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Aug 22, 2019 Good morning from Washington, where President Trump edges closer to designating a violent “anti-fascist” network as a terrorist group. Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, Hong Kong lawmaker Alvin Yeung assesses what the latest protests mean. Plus: Justin Bogie on the nation’s spending crisis, Cal Thomas on the revisionism of The New York Times, and Ben Shapiro on the media’s politically motivated malpractice on anti-Semitism. On this date in 1950, Althea Gibson joins championship contenders in Forest Hills, New York, becoming the first African American to compete in a national tennis competition.
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– Which Party’s Voters are More Divided? – Signs of a GOP Trend in the Most Crucial Swing States – Welcome to the Newest Member of the UVA Center for Politics Family WHICH PARTY’S VOTERS ARE MORE DIVIDED?
Hint: It’s not the one you think
By Alan I. Abramowitz
Senior Columnist, Sabato’s Crystal Ball

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — More Republicans identify as conservative than Democrats identify as liberal. — This has led to questions about whether ideological fissures in the Democratic Party could make it harder for the party to rally around its eventual nominee. — However, Democrats actually are more united on individual issue positions than Republicans, which may mean the Democrats are less divided than ideological self-placement suggests. Why Republicans may be more divided than Democrats The contest for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination features more than 20 candidates representing a wide variety of ideological orientations ranging from progressives like Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to more moderate candidates like Gov. Steve Bullock (D-MT) and former Rep. John Delaney (D, MD-6). The first round of debates exposed major differences among the candidates on issues such as health care and immigration, and this has led to growing concern among party leaders about whether Democratic voters will be able to unite behind the eventual nominee. Indeed, some of the more moderate candidates have warned that nominating a candidate from the party’s left wing could cause large numbers of moderate-to-conservative Democrats to stay home or even vote for Donald Trump, thereby ensuring a Republican victory. A number of pundits and political observers have argued that concerns about potential moderate defections are well-founded because Democratic voters are sharply divided along ideological lines. They point to recent polls showing that while the large majority of Republican voters describe themselves as conservatives, fewer than half of Democratic voters describe themselves as liberals. Table 1: Ideological identification of registered voters by party Source: Pew Research Center Survey, Sept. 18-24, 2018. Table 1 displays results from one such poll, a September 2018 Pew Research Center national survey. In this table, independents leaning toward a party are included with regular party identifiers. The data show that while 69% of Republican voters described themselves as conservatives, only 47% of Democratic identifiers described themselves as liberals. In addition, while only 4% of Republican identifiers described themselves as liberals, 18% of Democratic identifiers described themselves as conservatives. These results, which are very similar to those of other recent national surveys, suggest that despite the growing liberalism of the Democratic Party in recent years, Democratic voters continue to be much more divided along ideological lines than Republican voters. Table 2: Ideological identification of registered Democrats by demographic characteristics

Source: Pew Research Center Survey, Sept. 18-24, 2018.

The ideological divisions evident in Table 1 are especially concerning to many Democratic leaders because they coincide with significant demographic divisions within the party. Data in Table 2 from the 2018 Pew Research Center survey show that among registered Democrats, there were sharp divisions in ideological identification based on age, education, and race. Older Democrats, those who did not graduate from college, and nonwhite Democrats were much less likely to identify as liberal and more likely to identify as moderate or conservative than younger Democrats, those with college degrees, and white Democrats. Thus, among white Democrats, liberals outnumbered conservatives by 53% to 11% but among black Democrats, conservatives outnumbered liberals by 36% to 33%. And while 71% of Democrats under the age of 30 identified themselves as liberals, only 37% of those over the age of 50 did so.

Of course, ideological identification is not the only way to measure the political leanings of voters. We can also examine their views on specific current policy issues. Fortunately, in addition to asking respondents about their ideological identification, the 2018 Pew Research Center survey asked them about their views on several of these issues. In order to compare the policy preferences of voters, I chose six of these issues that have been prominent in recent elections and were asked of all respondents in the survey: abortion, black rights, gun control, immigration, business regulation, and health care. All of the issues except immigration involved binary choices, so I was able to classify responses to these questions as either liberal or conservative. In the case of immigration, respondents were offered a middle position between the liberal and conservative options.

Table 3: Policy agreement among registered Democrats and Republicans: percentage liberal among Democrats vs. percentage conservative among Republicans

Source: Pew Research Center Survey, Sept. 18-24, 2018.

In order to compare the level of agreement on the issues among Democratic and Republican voters, Table 3 displays the percentage of Democratic voters taking the liberal position on these issues and the percentage of Republican voters taking the conservative position. The results show that, in marked contrast with the results for ideological identification in Table 1, on every issue except gun control, where the level of agreement was almost identical, Republican voters were more divided than Democratic voters. An average of 75% of Democratic voters took the liberal position on these issues. In contrast, an average of only 62% of Republican voters took the conservative position.

Table 4: Policy liberalism of registered Democrats by ideological identification

Source: Pew Research Center Survey, Sept. 18-24, 2018.

The results in Table 3 indicate that Democratic voters were far more liberal on many policy issues than one might expect based on their responses to the ideological identification question. This pattern suggests that ideological identification may not be a very good predictor of the views of Democratic voters on the issues. The data in Table 4 show that this is, in fact, the case. This table shows the percentage of Democrats taking the liberal side on each issue in relation to their ideological identification. While these data indicate that there is a relationship between ideological identification and issue positions, that relationship is not terribly strong.

Many Democrats who call themselves moderates or even conservatives take liberal positions on specific issues. In fact, the large majority of self-identified conservatives take the liberal position on four of these six issues: abortion, black rights, gun control, and health care. The large majority of self-identified moderates take the liberal position on five of these six issues: abortion, black rights, gun control, business regulation, and health care.

Table 5: Issue liberalism vs. liberal identification among registered Democrats by demographic characteristics

