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Jun 26, 2019   Good morning from Washington, which continues to spend like a drunken sailor. Justin Bogie takes a sobering look at what a new report says about our government spending. Should rich people get food stamps? One millionaire was horrified to discover he could, despite being honest about his finances. Fred Lucas has that story, as well as a look at the new White House press secretary. Four years ago today, the Supreme Court decided to effectively overrule millions of Americans’ votes and mandate legalization of same-sex marriage.       News After Legally Receiving Food Stamps, This Millionaire Is Trying to Change the System “I begged [a government official] to find some reason to deny my application for food stamps,” says Rob Undersander, a retired engineer in Waite Park, Minnesota. More Commentary Ilhan Omar’s Ideological Attacks on 2 Christian Pastors The remarkable stories that two pastors shared about growing up poor in broken communities and beating the odds were of zero interest to Omar. More Analysis Reps. Dan Crenshaw, Mike Johnson Share How They Want to Tackle Border Crisis Republican Study Committee Chairman Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, discuss immigration, socialism, bipartisanship, and more. More Commentary PBS Is Indoctrinating Our Kids. It’s Time to Defund Them. Public media programming is becoming more antagonistic toward conservative and religious viewpoints. Parents and churches should be the ones discussing marriage and family with their children—not PBS, writes Rep. Doug Lamborn. More News Stephanie Grisham to Replace Sarah Sanders as White House Press Secretary Grisham was part of the Trump campaign in 2015 and has been in the White House longer than anyone else on the White House staff except for social media director Dan Scavino. More News Mentally Disabled Woman Will No Longer Be Forced to Abort Her Child, After Court Reverses Ruling “This case exposes how far the tyranny of the abortion regime extends,” says Obianuju Ekeocha, a pro-life advocate in Britian. More Commentary 4 Takeaways From a New Report on the National Debt Despite the strong economy, the nation remains in a precarious and unsustainable budget position, just as it was last year. Debt held by the public is set to rise to nearly one and a half times the size of the economy in the coming decades. More Commentary Forget Reparations. Money Won’t Solve Black Community’s Problems. The reparations movement would be an amusing sideshow were it not for its damaging distractions. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as rickbulow74@live.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

LARRY J. SABATO’S CRYSTAL BALL

IN THIS ISSUE: – Presidential Primary Debate History: Lessons for 2020 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DEBATE HISTORY: LESSONS FOR 2020 Candidate showdowns go back many decades, but have only recently become part of the nomination fabric By Kyle Kondik Managing Editor, Sabato’s Crystal Ball

Editor’s Note: This is the first of two issues of the Crystal Ball this week. We’ll be back after the conclusion of the second Democratic debate on Thursday night with an assessment of how the debates went. In the meantime, we present an updated history of modern presidential primary debates, which date back to 1948. — The Editors KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — There have been nearly 200 presidential primary debates since 1948. — Almost all of them have been held in the last four decades. — Although Democrats have a record-breaking primary field, they do not appear likely to break the record for the number of candidates appearing on a stage at once, 11, set by Republicans last cycle. — No incumbent president has participated in a primary debate, and Donald Trump seems likely to continue that trend. Five angles on primary debates The race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination has been going on for months (and it feels like years). Yet in some ways the battle only begins tonight with the first televised debate. The specifics of this first round of debates on the Democratic side are historically novel. While there have been debates on back-to-back dates in a nomination campaign, this is the first time that two totally different slates of candidates will debate each other. The Democratic National Committee opted to use a drawing to determine the 10 candidates who will debate tonight and the 10 who will debate tomorrow. Four years ago, and in the midst of a field that was very large (although not as large as this two-dozen member field), Republicans opted to hold double-header debates in the pre-primary season, with the lower-polling candidates participating in a so-called undercard debate before the better-polling candidates debated at the main event. The DNC has sanctioned up to 12 debates, although the total number of discrete debates will almost certainly be larger than that because the first debate, happening tonight and tomorrow, really counts as two debates, not one. Or at least that’s how we’re counting them as part of our updated history of presidential primary debates. We debuted this history four years ago and have updated it, adding all of the 2016 primary debates. Including both the undercard and main event debates from the 2016 Republican race, plus the Democratic debates featuring, most notably, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders that cycle, there have now been 92 Republican primary debates and 104 Democratic bouts since 1948, when the first modern presidential primary debate was held. That Democratic total will grow by four this month and next, as the party is set to hold back-to-back debates tonight and tomorrow in Miami and then July 30-31 in Detroit. Presumably, the back-to-backs will become unnecessary at some point as the DNC ratchets up the polling and donor thresholds for inclusion (as it has done for debates in September and October). The full history is included at the end of the online version of this story (the tables detailing every single debate for both parties are too unwieldy to include via email). But first of all, here are some quick observations. For more trends from history, see our piece from four years ago, when we first released this historical background on presidential primary debates. 1. Bulk of debates held recently While we count 196 debates in modern presidential primary history, almost all of these have come within the last four decades. Prior to 1980, Republicans held just one debate, in 1948 (more on that below), while Democrats held 11 in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. That means that 94% of all presidential primary debates have been held just since 1980. Figure 1 shows the trend. Figure 1: Primary debates, 1948-2016

It may not be a coincidence that the rise of presidential primary debates has come in the post-primary reform era. Following the chaotic and explosive 1968 Democratic primary, when Vice President Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic nomination despite not competing in the primaries, both parties eventually reformed their processes to give voters significantly more say in who the presidential nominees would be. Debates therefore became more important because presidential nominations were being decided by a portion of the larger electorate as opposed to party insiders.

At this point, the parties seem petrified of showing any preference toward any of the candidates; this cycle, the Democrats have opted for polling and donor thresholds to determine who gets to appear in debates.

That has led to some candidate inclusions, and exclusions, that never would’ve happened in a political era where party elites held and exercised more sway over such decisions. For instance, self-help guru Marianne Williamson, who had to retreat from peddling anti-vaccination twaddle just last week, made the first Democratic debate while Gov. Steve Bullock (D-MT), a late primary entrant who nonetheless has a long history of statewide electoral success in a state that votes Republican at the presidential level, couldn’t even get in. Something seems off to us about that. Would it not be reasonable for parties to figure out a way to prioritize candidates with prior service to the party as opposed to total outsiders? The same can be said about Trump and the Republicans, but Trump’s immediate polling success would’ve made excluding him from the debates in 2015 unreasonable (practically speaking, neither Williamson nor Bullock has demonstrated any meaningful support in polls — nor have many of the other candidates who will be on one of the debate stages).

In any event, the prevalence of primary debates is a somewhat new feature of the primary process, at least if one looks at the long history of presidential nominations. And the parties having to hold multiple debates at once to accommodate gigantic fields is even newer, as the Republicans in 2016 were the first party that really had to grapple with that problem. It’s easy to nitpick the process the GOP chose, or the Democrats are using now, but in fairness there is not much of a roadmap for either party to deal with such a problem.

2. Democrats unlikely to set record

Prior to 2016, the maximum number of candidates that appeared on any primary debate stage was 10, set by Republicans in the 1996 and 2008 cycles and Democrats in the 2004 cycle. However, the Republicans actually had a debate with 11 candidates in September 2015. Of course, Republicans had more than 11 presidential candidates total: The GOP roster included 17 candidates at its numerical peak. It’s just that the GOP forced the worst-polling candidates to compete in the “undercard” debate prior to the main event.

Figure 2: How many participate?

