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BIDEN’S FINALLY IN … NATASHA KORECKI sends us this dispatch: “The announcement video goes live at 6 a.m. across social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook. In it, the former vice president will talk about his candidacy as a battle to reclaim the soul of America, one of the three ‘pillars’ the campaign says will make up the focus of Biden’s candidacy (the other two: rebuilding an inclusive middle class and bridging the divide in our democracy). Once the video is live, the campaign will roll out more details about campaign staff and his travel over the next several weeks. That will include a Monday union-heavy kickoff in Pittsburgh, then on to early presidential states, where he’s also likely to hold fundraisers.
“Biden is to attend a fundraiser in Philadelphia later today at the home of Comcast executive David Cohen, along with former Gov. Ed Rendell, former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, former state Sen. Connie Williams, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and Reps. Lisa Blunt Rochester, Brendan Boyle, Matt Cartwright, Madeleine Dean, Dwight Evans, Chrissy Houlahan and Mary Gay Scanlon.
“In an early May visit to South Carolina, state senator and former state party chair Dick Harpootlian, who will be active in Biden’s operation there, tells us he’s likely to hold a fundraiser for Biden early on. Harpootlian was among those to swear that Biden’s fundraising problems aren’t as dire as they seem. ‘I did some calling. … I found some $30,000 to $40,000 low-hanging fruit that wasn’t all that hard to find.’”
— BUT, BUT, BUT … SCOOP: “Biden sounds alarm in fundraising call,” by Marc Caputo and Natasha: “On the eve of announcing his presidential bid, former Vice President Joe Biden raised the alarm about fundraising in a Wednesday conference call with top donors and supporters.
“‘The money’s important. We’re going to be judged by what we can do in the first 24 hours, the first week,’ Biden told the group, according to one participant, whose recollections of the quotes were confirmed by two others on the call.
“‘People think Iowa and New Hampshire are the first test,” Biden said. ‘It’s not. The first 24 hours. That’s the first test. Those
[early states]
are way down the road. We’ve got to get through this first.’” POLITICO… Marc and Natasha also have a look at Biden’s union backing
IMAGINE THIS: President DONALD TRUMP could quite easily have claimed the Mueller report exonerated him, and quickly pivoted to show how he’s getting down to business by working on an infrastructure bill. Or some new middle-class tax cut. Moving on would be an obvious play for a president who has been hampered by investigations from almost Day One of his administration.
BUT … THE PRESIDENT can’t stop talking about ROBERT MUELLER. Infrastructure doesn’t drive news cycles, and his jeremiads against the special counsel’s “witch hunt” do. Notice that Democrats don’t talk much about the Russia investigation on the campaign trail? They’d rather talk about health care or the minimum wage or free college education. But one Trump tweet on Mueller can blot out the sun for an entire news cycle.
A LOT OF PEOPLE discount this president as undisciplined, unsavvy. But that’s giving him way too little credit.
CASE IN POINT: WaPo’s Ashley Parker(@AshleyRParker): “ATLANTA — Trump, after saying something buzzy at [Wednesday’s] heroin forum — ‘I know all about rigging the system because I had the system rigged on me’ — demonstrates his TV producer’s canny instincts, faux-lamenting: ‘Unfortunately, that will be your soundbite tonight.’”
TV TONIGHT … Trump will sit down with his informal adviser and Fox News host Sean Hannity tonight to talk about Mueller’s report “as well as other news of the day,” per Fox News. The interview will air at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
JEFF SESSIONS on the Mueller report at Amherst College, per the Amherst Republican: “‘I have the greatest confidence in the integrity of the system. The process that was initiated was carried forth vigorously and with integrity … I think it deserves respect and I think it is about time to accept the results and let’s get on with the business of America.’” The Republican
NYT’S SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and NICK FANDOS: “Divided on Impeaching Trump, Democrats Wrestle With Duty and Politics”: “As Speaker Nancy Pelosi urges caution on impeachment, rank-and-file House Democrats are agonizing over the prospect of trying to oust President Trump, caught between their sense of historic responsibilities and political considerations in the wake of the special counsel’s damning portrait of abuses.
“The Democrats — including more than 50 freshmen — are mindful that impeachment poses political risks that could endanger the seats of moderates and their majority, as well as strengthen Mr. Trump’s hand. They ran on kitchen-table issues dear to their constituents and do not want to be consumed in a partisan morass that might unite Republican voters in opposition. But some prominent members of the 55-member strong Congressional Black Caucus and a newly empowered progressive caucus are pressing for action — three Democrats have filed articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump and dozens of others have signaled a willingness to consider that path.” NYT
— CNN’S LAUREN FOX, MANU RAJU and JEREMY HERB: “Democrats look to courts as White House stonewalls on subpoenas”: “Faced with all-out resistance from the White House, Democrats are turning to the courts as they grapple with a dilemma of limited options to enforce their subpoenas.