Source: Pew Research Center Survey, Sept. 18-24, 2018. Table 5 compares the average percentage of Democratic voters taking the liberal side on the six policy issues with the percentage who identify as liberal among various key demographic groups. We saw in Table 2 that younger, better educated, and white Democrats were far more likely than older, less educated, and nonwhite Democrats to identify as liberal. However, the data in Table 5 show that divisions based on age, education, and race are much less impressive when it comes to issue positions. In fact, differences based on age are almost nonexistent — older Democrats are every bit as liberal as younger Democrats on the issues. And while less educated and nonwhite Democrats are not as liberal on these issues as more educated and white Democrats, they are actually quite liberal. An average of 66% of Democrats with no college took the liberal position on these issues. Likewise, an average of 69% of black Democrats and 67% of Hispanic Democrats took the liberal position on these issues. When we focus on specific issues, divisions among Democrats appear far less serious than when we focus on ideological identification. Of course, this raises a crucial question: which matters more politically: ideological identification or issue positions? In order to answer this question, I examined the joint impact of ideological identification and policy preferences on a key variable: approval of Donald Trump’s performance as president. I wanted to see which of these appeared to have a stronger influence on opinions of the president. In order to compare the effects of ideological identification and policy preferences on opinions of Trump, I combined opinions on the six policy issues included in this study into a scale measuring overall policy liberalism vs. conservatism and collapsed that scale into three categories: liberal, moderate, and conservative. Thirty-seven percent of registered voters were classified as liberal, 41% as moderate, and 22% as conservative on this six-item issue scale. In contrast, only 27% of registered voters identified as liberal versus 33% who identified as moderate and 40% who identified as conservative. Table 6: Approval of Trump by ideological identification and policy preferences Note: *Fewer than 10 cases. Source: Pew Research Center Survey, Sept. 18-24, 2018. Table 6 displays the combined effects of ideological identification and issue preferences on approval of Donald Trump’s performance as president. The results show very clearly that policy preferences had a much stronger influence on opinions of Trump. Voters with conservative policy preferences overwhelmingly approved of Trump regardless of whether they identified as conservative or moderate. And voters with liberal policy preferences overwhelmingly disapproved of Trump regardless of whether they identified as liberal, moderate, or conservative. Only among those with moderate policy preferences — really a mixture of liberal and conservative preferences — did ideological identification have a clear impact on opinions of Trump.[1] Summary and Conclusions When it comes to ideological identification, Democratic voters are far more divided than Republican voters. Around two-thirds of Republican voters identify as conservative while fewer than half of Democratic voters identify as liberal. Many observers of the current presidential campaign have cited this fact to argue that ideological divisions are a serious potential threat to Democratic unity, especially if the party nominates a strongly liberal candidate. But a closer examination of recent polling data indicates that when it comes to specific policy issues such as abortion, gun control, and health care, Democratic voters are actually considerably less divided than Republican voters. Moreover, these data show that divisions among Democrats based on age, education, and race are much less significant when it comes to policy issues. What makes this all the more important is that policy preferences appear to have a much stronger influence than ideological identification on voters’ broader political outlook including their opinions of President Trump. These findings suggest that the task of uniting Democrats behind the party’s eventual nominee may not be as difficult as some pundits and political observers have suggested. Footnote [1] Results were very similar when I examined voting intentions in the 2018 midterm election instead of Trump approval. The issue scale was a much stronger predictor which party voters intended to support in the midterm election than ideological identification. Alan I. Abramowitz is the Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory University and a senior columnist with Sabato’s Crystal Ball. His latest book, The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump, was released last year by Yale University Press.

THE BIG SIX SWING STATES IN 2020
There may be a GOP trend in all of them

By Al Tuchfarber
Guest Columnist, Sabato’s Crystal Ball

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The 2020 election may effectively be decided by six crucial swing states, all of which featured margins of less than two percentage points in 2016. — While these states are up for grabs in 2020, there are signs that these states have been becoming more hospitable to Republicans over the past couple of decades. The trends in 2020’s key swing states There are six states that will be key to winning the 2020 presidential election if it is at all close. Whoever wins most of them will in all likelihood win the presidency. The six are Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Donald Trump won Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in 2016, while Hillary Clinton won Minnesota and New Hampshire. All were decided by two percentage points or less in 2016. Trump won the 2016 election by unexpectedly carrying Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It is important to note that these three and many other “heartland” states have many white working-class men and women — defined as those who do not have a four-year college degree. Nationally, Trump beat Clinton among this group by 66% to 29%, according to the national exit poll. This group was key to Trump’s surprising victory in 2016. The Democrats cannot win in 2020 without reducing the victory margin among this demographic group, especially in the six key swing states. Other states like Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina, and Ohio will get serious attention, but the winner in all likelihood will have to carry most of the Big Six Swing States. With the six states so closely divided between the parties, either party could win them in 2020. Who wins will depend on the candidates, the campaign quality, and external circumstances like the economy and any potential major war. Because these states are so crucial for 2020 and future elections, it is important to analyze how they have been trending over recent years. A good comparison is to look at the 2000 election, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore, compared to the 2016 election. Both were very close: Clinton won the popular vote by 2.1 points in 2016 but lost the electoral vote count, and Gore won nationally by 0.5 points in 2000 but lost in an Electoral College squeaker because he lost Florida by less than 600 votes. Another similarity between the two years was that each had three serious third party contenders who won a total of 3.5% to 4.9% of the votes. In 2000, Ralph Nader may have caused Gore’s loss, while in 2016 the third-party candidates may not have affected the outcome. That’s because according to the exit poll, nearly a fifth of respondents said they held an unfavorable view of both Clinton and Trump. Unsurprisingly, nearly all of the third-party voters fell into this category. Overall, Trump won this group 47%-30%, suggesting that in a two-way race, Trump may have still won because of his advantage among these voters. Beyond that, we’ll see that it is important to note whether these third-party or independent candidates were liberal or conservative leaning. The liberals in 2000 were Al Gore and Ralph Nader (Green). The conservatives were George W. Bush, Pat Buchanan (Reform), and Harry Browne (Libertarian). In 2016, the liberals were Hillary Clinton and Jill Stein (Green). The conservatives were Donald Trump, Gary Johnson (Libertarian), and Evan McMullin (independent Republican). In Table 1, you can see the political shifts that occurred nationally from 2000 to 2016. Table 1: Left vs. right, 2000 vs. 2016 Note: The “All Liberals” column includes the Democratic nominee in addition to the left-leaning candidates identified above. The “All Conservatives” column includes the Republican nominee in addition to the right-leaning candidates identified above. There was not much change nationally. The numbers reflect Clinton’s slightly larger popular vote win over Trump and the fact that the major third-party candidate in 2016 was the Libertarian (and former Republican) Gary Johnson, as compared to the liberal Ralph Nader in 2000. But the picture changes notably when we look to the Big Six Swing States. Table 2: 2000 vs. 2016 in six swing states

Note: The “All Liberals” column includes the Democratic nominee in addition to the left-leaning candidates identified above. The “All Conservatives” column includes the Republican nominee in addition to the right-leaning candidates identified above.

For all six of these key states, the conservatives added substantially to their margin from 2000 to 2016. The lowest gain for conservatives was 3.4% in New Hampshire and the highest was 10.6% in Minnesota. The nominated Republican candidate gained in five of the six states. In New Hampshire, the Republicans lost a bit of ground.

Implications

Third-party voting was very high in 2016, almost surely because both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were disliked by many voters. Both had unfavorable ratings well above their favorable ratings. 4.9% of the 2016 votes went to third party candidates, thus rejecting Trump and Clinton, while in the 2012 election just 1.7% rejected both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

The three main 2016 third-party candidates — Johnson (Libertarian), Stein (Green), or McMullin (anti-Trump Republican independent) — do not appear to be planning to run in 2020. So it is likely that both the Libertarian and Green parties will run different candidates. But they probably will not take as many votes in 2020 as they did in 2016. Howard Schultz, the Starbucks founder and longtime Democrat, may run as an independent as he fears the Democratic Party has moved too far left, although he has not made much news in recent months after a flurry of activity earlier in the year. If Schultz does run, he likely would draw more votes from the Democrat than from Trump — which helps explain why so many Democrats have been very hostile to his candidacy. If they vote at all, more 2016 Libertarian/Johnson voters may be likelier to go to Trump than to the Democrat. Green Party voters who do not stick with that party’s nominee may be likelier to go to the Democrat next year.