Democrats have even more candidates this time: now 25 with the recent addition of former Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania. But the DNC is limiting each debate to 10 total participants, with 20 slots over two nights. One wonders if, later in the process, whether the DNC might allow a larger debate stage in order to consolidate two nights of debates into one. But for the time being, the GOP’s debate-stage participant record of 2016 appears safe even as Democrats are breaking records with their total number of presidential aspirants. 3. Single-issue debate not unprecedented Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) is emphasizing climate change and has proposed having a debate entirely focused on the subject. A strong majority of the other Democratic candidates agree with him, but Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez has nixed the idea. Whatever the merits of a single-issue debate, there is historical precedent for it — indeed, the very first presidential primary debate that we counted in our history was a single-issue debate. Republican presidential candidates Gov. Thomas Dewey (R-NY) and former Gov. Harold Stassen (R-MN) held the first modern debate in 1948. The debate, conducted over radio in advance of the Oregon primary, focused on a single question: whether the Communist Party should be outlawed in the United States (Dewey said no, Stassen said yes). Dewey, previously the 1944 Republican nominee, won the nomination again in 1948, losing in a famous upset to President Harry Truman in November. 4. Incumbents don’t debate While the Democrats are going to hold, in all likelihood, more than a dozen total debates thanks to the back-to-back events starting tonight, there almost certainly will not be any Republican primary debates. The Republican National Committee disbanded its debate committee last year, an unmistakable sign that the party has no interest in sanctioning a debate featuring President Donald Trump and any potential challengers. A president not participating in a primary debate would be in keeping with history: No sitting president has appeared in a primary debate, even ones who ended up facing significant primary challenges (Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter in 1980, and George H.W. Bush in 1992). If and when a sitting president has a prominent intraparty challenge, we suspect that incumbent will face intense pressure to participate in a debate, as debates have become so clearly part of the presidential primary fabric. But the last three incumbents who ran for reelection (Bill Clinton in 1996, George W. Bush in 2004, and Barack Obama in 2012) did not face such pressure because they didn’t have any real primary opposition. As of now, Trump’s only opponent is a gadfly candidate, former Gov. William Weld (R-MA), who most recently was Gary Johnson’s running mate on the 2016 Libertarian Party ticket. 5. The eventual nominee will debate Since 1972, every non-incumbent major party presidential nominee has appeared in a primary debate, and many of these nominees participated in all or nearly all of the contests included on our list. However, frontrunners do occasionally skip early debates. Ronald Reagan passed on an Iowa debate in 1980 only to see George H.W. Bush beat him in the caucuses there (Reagan recovered and won). George W. Bush passed on the first few debates in the 2000 cycle but ended up steamrolling to the nomination, despite his landslide loss to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in New Hampshire. In late January 2016, Trump skipped a pre-Iowa debate as part of a feud with then-Fox News host Megyn Kelly, who was part of the moderator team for the debate. Trump would lose Iowa to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Is it possible that skipping the debate hurt Trump in Iowa? Potentially: He was leading in polls before losing to Cruz, although it’s hard to know what role the debate played in that result, if any. Trump would go on to win the nomination anyway. It seems certain that the eventual Democratic nominee either will be on the debate stage Wednesday or Thursday night, or will be on a future debate stage. That this point we’re making seems so blindingly obvious is a testament to how ingrained debates have become to the nomination process. Read the fine print Learn more about the Crystal Ball and find out how to contact us here. Sign up to receive Crystal Ball e-mails like this one delivered straight to your inbox. Use caution with Sabato’s Crystal Ball, and remember: “He who lives by the Crystal Ball ends up eating ground glass!”

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THE EPOCH TIMES

View this email in your browser “Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know’, and thou shalt progress.” MAIMONIDES Trump Awards Highest Military Honor to Iraq War Veteran US Hopes to Re-launch China Trade Talks, Won’t Accept Conditions on Tariffs: Official Senate Bill Aims at Tech Giant Accountability Border Patrol Injured After Rock Was Thrown at His Patrol Car in California   President Trump threatened to respond with “overwhelming force” to the next attack by Iran on any U.S. assets. The president issued the warning after Iran issued a statement ridiculing the White House in response to sanctions ordered by Trump, which targeted the leader of the Iranian regime and senior Iranian military commanders. Read more America’s 82 top nonprofit hospital groups have experienced massive growth in annual revenues and asset value even as health care costs for most families and individuals are zooming upward, according to a report by government watchdog Open The Books. Read more Former President Jimmy Carter showed support for President Trump’s recent decision to not take military action against Iran after the Islamic regime shot down a U.S. Navy drone over international waters. “I agree with President Trump on his decision not to take military action against Iran,” Carter said while teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown in Georgia, reported NPR. Read more As part of an ongoing nationwide backlash against politically correct restrictions on free speech in higher education institutions, a new “campus intellectual diversity” law in South Dakota that takes effect July 1 will require the state’s universities to respect free speech rights, promote intellectual diversity, and submit annual reports detailing their efforts. Read more On the eve of the G-20 summit, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about challenges within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during a meeting with senior cadres in the Politburo. Meanwhile, the state-run, Beijing-friendly Tsinghua University released a report concluding that the U.S.–China trade dispute would have minimal impact on the Chinese economy. Read more Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner John Sanders has resigned and will leave his position on July 5. Sanders has been acting as head of the border agency since April when Kevin McAleenan was picked to take over as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. Read more   See More Top Stories The Protests in Hong Kong and the Value of a Jury of Peers By Ronald Rychlak The people of Hong Kong just obtained a temporary reprieve from Beijing’s assault on their autonomy. The issue of the day was a controversial extradition bill that would require certain defendants to be sent to mainland China for trial. The people of Hong Kong fought hard against it. In doing so, they reminded us about the value of the right to a jury of one’s peers… Read more The UN’s Great Extinction Scare By Mark Hendrickson According to a new United Nations report, “around 1 million species [out of 1.8 million known species] already face extinction, many within decades.” This disturbing prediction (by no means the first such prediction) appeared in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) “Summary for Policy Makers.” (In case you are not familiar with these U.N. summary reports, standard operating procedure is that the summaries are released weeks or months before the full-length reports prepared by the scientists who were chosen as contributors… Read more   See More Opinions US, Canadian Communists Meet With Venezuela Leadership By Trevor Loudon Earlier in March, a communist-led delegation from the United States and Canada arrived in Venezuela for a series of meetings with the struggling socialist nation’s senior leadership. Several members of this delegation have a history of supporting the United States’ enemies in Tehran, Damascus, Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang, Havana, and now Caracas. This raises major questions about whether these individuals are working against the United States with hostile foreign countries in violation of federal law. Read more In the US China trade war, what’s behind the Chinese communist party’s (CCP’s) strategy, with Liu He walking away from the trade talks at the last minute? What’s the real relationship between Chinese telecom giant Huawei, and the CCP’s quest for global 5G dominance? And how is this all a much, much bigger issue than just trade? China’s Strategy Against Trump and America: Trade War, Huawei, 5G Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account.