“Amid a Trump administration blockade of subpoenas for numerous Democratic investigations, House Democrats are preparing a response that begins by holding officials in contempt. But they are also gearing up to fight their cases in the courtroom, acknowledging that the courts are likely their only subpoena recourse.” CNN
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HILLARY CLINTON in WAPO: “Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans. Here’s how to respond.” WaPo
WHITE HOUSE ARRIVAL LOUNGE — PER ANITA KUMAR — “KRISTI BOSWELL, a senior adviser to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, has moved to the White House to help Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner craft a new immigration proposal, according to two people familiar with the situation. The move has hawkish immigration activists worried that Boswell is advocating for the agriculture industry, which is pushing to expand the number of legal immigrants allowed in the U.S. to work on farms.
“Boswell previously worked for the American Farm Bureau and Nebraska Department of Agriculture. Kushner expects to present a broader immigration plan to Trump in the next week that will include changes to the number of legal immigrants allowed in the country as well as security measures on the southern border.”
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DAN DIAMOND SCOOP: HHS TO STRIKE TRANSGENDER PROTECTIONS — The health department is planning to issue two regulations next week that roll back Obama-era protections for transgender patients while further shielding workers with religious objections to care. POLITICO
— What the Trump administration is prepared to argue: that they’re simplifying federal rules and will save the health industry billions of dollars, part of the White House’s ongoing regulatory rollback.
— What public health and patient groups worry: that vulnerable patients will face more prejudice from doctors and other workers who don’t want to treat them.
2020 WATCH — LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ in Houston: “‘Racism and sexism’: Women of color slam white male tilt of Dem primary”: “The women of color who packed into a university auditorium here Wednesday for a first-of-its-kind presidential forum delighted in the rhetoric of candidates who vowed to make Donald Trump a one-term president.
“But their frustration was just as palpable — over the heavy media attention being paid to white male candidates in the early days of the Democratic primary, and over polling they contended is feeding a misleading narrative that only a white man can defeat Trump.
“‘With all due respect to the vice president, he hasn’t even announced yet but he’s the frontrunner?’ Leah Daughtry, a political operative and former [DNC] official who helped organize the ‘She the People’ event, said of Joe Biden. ‘Racism and sexism are part of the fabric and the fiber and the founding of our country,’ she added, ‘and the way that the [Democratic] candidates are being treated, it just reminds you of that. We’re not past it.’” POLITICO
— THE GOOP PRIMARY: “Gwyneth Paltrow, Bradley Whitford Among Co-Hosts for Pete Buttigieg’s Next L.A. Fundraising Swing,” by Ted Johnson inVariety
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THE INVESTIGATIONS — “Trump could stiff-arm Democrats until after 2020,” by Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelsohn and Kyle Cheney: “President Donald Trump may successfully drag out many of his legal battles with Congress beyond 2020, denying Democratic investigators much, if any, political bounty before the next election. … Asked whether Trump could keep his legal blockade up through November of next year, one former senior White House official said: ‘One and a half to two years is a safe bet.’” POLITICO
— BUT, BUT, BUT … CNN’s Cristina Alesci: “Deutsche Bank begins process of providing Trump financial records to New York’s attorney general”
TRUMP’S THURSDAY — The president is having lunch with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at 12:45 p.m. in the private dining room. He will deliver remarks at a “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” at 4:30 p.m. on the South Lawn.
PLAYBOOK READS
#THISTOWN … JOHN HARRIS and DANIEL LIPPMAN: “How Trump Took the Shine Off Washington’s Glitziest Night”: “After a decade or more where it built into a kind of fantasy weekend for political journalists … the WHCD today is, at best, in a semi-flaccid state. People in the local economy of hotels, salons, limo companies, caterers and professional handlers report a marked drop in interest and spending among entertainment and business leaders in attending the dinner and the corresponding three-day marathon of parties that still surround it.
“Veteran Washington social observers describe an unmistakable drop in the energy and allure of the dinner. ‘It certainly is not the glamour place to be in Washington anymore,’ says writer and long-time Washington observer Sally Quinn. ‘What ignites something like this is to have celebrities from Hollywood and New York and the political celebrities from Washington, and when you don’t have either one, you’ve got 3,000 journalists staring at each other.’” POLITICO Magazine
NUMBER DU JOUR: 90% of voters say they are concerned about “uncivil and rude behavior of politicians,” according to a new Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service Battleground Civility Poll. Read the poll
— JARED KUSHNER: “Fifteen Lessons I Learned from Criminal Justice Reform”:Time
— DONALD TRUMP JR.: “What Did the Democrats Know and When Did They Know It?”Breitbart
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TRUMP ABROAD — “Trump Backed Libyan Strongman’s Attack on Tripoli, U.S. Officials Say,” by Bloomberg’s Samer Al-Atrush, Jennifer Jacobs and Margaret Talev: “President Donald Trump indicated in a phone call with Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar last week that the U.S. supported an assault on the country’s capital to depose its United Nations-backed government, according to American officials familiar with the matter.