Both the long-term conservative trend in these six key swing states and the likely 2020 configuration of third parties favor Trump in the states that are likeliest to collectively choose the 2020 winner.

We don’t know what the overall lay-of-the-land will be in November 2020. A recession or major war could cripple Trump. The nomination of a too-liberal or unpopular Democrat could destroy Democratic chances. These are what political scientists call short-term factors.

But the long-terms trends favor the Republicans in the Big Six Swing States.

Al Tuchfarber is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati and a guest columnist at Sabato’s Crystal Ball. He founded the well-respected Ohio Poll and now writes a weekly global political-economic blog at the TuchfarberReport.com. He can be reached at alfred.tuchfarber@uc.edu.

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Thursday, August 22, 2019 The 1619 Project “The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.” New York Times From the Left The left is supportive of the project, arguing that narratives like these tell a truer, fuller story of America. “The project was deeply researched and fact-checked with the assistance of a panel of historians. Elements of it were conducted in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, a venerable pillar of American learning. It’s a serious work of popular history that starts America’s clock four centuries ago… What followed was 250 years of brutal slavery the United States, then a century of de facto apartheid rule. [The lead reporter] Hannah-Jones, 43, stresses that she is part of only the first generation of black Americans born in a country where it was not legal to discriminate against them… Those who engage with history more seriously than politicians understand that recognition of a national darkness need not be an impediment to national pride.”
Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post

“Conservative uproar over the New York Times’ 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a decades-old battle over how we should understand American history… For most historians, it’s just not interesting to think of history as a place you go to feel good, or bad, about America. ‘America’ is so big, and so complex. Patriotism might be a side effect, but it’s not the point of historical study. That’s why an alternative vision of patriotism, like the one that Nikole Hannah-Jones articulated in the 1619 Project’s opening essay—‘Black Americans… have served, generation after generation, in an overlooked but vital role: It is we who have been the perfecters of this democracy’—is so valuable…

“This is a complex and yet immediately legible argument, expressed as public history, buttressed in the package by other arguments that are in turn informed by years of academic historical work. It is the ‘realest’ sort of history, the kind that enriches articles and exhibits and historic sites with new information about the daily lives and struggles of non-elite people and minority groups.”
Rebecca Onion, Slate

“For conservatives, being a patriot means believing that America is an essentially good country; its sins are aberrations rather than central to its history. There is no room for a nuanced patriotism that sees a nation with racism as a central part of its DNA, but also a nation that can be improved through constant struggle and work. It is the ‘America: Love It or Leave It’ bumper sticker, expressed in more florid prose… The 1619 Project challenges not only the founders’ innocence but that of white Americans who downplay racism’s vitality today… The furious reaction from the American right only proves how much their work [is] needed.”
Zack Beauchamp, Vox

“There is a James Baldwin quote that I have had tattooed on my consciousness: ‘I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.’ That is the animating spirit of endeavors like the 1619 Project, which — if people bothered to read it — shows it is possible to depict our ugliness through beauty, to artfully weave a reader’s eyes and mind through a re-examination of the very soil beneath their feet so that they see it anew, and more clearly. It is a vision test for the soul, and it certainly helps us not only view America in greater relief, but those working to inhibit its growth and empowerment.”
Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone

Minority view: “There is a lot to admire in the paper’s presentation of the 1619 Project — searing photographs, illuminating quotations from archival material, samples of poetry and fiction giving powerful voice to the black experience, and gripping journalistic summaries of scholarly histories… The country’s treatment of the slaves and their descendants through the century following emancipation and, in some respects, on down to the present was and is appalling — and the story of how it happened, and keeps happening, is extremely important for understanding the United States…

“[But] throughout the issue of the NYTM, headlines make, with just slight variations, the same rhetorical move over and over again: ‘Here is something unpleasant, unjust, or even downright evil about life in the present-day United States. Bet you didn’t realize that slavery is ultimately to blame.’ Lack of universal access to health care? High rates of sugar consumption? Callous treatment of incarcerated prisoners? White recording artists ‘stealing’ black music? Harsh labor practices? That’s right — all of it, and far more, follows from slavery… no single narrative of the past is the indisputably right one… new interpretations that break sharply from a past consensus often go too far. That’s especially true when the new claims advance a radical political agenda.”
Damon Linker, The Week From the Right The right is critical of the New York Times, accusing it of distorting history to fit a partisan narrative. “Slavery was this nation’s original sin. But it is also true that hundreds of thousands of people spilled their blood on the Union Army side as propitiation for that sin… The 1619 Project by the New York Times is as flawed as it would have you believe the country’s founding was. It seeks to divide, not heal. It seeks to give power and primacy to those who think the nation’s founding was premised on evil… Americans, particularly white Americans, need to learn more about slavery in the United States. But doing so on the premise that the United States itself is flawed and illegitimate is not the way to do it. Sadly, that’s what so much of the Times’ coverage amounts to.”
Erick Erickson, The Resurgent

“By far the most central and important issue regarding race and racism in the United States is how to change the fact that black and to a lesser degree Hispanic Americans have consistently worse outcomes in a whole host of areas than do other Americans. In regard to the former, 1619 makes a compelling case that slavery played a big role in this, because it did. This is something few serious people would argue with. What is less clear is how reframing American history as a tale of evil is going to fix the problem. As if somehow non-black Americans will have their eyes opened to how important slavery was and suddenly have policy fixes to change outcomes. This seems extremely unlikely, especially given that such significant efforts have been made to reframe history over the past decades and these negative outcomes have not changed.”
David Marcus, The Federalist

“In the reframing of the 1619 Project, African-American success stories disappear. There’s no mention of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games. There’s no mention of Jackie Robinson… Harriet Tubman is never mentioned. Nor is Booker T. Washington nor is Bishop Richard Allen, who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent black denomination in the United States. Abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Shirley Chisom (the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress), Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. (the first African-American general for the U.S. Army), Ida Wells (a journalist who documented lynchings and co-founded the NAACP), Duke Ellington, and Rosa Parks are never mentioned…

“The 1619 Project argues, with considerable justification, that most of us [have] been seeing only one part of the portrait of the founding, formation, and growth of our country… and then ‘reframes’ the portrait to leave out some of the most consequential and under-discussed African Americans in our history.”
Jim Geraghty, National Review

“Jefferson’s original final draft of the Declaration explicitly referred to black slaves not as property but as men and castigated King George III for suppressing parliamentary efforts to prohibit or restrain ‘this execrable commerce’ (referring to slavery). Letters written to John Jay show Alexander Hamilton hoping the Revolutionary War could lead to the emancipation of blacks and appraising them equal to whites in their abilities. Additional examples are plentiful…

