve found value in our work, we welcome you to help sustain our efforts and expand our reach. Any support you can provide is greatly appreciated! Share Tweet Forward Sign Up Here Copyright © 2019 The Flip Side, All rights reserved. You can unsubscribe from this list here.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden came under fire from fellow White House contenders during Wednesday night’s debate, pummeled for defending Obama-era policies including the Affordable Care Act, deportations of immigrants during that administration, and his pitch to rejoin the Paris climate accord signed in 2016 and rejected by President Trump. Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), joined by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, took aim at Biden’s record as vice president and as a senator from Delaware. “Everyone is talking about how terrible I was on these issues,” Biden responded at one point, underscoring the extensive vetting he underwent before he joined former Sen. Barack Obama’s ticket in 2008. “He chose me and said it was the best decision he made.” Biden was better prepared and more combative during the debate in Detroit than he had been during the first debate in Miami, when he was caught off-guard by Harris’s criticisms about his 1970s record on race and school desegregation, and his past opposition to school busing.  The former vice president sparred with Harris on Wednesday about her “Medicare for All” plan, arguing it would be too expensive and unnecessary to push Americans away from private health coverage. She responded that Biden’s approach to revive ObamaCare with improvements would leave millions of Americans without coverage. “For a Democrat to run for president with a plan that doesn’t cover everyone is without excuse,” she said.Booker and Castro leaped at openings to make a generational case against Biden, referring to his record, his ideas and his centrist approach to politics as retro and obsolete. Booker, who minutes before urged Democrats to holster their fire for one another to remain united, took aim at the former vice president’s Senate support for the 1994 crime bill. “You’re dipping at the Kool-Aid and you don’t even know the flavor,” Booker said, using street slang to audience applause. “This isn’t about the past sir, it’s about the present.” “It sounds like one of us has learned the lessons of the past, and one of us hasn’t,” Castro said during a sharp back-and-forth with Biden about immigration. Biden, leaning on his oft-used dismissal — “malarkey” — defended his record, sometimes with tangled sentences to return fire, arguing that Booker, as the former mayor of Newark, N.J., for eight years, had “done nothing” about the city’s controversial policing. Despite the slings and arrows at Biden, some of his supporters said they were pleased with the performance, especially after his wobbly showing in June, which alarmed some Democrats who backed him as a front-runner.  “I’m very happy with Biden’s performance,” said one close Biden supporter, who asked for anonymity. “I’m really surprised by the attacks by a number of them on the Obama record Is attacking Obama’s record really a winner in a Dem primary race??!! Hard for me to see that.” Among the winners in Wednesday’s debate is Booker, who turned in a strong performance to boost his presence after struggling to impact the race for months. Niall Stanage writes that while Booker didn’t have a single moment in the debate, he was consistently strong and asserted himself as a major player. On the losing end was Harris, who sought to follow up on her impressive performance in Miami. Her status in the Democrats’ top tier put a target on her back, and not just from Biden. Multiple candidates opened the opposition research book against her. She came under siege during one particularly scathing attack by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) over her record on criminal justice and capital punishment as California attorney general. Gabbard accused the California Democrat of locking up scores of racial minorities on low-level drug offenses, of hiding evidence that would free an innocent man on death row, and said she kept people imprisoned for longer sentences to use them as cheap prison labor, leaving Harris looking rattled for the first time in the debate season. Harris told Gabbard that she was overseeing criminal justice in the state, adding the House lawmaker weighed in absent experience as a prosecutor.  The back-and-forth came after Biden attacked Harris over her tenure as state attorney general, specifically that California had two districts that were more segregated than any in the country, adding that she turned a blind eye to rogue police departments. Elsewhere, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) struggled once again as she continues to have trouble putting her stamp on the primary race. She was on the losing end of a back-and-forth with Biden after she accused him of opposing women working outside the home, with the former vice president noting his work to pass the Violence Against Women Act and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. “I don’t know what happened, except you’re now running for president,” Biden retorted.  From the two debates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) emerged as winners. Both stood their ground in the face of attacks from centrists and their performances gained altitude with supporters. Wednesday night’s event, on the other hand, unveiled more mixed reviews about the candidates on stage.  Biden and Harris dominated the speaking time on Wednesday night, with Biden speaking for 21 minutes and Harris for more than 17 minutes. No other candidate eclipsed 13 minutes. The Hill: Senate Democrats see proposals from Warren, Sanders as unfeasible. The Hill: Winners and losers from two nights of debates in Detroit. The Hill: Ugly divisions on display as Democrats turn on each other. The Hill: Top moments during Detroit debate on Wednesday. The Hill: Five takeaways on second debate night in Detroit.  The Hill: Booker to Biden on Obama: “You can’t have it both ways.” Wednesday’s debate also included Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who joined Biden in criticizing Harris’s approach to health care reform and spoke powerfully about education. Entrepreneur Andrew Yang drew laughter for contrasting himself with Trump as “the Asian man who likes math.” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee capitalized on opportunities to describe the urgency of tackling climate change. The Hill: Harris faced attacks from Biden, Bennet and Gabbard on health plan. The Democratic National Committee is skipping August and the next debate takes place September 12 and September 13 in Houston at Texas Southern University, a public historically black university and will be hosted by ABC News and Univision. The DNC raised the threshold for candidates to qualify to participate, meaning the number of debaters on stage in a few weeks could shrink, setting up a six-week sprint for candidates to hit the needed benchmarks.  To date, seven candidates — Biden, Harris, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Booker and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) — have qualified. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has qualified in polling, while Yang and Castro have both reached the donor threshold. This begs the question — which candidate will throw in the towel before Labor Day? As for Trump, he’ll rally supporters tonight in Cincinnati in an attempt to rebut the 2020 field of challengers. Start time is 7 p.m. Perspectives & Analysis:Dan Balz: Wednesday’s presidential debate turns on character as much as ideology, a foreboding turn for Democrats. The New York Times: Joe Biden did fine, and that might have been enough.Gail Collins: Debate drama: Here’s Joe.Gerald F. Seib: Debates leave trio of presidential battles.Jonathan Bernstein: Democrats in Detroit debates know what they’re talking about.