THE FLIP SIDE

View this email in your browser Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Free College On Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a plan to forgive all student debt and make public colleges tuition-free. Senate.gov Sanders’s plan is more sweeping than that offered in April by Sen Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), which limits loan forgiveness based on income. Medium From the Left The left is divided, with some in favor of Sanders’ overhaul of higher education, while others propose more modest reforms. “Why have public universities gotten so expensive?… Adjusted for inflation, the cost of educating students at public universities has actually increased only modestly. Rather, it’s the price that’s gone through the roof, thanks in large part to a massive shift in costs from taxpayers to students… student tuition as a share of total spending at our nation’s public colleges and universities rose from 24 percent in 1988 to 46 percent in 2015… [In the state of Washington] the funding split dramatically flipped from 70 percent state, 30 percent tuition in 1991, to 30 percent state, 70 percent tuition by 2013…   “Boomers like me have pulled up the ladder behind us after being educated largely at taxpayer expense… I enthusiastically support both student debt forgiveness and debt-free college. Not just because it would be damn good for the economy by giving a whole generation saddled by debt more freedom to build up savings, buy homes, and contribute to the economy. But because I believe in the golden rule: Give unto future generations the same opportunities and privileges my generation enjoyed.” David Goldstein, Vox   “Spending on higher education is like spending on roads or public parks. You’re doing it for the health of all society. And sure, if you make it free to everyone, the wealthy benefit more, because they have more money they can then spend elsewhere. But it would be kind of crazy to charge admission to the country’s highways or national parks with a sliding scale fee that increases with income. A better solution is progressive taxation on the rich to scale back inequality across the board — something both Warren and Sanders are very much in favor of. Warren’s plan to cancel student debt has more technocratic finesse. But Sanders’ plan arguably tells the stronger moral story about what kind of country we should be.” Jeff Spross, The Week   “In a polity that has decided to use markets as engines of production and distribution where the material bases of ordinary life are concerned, it is essential that all citizens be equipped with the wherewithal to thrive in those markets. And since, over time, markets drive technological and other changes of the sort that require sophisticated skills both to benefit by and even simply to navigate, that wherewithal requires not only primary and secondary, but also ‘higher’ education – i.e., college education. It would accordingly be profoundly unjust to leave access to higher education to the vagaries of the birth lottery. Rather, it must be an incident of citizenship itself.” Robert Hockett, Forbes   Critics of Sanders’ plan, however, argue that “the democratic socialist candidate is running on a plan to bail out doctors, lawyers and their children to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars — while touting it as middle-class payback for the 2008 Wall Street bailout. Yes, Mr. Sanders would pay for his plans with a tax that fell mostly on the investing class; the point, however, is not the origin of the money but the alternative uses to which the money might be put. In that regard, it makes no sense to transfer so much of the revenue from one group of well-off people to another, when you could spend the $2.4 trillion on, say, pre-K schooling for poor children, college assistance for low-income young adults — or any of several other worthy public purposes whose benefits would reach a needier swath of the American population.” Editorial Board, Washington Post   “Both Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren… have proposed making all undergraduate programs at public colleges and universities free. That would reduce the need for borrowing. But it would not eliminate future student debt — not even close. That’s because most student loan debt isn’t taken out to attend undergraduate programs at public colleges and universities. Most loans are used for private colleges, for-profit colleges and, most of all, graduate school… This means that the day after Senator Sanders ‘hits the reset button,’ as he put it in the news conference, the national student debt odometer would begin rapidly spinning again…    “Although the nation’s $1.6 trillion outstanding student loan balance is shocking in the aggregate, it’s composed of many different kinds of borrowers and many different academic programs. The Sanders and Warren plans illustrate the difficulty of moving from big-picture numbers and slogans to the nuts and bolts of federal policy.” Kevin Carey, New York Times   “If we don’t want student debt to pile up all over again, we need to scrutinize the schools that caused the crisis in the first place and make sure young people are savvy debt consumers… First, for-profit education should be at the forefront of this issue… almost half of all students who enrolled at a for-profit school in 2004 defaulted within 12 years. That’s close to four times the default rate for other students, even though students at for-profits typically don’t take on as much debt… Second, the higher-education industry needs to take a deep look into improving completion rates… Finally, we need to do everything we can to make sure that students are financially literate.” Robert Gebelhoff, Washington Post From the Right The right opposes the plan, arguing that there are better ways to reduce costs and rejecting the idea that free college is a moral good. “The Sanders plan fails to focus on giving colleges a stronger incentive to keep tuition affordable and make sure their students graduate. (One possible way to do that, for instance, is to put schools on the hook to pay back a share of defaulted loans.) Nor does Sanders explore the need to create and encourage non-college pathways to the middle class.” James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute “The reason schools keep raising their tuition is that students have easy access to federal student loans, and the government has a near-monopoly on the sector. Colleges know they can keep raising tuition without fear of losing students because federal loans serve as a guaranteed subsidy. Thus, the cost of college has skyrocketed and students find themselves deeper in debt. The solution is not to pay off existing student debt, but to dramatically reduce the federal subsidies pouring into higher education and restore the private market’s role in providing student loans. This would put long-needed pressure on colleges to keep their costs in check, since students would no longer have unlimited, guaranteed funds from the government…  “At a time when Americans are more frustrated than ever with the education colleges are providing for the price, policymakers should be discussing ways to hold colleges accountable, rather than rewarding them with a blank check.” Mary Clare Amselem, The Daily Signal “Thanks to creeping credentialism, many jobs that once didn’t require a bachelor’s degree now do. College-funding mechanisms make little distinction between studying nuclear engineering and pursuing contemporary dance. Administration buildings teem with associate deputy deans for diversificlusion, and schools compete to have the most climbing walls per capita. The fix isn’t to promise taxpayer-funded diplomas for everybody…  “[Furthermore] There’s no way a financial-transactions tax would pay for this. It could make America’s capital markets less liquid or push traders overseas. By lowering asset values, it would dent every 401(k) and public pension, while raising costs for institutional investors… The only way Mr. Sanders can possibly pay for his agenda—not only free college and this student-loan amnesty, but also a Green New Deal, Medicare for All, an expansion of Social Security, a federal job guarantee, higher teacher pay, and more—is to soak the middle class.” Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal “It would be hard to devise a plan that would shower more benefits on the wealthy than this one. Just 12% of college debt is owed by those in the bottom quarter of income earners… Sanders’ plan would relieve doctors, MBAs, and computer scientists of their student debt. These are people who are or soon will be making six-figure salaries. Keep in mind, too, that students who borrow money for college are investing in their own futures, since a college degree is a ticket to higher incomes.” John Merline, Issues & Insights “Even with opportunity costs factored in, the New York Fed calculates the return on investment in college at ‘nearly 14 percent,’ which ‘easily exceeds various investment benchmarks, such as the long-term return on stocks (7 percent) or bonds (3 percent).’ It’s not a great investment for everyone, particularly those who don’t finish. But a plan to forgive everyone’s loans, or even Elizabeth Warren’s plan to forgive nearly everyone’s loans, is a massive investment in a population that, by and large, are reaping, and will in the long term continue to reap, the rewards of a smart investment.” Jonathan Marks, Commentary “The average student is now graduating with $30,000 in debt, no small sum. But frankly, a college degree is worth it, as it increases lifetime earnings by millions. And the median monthly payment is just $222. If you can’t afford that, as a college graduate, it’s probably your own fault…  “We must remember that while the cost of college has soared to outrageous levels and must be addressed, an affordable path to a college degree still exists. Almost anyone can go to a community college for two years to obtain an associate degree, with the average annual cost just $3,300, a sum easily payable through part-time work. After two years, one can transfer to a flagship state university and…  graduate with a manageable amount of debt. Major in something like business or STEM and you’ll likely have no trouble meeting student loan payments. It’s absolutely fine for students to choose to forgo this path and instead attend their dream school. But it’s outrageous to imply that you shouldn’t be responsible for your debts after making that decision.” Brad Polumbo, Washington Examiner “The world doesn’t owe you a dream college or a dream house or a dream job. You have no right to someone else’s labor and time. If you want to attend free college, ask professors to offer you their lectures gratis or ask school administrators who run massive endowments to open their doors to everyone. Or, maybe, ask them to bring down their tuition prices.” David Harsanyi, The Federalist A libertarian’s take “Sanders’s free-tuition and debt-cancellation plan is less an attempt at redistribution than a statement of values… ‘We will make a full and complete education a human right’… Unfortunately, these newer-fangled human rights are substantially different from the old-fashioned kind because someone does have to pay for them. Physicians and nurses, and teachers and administrators, must be paid to spend their days providing your rights instead of doing something else. And so, these rights will always be limited…  “Given those limits, one still must ask why a self-proclaimed socialist has focused on a new right that will mostly line the pockets of the educated and affluent rather than, say, a right to public transportation or assisted living… Sanders is unlikely to pick up [moderate suburbanite] voters during the primaries, but if he survives, he will need them during the general. And while they’re leery of the higher taxes his programs will require, they’ll be somewhat less worried if the proceeds will largely be spent on them and their progeny. Socialism for the upper middle class might not seem very, well, socialist, but it might turn out to be excellent politics.” Megan McArdle, Washington Post On the bright side… Bear has least impressed reaction to deputies trying to free him from locked room. Huffington Post Our volunteer team spends hours each night scanning the news, fact-checking, and debating one another, so your 5 minutes each morning can be well spent. If you’ve found value in our work, we welcome you to help sustain our efforts and expand our reach. Any support you can provide is greatly appreciated! Share Tweet Forward Sign Up Here Copyright © 2019 The Flip Side, All rights reserved. You can unsubscribe from this list here.

POLITICO PLAYBOOK

POLITICO Playbook: Will Trump overshadow the Democrats’ first debate night?

By ANNA PALMER, JAKE SHERMAN and DANIEL LIPPMAN 

06/26/2019 06:00 AM EDT

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DRIVING THE DAY

BREAKING OVERNIGHT … NOKO SUMMIT NO. 3 IS COMING … WSJ’S TIMOTHY MARTIN in Seoul: “The U.S. and North Korea have been engaged in informal talks about a third nuclear summit between the two countries’ leaders, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday.

“Mr. Moon didn’t provide a timeline for the meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. He said the two sides had held ‘behind-the-scenes’ talks, not official dialogue, after February’s Vietnam summit that ended abruptly without a deal.

“The South Korean leader’s remarks come just days before President Trump is scheduled to visit Seoul, a trip that is viewed as an effort to help jump-start talks with Pyongyang.” WSJ

G-20 LOOK-AHEAD … CNBC: “Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says U.S.-China trade deal is 90% complete”: “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC Wednesday that the U.S. and China were almost there on a trade deal. ‘We were about 90% of the way there (with a deal) and I think there’s a path to complete this,’ he told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble on Wednesday.

“He said he’s confident President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping can make progress in stalled trade talks at the forthcoming Group of 20 (G-20) meeting this weekend. ‘The message we want to hear is that they want to come back to the table and continue because I think there is a good outcome for their economy and the U.S. economy to get balanced trade and to continue to build on this relationship.’” CNBC

THE DAY DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR: MUELLER TO THE HILL JULY 17 … ANDREW DESIDERIO and HEATHER CAYGLE: “Dems secure testimony from ‘reluctant’ Mueller”: “Former special counsel Robert Mueller will testify in public before the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees on July 17, both panels announced late Tuesday, in what is expected to be a high-stakes hearing centering on President Donald Trump’s efforts to interfere with Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

“Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) served Mueller with a subpoena late Tuesday night after the Democrat-led panels and the former special counsel failed to agree on terms for voluntary public testimony.

“Mueller’s appearance could be a defining moment for Trump, who will be forced to watch as the man whose investigation tormented his inner circle for two years recounts the president’s attempts to thwart the investigation, which Trump has long derided as a ‘witch hunt.’” POLITICO

— TEMPER YOUR EXPECTATIONS, EVERYONE. REMEMBER WHAT MUELLER SAID: “Any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. It contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions we made. We chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself. And the report is my testimony. I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before Congress.”

… BUT, there is absolutely no doubt that Mueller speaking publicly about the report will be very powerful. A complete circus, but powerful. There will be wall-to-wall coverage on every cable news channel, and networks will break into coverage, we imagine.

… THIS WILL BE A JOINT HEARING of Intel and Judiciary, so you’ll have 60 lawmakers involved in this made-for-TV event. (There is some overlap between the two panels.)

