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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Mystery Gmail Account Revives Questions About Clinton Email Probe Roundup ‘Guts’ Bee Colonies, Threatens Human Health, Scientists Say Trump Demands Apology From NBC Over Unverified Report, Threatens Legal Action The homicide rate in Mexico is rising at record-setting pace this year, with more than 30,000 murders in the first seven months. It’s on target to hit almost 51,500 deaths by year’s end—about 1,000 more than in 2018 and 6,000 more than in 2017. That’s not accounting for the huge number of disappearances. Read more Greenland’s basket of economic and strategic benefits, particularly when it comes to military advantage, isn’t going unnoticed, with the likes of China and Russia showing increasing interest in the sparsely inhabited island. Read more The ongoing Hong Kong protests have posed one of the largest political challenges for Beijing. The Chinese Communist Party leadership is scrambling to resolve the crisis before Oct. 1, the Party’s 70th anniversary of its takeover of China, according to an insider source in Hong Kong. Read more The final report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election by special counsel Robert Mueller left out that Joseph Mifsud, an academic it portrayed as suspiciously connected to Russia, actually has numerous connections to former Western officials and experts on counterterrorism and intelligence. Read more Non-profit government watchdog Judicial Watch announced Wednesday it has filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court seeking a permanent injunction to bar Santa Clara County officials from enforcing a sanctuary policy that protects illegal aliens accused of heinous crimes. Read more The Trump administration has sent a notice to a Vermont hospital after an investigation found that it had forced a nurse to help with an abortion, a procedure that went against her conscience. Read more Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is the latest Democratic candidate to announce that she has ended her bid for the 2020 presidential race, becoming the seventh Democratic candidate to drop out of the 2020 presidential race. Read more See More Top Stories Attention: If you Currently Own or are Considering Buying Physical Precious Metals for your portfolio, please read carefully. On Sept. 26th, 2016, under the Obama Administration, the American Bankers Association and the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures [CUSIP] announced it started tracking a list of Fungible Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium bars and coins. Simply put: when the failing banking system NEEDS to calculate YOUR ASSETS outside of their financial system, THEY CAN EASILY DO SO! Contact GSI Exchange to acquire the secret documented list of fungible precious metals that are now being tracked by the big banks. Call 833-474-4653 now to speak with a GSI Exchange representative about this new tracking trend. Click here to claim your complimentary copy of our exclusive Bank Failure Survival Guide while supplies last The MSM Awakens to The Epoch Times By Marc Ruskin It should come as no surprise to readers of the mainstream media and other news sources that The Epoch Times has come into the cross-hairs of NBC and MSNBC. As with any subject of their ire, they fire a volley of distortions and mischaracterizations, in order to launch a campaign to delegitimize a perceived threat… Read more It’s Not Enough to Be Pro-Freedom; We Must Also Be Actively Anti-Communist By Trevor Loudon A recent NBC report criticizing The Epoch Times repeatedly emphasized that the publication is anti-communism, with the clear implication that this stance is anachronistic, paranoid, or unwarranted. Unfortunately, such views are commonplace in today’s West, certainly on the left, but also on much of what is considered the “right… Read more See More Opinions Argentina’s Long Path to Reform By Valentin Schmid (April 20, 2017) Argentina has seen worse: 20,000 percent inflation, currency devaluation, military coups, and sovereign defaults. Compared to the country’s history, the current situation seems benign. And yet despite, and maybe because of, fast-paced reforms, President Mauricio Macri faces strong headwinds on his quest to realize Argentina’s full potential. Read more In this special episode, we sit down with Google whistleblower Zachary Vorhies, a former senior Google engineer, who recently leaked nearly 1000 pages of documents that he says suggest Google has been secretly acting as a publisher, selectively boosting or demoting content, while publicly claiming to be a neutral platform. Google’s Power to Shift Elections—Zachary Vorhies, Greg Coppola and Dr. Robert Epstein Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account. |
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| Good morning from Washington, where health officials conclude that a nurse’s conscience rights were violated by a Vermont hospital that performs abortions. Fred Lucas reports. Alaska confronts its conflict with a major Supreme Court ruling on labor unions and government employees, Kevin Mooney writes. A professor of child psychiatry sacked for expressing views on gender tells his story to Rachel del Guidice. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on the thin skins of New York Times writers, Star Parker on our crisis of values, and “Problematic Women” guest Romina Boccia on treasuring U.S. citizenship. Seventy years ago today, the Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb. |
| Special Feature Academia Today ‘Not for Faint-Hearted,’ Says Professor Who Lost His Job for Talking About Gender “I really was an academic physician, not a politician. I wasn’t there with an agenda or an activist position,” says Dr. Allan Josephson, former head of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. More Commentary Is Turnabout Fair Play? Legacy Media Dish Out Scrutiny, but Can’t Take It. Mainstream media has the incredible power to destroy lives and careers, yet apparently thinks it has a special privilege to be exempted from the magnifying glass it often unfairly turns on everyone else. More News Vermont Hospital Violated Nurse’s Conscience Rights on Abortion, HHS Says The University of Vermont Medical Center allegedly forced a nurse to participate in an abortion despite her objections, in violation of federal law protecting conscience rights. More Commentary Problematic Women: No, Taylor Swift, You Need to Calm Down Plus: We interview one of America’s newest citizens, Heritage Foundation scholar Romina Boccia, about what it was like going through the citizenship process and what becoming a U.S. citizen means to her. More News Alaska Moves to Comply With Supreme Court on Deducting Union Dues Because public sector employers no longer are permitted to deduct labor union dues or fees from an employee’s paycheck without that employee’s “affirmative consent,” the state’s payroll deduction system “fails to satisfy constitutional standards,” says Alaska Attorney General Kevin G. Clarkson. More Commentary Our Changing Values Should Worry Us. But We Can Still Change Course The founders of the country saw the nation’s existence, its faith, and its posterity as a package deal. Now we have a young generation, our future, that dismisses the importance of all the elements of that package. More | ||
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LARRY J. SABATO’S CRYSTAL BALL
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IN THIS ISSUE: – Notes on the State of Politics NOTES ON THE STATE OF POLITICS The one big exception to the stability in the Democratic race; Trump’s high GOP approval defines the Republican primary; special developments in Georgia, Wisconsin By Kyle Kondik Managing Editor, Sabato’s Crystal Ball |
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KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The Democratic primary race has been very stable, with the biggest exception being Elizabeth Warren’s rise to become one of the clear frontrunners. — Donald Trump is attracting primary challengers, but his standing within the GOP remains strong. — Sen. Johnny Isakson’s (R-GA) pending resignation expands the Senate playing field next year. — Rep. Sean Duffy’s (R, WI-7) pending resignation sets up another House special election on Republican-leaning turf. The GOP remains favored to hold the district. The Rise of Warren Earlier this week, a new Monmouth University poll sent a shockwave through social media by reporting a three-way tie atop the Democratic presidential heap, with former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) all effectively tied at about 20% support apiece. Regular readers can probably predict our reaction, which was essentially this — don’t jump to conclusions based on a single poll. Sure enough, on Wednesday morning, two other national polls, from Quinnipiac University and USA Today/Suffolk University, conformed much more to previous polls, with Biden clearly leading the other candidates and garnering a little over 30% of the vote. That’s essentially what the polls have shown all year. But amidst the stability, there has been at least one noteworthy change in the polling: Of all the candidates, Warren is the one whose standing has most clearly improved over the last several months. Take a look at Figure 1, which is taken from the RealClearPolitics national polling average of the Democratic presidential primary. Note the poll standings on Jan. 1, 2019 demarcated on the left and then the standings from Wednesday morning noted on the right. Figure 1: RealClearPolitics average of Democratic primary |
| For many of the candidates, not much has changed. Biden and Sanders are in almost exactly the same position as they were at the start of the year, although both have enjoyed better periods of polling at various points. One can see Biden’s post-announcement sugar high, the slow erosion of that high, the dip after the first debate, and then a bit of a recovery. But outside of the post-announcement spike, what we’re really looking at in Biden is a stable though hardly overwhelming polling leader. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) remains mired in the single digits. Her position is a little bit better but her polling surge from the first debate has largely dissipated. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) has put himself on the map while former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D, TX-16) has faded, but neither has polled as a truly top contender at any point so far. If the RealClearPolitics average were a real poll with a margin of error — it isn’t, but bear with us for the overall point — we might characterize much of the change for many of the candidates from the start of the year to the end of August as being statistically insignificant, meaning that the changes are so slight that they may essentially be statistical noise as opposed to an actual change in support. That’s particularly true for Biden, Harris, and Sanders. But Warren’s rise, from 4% to 16%, is the kind of change that any half-decent poll would suggest is statistically significant. That does not mean she is leading — Biden still clearly is, based on the bulk of the data — or even necessarily that she has surpassed Sanders for second place. But she is also, along with Sanders and Biden, one of the frontrunners, a group that at the moment is hard to expand beyond three. That said, we also cannot necessarily make the assumption that the shape of the race is set in stone — months remain until Iowa votes in early February. Harris has shown the potential to climb higher, and may yet again. Some of the low-polling candidates — like Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) or Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) — may yet get their moment. Remember, for instance, the 2012 Republican race: While Mitt Romney ended up winning, at this point of the race he was trailing Rick Perry, and the two contenders who would become Romney’s chief rivals — Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich — were combining for only about 7.5% of the vote. Of course, that’s a share of the vote that Klobuchar and Booker (now combining for only 3%) would envy, but it also does show at least the potential for low-performing candidates to break out later in what has become a long slog of a nomination process. The hope of a moment in the sun is sustaining many of the candidacies right now, although we’ve already started to see some candidates fall by the wayside, and expect to see more. Wednesday’s round of polls apparently meant that only 10 candidates qualified for the next debate, set for Sept. 12 (the cutoff for qualification was Wednesday, meaning that it appears there will only be one debate in a couple of weeks instead of two). Warren has perhaps benefited from not sharing a stage yet with Biden and Harris, and with her continued rise in the polls, she may start to face more serious scrutiny from the other candidates. The Trump primary To show how strong Donald Trump remains with Republicans, consider this. A recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll showed Trump’s approval rating among Americans at just 36%, and his disapproval at 62%. This, like the Monmouth poll cited above, feels like an outlier to us. Trump’s approval is usually in the low 40s and his disapproval is in the low 50s, and that’s been very consistent for the lion’s share of his presidency. One reason why the AP-NORC poll might show a lower approval for Trump than others is because it is a poll of all adults, a group that is often more Democratic-leaning than the smaller pool of registered voters that many other polls survey and that is more relevant when focused on elections. Nonetheless, even in the AP/NORC poll, Trump’s approval among Republicans was 79%. In other words, the president’s position within his own party remains strong even in his worst polling. As we’ve previously observed, avoiding a credible primary challenge is a positive step toward reelection for any incumbent president. Still, Trump is not without opponents. Former Gov. William Weld (R-MA), also the Libertarian vice presidential nominee in 2016, has been running against Trump for months, and former one-term Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh (R) threw his hat in the ring over the weekend. Walsh, who has made more than his fair share of noxious comments over the years, was in some ways an antecedent to Trump, a fact that the former congressman acknowledged as part of his announcement rollout over the weekend. It has been a little odd to see some prominent Never Trump Republicans rally to some extent around Walsh, but it does once again prove the salience of an old proverb: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Mark Sanford (R), a former South Carolina governor and congressman who lost his House primary last year partly because of his Trump criticism, is another possible Trump opponent. It’s easy to dismiss this motley crew of Trump challengers out of hand and, to be clear, we don’t see any of them as a threat to the president’s renomination. At this point it’s hard to imagine Trump losing a single state, let alone the actual nomination (although perhaps he might have trouble in places that were notably cool to him in 2016, like Mormon-dominated Utah). However, let’s also remember that Trump’s real opponent in the primary is expectations. We noted earlier this year that, based on history, an incumbent in Trump’s position in his own party should probably win about two-thirds or more of the vote in the first primary state, New Hampshire. If he consistently runs ahead of that share in New Hampshire and going forward, it’s a sign that he remains solidly in command of his party. If he dips under that number, it might be a sign of softness with Republicans as we move into the general election campaign. It’s becoming clearer that Republicans will have options in the presidential primary season. How good those options are is in the eye of the beholder, but they’ll have them nonetheless. The Senate map expands Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) announced Wednesday morning that he will be resigning at the end of the year for health reasons. That means Georgia will have two Senate elections next November, raising the stakes in a state that is more Republican than the nation but is becoming more competitive. Our initial rating of the Georgia Senate special election is Leans Republican, which matches the rating of the state’s other Senate seat — Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) is running for reelection – and the state’s presidential race rating. Two interrelated trends contribute to the reasoning for these ratings. The first is that presidential and Senate voting are coming more and more into alignment, and the second is that when a state holds two Senate elections at a time, it’s very common for the same party to win both races. The last time a state holding “double-barreled” concurrent Senate elections rendered a split decision was South Carolina in 1966, when it reelected party-switching Sen. Strom Thurmond (R) while backing Ernest “Fritz” Hollings (D) in the special. That includes the two concurrent Senate elections held last year: Democrats swept a pair of races in Minnesota, while Republicans carried a pair in Mississippi, albeit in a post-election runoff in one of the races in the latter. Now-Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) beat former Rep. Mike Espy (D) in the runoff after a jungle primary first-round Senate election in which all candidates ran together on the same ballot and the top two finishers advanced to a runoff because no one won a majority of the vote in the first round. The Mississippi example is instructive because it appears this will also be the format for the Georgia special: According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) will appoint a temporary senator to fill the seat after Isakson resigns, and there will be an election to fill the remaining two years of Isakson’s unexpired term in November 2020. The election will feature an all-party primary and a post-election runoff in the (probable) event no one gets to 50% in the first round. Just like in Arizona, which also is holding a Senate special election next year, this seat will be back on the ballot for a regular election in 2022. Questions abound. Will Kemp pick a placeholder, or will he pick someone who will run next fall? If he does appoint someone who will run again, will other Republicans defer to that person? There are a lot of ambitious Republican pols in Georgia, and recent major statewide primaries (2014 Senate and 2018 governor) have featured big fields with many prominent contenders. Meanwhile, will any Democrats switch over from the other Senate race? There are a number of contenders, none of whom have truly distinguished themselves. Will new candidates emerge? Stacey Abrams (D), who lost a close gubernatorial race to Kemp last year, passed on challenging Perdue and announced Wednesday that she would not run for the other Senate seat either. It would behoove both parties to rally around a single candidate in the special in order to give that person a chance to win the election outright in November 2020. Whether that’s truly possible for either side is another matter. The turnout dynamics in a runoff might benefit the Republicans given the usually less-reliable Democratic voter base, and Democratic intensity has clearly fallen off in two such runoffs over the last dozen years in the state. That said, it’s impossible to know what the dynamics will be. It may even be the case that a Georgia Senate runoff would decide the Senate majority (it’s also possible that the race for Perdue’s seat could go to a runoff as well, depending on the dynamics in that race — so two Senate races in Georgia could still be undecided following next year’s presidential race). The bottom line here is that one would rather be the Republicans at the statewide level in Georgia, but this development does give the Democrats an additional Senate target. There are now 35 Senate races slated for next year: Republicans are defending 23, while Democrats are defending 12. Table 1: Crystal Ball Senate ratings change Senator Old Rating New Rating GA Special (Isakson, R) Not rated Leans Republican Another House special on GOP turf Rep. Sean Duffy (R, WI-7) announced earlier this week that he will be resigning from the House in late September because of family considerations: He and his wife are expecting a ninth child in October, and it has become clear, Duffy said, that the baby will have medical issues. Duffy’s resignation will prompt a special election in his sprawling, northwest Wisconsin congressional district sometime next year (perhaps timed with Wisconsin’s April 7, 2020 presidential primary and state Supreme Court election). The dynamics of the special election for WI-7, whenever it occurs, might feel familiar to readers. It’s just the latest to be held in a district that is clearly Republican-leaning, but not so overwhelmingly Republican that it’s impossible to imagine a Democrat winning it. Trump won WI-7 by 20 points in 2016. That’s about the same margin as the old version of PA-18, which now-Rep. Conor Lamb (D, PA-17) captured in his 2018 special election upset before winning a different district following court-ordered redistricting. WI-7’s presidential lean is also similar to the margins in the districts in several other nationally-watched special elections from last cycle that Republicans held while running significantly behind Trump’s 2016 margin: OH-12 (Trump +11), SC-5 (+19), AZ-8 and MT-AL (+21), and KS-4 (+27). Two special elections coming up on Sept. 10 in North Carolina also are similar: Trump carried the closely-watched and competitive NC-9 by 12 and the not-so-closely-watched NC-3 by 24. (Presidential results by congressional district come courtesy of Daily Kos Elections.) This district is a version of the one that long-serving Rep. David Obey (D) held for more than four decades before retiring in advance of the 2010 election (Obey himself first won the district in a 1969 special election, capturing it for Democrats after Republican Melvin Laird was elevated from the House to lead the Defense Department). It is the kind of district — geographically large, dotted with small towns, overwhelmingly white, and below the national average in four-year college attainment — that has been trending away from Democrats, particularly with Trump leading the GOP. As recently as 2008, Barack Obama carried almost every county in that decade’s version of WI-7, and in 1996, Bill Clinton did carry every county. But Democratic presidential nominees barely carried it in 2000 and 2004, and it voted for Mitt Romney by three points in 2012 — after Republicans altered the district to protect then-freshman Duffy as part of decennial redistricting — before backing Trump by 20 points in 2016. The GOP trend continued there even in the bad GOP environment of 2018, as now-former Gov. Scott Walker (R) carried it by 16 points while losing narrowly statewide, and GOP Senate nominee Leah Vukmir carried it by four points while losing by about 11 points statewide to Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D). (These 2018 results for WI-7 are from Bloomberg’s Greg Giroux, who also maintains a useful history of House special elections dating back to the late 1950s.) So this is definitely GOP-leaning territory at this particular point in time. As we wait to see which candidates emerge, we’re moving the race from Safe Republican, but only to Likely Republican for now. 