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CONGRESS: The Senate is expected to vote today on the bipartisan deal to raise the spending caps and the debt ceiling despite some questions about Republican support for the bill as the chamber readies for the five-week August recess.  While the bill is still expected to pass today, it remains unknown if a majority of the Senate Republican Conference will support it. Only 65 House Republicans backed the budget bill last week (The Hill). Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican, warned that “failure is not an option.” “We’ll find out tomorrow. But we’ve been working it, as you know, and the Democrats and the Republicans are both going to have to deliver votes for this, but I would say failure is not an option,” Thune said. “You’ve got a lot of members who are very eager to vote for it,” he continued. “But you know all these votes, any spending vote or debt limit vote is never easy. … We’ve got members who obviously are probably not going to vote for it.” Just like in the House, some Senate Republicans are concerned with the $320 billion the deal adds to the deficit over the next two years. Others, however, support the package for the $740 billion included in the package for the Pentagon.  The vote is expected to take place around noon, with the Senate leaving town immediately after for recess (The Hill).  The Hill: Senate confirms 13 Trump judges ahead of August recess. > Asylum: A push by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is roiling the Senate as he threatens to ram through legislation to reform asylum laws by waiving committee rules and forcing a vote today.  The South Carolina Republican’s legislation would deal with family separations at the border, an issue that has plagued the Trump administration, by increasing the number of days a family can be held together from 20 days to 100 days. While it would prevent the separations, it would lengthen the time children can be held in custody with their parents. As Jordain Carney reports, the bill would also require asylum claims be filed in Mexico or a home country rather than in the U.S., provide funding for 500 new immigration judges and allow unaccompanied minors from Central America to be sent back to their home countries, similar to unaccompanied minors from Canada and Mexico. Democrats are accusing Graham of pushing through the legislation by foregoing panel rules that require at least two members from the minority party to be present in order to consider the bill immediately. They believe Graham and the GOP are nixing the rules to benefit them politically.  “It’s a dramatic departure from the way the committee has been managed in the past. It has been a very bipartisan committee with few exceptions and to force through a controversial measure on immigration in this manner doesn’t help us on the agenda we face,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat.

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WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: The Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in an escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran. Zarif was a central player during negotiations with the Obama administration to craft a nuclear deal with Tehran in 2015 that lifted crippling economic sanctions in exchange for verifiable nuclear restrictions. It was backed by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany. A Treasury Department statement said Zarif was sanctioned because he “acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly” Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who was sanctioned by the United States in late June. At that time, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said measures would also be taken against Zarif, although action was subsequently postponed amid statements by Trump that he was willing to negotiate with Iran “without preconditions” (The Washington Post). Council on Foreign Relations: What is the status of the Iran nuclear agreement?

© Getty Images  Separately, Germany said on Wednesday it will not join a U.S.-proposed mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East from what the Trump administration called Iranian aggression. The United States had asked Germany to join France and Britain in a mission to secure shipping through the strait, through which about a fifth of the world’s oil passes (Reuters).  > Health and Human Services: The administration unveiled a plan on Wednesday to allow imports of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, an option the department previously called “a gimmick,” but which supports the president’s desire to show some form of progress toward reducing the costs of prescription drugs. Officials did not specify a timeline when the plan would go into effect (The Hill). Pharmaceutical companies are opposed (Reuters). > Trade: The White House described trade talks that concluded on Wednesday with China as “constructive,” although a working dinner and half a day of discussions in Shanghai produced no breakthroughs (The Hill). China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday blamed the United States for flip-flopping over the past year, following recent Trump comments that warned Beijing against stalling (Reuters).

OPINION

Five reasons Democrats should be the party of free trade, by Kimberly A. Clausing, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2YhYRe0  First immigrants, then you: Policing methods are used on immigrants, then others, by Alan Hyde, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2GEH1Y9

WHERE AND WHEN

Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) to talk about Rep. John Ratcliffe’s (R-Texas) nomination as director of national intelligence; South Carolina state Rep. J.A. Moore (D), a supporter of Harris, comments on Wednesday’s presidential debate; Seth Cohen, founder of Humanity FWD, speaks about the acceptance by Andrew Yang’s super PAC of Bitcoin donations; and miner Collin Cornette describes protests by coal miners in Harlan County, Ky. Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House is in recess through August and will return to Washington on Sept. 9. The Senate convenes at 9:30 a.m. with the House-passed budget deal on the floor.  The president will have lunch with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Trump travels to Cincinnati, this evening for a reelection rally and fundraising reception with donors. Vice President Pence heads today to Shady Grove, Pa., to speak at 2:30 p.m. to employees of Manitowoc Cranes Co. as a backdrop to urge congressional ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. Later, Pence travels to Cincinnati to introduce Trump at 7 p.m. at a reelection rally at U.S. Bank Arena.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is traveling through Aug. 6 to Bangkok (ASEAN ministerial meetings); Sydney (Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations); and Kolonia, Micronesia, the first visit to the Pacific island nation by a sitting secretary of State.