Good Wednesday morning. SCOOP: DEPT. OF COUNTERPROGRAMMING … IF YOU’RE WAKING UP IN MIAMI THIS MORNING, and you open the Miami Herald or El Nuevo Herald, you’ll see that the TRUMP CAMPAIGN has bought two full-page, full-color “Latinos For Trump” ads. “Latinos Flourish in Trump’s Economy,” the ad says, and it boasts that it is the “best economy in decades.” “President Trump is clear on immigration: Millions have followed the law to come to America, new immigrants should too.” The Miami Herald ad… The Nuevo Herald ad

THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC DEBATE is tonight in Miami at 9 p.m. on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo. ON NIGHT ONE: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Julián Castro, John Delaney, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Beto O’Rourke, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Everything you need to know about the debate

— NYT’S ANNIE KARNI: “What Will Democrats Look for in Debates? Someone They Can Imagine Onstage With Trump” … NYT’S MIKE GRYNBAUM in Miami: “Debates Mark the Starting Line for the Media’s Race Through 2020”

— WAPO’S ASHLEY PARKER: “‘Looking for fireworks’: How 2016 — and Trump — ushered in the era of the mega-debate”

— WSJ’S CHAD DAY, ELIZA COLLINS and TARINI PARTI: “First Democratic Debates to Pit Experience Against Lesser-Knowns”

POLITICO MAGAZINE is up with a new feature — “The Field,” its guide to the presidential candidates. The issue will examine key moments that made these 2020 contenders the people and politicians they are today. … TIM ALBERTA: “‘Complete this Sentence: Donald Trump Wins Reelection If … ’” … JOHN HARRIS: “Why 2020 Democrats Pretend to be Radical”

NEW: JOE BIDEN’S CAMPAIGN is launching an eight-week fellowship to train new political organizers around the country. “This fellowship will include weekly online trainings where you will learn the ins-and-outs of grassroots and digital organizing to help elect Joe,” the description reads. The details

NYT’S ‘THE LONG RUN’ SERIES … SHERYL STOLBERG and ASTEAD HERNDON: “‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration”

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THE JUICE … SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS had a pair of going-away events this week after wrapping up her tenure as White House press secretary.

— SPOTTED at Sanders’ White House correspondent going-away drinks Monday night at Rare, organized by Anita Kumar and Francesca Chambers: Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Anne Gearan, Jennifer Jacobs, David Smith, Chris Johnson, Hunter Walker, Shirish Date, Franco Ordonez, Jeff Mason, Steve Holland, Todd Gillman, Jon Karl, Sara Cook, Fin Gomez, Debra Saunders, Dave Boyer, Asawin Suebsaeng, Nikki Schwab, John Roberts, Hogan Gidley, Steve Groves, Judd Deere and Jarrod Agen. The NYT coverage, by Shawn McCreesh … Erik Wemple in WaPo

— SPOTTED at Sanders’ White House going-away party, at the Trump Hotel on Tuesday night: President Donald Trump (who stopped by after a fundraiser to offer a brief toast), Ivanka Trump, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), Alyssa Farah, Linda McMahon, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Joe Grogan, Rick Dearborn, Lindsey Walters, Raj Shah, Mick Mulvaney, Stephanie Grisham, Mercedes Schlapp, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, Pat Cipollone, Marc Short, Bill Shine, Kayleigh McEnaney …

… Kellyanne Conway, Brad Rateike, Stephen Miller, Larry Kudlow, Tim Murtaugh, Jessica Ditto, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Andy Post, Sean Spicer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Hogan Gidley, Judd Deere, Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.), HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Steven Groves, Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, Derek Lyons, Nick Butterfield, Kerri Kupec, James Rockas, Ninio Fetalvo, May Davis, Chris Liddell, Julia Hahn, Catherine Keller, Ashley Mocarski, Michael Kratsios, Eric Bolling, Tony Sayegh, Zach Parkinson, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie, Bill Shine and Julie and Wynn Radford.

TRUMP TALKS IMMIGRATION — NYT’S MICHAEL SHEAR and JULIE DAVIS sat down with the president for an interview for their book, “Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration,” which will be out Oct. 8. Pre-order for $28 on Amazon

HERE ARE SOME INTERVIEW SNIPPETS that are instructive to how Trump thinks about immigration, one of the animating issues of his presidency:

— ON TURMOIL AMONG IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS: “‘I do burn out on people, I do. If somebody’s not really great, I do,’ the president said during the interview in the Oval Office. He did not directly address the changes at Customs and Border Protection, but said he had made ‘good changes’ in the people who run his immigration agencies. ‘I understand what I want,’ he said. ‘And we’re starting to get there.’” NYT

— ON WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR CONDITIONS AT THE BORDER: “‘You know, they were built by President Obama, they are really not designed so much for children,’ Mr. Trump said in an interview in the Oval Office on Tuesday. ‘But you know, children can be there because we have no choice because of the laws, the laws are so bad.’

“Asked if his administration’s policies were to blame, Mr. Trump said the conditions existed because Democrats in Congress would not agree to policy changes that would stanch the flow of migrants across the border. ‘All I can say is that if they change the law, you wouldn’t have it,’ Mr. Trump said. ‘The cartels are making the money, are they using children’s — it’s virtual slavery. And if we could get a change, a very simple change it would go so quickly, so easily with the Democrats, we would be able to solve that problem very easily.’” NYT

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HEART-BREAKING PHOTO — “Father-daughter border drowning highlights migrants’ perils,” by AP’s Peter Orsi and Amy Guthrie in Mexico City: “The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final moments.

“The searing photograph of the sad discovery of their bodies on Monday, captured by journalist Julia Le Duc and published by Mexican newspaper La Jornada, highlights the perils faced by mostly Central American migrants fleeing violence and poverty and hoping for asylum in the United States.”AP

— WAPO’S @AshleyRParker: “Trump responds to images and visual cues. At the time, his aides said the gruesome photos of gassed Syrian children persuaded him to launch Tomahawk strikes against Assad. Will be interesting to see if this photo moves him.”

MEANWHILE … “Beleaguered refugee office girds for another wave of migrant children,” byRenuka Rayasam and Dan Diamond

A WHIP? … BLOOMBERG SCOOP: “Trump’s Protocol Chief Is Quitting Just Before the G-20 Summit,” by Jennifer Jacobs and Daniel Flatley: “The Trump administration official in charge of diplomatic protocol plans to resign and isn’t going to Japan for this week’s Group of 20 meetings, where he would have played a sensitive behind-the-scenes role, according to people familiar with the matter.

“Sean Lawler, a State Department official whose title is chief of protocol, is departing amid a possible inspector general’s probe into accusations of intimidating staff and carrying a whip in the office, according to one of the people.” Bloomberg

SARAH FERRIS, HEATHER CAYGLE and JENNIFER SCHOLTES: “Pelosi steers House to passage of border spending package”: “The House on Tuesday approved billions of dollars to ease the humanitarian crisis at the southern border, delivering a hard-fought victory to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after several days of battling with her caucus’ left flank.

“The House voted 230-195 — almost entirely along party lines — to approve the $4.5 billion package for the border, where an influx of Central American migrants has strained government agencies and led to conditions for detained children that both parties have called horrific. …

“Democrats will now dive into negotiations with Senate GOP leaders, in a difficult bid to get the long-delayed aid package signed into law before leaving town Thursday for a weeklong recess. But even if the two chambers reach an agreement, it’s unclear if President Donald Trump will sign the final bill, especially as he demands far-reaching changes to asylum law in exchange for permanently calling off mass deportation raids.” POLITICO

— BEHIND THE SCENES: THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK Tuesday about House Democrats being divided on the supplemental border bill, but PELOSI didn’t appear to be sweating the vote by Tuesday evening. She spent roughly 90 minutes before the bill passed at the DCCC Pride Month reception at the Conrad Hilton on Tuesday evening. Pelosi’s Deputy Chief of Staff Drew Hammill and his husband Jason Mida chaired the event, which celebrated the fourth anniversary of marriage equality and featured a performance from Baltimore native and “American Idol” finalist Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon.

— SPOTTED: Reps. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Sharice Davids (D-Kan.), Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), Mark Takano (D-Calif.), Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) and Jim Himes (D-Conn.) along with Steve Elmendorf, Joe Falk, Catherine Pinot and Ingrid Duran, Brian Wolff, Winnie Stachelberg, JoDee Winterhof, Ben Needham and Robbie Mook.

2020 WATCH — ALEX ISENSTADT: “Martha McSally moves to head off GOP primary challenge” … “Trump endorses Tillis in North Carolina,” by James Arkin

TRUMP’S WEDNESDAY — The president will leave the White House en route to the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel at 10:30 a.m. He will deliver remarks at the “Faith & Freedom Coalition” policy conference. Trump will return to the White House at 12:15 p.m. He will leave at 12:40 p.m. en route to Osaka, Japan.

PLAYBOOK READS

SCOTUS WATCH — “DOJ urges definitive ruling from SCOTUS on census citizenship question,” by Josh Gerstein: “The Trump administration made an unusual last-minute plea to the Supreme Court Tuesday, telling the justices that actions by lower courts make it urgent to act quickly to resolve the legality of adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

“The Justice Department move followed an appeals court order earlier Tuesday, which returned one lawsuit over the census to a district court judge to address recently-discovered evidence that the addition of a citizenship question may have been intended to diminish the political impact of the Latino vote.

