#Quentin Fulks

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Meredith Lee Hill at Politico:

Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing on a new campaign hire as part of her team’s push to clinch must-win states this fall by keeping former President Donald Trump from running up the score in rural counties. Harris is tapping Matt Hildreth of the progressive Rural Organizing group as her rural engagement director, according to four people familiar with the plans who were granted anonymity to discuss the matter. Democrats have been hemorrhaging support in rural America for years, but making even a small dent in Trump’s steep rural margins could determine the outcome in battleground states that may be decided by razor-thin margins.

Hiring Hildreth, whose grassroots organization is already knocking doors for Harris and Democratic candidates across the country this fall, signals the campaign is looking to seriously expand a resource-intensive ground game to reach rural voters who could swing the election. The Harris-Walz team doesn’t expect the ticket to flip many rural counties. But some of Harris’ top advisers have argued that simply losing by slightly fewer percentage points in these areas could help carry her and down-ballot Democrats to victory. In recent memos, the campaign has argued “the key to decreasing margins in rural areas is to show up and compete everywhere — which is exactly what we’re doing across the country.”

A Harris campaign spokesperson confirmed the hire. The campaign is now looking to ramp up an aggressive ground game from Wisconsin and Arizona to Georgia and other battleground states, to peel away even a few percentage points from Trump’s rural margins. The move comes weeks after Democrats in battleground districts feared President Joe Biden’s debate fallout would cost them another wave of votes, including some of the party’s few remaining rural House seats. Harris’ deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks helped Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) cut down GOP rural margins in his 2022 Georgia Senate win, and he was a key part of organizing Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s��recent bus tour in rural Georgia — a rare step for a national Democratic ticket as local Democrats argue the party has increasingly overlooked rural organizing at its peril.

Local organizers also note that the party has a solid opportunity to gain support in some rural communities, especially in pockets of Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona with younger voters and voters of color. The Biden-Harris administration and Democrats have poured billions in federal investments into rural communities, with Biden just this week touting new funding in a largely rural swing district in southwest Wisconsin. At the same time, Democrats in battleground districts have been worried that Harris may do worse than Biden in key rural counties against Trump, especially among older, white voters in the upper Midwest. Biden managed to make some small gains in rural counties, including with Obama-Trump pockets, in 2020 after Trump blew out Hillary Clinton in rural areas in 2016. Harris’ team is hoping that’s where Walz can boost the ticket.

The Harris/Walz campaign’s hiring of a rural voters director is a good idea, as Democrats need to learn how to reach rural voters and cut the margins.

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Trouble in paradise? Of course, her entire public career, her staff has been a revolving door of disdain and severe abuse. Since becoming VP over 91% of her staff has changed, a number of positions multiple times.

If there are any REAL journalists, the U.S. Secret Service agent removed from Harris’s security detail at Joint Base Andrews in April has a ton to say. The agent admitted ‘going off’ after being mistreated by Harris ‘for the last time.’

On Monday, Kamala ‘Kameleon’ Harris senior campaign staff were not just panicking, they are threatening to abandon the campaign.

Reports are Jill Biden is sabotaging behind the scenes but also sources have bee indicating for weeks Barack Obama has been meeting in secret with David Plouffe.

Campaign staffers that have discussed their departure in separate meetings Monday were:

David Plouffe

Quentin Fulks

Gene Sperling

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D.U.D.E Bios: Kestrel May

Ulysses' Angel of Love Kestrel May (2020)

The beloved wife of Ulysses, first Daughter-in-law of Damian and Linda and the reason Ulysses has a job he loves. Kestrel is strong and vigilant for good reasons, and sometimes chaotic reasons too.

"Uly, don't hurt yourself."

Name

Full Legal Name: Kestrel Rhoda May (Neé Coy)

First Name: Kestrel

Meaning: From the name of the bird of prey, ultimately derived from Old French crecelle 'rattle', which refers to the sound of its cry

Pronunciation: KEHS-trel

Origin: English

Middle Name: Rhoda

Meaning: Derived from Greek rhodon meaning 'rose'

Pronunciation: RO-da

Origin: Biblical, English

Surname: May (Neé Coy)

Meaning: Derived from the given name 'Matthew’, which is the English form of 'Matthaios’, which was a Greek form of the Hebrew name 'Mattityahu’ meaning 'Gift of Yahweh’, from the roots 'Mattan’ meaning 'Gift’ and 'Yah’ referring to the Hebrew God. (Means 'shy, quiet, coy' from Middle English coi.)