ELSEWHERE

➔ Federal Reserve: The nation’s central bank announced Wednesday it plans to cut its baseline interest rate range by a quarter-point, easing the federal funds rate for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis in a bid to shield the U.S. economy from a global downturn. The move was widely expected (The Hill).  Although Trump for months castigated Chairman Jerome Powell and advocated a rate cut, the president tweeted his continued displeasure that Powell and Fed governors did not signal additional “aggressive” easing this year. The chairman, during a news conference on Wednesday, said the July easing should not be seen as the first of a series in 2019 (The Hill). “What the Market wanted to hear from Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve was that this was the beginning of a lengthy and aggressive rate-cutting cycle which would keep pace with China, The European Union and other countries around the world,” Trump tweeted. “As usual, Powell let us down, but at least he is ending quantitative tightening, which shouldn’t have started in the first place — no inflation. We are winning anyway, but I am certainly not getting much help from the Federal Reserve!” ➔ Higher education: To cheat and lie in L.A.: How the college admissions scandal ensnared the richest families in Southern California (Vanity Fair).  ➔ In the Know: Former President George W. Bush surprised many, including family members, after he turned to painting during his post-White House retirement in Dallas. His 2017 series depicting U.S. soldiers who served in the military after 9/11 is titled “Portraits of Courage” and will be exhibited at the Kennedy Center’s new REACH facility from Oct. 7 through Nov. 15 (The Hill). The 66 portraits were shown in 2017 at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas and published in a book, part of a larger initiative to support 9/11 veterans and their families. The former president’s exhibit has been on tour since 2018.

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THE CLOSER

And finally … It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for this week’s Morning Report Quiz! Inspired by August in Washington, we’re eager for some smart guesses about Congress’s summer vacation. Email your responses to asimendinger@thehill.com and/or aweaver@thehill.com, and please add “Quiz” to subject lines. Winners who submit correct answers will enjoy some richly deserved newsletter fame on Friday. Congress’s August recess got its official, statutory start with the Legislative Reorganization Act. In what year was it enacted?   1950  1960  1970  1980 Washington’s swampy summers encouraged early lawmakers to clamor for long August breaks. To improve working conditions in the Capitol, “manufactured weather” was installed by the Carrier Corporation. In what year did the Senate chamber get its first air conditioning system?   1929  1942  1962  1985 Which former vice president famously observed that “no good legislation ever comes out of Washington after June.” Hint: He was once a House Speaker.    Adlai Stevenson I  John Nance Garner  Spiro Agnew  Dick Cheney The House and Senate limit the number of days either can be in recess without the approval of the other chamber. What’s the limit?    Three days  10 days  30 days  Six months Last summer, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced he would cancel all but a week of the August recess so that senators could get more work done in Washington. What factor contributed to his decision?   Overwhelming number of senators argued to spend August in D.C.  GOP political strategy to limit campaigning by vulnerable Senate Democrats before midterm elections in November  National emergency  Senate followed the House, which shortened its August recess in 2018

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DRIVING THE DAY

WONDER WHY TRUMP HAS APPEAL? … TOM PEREZ sang this on stage before Wednesday night’s debate: “Ole McConnell had a farm. E-I-E-I-O. And on his farm, he kept all those bills that passed the House. E-I-E-I-O.”

THE PRESIDENT, just after midnight: “The people on the stage tonight, and last, were not those that will either Make America Great Again or Keep America Great! Our Country now is breaking records in almost every category, from Stock Market to Military to Unemployment. We have prosperity & success like never before…..

“It will soon be time to choose to keep and build upon that prosperity and success, or let it go. We are respected again all around the world. Keep it that way! I said I will never let you down, and I haven’t. We will only grow bigger, better and stronger TOGETHER!

STRONGER TOGETHER! That was HILLARY CLINTON’S 2016 campaign slogan!

TRUMP will fly to Cincinnati today for a rally. AP’S JONATHAN LEMIRE and DAN SEWELL on a potential reprise of “send her home” chants:“Republican Rep. Steve Chabot, who represents a Cincinnati-area district, said Wednesday he hopes the crowd will avoid such chants this time, and he thinks Trump will react more quickly if does happen.

“‘I would discourage the crowd from doing anything inappropriate and I think saying something like that would be inappropriate,’ Chabot said. ‘I would hope that the president would silence the crowd, tell them, ‘Hey, don’t do that, there’s no place for that. It’s not helpful, it’s not right.’” AP

HOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT PLAYED … NYT: “BIDEN FIGHTS OFF JABS BY LIBERALS OVER HIS RECORD … DEMOCRATIC FAULT LINES … Harris and Others Focus on Health Care and Criminal Justice” … WAPO: “Democrats pull no punches”

— WAPO’S DAN BALZ in Detroit: “By the end of the evening, the candidates had done as much to make a case against one another as against the president, without offering much in the way of an aspirational message or connecting directly with the voters they will need to win the presidential election.” WaPo

— JOHN HARRIS: “Biden was not that bad. . . and not that good”: “Yes: Joe Biden for the most part was crisper, more engaged and engaging, in Detroit on Wednesday night than he had been in Miami a month ago. No: He did not summon a performance so commanding as to demand people view an old man in new light.

“If Biden is the essential variable in the Democratic presidential race — none of the nearly two dozen other candidates can rise much further unless or until Biden is perceived to be in a dying fall — then the most reasonable reaction to the latest two-day pair of long and crowded debates is: So what?

“That is not so much dismissive comment as authentic question. Biden’s two debate outings this summer suggest that a politician who has been at this game for decades operates within a predictable and fairly narrow range — at his best, not half-bad; at his worst, pretty bad for a supposed front-runner.” POLITICO

THERE WERE A FEW little things Biden did that raised eyebrows. He called Sen. KAMALA HARRIS “kid” when they met on stage before the debate. He also couldn’t manage to accurately direct people to his website, instead haltingly reciting a text message sign-up number.

Happy Thursday morning. THE SENATE plans to begin voting on the budget and debt-limit bill at around 11 this morning. Final passage should be sometime around noon. After that, the Senate is expected to leave town for the rest of the summer.