“Much of the United States was ahead of the world in ending the horror of slavery. Shortly after the signing of the Declaration, northern states took the lead. By 1804, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania had passed laws that immediately or gradually abolished slavery… The 1619 Project is politically driven 2020 posturing dressed in the veneer of a historical ‘exposé.’ By warping history, it hopes that dopamine hits of anger and injustice will prevent readers from engaging in objective analysis. Just in time to paint America as racist for the upcoming presidential election.”
Joshua Lawson, The Federalist

“We now know without a shadow of a doubt that the most influential news organization in the nation, and probably even the world, is operating on an algorithm that forces the multifarious complexity of events in the life of this diverse nation to conform to left-liberal race dogmas. Imagine what it’s like being a reporter or an editor at the Times, and disagreeing with this radical assessment of American history, and the approach the newspaper ought to take to reporting and analyzing the news. Would you have the courage to speak out? Of course you wouldn’t…

“If the black executive editor of the Times won’t even challenge the extreme assertion that ‘racism is in everything,’ and ought to dictate how the newspaper does its job, why should you take that risk?”
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative On the bright side…

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Reframing American History is Activism, Not Journalism The New York Times has commissioned their 1619 Project. According to the Times, the project “aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.” They key […] The post Reframing American History is Activism, Not Journalism appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser »

Chuck Todd Is Right, But… Chuck Todd is absolutely right on this. It is very abnormal. Abnormal is becoming the new normal. A friend who works for the President claims that by the President amping this stuff up, it will make it all be noise by 2020. For an undisciplined candidate, it is a strategy to make less chaos seem […] The post Chuck Todd Is Right, But… appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser »

What Loyalty Do American Jews Owe Israel? President Trump, as a political opportunist and big mouth extraordinaire, spoke a strident “yes.” Even if American Jews don’t like him–even despise him–the question must be asked and answered. The post What Loyalty Do American Jews Owe Israel? appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser »

No More Funding Virtue Signaling Governors It is really time for the federal government to stop bailing out blue state Governors who create a mess and then can’t fix it. I do not think the federal government is responsible for California’s homelessness problem. I don’t think the SALT cap should be removed to stop wealthy residents of New York from fleeing […] The post No More Funding Virtue Signaling Governors appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser »

Senator Perdue’s Early Conversation With President Trump on the US Economy In a conversation with Erick Erickson at The Resurgent Gathering, Senator David Perdue chronicled a conversation he had with President Trump, only two weeks after Trump took office. The focus was simple. What are our economic priorities? Here’s what he said: I was in the White House two weeks after President Trump was inaugurated. His […] The post Senator Perdue’s Early Conversation With President Trump on the US Economy appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser »

Trolling All The Way Down When you come to understand this, the headache and hangover of a Trump news cycle becomes more bearable. Strip off the trolling, and you see how ridiculous it is for Democrats who spend all day trashing any kind of pride in being American get upset when Trump invokes “loyalty” as a property of Jewish culture. Of course the various striations of American pluralism involve dual and competing loyalties: It’s such an obvious thing, it shouldn’t need to be stated. The entirety of intersectional progressive woke SJW thought and the cancel culture is based on the concept of dual loyalty. The post Trolling All The Way Down appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser »

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The Trump administration turned its attention once again to immigration on Wednesday, unveiling new procedures it says will keep migrant children and relatives together in detention facilities as long as their cases require, and in most cases well beyond a 20-day restriction for holding children, which has been legally binding for decades. The departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services said a rule change will allow the administration to effectively do away with the “Flores Settlement” that prohibited the government from holding migrant children, in most cases, for more than 20 days. Critics of the administration’s immigration policies vowed to block the new rule in court, while Trump’s immigration advisers argued that the changes would render obsolete the original court-created “Flores Settlement,” which they called a “loophole.” The administration seeks to communicate a warning message to Central American and other migrants with a revised policy: Arrival at the U.S. southern border with undocumented children will not be an automatic “passport” for entry into the United States while cases are processed. Instead, the government seeks to detain migrant families in federal facilities until individual cases can be resolved or deportation carried out rather than release them into the country to await hearings (The Hill). The New York Times: Migrant families would face indefinite detention under new Trump rule set to take effect in October. The Hill: ICE chief says migrant children will not be held “indefinitely,” but suggests time in detention could be nearly two months or longer. The Congressional Research Service: Frequently asked questions about the “Flores Settlement.” President Trump, who believes the administration’s tough approach to legal and illegal immigration is popular with his political base, told reporters on Wednesday he would like to end “birthright citizenship,” which conveys U.S. citizenship to children born on U.S. soil (The Hill). Many legal analysts believe Trump could not end the policy by executive order as he suggests. “We’re looking at that very seriously,” the president said. “Birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land — walk over the border, have a baby, congratulations, the baby’s now a U.S. citizen. …It’s, frankly, ridiculous.”

LEADING THE DAY

WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: Trump spoke under a broiling sun for about 40 minutes outside the White House on Wednesday while describing the U.S. economy as doing “phenomenally well,” adding his view that he deserves credit for instituting a tough line against Beijing on trade and intellectual property. “I am the chosen one,” he said, referring to presidents before him who he believes were not tough enough with the second-largest world economy. “Somebody had to do it,” he said, “so I’m taking on China” (The Hill). The president — who a day earlier said he was considering a payroll tax cut and capital gains indexing as attractive forms of economic stimulus — reversed course and said tax changes are unnecessary if a recession is just a theory. Trump’s economic advisers want to encourage consumption and investment through 2020 and beyond, and believe talk of a new stimulus agenda could have the effect of rattling consumers and businesses. The New York Times: Americans’ confidence in the economy is fragile. “I just don’t see any reason to,” Trump said, arguing that if the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates this fall, as he advocates, the central bank “can do the whole thing” to buoy the economy through monetary policy. China today vowed to retaliate with additional tariffs if the United States imposes new levies on its exports. “Despite the U.S. decision to delay tariffs on some Chinese goods …. if the United States rides roughshod over China’s opposition and imposes any new tariffs, China will be forced to adopt retaliatory actions,” Ministry of Commerce spokesman Gao Feng told reporters (Reuters). Many economists, including at the Fed, argue the central bank’s mandate is to safeguard employment and keep inflation low. Monetary policy cannot end trade wars. As Niv Elis reports, another complication, as economists survey what should or can be done as the U.S. economy slows, is the political challenge of trying to hike spending or cut taxes while deficits rise and the nation groans beneath a $22 trillion debt load. New federal deficit projections soared to $12 trillion through 2029, the Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday. For a government operating on a credit card, that kind of red ink would average 4.7 percent of gross domestic product through the next decade, a significant increase from the 2.9 percent average over the past 50 years (The Hill). The CBO explained that the bleaker deficit picture results from the sweeping budget deal passed earlier this month, which erased the caps on federal spending in 2020 and 2021 and is projected to add $1.7 trillion to the U.S. deficit over 10 years (The Hill).
In other administration news: The Environmental Protection Agency will represent the administration at a United Nations climate change gathering next month in place of the president. Trump plans to skip the U.N. Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23, hosted by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler will lead the U.S. delegation (The Miami Herald). The Education Department will eliminate all federal student loan debt owed by thousands of disabled veterans as a result of a memorandum Trump signed on Wednesday while attending a national conference of veterans in Kentucky (The Hill). The Interior Department and Congress are at loggerheads over the department’s plans to relocate the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. The department says it is moving ahead to relocate 27 top officials to new headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo., while scattering other Washington-based land management employees who agree to be transferred to existing offices across the United States (The Hill). The U.S. Department of Agriculture embarked on something similar with a transition of some of its agencies to the Kansas City area, which resulted in federal workforce shrinkage that was cheered inside the White House (The Kansas City Star). Denmark and Trump’s interest in buying Greenland continued to dominate news coverage a day after the president canceled a state visit early next month to Copenhagen because the prime minister said the island territory was not for sale. The president on Wednesday aggravated what had already become a diplomatic flashpoint by insisting that the Danish government was “nasty” in the way it rejected his idea of selling the island to the United States (The Hill). Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during a call on Wednesday with Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod, attempted to patch things up with the NATO ally by calling the kerfuffle a “postponement” of a presidential visit. Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s newest press secretary and communications adviser, maintains a low public profile and has conducted no on-camera White House press briefings. Her perspective: Trump responds to reporters’ questions. The New York Times, in a profile today, writes that the 43-year-old public relations specialist is “the latest example of Mr. Trump’s tendency to value loyalty and an embrace of his unorthodox style ahead of other credentials when filling top jobs.”

IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES

POLITICS & CAMPAIGNS: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) faces an uphill climb to lock in more support from African American voters, Democratic strategists and political observers say. While Warren has been ascending in recent polls, she has struggled to lure black voters to her campaign, Amie Parnes reports (The Hill). “We definitely need to do better there,” one Warren ally acknowledged. “We can’t win without support from the black community. Period.” To date, former Vice President Joe Biden has dominated among black voters, particularly in South Carolina, an early primary state, even with two African-American candidates challenging Biden, Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who are neck-and-neck in the top tier of the primary contest. Biden enjoys particularly stable backing among older blacks. That demographic tends to be more “pragmatic,” Clemmie Harris, an assistant professor of American history and Africana studies at Utica College, told The Hill. “If [Warren] is going to be successful in the South, she’ll really have to develop an infrastructure that is going to hit those critical areas and get her name and message out there and she’s got to be able to plug into those relationships and build it organically,” Harris added.

© Getty Images > Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who struggled to climb above low single-digits in national polls and risked being shut out of a debate in Houston next month, dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on Wednesday night with an announcement on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.” He’s expected to announce today that he’s running for a third term as governor (The Associated Press). Inslee, who announced his bid for the White House in March, had focused his campaign on tackling climate change, calling it “the most urgent challenge of our time.” He is the third Democratic presidential contender to bow out of a crowded field, following former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and California Rep. Eric Swalwell (NBC News). > Hickenlooper, 67, who was courted intensively this summer by Democrats who sought his help in Congress, said today in a video message that he’s running for the Senate: “I know changing Washington is hard, but I want to give it a shot.” His leap into the Senate contest instantly made him the front-runner in a crowded Democratic field vying to challenge incumbent Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), who is seen as vulnerable in a state with rapidly shifting politics and demographics (The Associated Press). Hickenlooper, a two-term governor and former Denver mayor, ended his presidential quest on Aug. 15 (The Hill). > Trump has turned to a curious strategy to encourage Jewish Democrats to switch their allegiance to the Republican Party: He’s attacking them, report Mike Lillis and Scott Wong (The Hill).
Trump this week suggested Jewish Americans are ill-informed about policy when they throw their support overwhelmingly to Democrats. The president added they’re “disloyal” to Israel for opposing his presidency.
“In my opinion, if you vote for a Democrat you’re being very disloyal to Jewish people and you’re being very disloyal to Israel,” he said at the White House on Wednesday, amplifying similar remarks a day earlier. “And only weak people would say anything other than that.”
The president and Republicans have their work cut out for them: About 71 percent of Jewish voters sided with Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016, and the Democrats’ advantage among that bloc jumped to 79 percent in last year’s midterms. In other political headlines … Sanders targets the gig economy in his new workers’ rights plan (The Hill) … Biden has a new campaign video to criticize Trump’s record on guns (HERE) … 2020 candidate and former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) warns that fellow Democrats seem to be cheering the idea of an impending recession (The Hill). Comedian Bill Maher has said a recession would be “very worth” experiencing if it meant tanking Trump’s chances of reelection (The Hill) … Six Democratic presidential candidates signed a letter to urge the inclusion of three arms control provisions in a final version of the annual defense policy measure. The provisions are opposed by Senate Republicans and the White House (The Hill). … And an amusing moment from the campaign trail occurred when New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s voice sounded cartoonishly high-pitched during a video hook-up with an Iowa audience in a hotel ballroom (The Hill).

OPINION

Trump is in a unique position to make real change on gun control, by Bruce Bond and Erik Olsen, opinion contributors, The Hill. https://bit.ly/31YorlF Tackling China is the modern Cold War, by Jeff Goodson, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2KNFIsn

WHERE AND WHEN

Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features Chuck Rocha, a senior adviser to Sanders’s presidential campaign, who describes the senator’s criminal justice plan; economics professor Richard D. Wolff, who talks about the U.S. economy; and The Intercept politics reporter Akela Lacy, outlining key Senate races next year. Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House is in pro forma sessions until returning to Washington on Sept. 4 to begin consideration of legislation to respond to mass shootings. The Senate continues to meet pro forma but is not scheduled to return for votes until Sept. 9. The president presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy at 4:30 p.m. (Boston Globe). Vice President Pence, who is in Utah, will visit Merit Medical, a manufacturer of disposable medical devices, to tour the South Jordan facility and deliver remarks about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement at 10 a.m. He arrives back in Washington tonight. Pompeo is in Canada today and will meet in Ottawa with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at 9:15 a.m. The secretary meets with Canadian business leaders at 10:05, and joins a wreath-laying ceremony with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland at 11:15 a.m. before the two meet at 11:30 a.m. and have lunch together. Freeland and Pompeo will hold a joint news conference at 1 p.m. The secretary then meets U.S. embassy staff and families in Ottawa at 3 p.m.

ELSEWHERE

➔ State Watch: A recent spree of cyber attacks in Texas underscored mounting and costly ransomware threats faced by city governments. Experts predict such “lucrative” attacks will escalate (The Hill). More than 40 municipalities have been victims this year (The New York Times). ➔ China: Beijing on Wednesday threatened to sanction any company involved in U.S. fighter jet sales to Taiwan worth $8 billion. Any retaliatory actions by China are seen as another complication amid trade discussions with the Trump administration (The Wall Street Journal). … China is harnessing social media platforms to manipulate opinions abroad about the Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations, according to a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Facebook and Twitter closed numerous disinformation accounts tied to the Chinese government, winning plaudits from members of Congress and intelligence experts (The Hill). ➔ In the Know: Former President Obama and Michelle Obama on Wednesday unveiled “American Factory,” a documentary set in Ohio, now available on Netflix. It’s the first film project from the Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground. “We want to be in relationships with people and connect with them and work together with them,” the former president said, tapping social media to release a clip and discussion with the film’s directors (The Hill). Check out The New York Times’s review of the film HERE.