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Thursday, August 29, 2019 Joe Walsh Enters GOP Race “Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman and tea party favorite turned radio talk show host, announced a challenge Sunday to President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020, saying the incumbent is unfit for office and must be denied a second term.” AP News From the Left The left acknowledges Joe Walsh’s flaws but supports his candidacy in the hopes that it will weaken Trump. “Trump’s stranglehold on the GOP is such that no challenger has a chance in the primaries. Still, it’s vitally important that party faithful be reminded of what they once claimed to care about. Not only do we encourage primary challenges, we urge any conservative spoiling for a fight to press a third-party candidacy in the general election. Given increasingly aberrant behavior in this president, right-of-center voters unable to pull the lever for a Democrat should have a third choice. Run, challengers, run.” Editorial Board, New York Daily News “Sane Republicans (who think they might yet have a future in politics) are too afraid to take such a risk. Ben Sasse isn’t going to do this. Nikki Haley isn’t going to do this. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan isn’t going to do this. Every Never Trumper is, by now, presumed to understand this. When having something to lose is a disqualifier, that leaves only the quixotic and the has-beens… One of the many problems with Trump is that he presents a sort of Catch-22: An adversary can be a responsible adult (and let Trump roll over you), or can try to emulate Trump’s worst qualities (and then, Trumpism wins). Of course, few people—even if they try—have the ability to effectively wrestle with Trump in the muck… “Whether it involves tangling in a debate, or (more likely) trolling on Twitter, Joe Walsh, for all his baggage (maybe because of his baggage?), might be temperamentally better suited to this type of battle. So, yes, there is a certain irony involved in having someone with a sketchy reputation emerge as our would-be savior—but that’s because only a certain type of personality is crazy enough to volunteer for a suicide mission.” Matt Lewis, The Daily Beast “Do Democrats want to share a ‘bed’ with people who have supported President Donald Trump until recently? The answer should be a resounding yes… Trump supporters probably will never listen to Democrats, but these former Trump super fans might be effective at reaching those on the right who have grown increasingly uncomfortable with Trump… “Walsh, a radio show host since losing reelection in 2012 and a frequent guest on cable news, could be effective in reaching rank-and-file Republicans, since he speaks their language. For example, Walsh was a Tea Party Republican when the Tea Party was known for championing lower federal budget deficits. In contrast, under Trump, the deficit is exploding… The 2020 election likely will be a nail biter. In other words, if [criticism from] Scaramucci and Walsh can help peel off even a small percentage of votes from Trump, that might be just enough to defeat him. And that’s something Democrats should be supporting — even if they don’t fully share their ‘beds’ with these men.” Dean Obeidallah, CNN “But as [George] Stephanopoulos pointed out to Walsh, he may not be the best person to make [the] moral argument considering his history of making controversial, and even racist, comments… Walsh told host George Stephanopoulos [that] ‘I went beyond the policy and the idea differences and I got personal and I got hateful. I said some ugly things about President Obama that I regret.’ That is, of course, putting it mildly considering Walsh didn’t just question Obama’s birth certificate, he also said he was secretly a Muslim and also seemed to call for violence when he said he’d be grabbing his ‘musket’ if Trump lost the election against Hillary Clinton. And those are just a few examples. There are many more.” Daniel Politi, Slate “It’s not exactly clear which Republican constituency would find Walsh appealing: Republican voters turned off by Trump’s own conspiracy theorizing and racism are unlikely to support another Republican prone to the same, his current disavowals of such behavior notwithstanding, and Republican voters who don’t find Trump’s invective unappealing will simply vote for him again.” Jane Coaston and Sean Collins, Vox From the Right The right is critical of Joe Walsh and accuses anti-Trump pundits encouraging his candidacy of hypocrisy. “These are the potential options for Trump-weary conservatives: a pro-choice former governor who last served in government in 1997 and who was a registered Libertarian three years ago; a former congressman with his own history of scandal and odd behavior who alienated enough GOP constituents to lose his primary; and another former one-term congressman who is denouncing the sort of incendiary rhetoric he himself was using a few years ago.” Jim Geraghty, National Review “Walsh has endorsed birtherism, alleged that former president Barack Obama is a Muslim, used racial slurs in tweets and on the air in his radio show, and once had a dispute over unpaid child-support payments with an ex-wife. In short, Walsh’s background is extremely similar, and in some ways identical, to that which purportedly is the reason Americans should toss Trump out… The willingness of some anti-Trumpers to tolerate Walsh… places their criticisms into perspective. Apparently, it’s okay when they wrestle with difficult moral decisions and decide to overlook the obvious and apparent unfitness of a man to become president, but it’s not okay when many conservatives look at a flawed president and make reluctant but rational decisions they disagree with.” Henry Olsen, Washington Post “It’s fairly typical for politicians to change their positions over time for expediency. Kirsten Gillibrand, for instance, has flip-flopped on gun rights. Ted Cruz has flip-flopped on Trump. They all do it. But even the most cynical politicians tend to have boundaries they won’t cross. Joe Walsh alone has gone from North Shore liberal to racist conspiracy theorist and back to Never-Trumper shocked at the behavior of our incontinent president.” Timothy P. Carney. Washington Examiner “Once Trump became President and started delivering conservative policies, suddenly Walsh was concerned… Trump, as President, has moved the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, filled the courts with great conservatives, undertaken a historic regulatory rollback, scrapped the Iran deal, rolled back US commitments in the world, and worked to tighten the U.S. border with Mexico. Now, suddenly, Walsh has a problem with the President?… “But this goes beyond Joe Walsh. He is being pushed by a bunch of people who claim character really does matter. So they’ve settled for an opportunistic grifter and birther conspiracist. They might as well back Donald Trump instead of mini-Trump humper turned Trump dumper. What a spectacular admission of failure that Walsh is the best they could come up with. And that they would settle for him suggests they really aren’t that concerned with character. If they just want to beat Trump, rally to Joe Biden — be honest that you’d rather a Democrat instead of pretending to be all about character and conviction while nominating the poor man’s version of Donald Trump.” Erick Erickson, The Resurgent “The fact that hardcore Never Trump pundits have settled on *squints, checks notes* Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford as better options than the president says a lot about whether they want to preserve conservatism or whether they simply despise Trump.” Alexandra DeSanctis, Twitter “Never Trumpers certainly have relevance, but there is something arguably much more important that they do not have: a constituency. The vast majority of conservatives and Republicans outside of the media and the Beltway approve of the job President Trump is doing… This doesn’t mean that all of these conservatives supporting Trump think he is the greatest president of all time, the only one who can save us, or some great moral leader. Some of Trump’s core supporters feel that way, but most don’t. Most see politics as transactional, and given the choice between Trump’s eccentricities and the Democrats’ extreme and radical policy positions, they quite reasonably prefer the former.” David Marcus, The Federalist On the bright side… The viral quesadilla pizza is real and it’s spectacular. Eater 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! 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Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day. At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day. You can listen live here. Polls, Fake News, and Trends American voters are exhausted. They are tired of the drama. They are tired of the tweets. They are tired of the fighting. They are tired of the media sensationalizing everything. They want some semblance of normalcy. Americans, at this point, would love a President they do not have to think about, see, or hear for weeks on end. President Trump is stressing people out through his erratic nature, constant squabbling, and the amplifications of his daily behavior by the press. At this point, polls suggest Americans would probably be okay with a cannibal for President so long as he promised to keep his mouth full, not talk, and stay off Twitter. “Eat, don’t tweet” could be his motto and he would win. Therein lies another trend line Joe Biden and Republicans need to pay attention to. President Trump consistently gets beaten by double digit margins against Biden, Warren, Sanders, and Harris. That will change as we get closer. But consider that there are only about fifteen percent of people who have not made up their minds yet. Historically, those voters break against the incumbent party. This is a real warning sign for President Trump. It is also a warning for Biden. If any Democrat could beat Trump, Democrats do not need the safe option. They could have the bold option with Warren. As Trump looks more vulnerable, Biden becomes more vulnerable. The post Polls, Fake News, and Trends appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Koch Death Exemplified How Progressive Political Idolatry Utterly Devours the Soul Not all leftists are godless. But leftist progressivism represents a godless approach to politics and social order – one in which the state is exalted to godlike status as the ultimate moral authority, and thus power (and the pursuit of power through politics) is worshipped. This isn’t a new observation or a particularly complex realization […] The post Koch Death Exemplified How Progressive Political Idolatry Utterly Devours the Soul appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Cruz wants higher prosecution rates for felons attempting to buy firearms. US Attorney Offices have only prosecuted .096% of cases involving a felon attempting a firearm purchase. While I don’t believe that any new gun laws would prevent any future mass shootings, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) does have legislation in the works that would work towards keeping guns out of the hands of convicted felons. Cruz […] The post Cruz wants higher prosecution rates for felons attempting to buy firearms. appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » BREAKING: Johnny Isakson Will Resign At End of 2019 Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson has announced he will resign from the Senate at the end of 2019. Isakson has served in the Senate since 2005 and served in the House from 1999 to 2005. Here’s the full statement: “After much prayer and consultation with my family and my doctors, I have made the very tough […] The post BREAKING: Johnny