WHO IS SHELLING OUT BIG DOUGH THIS YEAR … SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND (Senate GOP):Bernie Marcus, the founder of the Home Depot, gave $2 million; hedge fund magnate Paul Elliott and Arkansas billionaire Warren Stephens gave $1 million each. AMERICA FIRST ACTION (Trump super PAC): Real estate developer Geoffrey Palmer gave $2 million; Linda McMahon gave $1 million.

… SENATE MAJORITY PAC (Senate Dems): Financier Donald Sussman gave $2 million; LIUNA gave $1.5 million; Greater New York Hospital Association Management Corporation gave $1 million. HOUSE MAJORITY PAC (House Dems): Donald Sussman gave $2 million; real estate magnate George Marcus and Working for Working Americans gave $1 million. CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND (House Republicans): Paul Singer and Ken Griffin both gave $1 million.

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Every American deserves access to affordable, high-quality health coverage. But a one-size-fits-all government insurance system, whether it’s called the public option, Medicare buy-in or Medicare for All, would mean higher taxes and private plan premiums and lower quality of care for Americans.

FALLOUT FROM THE FED … WSJ: “Global Stocks Waver on Fed Policy Outlook,” by Caitlin Ostroff: “Global stocks wavered a day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates but its chairman didn’t signal that more stimulus was on the way.

“The Stoxx Europe 600 gained 0.2% in early trading, with gains for banks and financial services balancing losses in the basic-resources sector. … In Asia, China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.8%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng ticked down 0.9%.” WSJ

THE LATEST ON TRADE — “Conciliatory tone as top diplomats from United States and China meet,” by Reuters’ Cate Cadell and Patpicha Tanakasempipat in Bangkok: “U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met face-to-face for the first time this year on Thursday and Wang said they discussed ways to promote China-U.S. ties despite ‘recent disturbances.’

“The words contrasted with the scorn Chinese officials have heaped on Pompeo recently, with U.S.-Chinese ties souring on multiple fronts, from a trade war to U.S. sanctions on Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to Taiwan and the South China Sea.” Reuters

REMEMBER WHEN Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the U.S. and China were close to a trade deal?

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ALEX ISENSTADT: “RNC chair defends GOP donor platform in tense meeting”: “Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel grew visibly emotional during a meeting with senior GOP officials on Wednesday, as she insisted that she isn’t personally profiting off a new, President Donald Trump-endorsed small-donor platform.

“McDaniel and other party leaders, including Trump campaign aides, are gathered in Charlotte, N.C., for the RNC’s annual three-day summer meeting. They are slated to discuss a range of issues, including the launch of WinRed, a vehicle designed to compete with the Democratic small-donor juggernaut ActBlue.

“The party chairwoman choked up as she kicked off a closed-door panel discussion on WinRed by addressing ongoing rumors that she and other RNC officials are poised to personally benefit from the new platform. At one point, McDaniel said the only money she is making is her RNC salary.

“McDaniel’s remarks, which were confirmed by three people briefed on the 90-minute meeting, came amid escalating tensions over WinRed within the party. Republican leaders are determined to make WinRed the sole online donation platform for the party, and they are taking an uncompromising approach with those who’ve been reluctant to get on board with the new program — which has rankled segments of the party rank and file.” POLITICO

— FRUSTRATION and skepticism about WinRed, and questions about who is profiting from the GOP fundraising platform, are probably among the top things Republicans talk about on Capitol Hill.

— “Soros launches new super PAC for 2020,” by Maggie Severns

MELANIE ZANONA: “Republicans rattled after surge of retirements”: “Among those on the retirement watch list include older members, like Hal Rogers of Kentucky, Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin and Don Young of Alaska; moderates, like Fred Upton of Michigan and Greg Walden of Oregon; lawmakers facing tougher races, like Texans Michael McCaul and Kenny Marchant, and Ann Wagner of Missouri; and the two members under indictment, Duncan Hunter of California and Chris Collins of New York.” POLITICO

INDEPENDENT REP. JUSTIN AMASH is looking for a legislative assistant. From the listing: “The successful applicant will be a libertarian or a classical liberal in the tradition of F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, and Frederic Bastiat.” The listing, which also notes that the LA needs a law degree or equivalent

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THE JUICE …

— SEAN SAVETT is joining PETE BUTTIGIEG’S presidential campaign as rapid response communications director. He was formerly deputy comms director for Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.).

TRUMP’S THURSDAY — The president will have lunch at 12:45 p.m. with Defense Secretary Mark Esper. He will leave the White House at 3:30 p.m. en route to Cincinnati. The president will participate in a fundraising reception at U.S. Bank Arena followed by a political rally at 7 p.m. Afterward, he will return to Washington.

PLAYBOOK READS

FOR YOUR RADAR — “North Korea says it tested crucial new rocket launch system,” by AP’s Kim Tong-Hyung in Seoul, South Korea: “North Korea said Thursday leader Kim Jong Un supervised the first test firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance its ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there.

“The report by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency differed from the assessment by South Korea’s military, which had concluded Wednesday’s launches were of two short-range ballistic missiles.

“The launches from the eastern coastal town of Wonsan were North Korea’s second weapons test in less than a week and were seen as a move to keep up pressure on Washington and Seoul amid a stalemate in nuclear negotiations. Pyongyang has also expressed anger over planned U.S.-South Korea military drills.” AP

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BEYOND THE BELTWAY — “Newsom spoke to Trump on same day he demanded Trump’s tax returns,” by Colby Bermel in Colfax, Calif.: “Gov. Gavin Newsom said he spoke to President Donald Trump on Tuesday — the same day he signed a confrontational bill aimed at forcing the president to release his tax returns — and insisted he is maintaining a line of communication with the White House.

“Newsom, appearing at a wildfire-related press conference, would not disclose the specifics of their conversation. But the Democratic governor said he and Trump are “continuing to try to work collaboratively together” — a necessary partnership with Washington on mass shootings, natural disasters and infrastructure development.