“The latest tumult in the litigation was prompted by citizenship question opponents gaining access to evidence that the views of a deceased GOP redistricting expert, Thomas Hofeller, may have played a role in a Justice Department request that led to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross adding the citizenship query to the census questionnaire.” POLITICO

TOP TWEET … HAPPENING TODAY: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC): “CPSC’s annual fireworks safety demonstration will take place on the National Mall between 3rd and 4th street, starting at 9:45am. We’ll attempt to stream live on Instagram — follow along @ USCPSC #CelebrateSafely” w/ exploding gif

NUMBER DU JOUR: “The cost of *one stitch* at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital? $3,300.” Mission Local

DRAMA IN CHICAGO … SHIA KAPOS in ILLINOIS PLAYBOOK: “Eric Trump, the son of President Trump, was in Chicago on Tuesday when he was allegedly spat on by an employee at swanky Aviary in the West Loop, according to NBC/5’s Mary Ann Ahern, who tweeted about the incident. Chicago Police were on the scene ‘assisting the United States Secret Service,’ Police Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted.

“The alleged spitter was taken into Secret Service custody and Guglielmi wrote ‘Any and all inquiries regarding a federal protectee must be directed to the Secret Service.’ Eric Trump took the high road after spit-gate, offering the slightest dig at Chicago Trump haters in his own tweet: ‘Always love visiting @TrumpChicago. It is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world!’”

MEDIAWATCH — IF YOU READ ONE THING … THE DAILY BEAST’S LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT: “New York Times’ Trump Tax Team Imploded When Star Reporter David Barstow Went Rogue”: “Barstow had gone behind his colleagues’ backs to try and ghostwrite a book with the source for a massive payday—a move expressly forbidden by Times ethics rules, according to two people familiar with the situation. He pursued the source even after editors told him not to do the book and after his Pulitzer-winning colleagues stopped working with him over it. …

“Barstow told The Daily Beast he considered leaving the Timesin order to write the book, but strenuously denied he did anything wrong. In a statement, Baquet said such a ghostwriting gig was ‘unacceptable’ but that Barstow did not violate the paper’s ethics guidelines because the plan was ultimately scuttled.”

— Tom Scocca is joining Slate as politics editor. He most recently was the editor of Hmm Daily and is also an alum of Deadspin, Gawker and The Awl.

— HAPPENING TODAY: The National Press Club Journalism Institute, working with the Tribune Publishing Company, the Annenberg Foundation and the Michael and Jacky Ferro Foundation, is launching a new foundation to push for a permanent memorial for fallen journalists in Washington, D.C., with a board of advisers that includes folks like Dean Baquet, Don Graham, Andrea Mitchell and Matt Murray.

PLAYBOOKERS

SPOTTED: Beto O’Rourke walking into the Hilton Miami on Tuesday with two aides.

SPOTTED IN MIAMI Tuesday night at the FamousDC party at the Faena Hotel in Miami Beach: Tyler Pager, Brittany Shepard, Sabrina Singh, Juana Summers, Holly Campbell, Katelyn Caralle, David Catanese, Alex Finland, Craig Gordon, Tim Hogan, Sahil Kapur, Caroline Kenny, Danny Lyon, Alexa Miranda, Allie Raffa, Elina Shirazi, Lis Smith, Scott Thuman, Adrienne Watson, Amos Snead, Nathan Imperiale and Rodell Mollineau.

OUT AND ABOUT — SPOTTED Tuesday at the Walker Chapel Preschool in Arlington for the bill signing ceremony for “Jacob’s Law” — pic: Jacob’s sisters CJ and Ellie, Jay Timmons and Rick Olson, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Del. Rip Sullivan (D-Va.), state Sen. Barbara Favola (D-Va.), Del. Mark Levine (D-Va.), Don McGahn, Josh Bolten, Tom Kuhn, Heidi Brock, former Rep. Steve Bartlett (R-Va.), Terri Fariello, Susan Neely, Bobbie Kilberg and more than 200 friends and family.

— SPOTTED at the opening dinner of the Bahrain peace plan conference Tuesday night: Christine Lagarde, Steve Schwarzman, John Hess, Aryeh Bourkoff, Dina Powell, Randall Stephenson, Masayoshi Son, Josette Sheeran, Jay Collins, Keith Croft, Stuart Levy and Anthony Scaramucci.

— SPOTTED IN ASPEN at Gary and Laura Lauder’s house Tuesday night for a dinner hosted by the Paul E. Singer Foundation, with special guest NYT columnist Bret Stephens in conversation with Dan Senor on rising anti-Semitism — pic: Paul Singer, Campbell Brown, Steven Rattner, Joshua and Dinah Foer, Bob Steele, Daniel Lubetzky, Marlies A. Carruth, Max Neuberger, Daniel Bonner and Harry Zieve Cohen.

BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Ryan Long, deputy staff director at House E&C (hat tip: Zack Roday) … POLITICO Europe’s Thibault Larger

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Mike Bender, WH reporter at the WSJ. How he got his start in journalism: “My dreams of becoming a professional baseball player ended when I was about 15. At 17, my mom talked me out of taking an apprenticeship to become a grower at a chain of suburban Cleveland nurseries. When I was 21, I was hired by the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel in Colorado. And two decades later, I’m birthday of the day!” Playbook Plus Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Chuck Robb is 8-0 … Elizabeth Wilner, director, global narrative, at Airbnb … Juliet Eilperin, WaPo’s senior national affairs correspondent … POLITICO’s Scott Bland … WSJ’s Louise Radnofsky … Dave Brown, director at Brunswick Group (h/ts Tim Griffin and George Little) … Mark Kadesh (h/t Jon Haber) … Adam Goers … Bloomberg’s Emma Kinery … Oubai Shahbandar … GOP pollster Jon McHenry … Mark Ritacco … Betsy Goldin … former Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie is 81 … Emmalee Kalmbach, Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-Ohio) press secretary (h/t Emily Benavides) … Rutgers political science professor Ross Baker is 81 … Mickey Leibner, attorney at Mayer Brown … Joe Durheim … Lucy Silver … NYT’s Daniel Victor … Philip Lajaunie … WME’s Mark McGrath is 3-0 (h/t Natasha Bertrand) … Chris Weideman …

… Robert Siegel is 72 … Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, president of Iceland, is 51 … Haitian President Jovenel Moise is 51 … Emily McBride, associate director of the Office of Cabinet Affairs in the White House … Strauss Zelnick is 62 … Robert E. Levin … Ross Feinstein, director of operations comms at American Airlines (h/ts Tim Burger and Shannon Gilson) … Rachel Gantz, comms director for the National Pork Producers Council … Judy Havemann, director of public affairs/comms at the National Endowment of the Humanities … Alex Hayden DiLalla of Global Citizen … Graeme Zielinski … Julie Norton … Alan Solow is 65 … Elisabeth Cholnoky … Joannie Braden … Jan Burmeister … Preeya Noronha Pinto … Kathleen Falk (h/t Teresa Vilmain)