Isakson Will Resign At End of 2019 appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » WATCHING COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Week 1 2019 AT LAAAAAAAAAAST. The post WATCHING COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Week 1 2019 appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Unreliable Sources Brian Stelter may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he still thinks he’s smarter than his audience. The post Unreliable Sources appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » CNN Announces an Epic Seven Hour Climate Change Town Hall Ten Democratic presidential candidates will lecture a hand-selected audience on the need for more government control to combat climate change. The post CNN Announces an Epic Seven Hour Climate Change Town Hall appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Quinnipiac Polling Just Out: Shows How Irresponsible the Media Was With Monmouth Polling We have the USA Today-Suffolk poll, the Morning Consult poll, the Emerson College poll, and now the Quinnipiac poll. All of them show that Joe Biden is still solidly in the lead at 32%. In second is Elizabeth Warren at 19%. The polling, by the way, also shows that all major Democrats comfortably beat Donald […] The post Quinnipiac Polling Just Out: Shows How Irresponsible the Media Was With Monmouth Polling appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Oregon Undertakes the Progressive Version of Refusing to Bake a Cake “Bake the cake, bigot,” has become a bit of a flippant statement by conservatives pointing out the hypocrisy of progressives. Progressives do not want to work with people who support Trump. Progressives often want to prevent conservatives from participating in parts of society, eating in certain restaurants, going to certain schools, etc. But a Christian […] The post Oregon Undertakes the Progressive Version of Refusing to Bake a Cake appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The Washington Post Can Do Better by J.D. Vance Lumping in Vance with Steve King, who has said reprehensible, racist things and has been stripped of all his committee duties by his own party, and snubbed by President Trump in his own home state, is in itself a terrible smear and irresponsible journalism. The fact that the Washington Post’s editors didn’t bother to catch this prior to publication is indeed revealing of their blindness. The post The Washington Post Can Do Better by J.D. Vance 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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| Sign up for this newsletter Read online The morning’s most important stories, curated by Post editors. Democrats alarmed by Trump’s promise of pardons to build border wall The notion of any assurances has concerned congressional Democrats, who had been investigating potential obstruction of justice on President Trump’s part as the House continues to weigh whether to launch impeachment proceedings. By Seung Min Kim and Mike DeBonis ● Read more » Strengthening Hurricane Dorian is a growing threat to Florida this weekend Dorian is forecast to be a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds as it approaches the mainland United States on Labor Day weekend. By Jason Samenow, Matthew Cappucci and Andrew Freedman ● Read more » A summer day at the beach? For many Gazans, the conflict has put an end to that, too. The sea was a welcome escape from daily miseries. But because of skyrocketing levels of water pollution, attributable to political and economic turmoil, the coastline is now another barrier in a place where barriers are all too common. By James McAuley and Hazem Balousha ● Read more » Company that got a big chunk of D.C.’s lottery and sports betting contract has no employees The local partner helped the Greek gaming firm’s contract bid, but its operating role is murky. By Steve Thompson ● Read more » Opinions Boris Johnson’s constitutional crisis now resembles America’s By Anne Applebaum ● Read more » Brazil and the world need to strike a balance to save the Amazon By Editorial Board ● Read more » Trump’s ‘jokes’ are totally killing it By Dana Milbank ● Read more » We can’t outsource our security to anyone — especially the Taliban By Lindsey Graham and Jack Keane ● Read more » The electoral college is in trouble By E.J. Dionne ● Read more » The electoral college is here to stay By George Will ● Read more » More News Trump administration ends automatic citizenship for some children of military, federal workers born abroad The rule is expected to affect a “small” number of children whose parents have not lived in the United States for five years. By Maria Sacchetti ● Read more » U.S. military carried out secret cyberstrike on Iran to prevent it from interfering with shipping The attack occurred hours after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone in June, officials said. By Ellen Nakashima and Paul Sonne ● Read more » Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ends her presidential bid, narrowing the Democratic field The New York Democrat became the first senator to drop out of the race, a decision she announced after failing to gain enough donors or the poll standing needed to win a place on the September debate stage. Campaign 2020 ● By Colby Itkowitz and Hailey Fuchs ● Read more » Jackie Kennedy’s fairy-tale wedding was a nightmare for her African American dress designer Ann Lowe was snubbed by the future first lady, who described her to reporters as “a colored dressmaker” without naming her. Retropolis | The Past, Rediscovered ● By Gillian Brockell ● Read more » What does America have against vacation? Studies show that things have gotten staggeringly bleak when it comes to Americans taking vacation, especially compared with our peers in Europe. By The Way | A Post Travel Destination ● By Hannah Sampson ● Read more » Security or surveillance? How smart doorbell company Ring partners with police. Drew Harwell explains how doorbell-camera company Ring is turning its focus to surveillance. Laura Reiley on the war over what plant-based brands get to call themselves. And Adam Taylor on Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament — and debate — ahead of the Brexit deadline. Post Reports | Listen Now ● By The Washington Post ● Read more » We think you’ll like this newsletter Check out The Trailer for news and insight on political campaigns around the country, from David Weigel. 435 districts. 50 states. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings. Sign up » |
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POLITICO Playbook: This fall’s coming attractions
By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMER
08/29/2019 05:52 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
THINGS THAT WILL BE THINGS THIS FALL …
— THE WINNOWING OF THE DEMOCRATIC FIELD. The NYT’s Alex Burns scooped Wednesday that Sen. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D-N.Y.) was getting out of the presidential race. The announcement dovetailed with news that she would not make the next debate, as the DNC tries to slim the presidential field by forcing candidates polling in the single digits off of prime-time stages.
IF YOU SPEND MOST OF YOUR TIME in reality, it’s clear that if you are polling at 1% or 2%, you are not going to be the Democratic nominee. But if you are a presidential candidate, that reality might be harder to swallow. Look for more tension on this front in the coming months, as Democrats try to focus more intensely on who could beat President DONALD TRUMP. NYT’s Reid Epstein: “Democratic Candidates Jostle, and Gripe, as Debates Winnow the Field”
— THE GEORGIA SENATE RACES TAKING SHAPE. Not only does Georgia have a baseball team that’s stubbornly holding onto the top spot in the NL East (ugh), it will now be the epicenter of the battle for control of the Senate over the next three years. Sen. JOHNNY ISAKSON’S (R-Ga.) decision to step down at the end of this year sets up a gubernatorial appointment to the Senate by a Republican governor. Then a 2020 race to finish the end of Isakson’s term, and then a 2022 race for a new term.
SEVERAL MEMBERS of the Georgia GOP House delegationare expected to take a look at running. STACEY ABRAMS immediately took herself out of contention, to the chagrin of many Democrats, who saw her as a strong candidate. JON OSSOFF, who, despite piles of money, could not knock off a Republican in the Atlanta suburbs in 2017, is being chatted about. The AJC’s GREG BLUESTEIN floated Jason Carter and Michelle Nunn as two potential Dems. This is all on top of Sen. DAVID PERDUE’S (R-Ga.) race, which is also in 2020. James Arkin: “Surprise Georgia resignation jolts battle for the Senate”
— DEMOCRATS investigating and trying to prevent TRUMP from holding the G-7 next year at his golf resort, Doral, in Miami.
— BORDER WARS. The president’s eagerness to get a wall built on the southern border has not subsided, but his ability to get Congress to bend to his will has. As WaPo’s SEUNG MIN KIM and MIKE DEBONIS point out, Democrats are worried about the length to which he will go to get this wall done. The Post story
— THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY, where TRUMP might or might not talk to the president of Iran, might or might not have some sort of interaction with the Chinese and might or might not be dealing with some sort of world event or diplomatic crisis that we don’t even foresee at the moment.
— IMPEACHMENT: Will Speaker NANCY PELOSI bend to the more than half of House Democrats (137, at last count) who have called for proceedings to investigate whether the president should be removed from office? Or will she hold firm that Democrats shouldn’t go there since the public is not in favor of impeachment yet?
— THE BATTLE OVER THE USMCA: Another will-she-or-won’t-she for Pelosi. How does the speaker remain in constant battle with the president and pass the president’s trade deal with Canada and Mexico, handing a big political victory to Trump? Can she get the tweaks in it she needs to get it across the finish line? And does she even want to?
— REPUBLICANS VS. TRUMP ON TRADE. In the Capitol, which, at times, reflects reality, lawmakers are growing worried about the president’s predilection for asymmetric and outright bizarre economic warfare. As our colleague BURGESS EVERETT expertly lays out, the GOP does not feel as if the economy is “hot,” as the Trump White House is wont to say. They’re spooked by the trade wars, and want it all brought to a conclusion.
… THE BIG PICTURE — BURGESS EVERETT: “Republicans grow anxious about the Trump economy”: “Republicans have sat patiently with President Donald Trump on his tariff roller coaster ride with China. Now they’re starting to feel queasy. Trump argues his escalating trade war will force China to the table for a deal. But his ever-rising tariffs — and his market-rattling tweets — are increasingly alarming the GOP.
“‘There’s no question that trade uncertainty is contributing to the slowdown,’ said Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), a leading free-trader. ‘We’re in a very good place. The danger is: Where are we going to be a year from now if concerns about trade continue to be an irritant to growth?’
“Particularly as the global economy cools, key Republicans say new levies on almost all Chinese goods threaten to step on the president’s good news story: A growing economy, rising wages and low unemployment. And that could have outsize effects on Republicans’ tough task of defending the Senate and the White House in 2020.” POLITICO
INCOMING! … AP: “Asian markets sink after Wall Street recovery,” by Joe McDonald in Beijing: “Asian stocks declined Thursday following Wall Street’s rebound amid uncertainty about U.S.-Chinese trade tension. Market benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong declined.