“Newsom continued to defend the bill requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns if they want to appear on California primary ballots.” POLITICO

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THE TUPAC FAN … DES MOINES REGISTER: “Ousted DHS director Jerry Foxhoven will file retaliation claim, lawyer says,” by Stephen Gruber-Miller: “A lawyer for the ousted Iowa Department of Human Services director says he’ll file a legal claim alleging he was the victim of whistleblower retaliation. … Foxhoven’s departure became the subject of national speculation after news organizations reported on the former director’s fandom of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, which included sending agency-wide emails quoting Shakur. Foxhoven’s admiration for the rapper was not the reason for his departure, the governor’s office said.” DMR

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FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Lois Romano, a WaPo and POLITICO alum, is writing “An Inconvenient Widow,” about first lady Mary Todd Lincoln’s life after President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, including “her forcible confinement to a mental institution and her carefully engineered comeback.” Simon & Schuster will publish it in 2021.

TRANSITIONS — Sean Spicer and David Urban are set to be appointed Board of Visitors members at the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy, respectively, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. … Jill Welch is now VP for external relations at the U.S. Institute of Peace. She most recently worked at NAFSA and is a Sam Nunn and longtime nonprofit alum.

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Corrie MacLaggan, Texas Tribune managing editor. A trend that she thinks doesn’t get enough attention: “There are so many places in the world right now where journalists are overcoming unbelievable barriers to report on their governments. I was blown away by a presentation at this year’s International Symposium on Online Journalism, where journalists from countries including Nicaragua and Venezuela explained what it’s like to do their jobs these days. Police raids on newsrooms. Imprisonment. Harassment.” Playbook Plus Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Howard Kurtz is 66 …Cappy McGarr … CSIS’ Andrew Schwartz … Azi Paybarah, New York Today writer at the NYT, is 41 … POLITICO’s Chris Buddie and Emily Andrews … David Helfenbein, associate director at Finsbury, is 33 … Drew Littman, policy director at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck (h/t Jon Haber) … former Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) is 78 … former Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) is 73 … former Sen. Al D’Amato (R-N.Y.) is 82 … Mikayla Hall … Josh Davenport … Travis Burk … Ed Gillespie, managing director and chairman of SVC Public Affairs … Clare Foran … Zachary Isaac Gold … Martin Hamburger … Henry Silverman … Joseph Cayre … Jehuda Reinharz is 75 …

… Dan Shapiro, a distinguished visiting fellow at Israeli think tank INSS, is 5-0 … Josie Duckett McSpadden, senior comms officer at the Gates Foundation, who recently welcomed Rose Jean McSpadden — pic … David Cygielman … James Adams … Philip Goldberg … Rhoda Smolow … Roy Loewenstein … Sheila Katz … Dana Zureikat Daoud of the Jordanian Embassy … Jeffrey Bush … Ellen Brown … Chris Mayer … Sarah Hagmayer … Edelman’s Jordan Lubowitz … Andrea Jones … Karen Marangi … Noah Sachs … Benji Englander … Rosanna Arlia … Scott Evertz … Guy Short … Andrew Gallo … Ari Zoldan … Tom Dougherty … Larry Harrington … Chris Hayler … Swiss National Day