THE CLOSER

And finally … It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for this week’s Morning Report Quiz! Inspired by summer events, we’re eager for some smart guesses about islands in the news. Email responses today to asimendinger@thehill.com and please add “Quiz” to your subject line. Winners who submit correct answers will enjoy some richly deserved newsletter fame on Friday. Trump this week canceled a state visit to which country when he learned the island of Greenland is not for sale? 1. Russia 2. Finland 3. Iceland 4. Denmark Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, told NPR that a Liberty Island poem should be rewritten to say “give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.” Where is the actual wording of the poem, “The New Colossus,” displayed? 1. Washington Monument 2. Monticello 3. Statue of Liberty 4. Liberty Bell Which newsmaker appeared in global headlines this month, in part because of activities involving the islands of Manhattan, Little St. James and St. Thomas? 1. Bill de Blasio 2. Jeffrey Epstein 3. Tiger Woods 4. Tim Duncan Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the island of Great Britain on Oct. 31 will separate from what? 1. European Union 2. BBC 3. The monarchy 4. Channel Tunnel Sharks — attacking humans and/or sea life — have been big news this summer on what island? 1. Cape Cod 2. Hawaii’s Big Island 3. Rose Island in the Bahamas 4. All of the above

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Trump envoy’s bid to restart North Korea nuke negotiations aims for ‘working level’ talks President Trump’s top envoy for North Korea sought to kick-start stalled nuclear talks with Pyongyang on Wednesday, asserting during a … more

POLITICO Playbook: Trump gets another primary challenger

By BLAKE HOUNSHELL and ELI OKUN

08/22/2019 06:15 AM EDT

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Joe Walsh is pictured. | Getty Images — It seems unlikelythat anyone can gain traction in a GOP primary against this president, but Joe Walsh certainly seems to understand the modern media landscape decently. | Alex Wong/Getty Images

DRIVING THE DAY

HE’S RUNNING — “Joe Walsh to mount primary bid against ‘absolutely unfit’ Trump,” by Natasha Korecki in Chicago: “Joe Walsh, the flame-throwing conservative radio show and former Illinois congressman, is moving toward challenging President Donald Trump in a Republican primary, calling the president an ‘unfit divider-in-chief’ and claiming that the party is craving an alternative.

“Walsh told POLITICO on Wednesday that he was confident he could secure the resources and support to mount a challenge against the president, and that if he ran, he would announce in short order. While Walsh on Wednesday would not yet confirm he would enter the primary, two sources who spoke to him said he was privately confirming he would announce his presidential bid this weekend.

“‘If I’m to do it, it’s going to happen soon,’ Walsh said. ‘I’ve been really surprised by the amount of anxiousness from people across the spectrum who want this president to have a challenge, because there’s just a real concern that he’s absolutely unfit.’” POLITICO

— IT SEEMS, SHALL WE SAY, UNLIKELY that anyone can gain traction in a GOP primary against this president, whose approval ratings among Republicans have remained rock steady for months. Just look at his Gallup numbers: If anything, they’ve gone *up* during his presidency, rising from the low to high 80s since 2017.

Some might argue that these numbers are soft, but there’s very little evidence for this proposition. That said, a tough primary has historically roughed up incumbents — think Jimmy Carter — so if Walsh could somehow capture lightning in a bottle, mayyyyyybe he might cause a little trouble for Trump.

Walsh certainly seems to understand the modern media landscape much better than former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, who is apparently also running but does not seem capable of generating a headline and is wildly out of step with today’s GOP electorate.

ANOTHER GOVERNOR BITES THE DUST — “Jay Inslee drops out of Democratic presidential race,” by Daniel Strauss and Matthew Choi: “Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington pulled out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, saying, ‘It has become clear I’m not going to be carrying the ball. I’m not going to become president.’

“Inslee ran on a platform that focused on combating climate change, and said he was encouraged by the enthusiasm he saw for the issue during his campaign. He made the announcement on MSNBC’s ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ and said he was not ready to endorse another candidate at this time. …

“Inslee’s decision to drop out comes about a week before the deadline to qualify for the next Democratic debate. Inslee struggled to gain any real traction in the primary, and while he had met the donor threshold set by the Democratic National Committee for the September debate, he was nowhere near meeting the polling requirement. Ten of the remaining 22 candidates have qualified so far.” POLITICO

— REMINDER: Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson are still rocking this thing.

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SPEAKING OF DEBATES — “ABC News announces details for third Democratic primary debate,” by Kendall Karson:“Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos, ‘World News Tonight’ Anchor David Muir, ABC News Correspondent Linsey Davis and Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos will moderate the debate on Thursday and, if necessary, Friday. …

“For the two-night scenario, ABC News in accordance with the DNC will hold a selection event on Aug. 29 to randomly assign the candidates to a night. The format of the debate will be one minute and 15 seconds for direct responses to questions and 45 seconds for rebuttals.” ABC

ALEX ISENSTADT: “Trump and his Minnesota mini-me set out to flip the state red”: “For President Donald Trump, Minnesota is the one that got away in 2016. Now he’s fixated on flipping the state in 2020 — with the help of a provocative ex-radio host whose rantings earned him the nickname ‘mini-Trump.’

“Former GOP Rep. Jason Lewis is expected to launch his Minnesota Senate bid on Thursday with guidance from two of Trump’s top political lieutenants. After losing Minnesota by just 1.5 points, the president has told aides repeatedly in recent weeks that he’s determined to win the Democratic stronghold, which hasn’t gone for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972.

“Trump’s push reflects his broader reelection blueprint, which is focused on a cluster of Midwestern and Rust Belt states that were decided by razor-thin margins in 2016 and are likely to determine the outcome of the election. Hoping to offset what they concede will be deep deficits in metropolitan centers and suburbs, the president’s advisers are formulating a strategy geared toward amping up conservative turnout in rural areas.” POLITICO

Good Thursday morning. Sen. CORY GARDNER (R-Colo.) is 45 today, and for his birthday this year, he may be getting a popular former governor — John Hickenlooper — as his opponent. What a special treat!

HICKENLOOPER JUST ANNOUNCED that he’s joining the crowded Democratic Senate primary, despite previously saying things like “I’m not cut out to be a senator.” Denver Post

AP BULLETIN — “S. Korea cancels Japan intelligence deal amid trade dispute”

— OBSERVATION: This administration wants to make peace with North Korea, but it can’t even make peace between South Korea and Japan.