“Investors were looking for news about the outlook for U.S.-Chinese trade negotiations following confusion over President Donald Trump’s conflicting statements about the status of talks. Negotiators are due to meet in September but there has been no sign of progress. Investors worry the spiraling tariff war over trade and technology could tip the global economy into recession.” AP
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THE ATLANTIC EIC JEFFREY GOLDBERG got the first interview with JIM MATTIS: “The Man Who Couldn’t Take It Anymore”: “‘Do you know the French concept of devoir de réserve?’ he asked. I did not, I said.
“‘The duty of silence. If you leave an administration, you owe some silence. When you leave an administration over clear policy differences, you need to give the people who are still there as much opportunity as possible to defend the country. They still have the responsibility of protecting this great big experiment of ours. I know the malevolence some people feel for this country, and we have to give the people who are protecting us some time to carry out their duties without me adding my criticism to the cacophony that is right now so poisonous.’ …
“I thought back to what he’d told me earlier in the summer, when I had asked him to describe something Trump could say or do that would trigger him to launch a frontal attack on the president. He’d demurred, as I had expected. But then he’d issued a caveat: ‘There is a period in which I owe my silence. It’s not eternal. It’s not going to be forever.’” The Atlantic
CAPITAL WEATHER GANG: “Strengthening Hurricane Dorian is a growing threat to Florida Labor Day weekend”
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THE MONEY CHASE, via ALEX ISENSTADT: Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle headlined two fundraisers in North Carolina on Wednesday. The first was for Dan Bishop, who is the GOP nominee for the 9th District, where they raised $125,000. They also held a fundraiser for Greg Murphy, who is running in the 3rd District. That event raised $100,000.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION — “E.P.A. to Roll Back Regulations on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas,” by NYT’s Lisa Friedman: “The Trump administration is set to announce on Thursday that it intends to sharply curtail the regulation of methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change, according to an industry official with knowledge of the plan.
“The Environmental Protection Agency, in a proposed rule, will aim to eliminate federal government requirements that the oil and gas industry put in place technology to inspect for and repair methane leaks from wells, pipelines and storage facilities.
“The proposed rollback is particularly notable because major oil and gas companies have, in fact, opposed it, just as some other industries have opposed the Trump administration’s other major moves to dismantle climate change and other environmental rules put in place by President Barack Obama.” NYT
2020 WATCH …
— NYT’S KATIE GLUECK on A16: “Polling Picture Comes Into Focus: Biden Leads a 3-Way Race at the Top”: “New polls published on Wednesday show Joseph R. Biden Jr. with a significant national lead in the Democratic presidential race as the contest heads into the intense fall campaign season, with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders rounding out a threesome that seems to have separated from the rest of the primary field.
“The new data, which shows Mr. Biden earning the support of about one in three Democratic voters, stands in contrast to a poll published Monday that showed a virtual three-way tie between Mr. Biden, Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders at about 20 percent support each. On Wednesday, the director of that poll called those results an outlier.” NYT … Monmouth poll director Patrick Murray’s statement
— “Democratic debate stage shrinks in half,” by Steven Shepard: “The 10 candidates who will be on the debate stage in Houston (from top-to-bottom of their unofficial DNC polling average): Biden (37 percent), Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (21 percent), Warren (20 percent), Harris (17 percent), South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (7 percent), Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey (3 percent), Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota (3 percent), entrepreneur Andrew Yang (3 percent), former HUD Secretary Julián Castro (3 percent) and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas (3 percent).” POLITICO
— THE DAILY BEAST’S HANNA TRUDO: “Dems Sound Alarm: Trump Is ‘Carpet-Bombing’ Us in Key Battlegrounds”: “After pledging to compete everywhere ahead of the next election, multiple DNC members told The Daily Beast they have privately sounded alarms about the organization’s strategy heading into 2020, emphasizing what they view as Chairman Tom Perez’s inability to reach swing voters in Midwestern battleground states who voted for the president.” Daily Beast
— Georgetown’s Institute of Politics and Public Service announced the candidates attending its climate forum on Sept. 19 and 20, hosted with MSNBC, Our Daily Planet and N.Y. Magazine: Michael Bennet, Cory Booker, Steve Bullock, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, John Delaney, Kirsten Gillibrand, Tim Ryan, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Bill Weld and Andrew Yang.
TRUMP’S THURSDAY — The president will participate in the establishment of the U.S. Space Command at 4 p.m. in the Oval Office.
PLAYBOOK READS
DEPT. OF HUH? — “Trump administration ends automatic citizenship for some children of military, federal workers born abroad,” by WaPo’s Maria Sacchetti: “Children born overseas to some American parents serving in the military or working for the federal government may no longer automatically claim U.S. citizenship if their parents had lived in the United States for less than five years, according to a new federal policy issued Wednesday.
“Instead, officials said, those parents must apply for citizenship on behalf of their children before they turn 18 years old. … Changing the rules stirred widespread confusion Wednesday amid concerns about the Trump administration’s emphasis on restricting immigration and amid fears that federal employees and military workers — including those deployed to military bases or dangerous countries — might not have the ability to protect their own children.” WaPo
FOR YOUR RADAR … AP: “China rotates new troops into Hong Kong amid mass protests”
— NYT/JERUSALEM: “Israel has carried out a series of attacks across the Middle East in recent weeks to prevent Iran from equipping its Arab allies with precision-guided missiles, drones and other sophisticated weapons that could challenge Israel’s defenses. The attacks represent a new escalation in the shadow war between Iran and Israel, which has broken into the open and threatens to set off a wider confrontation.” NYT
WHAT AOC IS READING — “The Missing Piece of Amazon’s New York Debacle: It Kept a Burn Book,” by WSJ’s Jimmy Vielkind and Katie Honan: “In a private dossier kept at the time, whose existence has gone previously unreported, Amazon executives cataloged in minute detail the insults they saw coming from New York politicians and labor leaders, according to a copy viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
“By late January, Amazon executives had been pummeled at two public hearings. The burn book, which was kept in a Microsoft Word document called ‘NY Negative Statements,’ had separate sections for a half-dozen politicians and officials who had gone from thorns in the company’s side to formidable opponents of a deal that now looked to be in jeopardy.
“The document recorded how opponents mocked the helipad Amazon planned to build, pushed the Twitter hashtag #scamazon, and brought up the company’s work for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a sore spot among some Amazon employees. It was an eight-page, bullet-pointed, Calibri font testimony to Amazon’s sensitivities.” WSJ
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MUCK READ — “Exclusive: Monsanto used former top DOJ official involved in Epstein deal to quash felony case,” by the Project on Government Oversight’s Adam Zagorin and Nick Schwellenbach in Yahoo: “This spring, Justice Department prosecutors were on the verge of charging biotech giant Monsanto with a felony for illegally spraying a banned, highly toxic pesticide and nerve agent in Hawaii, not far from beachside resorts on Maui. But then, according to an internal April 2019 government document viewed by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), that decision was overruled.
“Monsanto, battling a slew of high-profile lawsuits contending that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer, had its Washington lawyers intervene at the highest levels of DOJ to stop the felony case … A key attorney handling the matter for Monsanto, Alice S. Fisher, is a former senior DOJ official alleged to have played a part in keeping Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial plea deal secret … The felony case against Monsanto was halted after the company’s lawyers launched a last-minute appeal to the office of then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.” Yahoo
VALLEY TALK — “National Security Concerns Threaten Undersea Data Link Backed by Google, Facebook,” by WSJ’s Kate O’Keeffe and Drew FitzGerald in Washington and Jeremy Page in Beijing:“The Justice Department, which leads a multiagency panel that reviews telecommunications matters, has signaled staunch opposition to the project because of concerns over its Chinese investor, Beijing-based Dr. Peng Telecom & Media Group Co., and the direct link to Hong Kong the cable would provide, the people said.
“Ships have already draped most of the 8,000-mile Pacific Light Cable Network across the seafloor between the Chinese territory and Los Angeles, promising faster connections for its investors on both sides of the Pacific. The work so far has been conducted under a temporary permit expiring in September. But people familiar with the review say it is in danger of failing to win the necessary license to conduct business because of the objections coming from the panel, known as Team Telecom.” WSJ
MEDIAWATCH — “Netflix Nabs Julie Plec & Greg Berlanti Drama Series ‘The Girls On the Bus’ Inspired By Amy Chozick’s Hillary Clinton Campaign Memoir,” by Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva: “[T]he TV series is not about Clinton or the 2016 U.S. presidential election and will feature fictional candidates. … Written by Plec and Chozick, The Girls On the Bus chronicles four female journalists who follow the every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, finding friendship, love, and a scandal that could take down not just the presidency but our entire democracy along the way.” Deadline
— “‘Bad Blood’ Author John Carreyrou on Why He Left The Wall Street Journal and What He’ll Do Next,” by The Daily Beast’s Lachlan Cartwright: “Carreyrou said part of the reason he’s leaving the paper after 20 years is because of the Journal’s policy against paid speaking engagements. … Carreyrou said just because he’s done with the Journal doesn’t mean he’s done with journalism. …
“‘I want to keep writing non-fiction books for the second part of my career. That’s more my priority. I may find a home for my reporting in between books.’ Carreyrou has had discussions about joining several news publications, including The New York Times, according to a person familiar with the matter.” Daily Beast
— BUZZFEED’S ROSIE GRAY: “The Weekly Standard’s Corporate Owner Considered Buying The Federalist”: “Clarity Media never ended up buying the Federalist. The sale would have been a potentially awkward ideological fit; the Weekly Standard stayed determinedly anti-Trump throughout the election, while the Federalist adopted more of an anti-anti-Trump or pro-Trump stance over time.”