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THE RESURGENT

The Resurgent’s Morning Briefing for June 26,2019 View this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day.  At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day.  You can listen live here.   Republicans and Reporters Should Treat WinRed With Caution Republicans need to treat this very, very skeptically. It just sounds scammy to me. It does not protect data or privacy. It does not financially benefit small dollar donors. In fact, it screws them. It operates as a for profit entity. A lot of people not named Trump are going to get amazingly rich off the President and other candidates through this platform. I suspect this is going to be the financial equivalent of Romney’s Project ORCA where Election Day comes and the consultants are swimming Scrooge McDuck style through their swimming pools of cash while the NRCC, NRSC, and over 500 candidates are wondering what happened to all the money and donors as everything around them crashes. The post Republicans and Reporters Should Treat WinRed With Caution appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Progressives Attack Wayfair to Make Migrants Sleep on Concrete Floors President Trump ordered bedding products from the company Wayfair to provide bedding in detention facilities at the border. Progressives sprung into action, but not to help get the relief there ASAP. Instead, they sprung into action to get Wayfair employees to walk off the job. They don’t actually want to provide bedding for the migrants. They want them to be on concrete floors in discomfort. This is insane. The post Progressives Attack Wayfair to Make Migrants Sleep on Concrete Floors appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Nepotism Benefited Jerry Falwell, Jr., Who Now Attacks A Man Without Daddy Issues or a Pool Boy It is worth noting that Falwell is the beneficiary of his father’s nepotism. Falwell now presides over the university his father started and shares his father’s name to give himself clout within the Christian community. In fact, a lot of people forget Falwell is not a pastor because they connect his name to his father. Russell Moore, on the other hand, advanced up the ranks of the Southern Baptist Convention on his own merit where he now occupies a position of moral clarity and compassion for the Southern Baptist Convention. Jerry Falwell, Jr. has not so much advanced up any ranks as he’s knelt close to tables hoping for scraps to be thrown his direction. Also, Russell Moore doesn’t have a pool boy. The post Nepotism Benefited Jerry Falwell, Jr., Who Now Attacks A Man Without Daddy Issues or a Pool Boy appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » A Christian Response to Taylor Swift’s LGBT-Promoting Video Generally speaking, the entertainment industry is no friend to Christians attempting to raise their children to resist worldly conformity and embrace Godliness.  Taylor Swift’s recently released Christian-mocking, LGBT-affirming anthem You Need to Calm Down is the latest example. The 29-year-old pop sensation brings together a cast of colorful celebrity collaborators to depict those who would […] The post A Christian Response to Taylor Swift’s LGBT-Promoting Video appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » A Leftist website calls U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum statement a “dreadful intervention”. In responding to AOC’s concentration camp comment, the USHMM is attacked by the website Splinter. In the 703rd episode of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inviting controversy, this time by calling CBP detention camps “concentration camps”, there has been groups on both sides wading into the debate. Those on the Left have nodded right along with AOC […] The post A Leftist website calls U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum statement a “dreadful intervention”. appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Deportation Objections Are Part of a Bigger Strategy Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a lot of strange things. She also says a whole lot of things that are partially true or not true at all. Here is the latest example: Where to begin. Let’s start here. The Trump administration was very clear about the individuals that ICE was going to pick up during the […] The post Deportation Objections Are Part of a Bigger Strategy appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Jay Inslee Will Solve the Border Crisis By Fighting Climate Change The post Jay Inslee Will Solve the Border Crisis By Fighting Climate Change appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » America Can—and Should—Do Better Congress must act, quickly, to provide humanitarian relief at Border Patrol detention facilities. The post America Can—and Should—Do Better appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Tlaib Suggests ‘Direct Payment’ as Reparations (h/t NicholasBallasy) The post Tlaib Suggests ‘Direct Payment’ as Reparations appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Why Won’t Dems Release Their Supreme Court List? The post Why Won’t Dems Release Their Supreme Court List? appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser »   Recent Items: 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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The first night of the Democratic presidential debates has arrived and all eyes are on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who will be center stage on Wednesday night as she looks to continue her rise in the pecking order of 2020 Democrats and make her presence felt with voters and her opponents in Miami.  The lead-up to Wednesday night’s debate has been ideal for Warren, who has been on helium watch for the past month as she has seen her stock rise and surpass Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in some polls.  As Jonathan Easley and Amie Parnes write, Warren will be the only top-tier candidate on the stage on Wednesday as she shares center stage with former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), who has seen his stock plummet since he entered the race and posted a massive fundraising haul. Some believe that being the only candidate polling in double digits on stage could be of detriment. However, she is known as a tough debater who has the ability to command a room, just as she does at her campaign rallies.  “Warren has one of the easier debate strategies because what she’s been doing on the campaign trail is already working, so just needs to keep doing that,” said Democratic strategist Eddie Vale. “A lot of people will be turning in for the first time so she just needs to keep telling her great policy ideas interwoven with her bio and personal stories like she has been on the trail.” While Warren will be on stage, Wednesday’s debate could be as much about who isn’t on stage. Former Vice President Joe Biden isn’t slated to debate until Thursday night, but he has found himself in the crosshairs of two of the main candidates at tonight’s debate. In recent weeks, Warren has hit him for his stance with credit card companies, while Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) got into a tussle with the former vice president last week over his past work with segregationist Dixiecrat senators in the late 1970s.  Biden will loom large without being on stage Wednesday night as he continues to lead nationally and in all of the early primary states, while showing an ability to parry attacks  and avoid much of a dent in his support.  Outside of the top candidates, the debates provide an opportune moment for candidates who have been unable to bust out of the low single digits and barely register in polls to make a name for themselves. As Max Greenwood and Julia Manchester write, it will be a big challenge for these candidates to make their mark with standout performances. While the mountain for the candidates to climb is steep, many of them have nothing to lose at this point, and as the boxing analogy goes, a fighter with nothing to lose is a dangerous fighter, creating a sense of unease and volatility that could be on display in Miami. The Washington Post: ‘Looking for fireworks’: How 2016 — and Trump — ushered in the era of the mega-debate. The New York Times: Is Cory Booker too nice? (And is that bad?) The Wall Street Journal: Debates put Democratic National Committee back in the spotlight. The Associated Press: Zingers, breakouts and burns. What to watch in the debates. Politico: Team Trump plans debate night offensive. Karen Tumulty: Kamala Harris steps out of her comfort zone — and it works.

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CONGRESS & INVESTIGATIONS:  Former special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to publicly testify to Congress on July 17 about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees announced Tuesday night (The Hill). Mueller previously said he would testify only to what is in the 400-page report released nearly three months ago, but his public presentation has the potential to reshape the political landscape around Trump’s reelection bid and a possible impeachment inquiry in the Democrat-controlled House (The New York Times). > Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is giving 2020 White House hopefuls a choice: Show up in the Senate to vote or hit the presidential campaign trail, reports Jordain Carney. The Senate is moving forward with a mammoth defense bill and potentially a heated fight over President Trump’s ability to take military action against Iran, even as Democratic senators who are also candidates are in Miami today and Thursday for presidential debates. It’s one of the first high-profile examples of the crowded 2020 contest spilling over into the day-to-day running of the Senate, where seven lawmakers are competing for the Democratic nomination. McConnell has relished the juggling act, taking multiple opportunities to hit Democrats over missed votes. “Some of our Democratic friends need to go hit the presidential campaign trail. They can’t be here because they have to go campaign. Not one day but two. …They’re too busy to stay in the Senate and authorize the resources that our all-volunteer armed forces rely on,” McConnell said on the floor of the Senate.

© Getty Images  > Democratic leadership: It’s more than a year away from leadership elections, but House Democrats are already jockeying for position to eventually takeover the speakership and the upper rungs on the leadership ladder. Although everything depends on what happens next November, House Democrats are trying to put themselves in a position to move up within the conference. Among those looking to move up are Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the No. 5 House Democrat, Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Rep. Primila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the co-chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (The Hill). > Drug pricing: The leaders of the Senate Finance Committee are in talks about a potentially sweeping deal to limit drug price increases in Medicare, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.  Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.), the top Democrat on the panel, is pushing the idea to make drug companies pay rebates to Medicare if their prices rise faster than inflation. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman, has not ruled the idea out, and discussed it with other Republican senators on the committee in a meeting last week.  Some Republicans are pushing back on the far-reaching proposal, arguing it comes too close to price controls for drugs, which Republicans have long opposed. Drug companies are scrambling to figure out what is being discussed (The Hill). The Hill: House approved a $383 billion spending package. ***  POLITICS & CAMPAIGNS: Bernie Sanders’s proposal to wipe out $1.6 trillion in student debt has broad support from the public, but it’s making one group uneasy: Democratic lawmakers. Sanders’s plan is expected to increase the pressure on other 2020 Democrats and lawmakers on Capitol Hill, but some are hesitant to do so for fear that they could be branded as socialists by Republicans who are hungry to lob the attack at any turn.  However, dismissing Sanders out of hand will be tough for Democratic leaders, as he remains a popular figure in the party despite not being a Democrat (The Hill).  > The president made a pair of high-profile endorsements on the Senate map Tuesday, giving his official blessing to Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), both of whom are considered among the most vulnerable Senate Republicans up for reelection in 2020.  After losing to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) last November, McSally took up the remainder of the late Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) term, but she has a tough road to hoe against Mark Kelly, who is challenging her. Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), has shown an unparalleled fundraising ability by Democratic challengers for the Senate.  One boost for McSally this year is that she is not expected to face as contentious of a primary in 2020. Trump endorsed her in 2018 only after she made it through a three-way primary in mid-August, one of the latest primaries of the year (The Arizona Republic).  In North Carolina, Trump endorsed Tillis after Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) decided to forgo a primary bid and as Tillis looks to bring the party behind him in the state despite poor polling numbers at this early stage. In two polls released in recent weeks, Tillis trails two of his Democratic challengers, including state Sen. Erica Smith by seven points (The Hill).

IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES

WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: The Trump administration’s much-criticized care of migrant children detained at the U.S. southern border, described by lawyers as “inhumane” at one Customs and Border Protection facility near El Paso, stirred House Democrats into adopting new requirements on Tuesday inserted into a $4.5 billion funding measure the House passed late on Tuesday (The Hill). Earlier in the day, the House Appropriations Committee unveiled a set of changes to accommodate concerns, especially among progressive and Latino lawmakers, about conditions at the border, adding detailed standards to ensure that migrants held in detention facilities have access to adequate food, shelter, hygiene and translators following reports of unsanitary and overcrowded conditions. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) agreed to the added language to gain support before the final 230-195 vote along party lines. With the clock ticking before lawmakers expect to leave Washington before a July 4th recess, the measure faces a veto threat from the White House and an uphill battle in the Senate, which has its own bill to address issues at the southern border (The Associated Press). Department of Homeland Security: At the same time that lawmakers reacted to bleak headlines describing federal facilities for migrants, Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner John Sanders announced his resignation effective July 5 amid the uproar (The Associated Press). Sanders said last week that detention conditions for migrants that are intended to be temporary had become longer-lasting in part because of holdups in appropriations and a surge in migrants that caused overcrowding. Sanders is expected to be replaced by Mark Morgan, who has been leading Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since the spring. Morgan is seen as an outspoken supporter of Trump’s hardline immigration enforcement policies (USA Today). House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) assailed the administration for creating what he described as “chaos” at DHS and for immigration policies he said are cruel and abhorrent.” At the same time that conditions are described as unhealthy for migrant children, administration officials have said they want to send a message to immigrants in Central American countries not to try to come to the United States because their stays will be short and the conditions difficult. In an exclusive interview with The Hill on Monday, Trump defended migrant detention conditions on his watch, arguing they are “better than they were under President Obama” (The Hill). The Hill: Full text of the Trump interview, plus video from Hill.TV. The New York Times: Migrant children moved back to troubled Texas border facility. The Hill: ICE chief Morgan’s view: “Lawmakers failed us.”> Iran: Days after saying he does not want war and prefers diplomatic discussions with Tehran, Trump threatened on Tuesday to obliterate parts of Iran if it attacks “anything American,” after Tehran said new U.S. sanctions shredded any chance of diplomacy, calling White House actions “mentally retarded” (Reuters). Meanwhile, McConnell opened the door to a Senate vote on Iran and war authorization (The Hill).  > Group of 20 Summit: Trump departs for Osaka, Japan, this afternoon to participate in the annual G-20 economic summit this weekend. Some analysts have dubbed the gathering “G-2” because of the planned meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Trump to try to jump-start trade talks between the two governments. Among the sticking points: the United States has told China it will not forfeit its option to impose tariffs as part of any agreement that may be reached on trade (Reuters). In Japan, the president will also meet one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey.  The president will fly to South Korea on Saturday to meet with President Moon Jae-in before he flies back to Washington late Sunday. The United States and North Korea are in talks to set up a third summit meeting about denuclearization between Trump and Kim Jong Un, according to Moon (Reuters).  > West Wing staff news: Trump and the first lady selected Stephanie Grisham, Melania Trump’s tough-minded communications director, to replace Sarah Huckabee Sanders as White House press secretary and communications director (The Hill). The hybrid role sketched out for the East Wing loyalist who began volunteering in Trump’s campaign in 2015 suggests the president will continue to steer his own communications strategy. The Hill: Who is Grisham? Politico: Trump is tiring of acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.

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Hill.TV’s “Rising” program features Roland Martin, the host and managing editor of “Roland Martin Unfiltered,” to discuss the Democratic primary debate, and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), who looks ahead at Medicare’s future and Democrats’ policy ideas at 9 a.m. ET at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. at Rising on YouTube. The House meets at 10 a.m. The Homeland Security Committee holds a hearing at 10 a.m. with representatives of Facebook, Google and Twitter to examine “social media companies’ efforts to counter online terror content and misinformation.” The Senate convenes at 10 a.m. and resumes consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2020. The president speaks at 11 a.m. to the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Policy Conference in Washington. Trump departs the nation’s capital at 1 p.m. to attend the Group of 20 economic summit in Osaka, Japan, later this week.  Vice President Pence participates in a ceremonial swearing-in for U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Edward Crawford at 2 p.m. Pence holds a bilateral meeting with Nigeria’s vice president, Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo, at 3 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room. Attorney General William Barr addresses the U.S. Attorneys’ National Conference at 9 a.m. at the Department of Justice. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks at 8:15 a.m. in Bahrain at the Peace to Prosperity Summit’s panel discussion with finance ministers about economic transformation. The conversation is live streamed. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in India where he meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Supreme Court will return to the bench at 10 a.m. to hand down rulings in some of the eight cases remaining this term. The Hill at 8:30 a.m. hosts a “Future of Healthcare Summit,” which explores some of the biggest questions in health care with policymakers, health officials and industry leaders. Speakers include Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.); Dr. Amy Abernethy from the Food and Drug Administration; Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who advised the Obama administration during enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; and Steve Papermaster, the CEO of Nano Vision. Location: Long View Gallery in Washington, D.C. Information is HERE.  ★ The Hill’s “Future of Healthcare Special Report” is HERE. ★

ELSEWHERE

➔ U.S. Census: A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed a district judge to reopen a case related to the origin of the Trump administration’s proposed addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 census, which raised the prospect that the federal government might be unable to meet a deadline for completing census questionnaires that include the question. The development threw the controversial issue into turmoil just as the Supreme Court was expected to issue a ruling on the dispute this week (The New York Times).  ➔ United Kingdom: Either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt will be announced as Great Britain’s new prime minister on July 23 (Reuters). ➔ State/City Watch: Illinois became the 11th state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana and only the second to do so through the state legislature and not in an election (The Associated Press) … Mitsubishi announced it is moving its U.S. headquarters from California to Tennessee (The Associated Press) … San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city to adopt a ban on e-cigarette sales (CNN).

THE CLOSER

And finally … The city of Pascagoula, Miss., celebrated some unusual history last weekend, dedicating a historical marker at Lighthouse Park on the shores of the Pascagoula River.  The occasion? The community marked the spot where Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed in 1973 to be abducted by what they described as aliens that approached them while they were fishing. They said they were lifted aboard a UFO, examined by a machine shaped like a football-sized eyeball and by three robots, and then returned to Earth unharmed (The Clarion Ledger). Hickson, then 42, and Parker, then 19, reported their experiences to the local sheriff’s department immediately on Oct. 11, 1973, and the pair were examined at a local hospital.  Hickson died in 2011, and Parker published a book last year recounting an alien abduction tale that made the rounds worldwide for decades (The Associated Press).

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Debate Day Grab the popcorn—tonight at 9pm ET in Miami, Florida, Democrats running for president will duke it out on-stage, arguing about who should be our next president—or more precisely, who is best positioned to beat Donald Trump.    Tonight’s debate will feature New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, Former Maryland congressman John Delaney, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. You can catch it on NBC News, MSNBC, or Telemundo.    Ten other candidates will follow on Thursday night at the same time, and on the same networks. Democrat “bigwigs” are already worried, fearing the debates will “devolve into a horror show,” per Politico. Learn where the candidates stand on the issues at Politico.   Wayfair…and the Border Crisis? In an attempt to avert a funding lapse at the federal refugee office that has overseen thousands of unaccompanied children migrating from Central America, Democrats finally agreed to come to the table and make a deal to address the crisis at the border. But for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, convincing the more progressive members of her caucus to get on-board wasn’t easy.   This comes—as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pointed out — 56 days after the Trump administration asked for emergency funding to address the humanitarian border crisis. “House Dems have blocked the vote 17 times,” he said. And yet, throughout that time, Democrats had no problem complaining about it.   Meanwhile, Wayfair employees yesterday staged a walkout after learning

the company is selling beds to the Trump administration so that children brought over the border illegally won’t have to sleep on the floor. The horror! Employees are demanding the company donate all profits made from the sale to a refugee and immigrant nonprofit. More on the #WayfairWalkout, which of course AOC called “brave,” over at Bloomberg.

A Fascinating Look Inside China’s ‘Thought Transformation’ Camps
The BBC was given rare access to the vast system of highly secure “re-education” camps thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang. China maintains Muslims voluntarily attend these camps, which exist to combat “extremism” via “thought transformation,” but human rights groups say they have no choice in the matter. This video is wild, and the oppression is blatantly clear. Props to The BBC for its great reporting.

A State-Forced Abortion, Averted
At the 11^th hour, appeal judges overturned a decision would have forced an intellectually disabled woman to abort her 22-week-old child against the wishes of the unnamed woman, her mother, her family, and her social worker. 

According to Sky News, the pregnant woman was told she would “get a new doll” after being forced by the United Kingdom to undergo an abortion. Read more about the horrific case at The Federalist.

‘Foodie Calls’ Are Now a Thing
It’s like a “booty call,” but for food! And it’s a real thing. That is, if you believe this new survey published by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, which found that as many as 33 percent of women admit to making a “foodie call” — AKA setting up a date for the purpose of getting a free meal. More, from Earth.com:

“The results from the survey showed that most of the women who found this behavior acceptable scored high on the ‘dark triad’ of personality traits, including psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism. The women who were most likely to make foodie calls also expressed belief in traditional gender roles.”

“’Several dark traits have been linked to deceptive and exploitative behavior in romantic relationships, such as one-night stands, faking an orgasm, or sending unsolicited sexual pictures,’ said study co-author Brian Collisson.”  

IMO, if you’re stuck on a bad date, the least you can get is a good free meal?! (Or maybe that makes me a horrible person.) Proactively seeking out a “foodie call,” however, is a whole new level. But hey—it sure as heck beats a booty call! 

And Because It’s Hump Day…

• Stephanie Grisham is now working double-duty as Melania Trump’s communications director *and* White House press secretary. 
• Man wins lawsuit against brewery that discounted ‘pink’ beer for females.
• A solid swimsuit at a reasonable price—but it keeps selling out! 
• And finally, something that perhaps, we can all get on-board with?! President Trump signs executive order requiring hospitals to disclose in an easy-to-read format what patients pay out of pocket for services.

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FIRST READ: What to watch for at tonight’s first debate

MIAMI –The first debates of the 2020 Democratic presidential race are finally here.

Ten candidates – led by Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker – participate tonight beginning at 9:00 pm ET.

And the second 10 – led by Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg – go on Thursday.

Both two-hour debates will be televised live on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, and they will be moderated by Savannah Guthrie of “Today,” Lester Holt of “Nightly News,” Jose Diaz-Balart of Telemundo and NBC, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC and Chuck Todd of “Meet the Press.”