“An earlier call from White House National Security Adviser John Bolton also left Haftar with the impression of a U.S. green light for an offensive on Tripoli by his forces, known as the Libyan National Army, according to three diplomats.” Bloomberg
WaPo: “Kim Jong Un has a fleet of ghost ships sneaking around the high seas to beat sanctions”
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WAIT, WHAT? — Carter Page is selling a print edition of the Mueller report, along with his own introduction. Amazon, $6.99
FED WATCH — “Moore Hopeful for Fed Post, but Says He Would Bow Out If He Becomes Liability”: WSJ
VALLEY TALK — “Facebook Set Aside $3 Billion For A Penalty. Then It Grew By $40 Billion: Facebook will set aside $3 billion to cover expenses associated with a fine from the Federal Trade Commission over its privacy practices. All good here, say investors,” by BuzzFeed’s Alex Kantrowitz and Ryan Mac
MEDIAWATCH … PROFILE: “Mad About Bari Weiss: The New York Times Provocateur the Left Loves to Hate,” by Vanity Fair’s Evgenia Peretz: “Though most of her friends are liberals, she sometimes socializes with conservatives too. According to friends, she loves to spar not just to hear the sound of her own voice but because she might learn something. After listening to someone else’s point of view, she’s been known to do something amazing—change her mind. Given the current climate, in which everyone seems to be retreating to angry and angrier corners, those who meet her find this expansiveness refreshing.” Vanity Fair
— CNN: “Hackers could target the 2020 election. How will newsrooms respond if they release stolen data?” by Oliver Darcy and Donie O’Sullivan
PLAYBOOKERS
SPOTTED: Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday night at game 7 of the Caps vs. the Carolina Hurricanes — the Caps lost 4-3 in double overtime. Pic … former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) wearing a MAGA hat having lunch in Longworth. Pic
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — CLETE WILLEMS is joining Akin Gump as a partner in its public law and policy practice. He most recently was deputy assistant to the president for international economic affairs, deputy director of the NEC and a member of the NSC.
TRANSITIONS — Holly Shulman will be senior communications adviser for the New Hampshire Democratic Party. She most recently was comms director for the Center for Global Development and is an alum of the DNC and Obama Treasury Department. … Alyssa Miller-Hurley, who has led public affairs for Planned Parenthood in New York and South Carolina and worked for Democratic campaigns in Mississippi, South Carolina and Florida, is joining NARAL as senior campaign manager. (hat tip: Marc Caputo)
WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Jill Kerr, PR manager for public policy at Amazon and a Pete Sessions and Michael Burgess alum, and Preston Kerr, VP at Highwood Capital, welcomed Harrison Hatton Kerr. Pic … Another pic
BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): DOE’s Conner Prochaska (h/t Kyle Wiley) … (was Tuesday): Zachary Todd
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Erica Suares, policy adviser for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. A trend she thinks deserves more attention: “I recently attended a lecture by Patrick Deneen of [the University of] Notre Dame … on ‘Aristopopulism.’ Most days on the Hill tend to focus on policy, but it’s important to take a step back and think about political philosophy too, and the underpinnings and intent the Founders had for the nation. Deneen says we can turn to classic thinkers like Aristotle and Machiavelli to help explain modern trends like populism, elites vs. the middle class, and what role and responsibility government has toward its citizenry.” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: John Anzalone … former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) is 77 … Patrick Mellody … Steve Murphy, managing partner at MVAR Media, is 68 … Kathy Baird … Mark McCullough … David Fenton, founder and chairman of Fenton, is 67 … Ron Tipton (h/ts Jon Haber) … Danielle Vogel, founder of Glen’s Garden Market in D.C., is 4-0 (hubby tip: Ken) … former Rep. Keith Rothfus (R-Pa.) is 57 … Susan Orr … David Gardiner … Bill Duhnke is 57 … Mike Gwin, regional press secretary at DCCC … Zev Siegl, co-founder of Starbucks, is 77 … AshLee Strong, who moved back to Montana to start Granite Peak Communications … Adam Silver is 57 … Teddy Goff, co-founder and a partner of Precision Strategies (h/t Stephanie Cutter) … Andrew H. Schapiro is 56 … Shareblue’s Emily Singer is 3-0 … Jeff Mascott … Julie Roginsky … ITA’s Andy Sigmon (hubby tip: Crosley) … Robert Skidelsky is 8-0 … POLITICO’s Alexander Nieves and Cameron Thrasher … Mike Tuffin, SVP for external affairs/public affairs at UnitedHealth Group, is 51 …
… Mike Doran, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, is 57 … Alejandra Cancino (h/t Lydia Mulvany) … Arch Campbell … Geoff Bennett, WH correspondent at NBC News (h/t Elizabeth Perry) … Mac Ehlen of Owyhee Research (h/t Lenwood Brooks) … Jaclyn Rothenberg … Jennifer Anderson … Jack Young … Drew Anderson, director of campaigns and rapid response at GLAAD … APCO Worldwide’s Claire Cooper … Melissa Musiker … Kristen Ricciardelli … Emily Hesselbrock … Smythe Anderson … Derek LaVallee … George Hunter … Jim Mustian … Alex Brown is 37 … Josie Wilson … Wendy Anderson, general manager of defense and national security at SparkCognition … Kenny Gold is 33 … Gretchen Lowe … Michelle McGrorty … Tom Springer … Juha Sipilä is 58 … Haider al-Abadi is 67
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LARRY SABATO’S CRYSTAL BALL
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>BIDEN WOULD BE ARGUABLY THE MOST EXPERIENCED NEW PRESIDENT EVER
>”IT’S EASY TO SEE HOW TRUMP CAN WIN REELECTION”
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball
BIDEN WOULD BE ARGUABLY THE MOST EXPERIENCED NEW PRESIDENT EVER He will run as the president who needs no training. But he may be the candidate who cannot be trained By Kyle Kondik Managing Editor, Sabato’s Crystal ball |
| KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — If Joe Biden wins the presidency, he will bring with him nearly a half-century of elected officeholding experience, giving him perhaps the fullest resume of public service possessed by any new president ever. — It may be that Democrats are more open to a very experienced candidate than Republicans were in 2016, when they selected a presidential nominee, Donald Trump, with no elected or military experience. — Biden has a very long record to defend, a burden that other, much less experienced candidates do not have. He also will have to show that he has learned from past mistakes and can run a disciplined, strong campaign. Biden and the pluses and minuses of experience In 1980, George H.W. Bush ran for the Republican nomination for president as a candidate of experience, using as a slogan “A President We Won’t Have to Train.” This was both a shot at the incumbent, Jimmy Carter, who was only a one-term governor and short-time state senator before winning the presidency in 1976, and primary rival Ronald Reagan, a former two-term California governor who was otherwise known for his acting career and who had to prove he had the chops to be president. Bush — then a former House member, national Republican Party chairman, envoy to China, ambassador to the United Nations, and CIA director — eventually would become Reagan’s running mate, adding eight years as vice president to his already lengthy public service resume before winning the presidency himself in 1988. In addition to his governing resume, Bush was the last president to serve in combat in the military. For Joe Biden, the former vice president and political lifer, dusting off Bush’s 1980 slogan might make some sense. That’s because if Biden, who may have already entered the presidential race by the time you’re reading this, were to win election as president next year, he arguably would be the most experienced new president ever. That of course goes hand in hand with another potential milestone Biden could set if he wins: He would be the oldest president ever, 78 when the next president will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2021. But Biden’s experience, and everything that comes with it, is no guarantee to be an asset to his campaign. It may ultimately be a detriment, and that may be doubly so if the value of his experience is not deployed in service of a strong campaign. Biden has spent 44 years in major elected office: He served from 1973 to 2009 in the Senate, and then an additional eight years as vice president. He had successes in that role, and Biden’s time as vice president makes him a credible presidential contender, as VP expert Joel Goldstein argued in a Crystal Ball piece earlier this year. If one also counts Biden’s pre-Senate elected experience, two years on the New Castle County Council, he has 46 years of elected experience. Vox tallied all of the military and elected office experience of the presidents, finding that the average president had served 13 years in public office prior to becoming president and 5.6 years in the military. Biden’s 46 years of formal public office experience would dwarf that of the current leader, Democrat Martin Van Buren, whose 31 years in public office currently stands as the highest total of public office experience of any incoming president, according to Vox’s count. The leaders in military experience are Whig Zachary Taylor and Republican Dwight Eisenhower, both of whom served for roughly four decades in the military prior to being elected president. We say Biden “arguably” would have the most experience of any incoming president only because it may be that experience itself is in the eye of the beholder and may depend on the era in which a president is elected. The Founders, obviously, could not accrue experience in the federal government until it was created thanks to their efforts (although many bolstered their resumes in pre-nationhood public positions). The government was also much smaller at the time of the founding, and the challenges of management far different. But Biden’s sheer volume of years in public office is undeniable and would be unmatched by past presidents. The recent trend has been for presidents to not have a wealth of prior experience in public office. While Barack Obama had held office for a dozen years before becoming president, two-thirds of that experience was as a state senator. George W. Bush was governor of Texas, albeit a huge state, for just six years before becoming president. Bill Clinton’s time as governor of Arkansas was longer, a dozen years, but his state was much smaller. Of the recent presidents, the depth and breadth of George H.W. Bush’s experience stands out; prior to Carter, the White House belonged to three consecutive presidents with lots of experience: Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon Johnson. Donald Trump was the first president who had neither previous elected office experience nor previous service in the military. Replacing a president with no previous elected or military experience with someone who has more elected experience than any other new president would be quite a shift, although it also wouldn’t be the first time that the American public picked a new president who was wildly different than the one they currently have. Just compare Trump to Obama, or Obama to George W. Bush, or George W. Bush to Clinton, to see the stylistic and substantive differences between a new president and his predecessor. American voters often want what they don’t have, and it sometimes shows in their electoral choices. The presidency isn’t a job that necessarily goes to only the most veteran politicians. In fact, having a long record in office might be Biden’s undoing if he ultimately falls short of the White House, either in the primary or the general election. We have already seen how some episodes from Biden’s past, such as his handling of Anita Hill’s testimony during Clarence Thomas’ 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, could haunt him in a campaign. He has many votes, and many actions, he’ll have to defend or explain. American history is dotted with legendary senators who tried and failed multiple times to ascend to the presidency. Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster represented the “Great Triumvirate” of the pre-Civil War Senate, but none got the top job despite seeking it repeatedly. Robert A. Taft, a true conservative known as “Mr. Republican,” unsuccessfully sought the GOP nomination several times, losing out for the final time to Eisenhower, a man with no elected officeholding experience prior to becoming president but great military and executive experience as the commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II. Vice President Hubert Humphrey was one of the great leaders of the liberal cause in the Senate; he lost out on winning the presidency to Nixon, another political lifer whose day finally came in 1968 after agonizing losses for president in 1960 and California governor in 1962. Recent GOP nominees Robert Dole (1996) and John McCain (2008) each had decades of elected experience in addition to military experience and sought the presidency as a capstone to their careers; both lost. Still, Biden’s years of experience could help him in ways, too. Yes, it is true, the Republicans selected someone with zero experience in elected office, Trump, in 2016. Hypothetically, Democrats could also eventually decide to nominate someone with no or little elected experience. If they did, perhaps they would select an outsider with no experience, like entrepreneur Andrew Yang or self-help guru Marianne Williamson, or former Rep. Beto O’Rourke or South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who both have elected experience but not in a major office (neither has been a governor or senator or served as vice president or as a federal Cabinet secretary). But we need to constantly remind ourselves that the parties are different and often value dissimilar things. Trump’s ascendance was, to us, the culmination of several years’ worth of angst by Republican voters directed at their party leadership. The rise of the Tea Party, and the emergence of primary challengers to sitting members of Congress, suggested a desire for fresh leadership on the GOP side. The lack of support for the dynastic presidential campaign of Jeb Bush, whose effort was in many ways adrift even before Trump entered the race, was another sign of a Republican Party searching for nontraditional leadership. It is not clear whether something similar is happening on the Democratic side. It might be, if Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D, NY-14) primary victory in 2018 over Joe Crowley, once the No. 4 House Democrat, is indicative of anything. Ocasio-Cortez has quickly become one of the most recognizable faces of the Democratic Party nationally, and she certainly is exerting more of a leftward force on the party than someone like Crowley did. It also seems fair to say that the bulk of the Democratic primary field is running on a platform that is to the left of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on issues such as healthcare and the environment. On the other hand, national polling from the past several years finds that Democrats are less ideological than Republicans, are less likely to express a desire for their party to move further away from the political center, and are more likely to value experience in a presidential nominee. The Pew Research Center recently found that only 40% of Democrats wanted the party to move more to the left, while 53% said they wanted the party to move in a more moderate direction. This roughly squares with Gallup’s ongoing measure of ideological self-identification among Democrats, which shows that while liberal self-identification is growing on the Democratic side, the party is still split about evenly between those who identify as liberal versus those who identify as moderate or conservative. In contrast, Pew found that 58% of Republicans wanted the GOP to move more to the right, while just 38% wanted the party to move in a more moderate direction, and Gallup found that about three-quarters of Republicans identify as conservative while just a quarter identify as moderate or liberal. Morning Consult found that among several candidate attributes, Democrats prioritized political experience, with two-thirds saying that having decades of political experience was important for their eventual nominee to possess. Right before the 2016 primary season began, Pew asked both Democrats and Republicans whether they would be less likely to support a presidential candidate with a long history of service as an elected official in Washington: 44% of Republicans said yes compared to just 19% of Democrats. The fact that the Democratic Party electorate has more moderates than the Republican electorate and that the Democrats seem to value experience more are two factors that could benefit Biden, who both has a lot of experience and will position himself closer to the center than most of his Democratic rivals. That said, we shouldn’t treat these poll findings as the final word on what will animate Democratic voters in the primary season next year. As FiveThirtyEight’s Nathaniel Rakich recently wrote, at this time in the 2016 cycle more Republicans said they valued experience and a proven record in a presidential candidate than new ideas and a different approach. By the fall of 2015, Republicans flipped on this question, which probably was a reflection of the fact that Trump was leading the GOP primary polls at that point. In other words, Democrats may say they value experience now, but their answers to those questions could change if a candidate with less experience moves into the lead in the primary. During the 2016 campaign, many analysts (ourselves included) cited the “party decides” thesis of modern presidential nominations, which in a nutshell is the idea, promulgated by a book of the same name, that even though the nomination process is much more open to the opinions of rank-and-file voters than it was in the pre-reform era of the mid-20th century, party leaders still exert a great deal of influence on who the nominee is. The “party decides” framework did a poor job of predicting Donald Trump as the GOP nominee, as Trump was derided by many elites