— BRIEFLY NOTED — @nytpolitics: “We have updated this story assessing the policy failures of the Tea Party movement 10 years after its rise to include context about attacks on President Barack Obama and racist displays at some Tea Party rallies.” NYT
— Mona Zhang has joined POLITICO Pro’s new cannabis policy team. She previously was the founder and editor of the Word on the Tree cannabis newsletter.
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IN MEMORIAM — “Secret Service agent who was with Kennedy dies at his Sahuarita home,” by the Sahuarita Sun’s Kim Smith: “[William ‘Tim’] McIntyre had been with the Secret Service about nine months when Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. McIntyre, then 28, was assigned to the follow-up car behind the presidential limousine.
“According to his statement to the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination, McIntyre was standing on the left running board behind agent Clint Hill when he heard three shots fired within five seconds. He saw the second shot hit Kennedy in the neck and the third strike his head. Hill ran to the limo and shoved Jacqueline Kennedy back inside after she climbed onto the trunk.” (hat tip: Mark Zaid)
TRANSITION — Brett Shumate is joining Jones Day’s government regulatory practice. He previously was a deputy assistant A.G. in the Trump Justice Department. Bloomberg Big Law Business
WEEKEND WEDDING — Marsha Catron, co-founder of Swann Street Strategies and a DHS and Hill alum,and Juan Roberto Espinosa, a Marine Corps master gunnery sergeant serving as deputy director of aviation for installations and logisticsat the Pentagon, got married Saturday at the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, N.M. Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) officiated. Pic… Another pic… SPOTTED: Stephanie Valencia, Oscar Ramirez, Erin McPike, Adrienne Elrod, Betsy Barrett and Aaron Trujillo.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Robert Zirkelbach, EVP of public affairs at PhRMA, and Katie Zirkelbach, president of Zirkelbach Strategies, welcomed Dunning Robert Zirkelbach on Wednesday morning. He came in at 8 lbs, 12 oz. Pic
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Garrett Arwa, director of campaigns at the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. A fun fact that people in Washington might not know about him: “My dream second career would be to be a voice actor or an announcer. I have served as the announcer or ‘voice of god’ at several events, including announcing ‘Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States’ at a rally with President Obama in Detroit in 2014.” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is 52 … WSJ D.C. bureau chief Paul Beckett … former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, is 81 … former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is 64 … Clayton Cox, national finance director at the DNC and father to Cooper (h/t wife Rachel Rauscher) … POLITICO’s Kyle Daly, Nancy Scola, Morgan Granger and Noura Arzaz … Rachael Cusick … Amy Nathan … lobbyist Tom Jolly … Rich Cooper … Sacha Zimmerman … Andrew Adair … Charlie Spies,leader of Clark Hill’s global political law practice … former Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) is 69 … former Guam Gov. Eddie Baza Calvo is 58 … Stacey Hughes, president and founding partner of the Nickles Group … Ryan Hagemann, technology policy executive at IBM … Sal Albanese is 7-0 … Ed Wyatt, senior communications officer at the Gates Foundation … Al Lengel (h/t Tim Burger) …
… Sewell Chan, deputy managing editor at the L.A. Times … Tom Wilbur, director of public affairs at PhRMA (h/t Sara Sendek) … Uliana Pavlova … Edelman’s Anna English … Jerr Rosenbaum, partner at HLP&R Advocacy … Connie Milstein … Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is 38 … Duncan Neasham … Roger McShane of The Economist … Maurice Simpson Jr. is 3-0 … Anna Adams-Sarthou … Tim Warner is 5-0 … Kendra Marr Chaikind … Sam Hudis … Molly Phillips Fogarty, SVP of corporate and government affairs at Nestle … Paul Coussan … Catherine Hill, head of comms for WeWork’s Meetup (h/t Nick Massella) … ONE’s Meagan Bond … Suzanne Henkels … USA Today’s Cristina Silva … former Sen. David Pryor (D-Ark.) is 85 … Ben Martello … Amy Storey … Susan Markham … David Morehouse … Sean Elliott (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Barb Worcester … Paige Ennis … FTI Consulting’s Brian Kennedy … Beau Cribbs
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| Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) announced Wednesday evening that she has dropped her bid for the Democratic nomination after failing to qualify for the third Democratic presidential debate next month and struggling to catch fire with primary voters. Gillibrand’s announcement comes on the deadline to qualify for the September debate. She failed to hit the donor or polling requirements for inclusion after struggling throughout her campaign with fundraising despite hailing from a donor-rich state. From start to finish, Gillibrand, who entered the race in January, made her work on behalf of women the centerpiece of her campaign, headlined by her support for abortion and women’s rights. She went further than most candidates, saying that she would only nominate judges who support the ruling in Roe v. Wade, if elected. She also made a point of attacking former Vice President Joe Biden on a number of women-related issues in recent months. Most recently, she was on the losing end of a back-and-forth with the former vice president after she accused him of opposing women working outside the home. Biden pointed to his work to pass the Violence Against Women Act and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act before wondering why she was suddenly making this point. “I don’t know what happened, except you’re now running for president,” Biden retorted onstage in Detroit. Gillibrand was also on the defensive over positions on various issues now compared with her arguments during her early days in the House as a Blue Dog Democrat, especially on guns and immigration. She also becomes the fourth Democratic candidate to drop out in recent weeks as it became more likely they would not be able to reach the debate stage on Sept. 12, along with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is now running for Senate back home. The prominent Democratic field numbers at least 20 candidates. Gillibrand’s exit makes any endorsement she decides to make for a Democratic contender valuable. She indicated to The New York Times that she will endorse in the primary, but has not decided who that will be. She stopped short of saying she would back a woman for the party’s nod. “I think that women have a unique ability to bring people together and heal this country,” Gillibrand said. “I think a woman nominee would be inspiring and exciting.” “I will support whoever the nominee is, and I will do whatever it takes to beat Trump,” she added. Despite her standing as quite possibly the most anti-Trump candidate in the field, her campaign was never able to get off the ground. She was often overshadowed by other candidates and occasionally was a victim of the news cycle. A week after officially launching her campaign, she held a rally outside Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York — only hours before Attorney General William Barr released a four-page memo outlining the findings in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. With Gillibrand and others excluded from the debate in two weeks, 10 candidates are expected to take part after the likes of Tom Steyer and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) narrowly missed out when the midnight deadline passed on Wednesday night. After two series of debates with 20 candidates in total, all the participants will be on the same stage during an expected clash between two of the preeminent frontrunners: Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Those who miss out on the Houston debate can still qualify for the next one in October; donor and polling requirements remain the same. The New York Times: Democratic candidates jostle and gripe as the debate rules winnow the field. |
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| POLITICS: As Warren rises in polls, her enthusiastic crowds grow larger. She recently attracted 15,000 people in Seattle and 12,000 in St. Paul, Minn. With rally attendance surging, she’s signaling to Democrats that she’s the one who could capture the Democratic nomination or at the very least cause trouble for her rivals, including Biden, according to a report from Amie Parnes. More than a dozen Democratic operatives said in recent interviews that Warren’s crowds prove that she is the cycle’s movement candidate. Democrats historically want the “exciting” candidate who can draw large crowds, pointing to former President Obama’s campaign in 2008 and former President Clinton’s campaign in 1992. However, one thing sets her apart from Obama: He never attracted crowds of this size early in the nominating season, something his former aides readily acknowledge. “What Warren is doing this early on is pretty unprecedented,” said one former senior Obama aide. “If we would have attracted crowd sizes that large early on, Hillary would have run for the hills.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also continues to draw big audiences, including four that attracted more than 10,000 people, including a San Francisco rally with 16,000 in the crowd. > Senate retirement: Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of the year, citing health reasons. The longtime Georgia Republican’s exit sparked conversations about who will replace him. There will be a special election next year — one of two in the state. As Reid Wilson reports, speculation centers on statewide and congressional candidates, including Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, who previously served as Isakson’s chief of staff, Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.), Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, although it remains unknown whether he would want to serve in Washington. One House Republican member spoke highly of Collins and Graves, noting that both are good fundraisers (Collins has $1.2 million in the bank and Graves has $2.2 million), but argued that Graves is the more “politically astute” of the pair, noting that he was an early supporter of Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) in 2014. While Perdue is up for reelection in 2020, the special election will follow a different track. A jungle contest will be held on Election Day, with a runoff between the top two finishers to follow on Jan. 5, 2021, if no candidate reaches 50 percent. The Hill: Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) gets new primary challenger. |
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WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: President Trump continued lashing out at Puerto Rico and its leaders on Wednesday, offering exaggerated and incorrect information about how much federal assistance the island received in the wake of Hurricane Maria nearly two years ago (The Hill).
“Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth,” Trump tweeted. “Their political system is broken and their politicians are either Incompetent or Corrupt. Congress approved Billions of Dollars last time, more than anyplace else has ever gotten, and it is sent to Crooked Pols. No good! …And by the way, I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to Puerto Rico!”
The president’s animus toward the U.S. territory was revived this week by Hurricane Dorian, which delivered a glancing blow to Puerto Rico on Wednesday before brushing past the U.S. Virgin Islands. Weather watchers believe the storm could reach Florida by Monday as a Category 3 menace, but experts caution that Dorian’s trajectory and power are difficult to forecast (The New York Times).