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Thursday, August 1, 2019 Biden Reinvigorates Sleepy Campaign with Strong Debate Performance  I’m back from Europe, running on 24 straight hours awake, and I have hot takes on the second Democratic debate. Sleepy Joe was not so sleepy last night (unlike me). Biden criticized New York and California “math,” defended the Obama record, and won early exchanges with Kamala Harris, who can’t seem to describe her health care plan the same way twice in a row. He did use the word “malarkey” though, which is pretty much a universal Boomer tell.  Kamala Harris did not repeat her excellent first debate performance, and struggled break through the pack while taking fire from both Biden and Tulsi Gabbard. Also, she’s a cop in a primary that doesn’t like cops very much. The Obama legacy got cancelled. No one but Biden seemed to want to defend the Obama administration’s record, from health care to border security. That bigot baris moving at warp speed these days. #YangGang got no speaking time per usual, but won the internet with no-tie look #2. Bill DeBlasio got heckled early on and is still the guy who dropped a groundhog to its death. Gillibrand… wait is she running for President? Her bus tour comes in last. Other takes: Joe Biden throws first punch. (The Federalist) The Obama legacy can’t have it “both ways.” (The Hill) Scrollable analysis from the Wall Street Journal.   Overall, despite Biden’s good showing last night, I think it’s going to be increasingly difficult for the more moderate Democrats to resist what is clearly the party’s future: the melding together of socialist economics with radical identity politics. I sounded the alarm on that future on Fox Business the other week, and combining the two biggest chunks of the base into one ideology is only going to make the far-left wing a stronger force within the party in coming years.   That toxic brew is going to have far “woker,” more intersectional faces as its representatives, and it’s the most energized part of the base, whether the “Squad” wing of the party ends up winning this particular nomination or not.    Also, to wrap up v. serious debate commentary, Tulsi Gabbard’s amazing white suit definitely won the second Democrat debate, and Cory Booker’s Kool-Aid came in second. Cancel Culture Comes for the Gipper Then-Governor Ronald Reagan used racial slurs in a conversation with Richard Nixon back in the early 1970s, new requests for previously-sealed records revealed. From The Atlantic:    “The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People’s Republic of China, then–California Governor Ronald Reagan phoned President Richard Nixon at the White House and vented his frustration at the delegates who had sided against the United States. ‘Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did,’ Reagan said. ‘Yeah,’ Nixon interjected. Reagan forged ahead with his complaint: ‘To see those, those monkeys from those African countries—damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!’…   Reagan’s death, in 2004, eliminated the privacy concerns. Last year, as a researcher, I requested that the conversations involving Ronald Reagan be rereviewed, and two weeks ago, the National Archives released complete versions of the October 1971 conversations involving Reagan online.”   Ronald Reagan was responsible for collapsing one of the greatest evil regimes of the 20thcentury, which sent my own grandfather along with 14 million others to the gulags, and murdered millions. If that great achievement of freedom is eclipsed by an ugly slur used while angry in private, none of the monumental figures of our history are safe. Color me skeptical that today’s generation is the greatest just because it’s the wokest.    Jettison the Partisanship for a Real Conversation About America’s Cities Trump’s back-and-forth with Baltimore Rep. Elijah Cummings remains in the news. It turns out Rep. Cummings himself called Baltimore “drug infested,” as anyone who has set foot in the city outside of the Harbor area can attest to.   But beyond the political cage match, I would welcome a real conversation about the changing nature of our cities, and how to make them livable for more Americans.    To my mind, one of the major problems afflicting many of America’s cities is that their middle-class families have largely abandoned them for suburbs and exurbs, leaving a hollowed-out stew of largely-childless ultra-rich young professionals and those too poor to leave or who are dependent on government assistance. Incidentally, this hollowing-out is also likely directly connected to growing urban political polarization, as cities swing not just majority Democrat, but overwhelmingly left-wing.   Middle-class flight has many causes, but I submit these “big three” for consideration: crime, cost, and schools. In many cities, it’s simply too expensive for even upper-middle class families to get the space they need in neighborhoods where they feel safe letting their kids walk to a school that they can trust will serve their educational needs.    Fortunately, for two of the big three (cost is the thorniest, although NIMBY development regulations don’t help), the solutions are not only already at hand, they’re to some extent capable of attracting bipartisan support. Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s policing revolution and subsequent transformation of New York City from crime-ridden to among the safest cities in America was made possible by an electorate that was majority Democrat. And school choice – both private choice and charter schools – continues to attract support from some Democratic mayors because of the high approval the reforms continue to command from African-American and Hispanic Democratic voters.    Anyway, wouldn’t it be nice if we stopped yelling at each other about Baltimore long enough to think on some policy solutions? I know, I know, not happening.   Fashion Moment of the Week Can Instagram influencers and bloggers really and truly supplant fashion magazines?    It’s a topic I’ve wondered about for some time, given how most major fashion magazines seem more interested in SJW virtue signaling than actually showcasing the runways of the season. And truly, how many people really pick up Vogue to read what some 26-year-old fashion assistant thinks about President Trump’s immigration policies? But conservative-leaning alternatives like Verily don’t seem to do very well, which I’ve long speculated is due to their lack of high-budget, glamourous editorial spreads. In other words, you can’t have a fashion mag without those drool-worthy images!   Mostly, the art of the Instagram has been to document better-than-real-life everyday scenes rather than full-on editorial elegance. But lately, some of my favorite fashion bloggers have kicked up their editorial game. Krystal Bick, for instance, is doing a classic movie-inspired series that screams editorial page (omg, and this one, and this one, and this one). Blaire Eadie also often leans more in the editorial direction.    Is this something we’ll see more of in the future? I hope so, because I’m sick of getting my Celine with a dose of Marxism and irrational Melania hatred.   Thursday Links NYT exposes more bizarre sexual stuff about Jeffery Epstein, who apparently dreamed of impregnating hundreds of women in a eugenics-style kid farm. Warning: gross. (The New York Times)   Osama bin Laden’s son and heir is dead, but it’s not yet public how exactly he died. (NBC News)   Mario Lopez caves and apologies for totally reasonable skepticism about three-year-old trans kids. Sigh. (National Review)   Kooky Crystals Marianne most Googled candidate during first Democratic debate. (The Hill)   CNN suffers big drop in ratings during Tuesday’s debate. Will those low numbers repeat for Wednesday night’s round two? (The Federalist)   Clinton-appointed judge tosses DNC case against Trump campaign. (Politico) It might not turn off the base, but Trump’s mean Tweets are not helping him with a key demographic for 2020: suburban women. (AP)   Villages in India go months without any baby girls due to sex-selective abortion. (The Federalist)   17-year-old girl bravely defies Putin regime amid arrests and crackdowns on large protests in Moscow. (Daily Wire)   Aide who doxxed and endangered Republican Senators during the highly-charged Kavanaugh hearings pleads guilty. (The Federalist)       BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist.

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CDN’s Daily News Blast delivers the day’s news first! View this email in your browser CDN Daily News Blast 08/01/2019 Excerpts: Highlights From The 2020 Democratic Debates: Round 2, Night 2 By Daily Caller News Foundation Productions – Democratic presidential candidates threw-down in the political dogfight that was the second night of the second round of debates. Bill De Blasio, Cory and Kamala Harris took aim at Joe Biden’s political track record, Kirsten Gillibrand said she would clorox the White House, and hecklers repeatedly disrupted the night’s affairs. … Highlights From The 2020 Democratic Debates: Round 2, Night 2 is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. 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Can Kamala Harris recover after Typhoon Tulsi? Posted: 31 Jul 2019 10:51 PM PDT Short answer: I sure hope so. She’s the candidate I’d love to see matched up against President Trump as her policies are so far from the reservation, even the socialists in her party blush when they hear the costs. The longer answer is, yes, she can recover, and here’s why… But first, let’s take a […] The post Can Kamala Harris recover after Typhoon Tulsi? appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Democrats seem scared of ‘Republican talking points,’ better known as ‘truth’ Posted: 31 Jul 2019 10:33 PM PDT If there was a one thing the Democratic field can agree on other than hatred for President Trump, it’s that they shouldn’t be attacking each other with “Republican talking points.” It was mentioned on both nights by various candidates as a way of dismissing otherwise important and substantive questions, like “How will you pay for […] The post Democrats seem scared of ‘Republican talking points,’ better known as ‘truth’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Joe Biden’s done. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s done. Posted: 31 Jul 2019 08:34 PM PDT Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is essentially over despite being the clear frontrunner. Even following a stronger debate performance than his first, he’s already showing signs of fatigue that we haven’t seen this early in a candidate for as long as I can remember. At this stage, he seems to have the energy […] The post Joe Biden’s done. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s done. appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