in the party even as he won the support of GOP voters. But the framework did do a good job of suggesting that Hillary Clinton, the party insider choice, was always a giant favorite over insurgent Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic nomination battle. In such a huge Democratic field this time, it may be that party leaders will not unify behind a single candidate, although if any candidate can win such elite support, one would think it would be Biden. It will be interesting to see how many formal endorsements he receives right off the bat as he launches his campaign. He already has received at least a couple of notable endorsements, from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY). Cuomo, Feinstein, and hundreds of other party elected officials are superdelegates to the Democratic National Convention, and they can support whomever they want for the nomination. However, in a change from 2016, the superdelegates’ votes essentially will only matter if the convention goes beyond a first ballot (we explored this more deeply in the Crystal Ball a couple of weeks ago). The volume and timing of these endorsements will be one way to judge Biden’s formal rollout. Part of the value of Biden’s experience could or should be a sophisticated and well-funded campaign operation. We do have to say, though, that the constant announcement delays and questions about exactly when and where Biden will announce have not been suggestive of a well-oiled machine. Biden has also never been a fundraising dynamo. His presidential campaigns in both 1988 and 2008 were flops: Have he and his staffers learned from the experience? And will Biden, once he announces, make the kinds of verbal gaffes for which he is known — the kinds of mistakes more characteristic of a novice candidate as opposed to an experienced one? There is also the issue of his touchy-feely campaign style, which has made some women uncomfortable in Biden’s presence. If and when he repeats this well-worn behavior, and if Democratic voters decide not to give him the benefit of the doubt, this campaign may not go any further than his previous efforts. Biden effectively will be campaigning as a George H.W. Bush-style “President We Won’t Have to Train.” That may be the perfect message for the moment, and he may be the perfect man to deliver it. But there is also the danger that Biden is something else: “The Candidate Who Cannot Be Trained.” If that is the case, all of his experience may have been for naught in this campaign. |
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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. Republicans Have a Potentially Serious Problem in 2020 For the past forty years, political data has consistently shown that voters who are contacted in face to face communication are the most dependable voters. Campaigns have amassed an army of volunteers who can go door to door, knock on doors, and try to convince voters to give their support to a candidate.Unfortunately, at least on the Republican side, voter apathy has set in. More and more volunteers think posting on social media is as persuasive as knocking on their neighbor’s door. But it is not. Consequently, Republicans need paid door-to-door efforts. These efforts, in turn, are fraught with problems. Campaigns insist on metrics and workers can lose their jobs if they do not meet the metrics. As a result, the risk of fraudulent data increases. The post Republicans Have a Potentially Serious Problem in 2020 appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Tesla Misses All Targets, and That’s the Good News Tesla held its dreaded earnings call today after market close, announcing the electric automaker has lost $702 million in the first quarter of 2019, versus the consensus view of around a $200 million loss. About 30 percent of the reported loss consisted of one-time items, the company reported. Revenue was about $900 million below the […] The post Tesla Misses All Targets, and That’s the Good News appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Iowa Town Hall Attendees Treated to the Passion of Steve King Just when you think Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) can’t get any lower. King, for those not in the know, has a history of expressing some really troublesome views. Somehow, in spite of that, the people of Iowa keep voting for him. I guess it’s an Iowa thing. Most recently, the congressman’s comments on white nationalism […] The post Iowa Town Hall Attendees Treated to the Passion of Steve King appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » It Should Not Have Taken This Long Texas has executed a man for the brutal killing of James Byrd in 1998. Texas put John William King to death tonight. King was an avowed racist who chained James Byrd to the back of a truck and dragged him down a road because Byrd was black. A second man had been previously executed for […] The post It Should Not Have Taken This Long appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Bernie Sanders Doubles Down on Letting Murderers and Terrorists Vote Please oh please oh please nominate this guy, Democrats. Please. More than 30 countries around the world today such as Canada, South Africa and Finland allow prisoners to vote. This is not a radical idea. Every American citizen must be able to vote. Period. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 24, 2019 The post Bernie Sanders Doubles Down on Letting Murderers and Terrorists Vote appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » WATCHING THE MOVIES: Recapping Marvel’s Infinity Saga Here’e everything you need to know before you see Avengers: Endgame. The post WATCHING THE MOVIES: Recapping Marvel’s Infinity Saga appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Recent Items: Is This The Best They Can Do? The Democrats’ Student Loan Plan Misses the Point Harris: We Should Have a Conversation About Boston Marathon Bomber Voting Elon’s Coffin Corner: Sell Tesla 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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Thursday, April 25, 2019 Inmate Voting On Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told a CNN town hall that prisoners, including the Boston Marathon bomber, should be allowed to vote: “I believe people commit crimes and they paid the price and they have the right to vote. I believe even if they’re in jail they’re paying their price to society but that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.” CNN Fellow Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg, however, disagreed: “Enfranchisement upon release is important, but part of the punishment … is you lose certain rights… You lose your freedom. And I don’t think during that time it makes sense to have that exception.” The Hill The 14th amendment states that voting may not be “in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime.” Legal Information Institute From the Left The left is divided over whether all prisoners, some prisoners, or no prisoners should be allowed to vote. “Criminal justice reform advocates argue that suffering a Medieval-style ‘civil death’ dehumanizes prisoners, prevents their reintegration into society, and perpetuates inequalities in our political system… “The policy options are far broader than a single audience question would suggest. In Germany, prisoners can vote unless they were convicted of terrorism or political violence… Other European countries prevent violent criminals, those serving lengthy or life sentences, or war criminals from voting. Exceptions for crimes of dishonesty or fraud might be reasonable as well. In a few countries, only those convicted of misdemeanors can vote, rather than felonies. These are policy debates we should be willing to have.” Andrew Novak, The Daily Beast Some argue that “if anything, the political system needs the perspectives of prisoners, with their intimate experience of this otherwise opaque part of the state. Their votes might force lawmakers to take a closer look at what happens in these institutions before they spiral into unaccountable violence and abuse. There are practical benefits as well. Racial disparities in criminal enforcement and sentencing means disenfranchisement falls heaviest on black communities. This is not just a direct blow to prisoners’ electoral power; it also ripples outward, depressing political participation among their friends, families and acquaintances… “Yes, prisoners have committed crimes, and yes, some of those are egregious. But depriving any citizen of the right to vote should be the grave exception, not a routine part of national life. Universal suffrage means universal suffrage.” Jamelle Bouie, New York Times “Perhaps no one lives more subject to the laws of the United States than the American prisoner, and yet he or she has no say in them. Allowing him or her to vote is how we end the dehumanization of incarcerated citizens. Not only will investment of rights resurrect them civilly, prisoners’ participation will ultimately affect policy for the better and make our prisons more humane.” Chandra Bozelko, NBC News Others counter, “Our belief in the right to vote is as strong as anyone’s. But losing rights available to the law-abiding is part of felon punishment. This is especially true for murder, where not only is an individual’s life lost, but so too a citizen’s ability to participate in democracy. A life and voter are taken — permanently… Brooklyn-born Bernie would do well to look homeward to find the ideal balance between justice and mercy. Last year, Gov. Cuomo, by executive order restored the voting rights of 35,000 paroled felons. The Legislature should make that fix permanent. But, while locked up on a felony, sorry, you don’t get to vote.” Editorial Board, New York Daily News Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke writes, “I want to make sure that time spent behind bars does not entail a stripping of your civic and constitutional rights… [but] for violent criminals, it’s much harder for me to reach that conclusion. I feel that, at that point, you have broken a bond and compact with your fellow Americans, and there has to be a consequence in civic life to that.” Beto O’Rourke, Twitter From the Right The right opposes allowing prisoners to vote. Prisoners do not “have the best interests of the community in mind. The criminal shouldn’t be able to vote for his prosecutor. We don’t need his advice on what’s a crime. The argument for giving felons voting rights when they have been released from prison is different. Released prisoners have paid their penalty, it’s said. Let them have a fresh start. But if someone is still in jail he hasn’t paid his penalty. He is still paying it… Felons aren’t permitted to own guns, because we rather suspect they wouldn’t be putting them to good use. The same can be said for their voting rights.” F.H. Buckley, New York Post “There’s a rational argument to be made for allowing Americans who have served their time and paid their debt to society to fully participate in American political life. Certainly those who’ve never committed violent crimes shouldn’t have to surrender their civic rights forever. The notion that incarcerated murderers should be weighing in on gun laws or that child molesters should have a say on local school bond issues or that a terrorist’s vote should have an effect on American foreign policy, however, undercuts the liberal contention that casting a ballot is a sacred act.” David Harsanyi, The Federalist “Voting is an important right of American citizens, but it’s predicated on the commitment we all make to the social compact. Just like freedom is only guaranteed when you don’t break the agreement, as defined by our laws. The moment you decide our laws, and the compact, do not apply to you, neither do certain rights accorded to law-abiding citizens, like personal freedom and the right to vote.” Tammy Bruce, Washington Times “Prison sentences are imposed as punishment for having harmed the community in some significant fashion, and that punishment has to mean deprivation of the ability to choose leadership in the community at least as long as the punishment lasts… And for those who will never get out of prison… [they] are people who are paying for heinous injuries and insults to the community, and who therefore forfeit any moral claim to participate