The Associated Press: Dorian aims for the US mainland.
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© Getty Images > Trade: Twenty months into an increasingly tense trade war with China, companies complain the president’s tariffs and countermeasures are beginning to inflict serious damage to their bottom lines. “We are now starting to see the actual impact,” said Association of Equipment Manufacturers Senior Vice President Kip Eideberg (The Hill). On Wednesday, Trump spoke by phone with U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue (cousin of David Perdue), who was with farm interests gathered in Decatur, Ill, for the Farm Progress Show, his press secretary tweeted. Farmers around the country have been saying they’re unhappy with the economic hit they’re experiencing from the administration’s tariffs policy. > Biofuels: During the Illinois farm event on Wednesday, Sonny Perdue said Trump will soon unveil a plan to boost demand for biofuels (Reuters). In a clash between corn-based fuel and the oil industry, the administration finds itself in the middle. Petroleum interests want refineries freed from obligations to blend ethanol into the fuel supply, and farmers in key election states who grow the corn for ethanol balk at that. > Veterans: Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie issued new policies Wednesday allowing religious symbols to be publicly displayed in VA facilities nationwide beginning next summer. Wilkie said the new directive is intended to help protect “religious liberty” as part of a broader effort to make sure “veterans and their families feel welcome at the VA.” The instructions allow the VA to accept donations of religious literature, cards and symbols at its facilities to be shared (CNN). > U.S. citizenship: Children born abroad to certain U.S. service members and other federal employees will no longer be granted automatic citizenship under a Trump administration policy set to take effect in October. Parents of those children, including those born on military bases, will have to apply for citizenship on the children’s behalf before they turn 18, according to a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services policy released on Wednesday. Federal spokespeople could not provide estimates of the number of families affected. The policy change infuriated some at the Pentagon and confused and surprised others in the military community (The New York Times). > Greenhouse gas: Methane is a potent air pollutant that the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency will regulate with less vigor, according to an announcement set today. In a proposed rule, EPA will seek to eliminate federal requirements that the oil and gas industry inspect for and repair methane leaks from wells, pipelines and storage facilities. The regulatory rollback backed by the administration is notable because major oil and gas companies have opposed it (The New York Times). |
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| INTERNATIONAL: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson won Queen Elizabeth II’s approval on Wednesday to suspend Parliament for five weeks, a move that truncates time available to Johnson’s political opponents who seek to block a no-deal divorce from the European Union before Oct. 31. The timing of the new prime minister’s decision took his detractors by surprise, but he reacted to rebukes with assurances that members of Parliament will have plenty of time for debate (The Associated Press). BBC: Johnson’s Parliament suspension sparks furious backlash. CNN: More than 1.3 million people thus far have signed an online petition opposing suspension of Parliament. The Associated Press: Q&A: What does the prime minister’s decision mean for Brexit? “I am appalled at the recklessness of Johnson’s government, which talks about sovereignty and yet is seeking to suspend Parliament to avoid scrutiny of its plans for a reckless no deal Brexit,” Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said Wednesday, adding that he had reached an agreement Tuesday with several opposition party leaders to “prevent this smash and grab against our democracy” (The Hill). Trump, an outspoken admirer of the prime minister’s populist political instincts, inserted himself into the London controversy, tweeting, “Would be very hard for Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, to seek a no-confidence vote against New Prime Minister Boris Johnson, especially in light of the fact that Boris is exactly what the U.K. has been looking for, & will prove to be `a great one!’ Love U.K.” In response, Corbyn tweeted, “I think what the US president is saying, is that Boris Johnson is exactly what he has been looking for, a compliant Prime Minister who will hand Britain’s public services and protections over to US corporations in a free trade deal.” |
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© Getty Images > Hong Kong: Chinese military vehicles were seen early today moving across the border into Hong Kong, in what the military said were regular troop movements, as fears rose that the city could see a Beijing-led crackdown after months of political unrest. The movements of an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 troops are occurring before a major anti-government demonstration planned for Saturday. Following witness reports, state-run news agency Xinhua said the Hong Kong Garrison of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army had a scheduled rotation that was an “annual normal routine” (The Guardian). > Italy: Italy’s warring political parties struck a deal late Wednesday to form a new government that pushed aside Matteo Salvini, a hard-right leader who dominated the country’s politics for more than a year and threatened to drastically reorient Italy’s place in Europe (The New York Times). … The prospect of a new administration in Italy that may be led by outgoing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has buoyed markets, which are betting that the country will get a fiscally prudent government that will avoid confrontation with Europe (Reuters). > Germany: Was a brutal murder in Berlin the work of Russians? A fatal shot to the head of a former Chechen separatist commander in central Berlin on Friday has raised concerns that Russia may have deployed an agent to target a Kremlin opponent, a tactic Moscow has been accused of using many times in the past (The New York Times). |
| OPINION |
| Nuking hurricanes is the newest absurd idea of President Trump, by Steve Israel, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2ZhVrbM Let’s not overreact to the economic slowdown, by Dennis Lockhart, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2LgbSLP |
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| Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features Jessica Jackson, senior counsel with the group #cut50, on presidential candidates’ criminal justice plans; Lauren Maunus, the policy and political coordinator with the Sunrise Movement, discussing the presidential race and environmental debates; and Robert Scott, Economic Policy Institute director of trade and manufacturing, on the protracted U.S. trade war with China. Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House gets back to work on Sept. 4 to begin consideration of legislation to respond to mass shootings. The Senate returns to Washington on Sept. 9. The president participates in the official inauguration of the Pentagon’s U.S. Space Command (USA Today) at 4 p.m. in the Oval Office, joined by Vice President Pence. Pence will visit CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., at 11 a.m. He will also speak about the U.S. Space Command at 4:30 p.m. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at 3 p.m. at the ceremonial swearing-in of Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Assistant Secretary David Schenker at Foggy Bottom. The American Political Science Association meets for its annual convention in Washington today through Sept. 1. Information HERE, and watch for coverage on C-SPAN and C-SPAN.org. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joins Washington journalists for a roundtable Q&A event at 9 a.m. sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. C-SPAN will broadcast the breakfast. Economic indicators: The Bureau of Economic Analysis reports on gross domestic product in the second quarter (its second estimate) and corporate profits in the second quarter (preliminary estimate), both at 8:30 a.m. |
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| ➔ United Auto Workers (UAW): Federal agents on Wednesday raided the home of United Auto Workers President Gary Jones as well as a northern Michigan conference center used by union leaders, according to an FBI spokeswoman. The searches marked a widening of a multiyear criminal investigation into alleged corruption in the UAW’s top ranks. The probe already resulted in charges against nine people (The Wall Street Journal). ➔ Impeachment & investigations: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is teeing up a post-recess showdown with Trump over claims of executive privilege, while also firing off a wave of new subpoenas compelling former administration and Trump campaign officials to testify to Congress in September (The Hill). … While 30 Democratic lawmakers have announced support for the impeachment process in some form since heading back to their districts for the summer, none indicated readiness to vote to impeach Trump now. Only about a dozen Democrats are on the record saying they’d vote to impeach the president before the 2020 election, according to an analysis by The Hill. … Rep. David N. Cicilline of Rhode Island, a member of the House Democratic leadership and the House Judiciary Committee, said any evidence that Trump encouraged subordinates to break the law by promising pardons to hasten the construction of barrier wall at the U.S. southern border is “appalling” and worthy of further investigation by the panel (The Washington Post). The president has denied such reports as false. ➔ Jimmy Carter: The former president, 94, who underwent hip surgery last spring following a fall, plans to resume his decades-long role as a volunteer house builder with Habitat for Humanity this fall, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center said Tuesday (CNN) |
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Kirsten Gillibrand Ends Her Presidential Campaign Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced on Wednesday that she is shuttering her campaign for the Democratic Presidential nominee after failing to qualify for the third Democratic presidential debate slated to take place in Houston, Texas next month. Read more at The Federalist. There are several theories for why no one was going to get on the Gillibrand bandwagon, but I think the biggest thing she had going against her was that she looks like and speaks like a Hillary Clinton 2.0. Her “Gay Rights!” moment was even more cringey than Clinton’s “Just chillin’ in Cedar Rapids” gaff. It didn’t work in 2016, and no Democratic voters are going to take a bet on it in 2020. She constantly touted being a “young mom” as a winning attribute (she’s 52), and that as a white woman, she would be able to explain white privilege to the white women who voted for Donald Trump. Read my full analysis in The Federalist where I predicted this a few months ago, “No One Likes You, Kirsten Gillibrand.” Dave Chappelle Takes Heat From the Left and the Right Comedian Dave Chappelle is out with a new Netflix special, “Sticks and Stones.” If you have time to watch one thing this week, (without any kids around) make it this. Chappelle solidifies his spot as one of the greatest comedians of our generation, planting a flag once and for all against PC culture. Read Ellie Bufkin on him in The Federalist here. “Chappelle succeeds, however, because he simply does not yield. He does not apologize. He makes jokes — really funny jokes — and no matter how many angry tweets and horrified reviews emerge, he persists…. “Sticks & Stones” takes an inward look at how Chappelle’s comeback has affected the new landscape of comedy-bashing harpies, and he takes specific aim, with a big comedy blowtorch, at those trying to stop him from being him.” HSS Not Backing Down From Abortion Fight A week after Planned Parenthood announced they would have to back out of a federal funding program because HHS’s new rules require Title IX recipients to prove they are financially and physically separating those funds from abortion, the Office of Civil Rights at HHS stood it’s ground in another abortion fight. HHS put the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) on notice after a Catholic nurse was reportedly forced to assist during an elective abortion, despite telling her employers she had moral objections. “Severino said the hospital has been given 30 days to change their staffing polices to either become fully compliant, or their federal grants will be in jeopardy. UVMMC recently reported spending a cumulative $1.6 million of federal funds for a project over three years.” Read my full report in The Federalist. Labor Day Menu and Other Foodie Links What are you grilling for Labor Day? I always thought turkey burgers were weird and boring, but my husband is obessed with these and asks me to make them ALL the time. Original recipe from Milk Street Kitchen. I made these bomb blondies with chocolate chunks, pretzels, and salted caramel this weekend. Must serve hot with vanilla ice cream. (Smitten Kitchen) Speaking of Milk Street Kitchen, if you’ve followed the saga of their founder Christopher Kimball, you know he’s the founder of America’s Test Kitchen, who has been suing him ever since he left to start his own venture. They finally reached a settlement after 3 years last week. (Boston Magazine) A quite reasonable guide to bringing back the family dinner. (Washington Post) BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist. |
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FIRST READ: Democrats now have a wider Senate map. Can they take advantage of it?