Pronunciation: MAY (KOI)

Origin: English (English)

Alias: N/A

Reason: N/A

Nicknames: Kes, Ro

Titles: Mrs

Characteristics

Age: 39

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: British

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: September 12 1981

Symbols: None

Sexuality: Straight

Religion: Christian

Native Language: English

Spoken Languages: English

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Virgo

Theme Song (Ringtone): N/A

Voice Actor: Sarah Jayne Dunn

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Barnstaple, Devon, England

Current Location: Barnstaple, Devon, England

Hometown: Barnstaple, Devon, England

Appearance

Height: 5'6" / 167 cm

Weight: 150 lbs / 68 kg

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) None

Piercings: Ear Lobes (both)

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Clean

Illnesses/Disorders: None

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: N/A

Enemies: N/A

Friends: Honora Sullivan

Colleagues: N/A

Rivals: N/A

Closest Confidant: Ulysses May

Mentor: Octavia Coy

Significant Other: Ulysses May (38, Husband)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Norman Coy (62, Father), Octavia Coy (63, Mother, Neé Gore)

Parents-In-Law: Damian Lum (61, Father-In-Law), Linda May (59, Mother-In-Law)

Siblings: Perry Coy (42, Brother), Sylvan Coy (36, Brother), Vera Haig (33, Sister, Neé Coy), Arthur Coy (30, Brother), Crystal Coy (27, Sister), Dunstan Coy (24, Brother), Euphemia Coy (21, Sister), Fulk Coy (18, Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: Roseann Coy (43, Perry's Wife, Neé Gray), Topaz Coy (37, Sylvan's Wife, Neé Grey), Winton Haig (34, Vera's Husband), Bristol Coy (31, Arthur's Wife, Neé Hale), Viola Nye (41, Ulysses' Half-Sister, Neé Lum), Quentin Nye (42, Viola's Husband), Wanda Ott (35, Ulysses' Half-Sister, Neé Lum), Heath Ott (36, Wanda's Husband), Tristan Lum (32, Ulysses' Half-Brother), Gardenia Lum (33, Tristan's Wife, Neé Day), Xavia Lum (29, Ulysses' Half-Sister), Sullivan Lum (26, Ulysses' Half-Brother), Yasmine Lum (23, Ulysses' Half-Sister), Roger Lum (20, Ulysses' Half-Brother), Zella Lum ( 17, Ulysses' Half-Sister), Ourania Fenn (35, Ulysses' Half-Sister, Neé Fear-May), Jett Fenn (36, Ourania's Husband), Noah Fear-May (32, Ulysses' Half-Brother), Ireland Fear-May (33, Noah's Wife, Neé Gibb), Monica Fear-May (29, Ulysses' Half-Sister), Luke Fear-May (26, Ulysses' Half-Brother), Kelia Fear-May (23, Ulysses' Half-Sister), Jonah Fear-May (20, Half-Brother), Irene Fear-May (17, Ulysses' Half-Sister)

Nieces & Nephews: Glory Coy (22, Niece), Humbert Coy (19, Nephew), Ione Coy (16, Niece), Jesse Coy (13, Niece), Kelda Coy (10, Niece), Lucius Coy (16, Nephew), Mona Coy (13, Niece), Norbert Coy (10, Nephew), Ottoline Haig (13, Niece), Paxton Haig (10, Nephew), Rosalind Coy (10, Niece), Adam Nye (21, Nephew), Paulette Nye (18, Niece), Benjamin Nye (15, Nephew), Olivia Nye (12, Niece), Charles Nye (9, Nephew), Magnolia Ott (15, Niece), Laurence Ott (12, Nephew), Naomi Ott (9, Niece), Humphrey Fenn (15, Nephew), Grace Fenn (12, Niece), Fulton Fenn (9, Nephew), Daisy Lum (12, Niece), Vance Lum (9, Nephew), Eve Fear-May (12, Niece), Durward Fear-May (9, Nephew)

Children: Earl May (18, Son), Jane May (15, Daughter), Flint May (12, Son), Imogen May (9, Daughter)

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: N/A

Trainer: N/A

Managers: N/A

Wrestlers Managed: N/A

Debut: N/A

Debut Match: N/A

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: N/A

Stables: N/A

Teams: N/A

Regular Moves: N/A

Finishers: N/A

Refers To Fans As: N/A

Extras

Backstory: Kestrel is the devoted wife of Ulysses and the reason he has a job at her father's company.