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GREENLAND UPDATE, BECAUSE IT’S 2019 — NYT’S PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN: “Trump Buying Greenland Seemed Like a Joke. Then It Got Ugly”: “Some former Trump administration officials in recent days said they were increasingly worried about the president’s behavior, suggesting it stems from increasing pressure on Mr. Trump as the economy seems more worrisome and next year’s election approaches. …

“At one point last year, according to a former official who heard him, he even joked in a meeting about trading Puerto Rico for Greenland — happy to rid himself of an American territory whose leadership he has feuded with repeatedly.” NYT

— SEN. TOM COTTON IN LITTLE ROCK: “Obviously, the right decision for this country. … You’re joking, but I can reveal to you that several months ago, I met with the Danish ambassador and I proposed that they sell Greenland to us. … I told the president you should buy it as well … He’s heard that from me and from some other people as well.” TBP

WSJ’S REBECCA BALLHAUS and NICK TIMIRAOS: “Officials See Few Options if Slowdown Hits”: “With short-term interest rates already low, the Federal Reserve has little room to cut borrowing costs to spur spending and investment as it usually does in a slowdown. Meantime, the federal debt is exploding, which could hamstring any efforts to boost growth with tax cuts or spending increases.

“Further complicating matters, Democrats and Republicans strongly disagree about how best to rev up the economy, with Democrats favoring higher spending and the GOP wanting lower taxes. Even within their own ranks there are disagreements about what course to take.” WSJ

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THE PRESIDENT’S THURSDAY: Trump has just one thing on his public schedule, aside from his daily intelligence briefing. At 4:30 p.m., he’s due to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Celtics legend Bob Cousy. That’ll be in the Oval Office.

— THE OTHER NBA GREATS to receive this honor? Bill Russell, Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (hat tip: Worcester Telegram, which previewed Cousy’s White House trip).

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POLITICO MAGAZINE’S MICHAEL KRUSE: “Why Is Andrew Yang Still in This Race?”

RUDY ABROAD — “Giuliani Renews Push for Ukraine to Investigate Trump’s Political Opponents,” by NYT’s Ken Vogel and Andrew Kramer: “Months after backing out of a trip to Ukraine amid criticism that he was mixing partisan politics with foreign policy, Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has renewed his push for the Ukrainian government to pursue investigations into political opponents of Mr. Trump.

“Over the last few weeks, Mr. Giuliani has spoken on the phone and held an in-person meeting, in Madrid, with a top representative of the new Ukrainian president, encouraging his government to ramp up investigations into two matters of intense interest to Mr. Trump.

“One is whether Ukrainian officials took steps during the 2016 election to damage Mr. Trump’s campaign. The other is whether there was anything improper about the overlap between former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s diplomatic efforts in Ukraine and his son’s role with a gas company there.” NYT

THURSDAY LISTEN — A THAW ON CLIMATE CHANGE? … The latest episode of POLITICO’s Global Translations podcast dives into the evolution in attitudes toward climate action among some Republicans on Capitol Hill — a subtle but significant shift in tone that suggests the possibility of modest action this year. Interviewees include Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Francis Rooney (R-Fla.). Listen and subscribe

EPSTEIN LATEST — AP’S CURT ANDERSON in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: “Epstein may have gamed the system from beyond the grave”: “The will that Jeffrey Epstein signed just two days before his jailhouse suicide puts more than $577 million in assets into a trust fund that could make it more difficult for his dozens of accusers to collect damages. Estate lawyers and other experts say prying open the trust and dividing up the financier’s riches is not going to be easy and could take years.

“‘This is the last act of Epstein’s manipulation of the system, even in death,’ said attorney Jennifer Freeman, who represents child sex abuse victims. … By putting his fortune in a trust, he shrouded from public view the identities of the beneficiaries, whether they be individuals, organizations or other entities. For the women trying to collect from his estate, the first order of business will be persuading a judge to pierce that veil and release the details.” AP

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BEYOND THE BELTWAY — “Casino mogul Steve Wynn linked to $43M purchase of Palm Beach estate,” by the Palm Beach Post’s Darrell Hofheinz: “The eight-bedroom, Mediterranean-style house stands on a 2.25-acre lot … has 274 feet of water frontage on both its west and east sides and is separated from its beach parcel by the coastal road. In all, the main residence and its poolside guesthouse have 33,069 square feet of living space, inside and out. The estate was sold by a company associated with the family of Venezuelan banker and polo patron Victor Vargas.

“Wynn, a billionaire art collector who for years served as chairman and CEO of Las Vegas-based Wynn Resorts, is not new to Palm Beach. Last summer, he sold a mostly vacant lot at 1350 S. Ocean Blvd. for $20.27 million. He had owned that Billionaires Row property for about four years.

“In February 2018, Wynn resigned from Wynn Resorts amid allegations of sexual misconduct — including coercing some female employees into sexual activity — over many years. He denied the allegations. He also resigned last year as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.” Palm Beach Post

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VALLEY TALK — “Big Tech, a Conservative Provocateur and the Fight Over Disinformation,” by NYT’s Nicholas Confessore and Justin Bank:“The Western Journal is not quite a household name. Until recently, some of its most prolific writers used pseudonyms. Though it publishes scores of stories each week about national politics, the company has no Washington bureau, or any other bureaus. Indeed, it rarely dispatches reporters into the world to gather news firsthand.

“In the parallel universe of Facebook, though, The Western Journal has been among the most popular and influential publications in America, shaping the political beliefs of more than 36 million deeply loyal readers and followers. In the three years ending in March, according to a New York Times analysis, Western Journal Facebook posts earned three-quarters of a billion shares, likes and comments, almost as many as the combined tally of 10 leading American news organizations that together employ thousands of reporters and editors.” NYT

YIKES — “Ex-GSA Official Had Sex With White House Staffer on Govt. Agency Rooftop: Investigation,” by NBC 4’s Scott MacFarlane: “The report details multiple violations of federal policies prohibiting or limiting alcohol consumption in federal offices, by high ranking officials of the GSA in 2017. … [Brennan] Hart’s employment with the agency ended in March 2018, several weeks after the inspector general interviewed him about the incident. The report redacted the name of the White House staffer involved.” NBC 4

BOOK NEWS — Election expert Rick Hasen has a new book coming out, “Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy.”

Asked why he wrote the book, Rick says,“I don’t think folks realize how norm-based and tenuous are our rules for peaceful transitions of power and acceptance of election results by the losers of the election. Internal and external forces, and not just Trump, have eroded trust in how we conduct our elections and count ballots, and we cannot take it as a given that losers will accept the 2020 results (whether that’s Trump who might lose narrowly in Wisconsin or Democrats who might complain about voter suppression costing them Georgia).” $27.50 on Amazon… Book summary

MEDIAWATCH …

— ANOTHER DEPARTURE from MIT’s Media Lab: J. Nathan Matias’ post on Medium

— BERNIE VS. THE PRESS … FAIZ SPEAKS! — “Team Bernie: The Press Has a ‘Personal Bias’ Against Him and Find His Supporters ‘Annoying,’” by The Daily Beast’s Maxwell Tani and Gideon Resnick: “‘I wish I could check at the outset of every reporter’s “story” about Bernie Sanders, I would love to ask them, “What do you personally think of Bernie Sanders?”’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir said in an interview with The Daily Beast. ‘For whatever reason, he gets under their skin. He draws an emotional chord in a different way that ends up impacting and affecting the bias, I think, or at least the way in which stories are crafted and written about him in particular is different.’” Daily Beast

— Ryan Gallagher will be a senior tech reporter at Bloomberg, based in Edinburgh. He currently is an investigative journalist at The Intercept.