The good news Democrats received on Wednesday: Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson will retire from the Senate in December 2019, which means Georgia will have TWO Senate seats up for grabs in 2020.
That’s an extra GOP seat Democrats can target – in a state that’s become more demographically friendly to them – as they try to net the three Senate seats needed to flip the chamber if they win the White House.
But here’s the bad news: They don’t have top-tier candidates running in Georgia right now – either against Republican Sen. David Perdue or for Isakson’s seat, especially after Stacey Abrams confirmed she wouldn’t run for either seat.
Indeed, for all the discussion of whether Beto O’Rourke should abandon his presidential bid and run for the Senate, Texas Democrats arguably have a stronger field of candidates right now (MJ Hegar, Royce West, Amanda Edwards) than Georgia Dems do (with Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson, Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry and 2018 Lt. Gov. nominee Sarah Riggs Amico).
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The other challenge for Democrats: Can they find a PRESIDENTIAL nominee who can help their Senate candidates in Georgia – as well as in Arizona, North Carolina and Texas?
But with a net-positive nominee and a stronger candidate or two in Georgia, Democrats have a real opportunity in 2020, where they can win back the White House, hold on to the Senate, and get to 50-plus Senate seats.
Of course, that’s the best-case situation, like what happened for Democrats and Obama in 2008, or Republicans and Reagan in 1980.
The other clear takeaway: Georgia is going to be a battleground state next year – with the right candidate(s) and the right presidential nominee.
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … 90 percent
90 percent.
Of the 29 times in the last 70 years that BOTH of a state’s Senate seats have been up for election at the same time, the same party won both seats in 26 of them, per [bit.ly/2ZFseqU]Nathan Gonzalez of Inside Elections.
That’s 90 percent of those cases.
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That Democrats have a real opportunity in 2020 is even more pronounced with some worsening perceptions of the U.S. economy.
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He later was asked by the president of the Black Student Union at Limestone College why African Americans should trust the Democratic Party. Biden responded, “We have systemic racism in the United States of America. It exists today. And it’s a white man’s problem, white men are responsible for it, not black men.”
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08/29/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Joe Walsh; N.C. Senate Race; Twain Out West By Carl M. Cannon on Aug 29, 2019 09:13 am Good morning, it’s Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. On this date in 1863, while newspaper readers in the Midwest and East were still digesting news of the carnage Quantrill’s Raiders had visited upon Lawrence, Kan., out in San Francisco, subscribers to the Daily Morning Call were treated to a less gruesome dispatch from its Nevada correspondent. It seems that a fire had broken out in the mining town of Virginia City and two rival fire companies had responded. This led to ill will, apparently, the result being a near-riot, a miner being shot, and one of the firemen under arrest. All of this, including the ostensible reason for the trouble, was contained in two brief paragraphs. The newspaper writer didn’t quite play the story for laughs — a man was dead, after all — but even 156 years later, you can almost see the reporter smiling under his bushy mustache as he ends the item with a terse sentence conveying his view of the underlying reason for the melee: “All stores and liquor shops have been closed by order of the City Marshal.” Perhaps you ask: How do I know that the writer of this unsigned item even had a mustache? I’m tempted to reply, in the spirit of the author himself: Didn’t all Nevadans sport facial hair in those days? The correct answer, though, is that the Daily Morning Call’s Virginia City correspondent was none other than Mark Twain. I’ll have more on Twain’s tenure as a Western newspaperman in a moment. First, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * * * From Trumpism to Trump Challenger: Joe Walsh on His 2020 Run. Phil Wegmann has this interview with the former congressman who’s changed his tune about the president. N.Y. Donations in N.C. Primary Fuel Charges of Meddling. Susan Crabtree reports on the controversy stirred by outside campaign contributions in the Democratic race to take on Sen. Thom Tillis next year. Mike Lee, Google, and a Curious Antitrust Flip-Flop. Adam Candeub charts the senator’s transformation from harsh critic of the social media giant to stalwart defender. Five Facts: The Resilient U.S. Consumer. In RealClearPolicy, No Labels this primer on consumer spending amid growing fears of a recession. Proposed Merger Holds Promise for U.S. National Security. In RealClearDefense, William Hughes cites the benefits of the “merger of equals” announced by United Technologies and Raytheon. * * * As the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, 25-year-old Samuel Clemens enlisted in his local militia. This being Missouri, we’re talking about a unit soon to be subsumed into the Confederate Army. By the time that happened, wanting no part of rebellion or war, Clemens was on his way to the West. There, he would try his hand first at silver mining, and then at newspapering. He employed various pen names, settling by 1863 on the one the world knows him by today. Long before he penned the classic coming-of-age, anti-racism novel that made him rich and famous, Mark Twain honed his puckish, insightful writing style in San Francisco and the mining camps that spawned the growth of the great port city. The biographer who has studied Twain’s contributions to the San Francisco Daily Morning Call most extensively is Edgar M. Branch, author of “Clemens of the Call: Mark Twain in San Francisco.” Branch estimated that in a tenure lasting less than five months, Twain filed some 5,400 local news items for the paper. It’s a prolific output, the problem for scholars being that none were bylined. Branch identified 471 of them as being unmistakably Twain, 206 of which he reprinted in his book. Barbara Schmidt, a meticulous compiler of Twain quotes, has added a few more to her indispensable website. The first Daily Morning Call dispatch we encounter was published on July 9, 1863, in which our correspondent describes the stagecoach ride from San Francisco to Virginia City. In the opening sentence he permits himself a little white lie – pretending to be a native of those parts — in a line that is vintage Twain: “After an absence of two months, I stand in the midst of my native sage-brush once more; and in the midst of bustle and activity, and turmoil and confusion, to which lunchtime in the Tower of Babel was foolishness.” Later in life, Twain would describe the task of filling a local broadsheet with a near-endless stream of local items as “killingly monotonous and wearisome … soulless drudgery.” Maybe that was true on many days, but not all. Sometimes, especially in the beginning, you can see a man enjoyably practicing a vocation that may have equaled the drudgery of soldiering, but without the danger and the blood and the suffering. Describing his trip from San Francisco by stage, he named a few of his follow passengers, who, he noted, “created a famine at every station we stopped at.” “They fell upon the Barnum Restaurant in Sacramento, and ate the proprietor out of house and home; then they attacked the [next] station … and brought ruin and desolation upon it,” Twain wrote. “I am a mighty responsible artist at a dinner table myself, when I get a chance — but I never got one until we arrived at Lake City, on Wednesday evening. … The only man among the wounded who was seriously hurt was a Mr. Tomlinson, from Humboldt Bay — shoulder dislocated. They gave us a fish breakfast at Hunter’s, on the Truckee — trout, Uncle John said, but it was hardly tender enough for that — I expect it was whale.” It’s as though, as P.G. Wodehouse would do eight decades later with Europe in flames, Twain had turned deliberately from the horrors of war. He had a job to do, yes, and that was to fill a local paper with local news, most of it quite trivial. But his real purpose, as he saw it, was to make us laugh at the human condition. President Lincoln himself approved. On Sept. 22, 1862, Lincoln was reading something by humorist Artemus Ward and laughing aloud. In a story told by Edward M. Stanton, Lincoln’s mirth apparently surprised those in his war council, whereupon Lincoln said, “Gentlemen, why don’t you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.” The following year, the same Artemus Ward (born Charles Farrar Browne) made his way out to San Francisco, and then out to Virginia City. Did he meet Mark Twain there? The answer is: of course. The two men apparently went drinking — for breakfast. Hijinks ensued. They became friends for life, which in Artemus Ward’s case wasn’t long. He died two years after Lincoln, at age 32. But Twain remembered him fondly for decades. You can’t make this stuff up. Well, I guess you could, but when it comes to American history there’s little need. Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com Having trouble viewing this email? | [Unsubscribe] | Update Subscription Preferences Copyright © 2019 RealClearHoldings, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email becuase you opted in at our website. Our mailing address is: RealClearHoldings666 Dundee RoadBldg. 600Northbrook, IL 60062 Add us to your address book |
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