in its body politic.” Ed Morrissey, Hot Air “Are you comfortable with your vote being diluted by the votes of the Boston Marathon bomber, the Unabomber, or turncoat spy Robert Hanssen? Isn’t it understandable that lots of women (and men) would be bothered by restoring the voting rights of Olympic Park and abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph? Isn’t it understandable that lots of African-Americans (and everyone else!) would be irked at the thought of restoring the vote of the Charleston church shooter? It would be odd to assert that putting someone in solitary confinement is appropriate but not allowing that person to vote is somehow unjust.” Jim Geraghty, National Review “Prisons are often located in rural, low-population areas. The Louisiana State Penitentiary has 6,300 prisoners and is located in West Feliciana Parish, a county with only 12,888 non-prisoner adults. With 33 percent of potential voters easily located in one place, local candidates are going to spend a lot of time campaigning at the prison… Criminals shouldn’t cast deciding votes that overrule the policy preferences of law-abiding Americans.” John Lott Jr., National Review On the bright side… A giant (fake) potato in Idaho has been turned into an Airbnb, and you can rent it for $200 a night. 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cThe plan is being touted as a giveaway to debt-laden Millennials and Gen-Zers, but the real recipients of largess will be universities, which have taken advantage of federal spending to spawn diversity departments and Olympic-size swimming pools to house and entertain their six-figure-salary administrators. And who pays? In reality, the two-thirds of Americans without four-year degrees, whose wallets will be tapped for debt forgiveness for the sons and daughters of the nation’s elite. Warren claims yet another tax on the wealthy will pay for her scheme, but she might be better off looking for that cash a little closer to the problem, say, at Harvard’s totally tax-free $38 billion endowment. More from policy wonk extraordinaire Lindsey Burke over at the Heritage Foundation’s The Daily Signal: “Moreover, as the Urban Institute found (in an analysis unrelated to the Warren plan), ‘the top 25% of American households by income hold nearly half of all student debt—and the bottom 25% holds just a tenth of it. Canceling all student loans would deliver $5 to rich Americans for every $1 given to poorer families.’ Proposals to make college ‘free’ or to forgive vast amounts of student loan debt reward one entity more than any other: the universities. Subsidizing the already-dysfunctional student loan system is not the solution. If we want to get serious about addressing the student loan issue, we must pursue structural changes to accreditation, along with innovation in financing through options like income share agreements. Making sure colleges have some ‘skin in the game’ also holds promise. But above all, Washington should get out of the student loan business. The federal government currently originates and services 90% of all student aid, leaving taxpayers greatly exposed when defaults occur or when loan forgiveness becomes more generous. Getting the feds out of the student loan business would go a long way toward finally addressing the root causes of soaring tuition.” Father Gagged by Canadian Court for Refusing to Lie About His Daughter’s Sex I know we’re getting closer and closer to living in a Brave New World, but this case from the Great White North has me terrified. All I can say is THANK YOU James Madison, for conceding on inclusion of the Bill of Rights, so that our First Amendment can stand as a bulwark against this kind of dystopian tyranny! “Last week, Justice Francesca Marzari of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada, declared a father guilty of ‘family violence’ against his 14-year-old daughter on the sole basis that he had engaged in ‘expressions of rejection of [her] gender identity.’ These ‘expressions’ revolved entirely around his polite refusal to refer to his daughter as a boy in private, and his steady choice to affirm that she is a girl in public. As previously reported, the BC Supreme Court ordered in February that 14-year-old Maxine* receive testosterone injections without parental consent. Accordingly, Maxine began regular injections at British Columbia (BC) Children’s Hospital over the course of the last two months. Her father, Clark*, strongly objects to this treatment and immediately sought to reverse the decision in the BC Court of Appeal. Hoping to raise awareness of his case, Clark gave a number of interviews to media outlets, including The Federalist. In these interviews, he repeatedly referred to his daughter as a girl, stating to The Federalist that ‘she is a girl. Her DNA will not change through all these experiments that they do.’ While many might take this to be an honest statement of biological fact, Marzari quoted it as a prime example of Clark’s ‘family violence of a public denial of [Maxine’s] gender identity.’ Marzari convicted Clark of this violence, and issued a ‘protection order’ preventing him from speaking to journalists or the public about his case.” Fashion Moment of the Week It’s finally warm outside, so we’re gonna talk about… pants? Yes, because I love pants even in Spring. A roundup of some great work-to-happy-hour slacks can be found here. 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Apr 25, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump tells House
Democrats he’ll see them at the Supreme Court before handing over tax
returns. Fred Lucas reports. The left would be smarter to study how
socialism fails, Lee Edwards argues. God will prevail
despite the burning of historic black churches in Louisiana, Lindsay
Rae Perry writes. Plus: Emilie Kao on the war against women’s sports,
Michelle Malkin on citizenship and the census, John Stossel on a Green
New Deal that shafts the poor, and Lauren Evans
and Kelsey Bolar get problematic.
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During the last census under President Obama, social justice groups
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