What Joe Biden meant when he said to Google ‘1000 prisoners free, Kamala Harris’ Posted: 31 Jul 2019 06:40 PM PDT During Wednesday’s Democratic debate, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris went after each other. Biden was better prepared this time. In fact, he had oppo research and invoked the Google search phrase, “1000 prisoners free, Kamala Harris.” He wanted attention directed to articles about Harris’s quite conservative and possibly even corrupt criminal justice history as California […] The post What Joe Biden meant when he said to Google ‘1000 prisoners free, Kamala Harris’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Conservatives should disavow Mario Lopez for caving Posted: 31 Jul 2019 06:00 PM PDT If there’s every something you should not do to the Leftist Twitter mob, it’s apologize. Not only did Mario Lopez apologize, he disavowed his comments on parents imposing transgenderism on three year olds. In a statement to the incredibly leftist People Magazine on Wednesday, Lopez apologized for his remarks. “The comments I made were ignorant […] The post Conservatives should disavow Mario Lopez for caving appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Illegal alien Andres Fuentes-Castro arrested for allegedly raping three kids Posted: 31 Jul 2019 05:09 PM PDT Temporary Protected Status is granted to immigrants from countries that are experiencing devastating conditions such as war or natural disaster. It’s a loophole many have used in the past, including El Salvador in which TPS status was granted over a decade ago. But just because people come from devastated countries doesn’t mean they’ll be upstanding […] The post Illegal alien Andres Fuentes-Castro arrested for allegedly raping three kids appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Judicial Watch questions ethics of Rep. Ilhan Omar Posted: 31 Jul 2019 04:05 PM PDT Representative Ilhan Omar has some explaining to do. To date, she has only sidestepped and avoided questions surrounding the alleged marriage to her brother that may have led to immigration and tax fraud. If these allegations are proven true, her future in American politics may be over. A member of “The Squad,” Omar has made […] The post Judicial Watch questions ethics of Rep. Ilhan Omar appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Marianne Williamson vs Donald Trump: Which one truly emanates dark psychic force? Posted: 31 Jul 2019 03:39 PM PDT by Sid Roth, Host of “It’s Supernatural!” I have investigated the paranormal for over 30 years as host of the worldwide television show, “It’s Supernatural!”, and am the leading investigative reporter on verified miracles. Regarding the Democrat debates, I have this to say: Marianne Williamson is projecting on President Trump the dark psychic force that emanates […] The post Marianne Williamson vs Donald Trump: Which one truly emanates dark psychic force? appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Marianne Williamson is the sane one of the bunch Posted: 31 Jul 2019 03:27 PM PDT One important takeaway from last night’s first round of the 2nd Democratic debates is that Marianne Williamson is for real. No, I don’t think she has a chance. No, I wouldn’t vote for her in the general election. But despite some moments when she was literally shaking and talking about dark spirits, the self-help guru […] The post Marianne Williamson is the sane one of the bunch appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Why progressives hide the truth that big tech companies are biased Posted: 31 Jul 2019 02:46 PM PDT An article that ran in The Atlantic a few days ago has sat on a tab in my browser ever since I first noticed it. Stories often do that; if they stay there too long without me reading it, I eventually give up and close them. But this one persisted. The headline was concerning because I […] The post Why progressives hide the truth that big tech companies are biased appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

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FIRST READ: The 2020 Democratic brawl finally breaks loose

At last night’s Democratic debate, Joe Biden sometimes thrived and sometimes just survived – a definite improvement from last month; Kamala Harris struggled compared with her first outing; and Cory Booker and Michael Bennet stood out.

But our main takeaway from last night was how combative it was for this early of a Democratic debate – in so many different directions.

You had:

• Biden challenging Harris on her new health care plan.

• Julian Castro hitting Biden on immigration.

• Harris and Booker taking on Biden’s record on crime and busing in the 1970s.

• Biden pushing back at Booker on his policing record as Newark mayor.

• Tulsi Gabbard going after Harris on criminal justice and her record as California attorney general.

• Kirsten Gillibrand taking a shot at Biden on women in the workforce (and missing badly).

• Harris fighting Biden on abortion and the Hyde amendment.

• And Jay Inslee knocking Biden over his vote for the Iraq war.

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So if the first round of Dem debates underscored how far to the left the party has moved since Barack Obama left office, the second round highlighted how willing they are to attack one another, even when they agree on the vast majority of issues.

Of course, politics ain’t beanbag. And presidential debates are SUPPOSED to produce conflict and disagreement.

But play out seven or eight more months of these same kinds of debates, and you can see why an incumbent president — especially one who gets to avoid a real primary challenge – has a SIGNIFICANT advantage.

That includes an incumbent as vulnerable as Trump.

Like George W. Bush in ‘04 or Barack Obama in ’12, they get to avoid these televised food fights.

More than anything else, last night’s Dem debate marked the end of the nice, kid-gloves phases of the race.

Phase One was the candidate introductions. Phase Two was the polite, gentle sorting into different tiers and lanes.

Now we’re entering Phase Three – the hand-to-hand political combat.

All with 186 days until the Iowa caucuses and 194 days until New Hampshire.

Breaking down the performances

Watching Biden was – for us Washington Nationals fans – like watching the Nats bullpen: good enough to be moving up in the standings, but still making you nervous.