Here’s what we’re watching for tonight:

1. How does Warren handle being the night’s frontrunner? The Massachusetts senator has been moving up in the polls. And without Biden or Bernie on the stage, she’s the star attraction – at least on paper. Maybe Warren’s biggest task is handling the high expectations.
   
   
2. Who else breaks through — Beto, Booker or Klobuchar? Since Biden-versus-Bernie is Night Two, at least one of the other candidates will shine. Will it be O’Rourke, who has seen his star fade since his entry in March? Or Booker, who really hasn’t had a moment so far in the 2020 race? Or Klobuchar, who often stands out when she’s on TV.
   
   
3. Who else has a moment? There are six other candidates on tonight’s debate stage: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, former Rep. John Delaney, Reps. Tulsi Gabbard and Tim Ryan, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Remember, these folks are vying to survive the higher qualifications before September’s third debate(s).
   
   
4. How long does coverage of Night One last? The biggest disadvantage of going on the first night is that the coverage has a potential shelf life of 24 hours – before the second debate begins. So even if you stand out, does that get overshadowed starting at 9:00 pm ET on Thursday, when Biden, Bernie, Harris and Buttigieg take the stage?

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Mueller’s crossing

Former special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify in public before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees on July 17 – after being subpoenaed, per NBC’s Rebecca Shabad and Kristen Welker.

“The [Democratic] chairmen suggested in a letter to Mueller on Tuesday accompanying the subpoena that they understand that Mueller may limit what he plans to share with lawmakers, with Schiff and Nadler writing that they know ‘there are certain sensitivities associated with your open testimony.’”

“Mueller did not want to testify, but will respect the subpoena to testify in open session, Schiff said on ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ Tuesday night on MSNBC. Mueller’s staff will speak to the committees in a closed session after Mueller’s public testimony.”

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House passes bill addressing border crisis

By a 230-195 vote – mostly along party lines – the Democratic-led House passed legislation last night providing $4.5 billion to address the humanitarian crisis at the border, NBC News reports.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi “has warned that the Senate’s version of the bill, negotiated between Democrats and Republicans, doesn’t provide as many protections for migrants.”

“Pelosi also warned her members, ‘A vote against this bill is a vote for Donald Trump and his inhumane, outside-the-circle of civilized attitude toward the children.’”

The Trump administration’s OMB has recommended Trump to veto the bill because it “does not provide adequate funding to meet the current crisis, and because it contains partisan provisions designed to hamstring the administration’s border enforcement efforts.”

2020 VISION: How the 2020ers have prepared for tonight’s debate

A top aide pointed to Elizabeth Warren’s “campaign schedule as an example of how she’s prepared — she has done 100 town halls, fielded more than 450 voter questions and parried with reporters at 72 post-event media availabilities, according to her campaign,” NBC’s Dareh Gregorian and Ali Vitali write. 

“[Beto] O’Rourke told NBC News that he has been preparing by ‘listening to people,’ and his campaign said he has answered nearly 1,500 questions at town halls since the campaign started.”

Cory Booker has taken breaks “to do pushups ‘to keep him motivated,’ a campaign aide said. He’s also done bicep curls in his shirt and tie.”

And as for Amy Klobuchar, NBC’s Jonathan Allen spotted her on her plane ride from DC to Miami: “Didn’t look up from briefing books and index cards but to exchange pleasantries with flight attendant and a few others.”

On the campaign trail today: Before tonight’s debate, Julian Castro and John Delaney hold media avails in Miami… Elizabeth Warren will visit the Homestead child detention center…And Steve Bullock, in Iowa, holds a televised town hall.

DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… 3

Three.

That’s the number of Democratic presidential candidates who say they are visiting Homestead, the Miami-area detention center that’s holding groups of migrant children, while they’re in town for the Democratic primary debate.

Elizabeth Warren blasted Homestead as a “prison” during her town hall in Miami last night, telling the crowd she’d visit the center in the hours before she takes the debate stage on Wednesday night. She added that “we have to shut that down and shut it down now.”

Beto O’Rourke had already announced plans to visit the site this Thursday, the day after he joins Warren on the debate stage.

Eric Swalwell tried to visit the center on Monday, but was turned away by an employee.

And a senior Sanders campaign official told NBC News’ Shaquille Brewster Wednesday morning that Jane Sanders, Bernie Sanders’ wife, will head to Homestead as well.

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The Washington Post previews President Trump’s G-20 trip. 

Two American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday.

A top Iranian official declared the”permanent closure” of diplomacy between his country and America after the latest round of sanctions were announced. 

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Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray June 26, 2019 The Call For Reparations Isn’t About Justice, It’s About Power By John Daniel Davidson Forget about how we’d pay for reparations or who would be eligible. The point isn’t to make things right, but to re-make America. Full article Michael Flynn Attorney Suggests Special Counsel Withheld Key Information From His Defense By Margot Cleveland Michael Flynn’s new attorney Sidney Powell suggested the special counsel may not have produced classified information relevant to Flynn’s case. Powell intends to obtain it. Full article The Puzzling Disconnect Between ‘Euphoria’s’ Wild Teens And Risk-Averse Gen Z By Emily Jashinsky While HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ is definitely shocking, it’s just not representative of today’s teenage experience. Full article 5 Reasons Ravelry Banning Trump Support Is A Much Bigger Deal Than You Might Think By Leslie Price Hundreds of thousands of crafters use Ravelry to find new ideas, new patterns, new projects, new yarns. Allowing political leftism but not conservatism will affect them. Full article Australian Rugby Star Sacked For Posting Christian Meme On Instagram By Sumantra Maitra GoFundMe, where Israel Folau initially located his legal defense fund after being fired over a Christian Instagram meme, abruptly closed his account, accusing him of bigotry. Full article This Chart Explains How Democrats Will Kill Your Current Health Coverage By Christopher Jacobs Many moderate and establishment Democrats view a government-run plan as a more appealing method to reach their single-payer goal. Full article Taking On Student Debt To Pursue A Degree Is A Consensual Choice By Liz Wolfe Bernie Sanders floats a college debt cancellation plan sure to please many, but giving handouts to the wealthy and educated among us is deeply absurd. Full article Hawley’s Big Tech Bill Is An Undeniably Good Thing For Free Speech By Auguste Meyrat It is probably more accurate to frame the issue of regulating social media as more a matter of a free market than one of free speech, although one depends on the other. Full article Cory Booker Says He’s Up For Listening To The Racist Louis Farrakhan By Erielle Davidson Cory Booker’s comments serve as a steady reminder that the Democratic Party does not regard anti-Semitism as a form of ethnic hatred, but a mere difference of opinion. Full article Following House Subpoenas, Robert Mueller To Testify Before Congress By Susanna Hoffman House Democrats have subpoenaed former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before Congress, despite his claims that is unnecessary. Full article Here’s Your Guide To The First 2020 Democratic Debate Tonight By Tristan Justice Candidates running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination will face each other on the same stage for the first time tonight. Here are the details. Full article 7 Delusional Fantasies Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Trying To Sell America By Andrew I. Fillat and Henry I. Miller From the ‘Green New Deal’ to ‘Medicare For All,’ slavery reparations to open-borders amnesty, the Democratic presidential contenders are selling Snake Oil, not serious proposals. Full article AOC’s Opposition To Beds For Migrant Kids Is Callous And Cruel By David Marcus To stick it to Donald Trump, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants kids to sleep without beds. Full article Beto O’Rourke Proposes ‘War Tax’ On Everyone Who Hasn’t Served In The Military By Tristan Justice 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful and former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) proposed a new ‘war tax’ to increase spending on the U.S. military. Full article ‘Election Confessions’ In NBC Poll About 2020 Candidates Are Hilarious By Chrissy Clark NBC released a new way to poll public perspective on the 2020 Democratic candidates. While some responses were thoughtful, others were hilarious and rude. Full article Bernie’s #CancelStudentDebt Is A Dangerous Scam By David Harsanyi Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new plan to eliminate $1.6 trillion in student debt does little to help the poor and absolutely nothing to lower costs. Full article How Tech Bias Became A Kitchen Table Issue By Ben Domenech This is not a conversation limited to activists or media members when families are talking about mom losing her income and her friends. Full article Socialism Didn’t Work In Sweden, And It Won’t Work In America By Susanna Hoffman Bernie Sanders and AOC point to the brief window of Swedish socialism’s artificial success before Sweden crumbled under its reality. Full article Slavery Reparations Not A Priority For Democratic Voters By Tristan Justice Reparations for slavery and members of the LGBT community was not a top priority Democratic voters said they wanted to hear about in this week’s debates. Full article HOW TECH BIAS BECAME A KITCHEN TABLE ISSUE Yesterday, many of the major media figures on the right were talking about another insider whistleblower who was the source of a Project Veritas report on Google’s plans to prevent another “Trump situation” in 2020, including footage of an executive making some troublesome comments. http://vlt.tc/3ohr The executive’s comments defending herself are here. http://vlt.tc/3ohw It was yet another example of the problems these large Silicon Valley entities are facing as we enter into 2020 campaign season in earnest, and deserves attention in the broader context of accusations of partisan bias. But the more important story, believe it or not, was about a knitting website. Read more of The Transom by signing up for a free trial today.  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2019 The Federalist, All rights reserved.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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