— Matt Joseloff is now a coordinating producer for “Morning Joe.” He previously worked at CBSN.

TRAILER DU JOUR — “Lionsgate Drops ‘Bombshell’ Trailer: Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron & Nicole Kidman Take On Roger Ailes,” by Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro

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WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Mattie Duppler, president of Forward Strategies and senior fellow at the National Taxpayers Union, and Drake Springer, director of video and creative production at Stand Together, welcomed Leila Madelyn Springer last Thursday. She came in at 5 lbs, 5 oz. The couple are House Republican Conference alums, where they met working for Cathy McMorris Rodgers in 2014. Instapic… Another Instapic

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), now a partner at Nelson Mullins. How he thinks the Trump presidency is going: “The great thing about a participatory democracy is the jury gets to render a verdict — at the presidential level — every four years. The way politics is now, you receive too little credit from your detractors and too much praise from your supporters because objectivity has been replaced with relativism.” Playbook Plus Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Paul Singer is 75 … Montana A.G.Tim Fox … National Review editor Rich Lowry is 51 … Brittany Baker, special assistant to NEC Director Larry Kudlow … Jess Allen, an NYU Law student and Obama WH alum, is 3-0 … Thomas Midanek … Steve Kroft is 74 … Steve Kornacki, national political correspondent for NBC and MSNBC, is 4-0 … Morton Dean is 84 … Jennifer Loven, managing director at Glover Park Group … Steve Brill, CEO of NewsGuard (h/t wife Cynthia) … Tom Edsall is 78 … Sabrina Siddiqui, VP at Forbes Tate Partners … Jen Nedeau Helm, partner manager for government, politics and advocacy at Facebook … Robin Wright, New Yorker writer and joint fellow of the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Wilson International Center … former Rep. Thad McCotter (R-Mich.) is 54 … former Rep. Bud Cramer (D-Ala.) is 72 …

… Luke Russert … Bill Miller,president and CEO of the American Gaming Association … Fox Business News producer Natalie Apsell (h/t Steve Brusk) … Nick Mildebrath, VP at Convergence Targeted Communications, is 31 … Chris Lapetina … Pat Eltman (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Bill Cortese … Jim Strader … Sward Tondoneh … Jillian Hershner … Bill Turenne Jr. … Eleanor Strom of Google … Sinclair’s AnnaMaria Di Pietro … WJLA anchor Nancy Chen … Selena Strandberg … Katie Gordon … Matthew Barnes …Claire Stein-Ross … Pema Levy of Mother Jones … Chad Connelly … Mory Fontanez … Katie Bloodgood … Nick Greene … Jordan Goldes … Rob Borden … Megan Paulsen … Chris Pumphrey … Alyssa Palisi … Mac Flores … Brystol English … Julia Rothwax … Hailey Arends … Martin Fitzgerald … Axios’ Gigi Sukin and Stef Kight … Ryan Patmintra … AP’s Nebi Qena … KB … Alexis Rubin, who works at the NICU at Children’s National Hospital (h/t Joe Kildea)

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Trump Administration Targets the Illegal Immigration Loophole
In an attempt to close the loophole widely blamed for incentivizing migrant families with young children to make the dangerous trek from Mexico or Central America to the U.S., the Trump administration announced a new regulation that would allow it to detain migrant families at the border indefinitely.

The change would replace a decades-old court ruling known as “the Flores settlement,” which limits the amount of time the government can keep children in detention facilities to around 20 days. Conservatives argue the Flores agreement “has contributed significantly to the security and humanitarian crisis on our southern border.”

Liberals quickly denounced the move, claiming it’s “President Trump’s most aggressive—and most legally suspect—attempt to circumvent legal protections for undocumented children since his disastrous family separation policy.” (Read more at The Daily Beast.)

By denouncing *both* family separation policies and the new proposed family detention policies, the Left is making it pretty clear what they want: open borders and catch-and-release.

The new regulations, according to the AP, “are expected to be formally published Friday and go into effect in 60 days absent legal challenges.” (Unlikely.)

Also yesterday: President Trump signed an executive order cancelling student loan debt for permanently disabled veterans. More at Fox News.

Women Are Changing the Workforce
“This year is shaping up to be the first year that women make up the majority of the college-educated labor force, a milestone that is already altering benefits packages offered by companies and one that could influence family sizes in the future,” reports The Wall Street Journal.

These changes, according to The Journal, have contributed to a significant jump in the percentage of companies offering benefits such as egg freezing, paid parental leave, and flexible work arrangements. (All the while, the U.S. fertility rate hit a historic low last year.)

In the coming weeks, expect to hear about some interesting data regarding these changing demographics in the workforce. According to The Journal, employers with more than 100 workers are required to disclose “a broad array of pay information to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by Sept. 30.” This information includes compensation breakdowns for workers of all genders, races and ethnicities. “The move,” the Journal added, “is part of a push by the government to narrow longstanding earnings gaps, agency officials have said.”

Notably, there are significant downsides of requiring some 70,000 companies to release this data—for one, it’s burdensome for one. But more importantly, the data has no way of accounting for differences or priority preferences among employees. When it comes to gender, for example, women may value more time off to stay at home with their children, while men may prefer taking bonuses. On paper, that could look like gender pay gap, when in fact, it could be a reflection of a gender choice gap. Stay tuned for the findings.

Royal Climate Offenders
Meghan Markel and Prince Harry are facing major flak for flying on private jets as they simultaneously lecture the world on the importance of fighting climate change. Sir Elton John came to their defense, claiming he paid to “offset” their carbon emissions from a flight he personally funded. The situation is so hypocritical, even Green Peace is calling them out.

Speaking of climate change, Bernie Sanders is releasing his “groundbreaking and comprehensive Green New Deal” today, which promises to combat climate change and “create 20 million jobs in the process.”

Sounds pretty great! Except that it will likely be no different the $93 trillion Green New Deal he and AOC rolled out earlier this year, which will increase the cost of our electricity bills, harm our economy, hurt consumers across the country, and eliminate farting cows.

Thursday Links Bill De Blasio with the best audio fail ever. (This is hilariousssss.) “Dancing With the Stars” might be extra spicy next season if the left doesn’t #cancel it. Memo for moms-to-be: new research suggests fluoride consumed by women during pregnancy can decrease the intelligence of their babies. (The Federalist) A year after John McCain’s death, his wife, Cindy McCain, speaks out in an essay for PEOPLE. And FYI! Inez and I officially switched BRIGHT days…sorry for any confusion, but we’re both still here‍♀️! Except that I’ll be off next week for my anniversary/babymoon. BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist.

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Table 3: Policy agreement among registered Democrats and Republicans: percentage liberal among Democrats vs. percentage conservative among Republicans

Table 4: Policy liberalism of registered Democrats by ideological identification

Table 5: Issue liberalism vs. liberal identification among registered Democrats by demographic characteristics

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