When Harris is at her best, she’s a happy warrior. And she wasn’t a happy warrior last night. Also, on the biggest policy issue for Democrats (health care), she just isn’t that comfortable.

Booker did everything he needed to do – he got to play nice and aggressive when he wanted to, without many attacks coming his way. If last night can’t move the needle for him, what will?

And finally, if the social metrics are meaningful, then Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard had breakout performances – like Marianne Williamson the night before.

But our question: Does performing well on social metrics translate to the polls? We’ll find out.

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2020 VISION: Heading to Cincinnati

The day after last night’s Dem debate, President Trump heads to Cincinnati, where he’ll hold a campaign rally at 7:00 pm ET.

On the campaign trail today: After last night’s debate, Joe Biden holds an event in Detroit… Kamala Harris gaggles with reporters in Motor City… And Cory Booker also makes an appearance in the city… Elizabeth Warren has a town hall in Arizona… And Beto O’Rourke stumps in Nevada.

Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: 

At a South Carolina debate watch party, where most attendees were Biden supporters, NBC’s Jordan Jackson reports what one woman thought of the Democratic field: “I think this country is so divided with racism, and what Donald Trump is doing, and the mindset of this country, I think it’s going to take a white man to beat Donald Trump. And I think his mannerism, it’s going to take another one to put up against him. And I think that would be Joe Biden.”

In Iowa, it’s a tale of multiple winners. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson reports from a Polk County Democratic watch party where Biden won the night, per the attendees.

“Everyone I spoke to thought Biden did great. “The narrative coming in, was knives are out for Joe Biden someone’s going to tackle him, How’s he going to react?” Dave Musgrove said. “I think that everyone went for Joe Biden tonight. None of its really seemed to lag because the standard is what Kamala Harris did in the previous debate and I don’t think anyone’s ever going to clear that again, ironically, not even Kamala Harris.”

In Waukee, Iowa, NBC’s Maura Barrett reports that voters don’t think any one candidate won the evening, but they liked Cory Booker and Kamala Harris’ performances.

TWEET OF THE DAY: So here’s my number, so text me, maybe? 

DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… 21 minutes and 21 seconds. 

21 minutes, 21 seconds. 

That’s how much time Joe Biden spoke during last night’s debate, according to a count by NPR. 

Kamala Harris had the second-most speaking time, at 17 minutes and 43 seconds. 

And Cory Booker came in third, at 12 minutes, 52 seconds. 

Biden spoke for the longest of any candidate on the two nights. Both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders led Tuesday night’s speaking times, with about 17 minutes apiece. 

THE LID: The Social Network

Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we looked at what polling shows about perceptions of socialism.

ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss 

Here’s our team’s fact check and live blog from last night’s debate. 

Alex Seitz-Wald sums up the sparring between Biden, Harris and Booker. 

And Benjy Sarlin notes that, in between the jabs, there were some meaty policy debates as well. 

Trump’s rally tonight in Ohio will be the first since the “send her back” chant. 

And the latest revelations about Jeffrey Epstein are… ew. 

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Today’s Top News August, 1 2019 On Ronald Reagan’s ‘Racism’ There’s a provocative article by NYU professor Tim Naftali in the Atlantic titled “Ronald Reagan’s Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon.” It reports an insulting statement made by Gov. Ronald Reagan to President Richard Nixon in October 1971 By: Paul Kengor ______________________ Chakra and Awe If the “debate” to which the jostling scrum of Democratic presidential aspirants subjected the nation Tuesday is any guide, President Trump need not worry about losing his job in 2020. The most sensible participants were treated as unwelcome interlopers by the invitation-only audience and their fellow candidates, while the most incoherent contenders were greeted as staunch defenders of the faith. By: David Catron ______________________ The Racism of Racism Racism is racist. That is to say, an observer’s own racism defines whether he accuses another of racism. And the Left is racist in a way that the conservative right cannot even fathom because the conservative right simply does not operate on racial terms. By: Dov Fischer ______________________ California’s Toxic Brew Everyone who has visited the Happiest Place on Earth has been greeted by this not-so-joyful sign: “WARNING: The Disneyland Resort contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm.” Who would have thought that visiting with Mickey Mouse or riding on Space Mountain could be so scary? By: Steven Greenhut ______________________ A Few More Notes on the Election   First, health insurance. I totally agree that every American should have health care as a right. And like Bernie Sanders, I should know, because, “I wrote the damned bill…” By which I mean I as a very junior speechwriter for Mr. Nixon, back in 1974, wrote the proposed bill for universal medical care supervised by the federal government. It was a complicated but damned good plan. Senator Teddy Kennedy, a man in love with death, killed it as soon as it got to Congress. By: Ben Stein ______________________ A Sane Democrat? During the first round of Democratic debates Tuesday, moderate candidates pushed back against a rising tide of radicalism. The star of the show was undoubtedly John Delaney, the former Maryland representative who came out swinging against Medicare for All. “We don’t have to go around … telling half the country… that their

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The Credit Card Party Bipartisanship, a rare commodity in 21st-century Washington, returned to the Capitol this past week. Democrats and Republicans came together to put Americans further into debt. The House of Representatives voted to suspend the debt ceiling until March of 2021. The Senate readies to approve the deal, and reportedly the vote will take place today around noon, before its recess. President Trump heartily endorses the measure. By: Hunt Lawrence and Daniel J. Flynn ______________________

Colorado’s Paid Leave Proposal Ignores Trade-Offs There are no valid free-market arguments for a nationwide, one-size-fits-all federal plan to provide paid leave. But should experimentation with this policy be off-limits to states? The beauty of a federalist system is that states can experiment and innovate with their own policies. This diversity can teach us what works and what doesn’t. In this sense, Colorado’s commitment to implement a new state-level, paid leave entitlement program — the Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) Act — is consistent with federalism. By: Veronique De Rugy ______________________

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