Trivia: None of note

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Kamala Promises Citizenship For Illegals

Fight Censorship and Help Spread Mockingbird Non-Compliant News! Like, Share, Re-Post, and Subscribe! There’s a lot more to see at our main page, Dixie Drudge! View Source: Vice President Kamala Harris will offer a humane welcome and citizenship to migrants “who do it in the right way,” Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks told NewsNation Thursday night. “The Vice President is going to continue…

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Propaganda's bunglers

By contrast, Donald Trump walked out there, called Biden the worst president in history, brought almost everything back to his depiction of a lawless border, said it over and over again with conviction, refused to answer any question and returned to his two points, and lied his ass off. It was terrible. But if “politics is television with the sound off,” as Karl Rove once said, it was no contest.

This was over in the first ten minutes. Biden actually improved a bit after that, but the narrative was set. He improved by throwing away the script and showing a little emotion. But who put that script into Biden’s head in the first place? His debate preppers. And let’s name names here: Ron Klain, Anita Dunn, Ben LaBolt, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Cedric Richmond, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Quentin Fulks, Michael Tyler, and Rob Flaherty.

They were the ones who thought you could bring a white paper to a knife fight, to fight a con man with Tracy Flick. https://prospect.org/politics/2024-06-28-bidens-inner-circle-deserves-blame-debate/

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..."For months polls have shown Trump beating Biden nationally, though the race remains tight; more important, thanks to our genius electoral college system, is Trump’s advantage in six of the seven battleground states that are likely to be decisive. Things look equally rugged for Biden when you go deeper than the horse race: A majority of Americans believe economic conditions were better under Trump—despite Biden delivering record-low unemployment numbers—and inflation remains stubbornly high. In March the share of voters strongly disapproving of Biden’s job performance reached a new peak, according to a New York Times survey. Many voters under 35 are angered by the administration’s support for Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. And voters of every age group think Biden, 81, is too old to bid for a second term.

The leaders of his reelection team aren’t in denial; they understand they’re facing daunting challenges. The coalition that elected Biden in 2020 has splintered. “We believe that Joe Biden has an important story to sell and has been a historic president,” a senior campaign strategist says. “But that doesn’t mean to say that everyone is going to love him perfectly.” Which may not make for the most stirring political rallying cry. But it underlies the campaign’s methodical drive to raise tens of millions of dollars to assemble a sophisticated operation that will press the fight in both conventional and innovative ways. The plan stretches from boosting Latino turnout in Arizona to winning Michigan—despite the state’s much-hyped “uncommitted” Democratic primary voters—to flipping North Carolina to wooing a meaningful number of Nikki Haley-Republican-primary voters to aggressively educating potential Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voters about his beliefs. For months the campaign has quietly built infrastructure in key states—a foundation that is now allowing it to capitalize on Republican gifts, like the Arizona supreme court’s approval of a near-total ban on abortion. “We know exactly the voters we need to turn out,” a senior campaign operative says, “and we’ve got a plan to do it.”

That confidence flows from data research that assigns probabilities to individual voters. It is also based on a deep roster of human political intelligence, like Quentin Fulks, the principal deputy campaign manager, who was a top aide on Raphael Warnock’s winning Georgia senate reelection campaign over Herschel Walker in 2022, and Julie Chávez Rodriguez, the 46-year-old campaign manager who is a granddaughter of pioneering labor leader Cesar Chavez. “We wanted to make sure we had strong campaign experience, but also really strong lived experience for the communities and voters that we want to reach. So it’s not by default that it’s myself and Quentin running this campaign. That was extremely intentional,” Rodriguez says. “And being able to prioritize our base targets, it’s not the way that most presidentials have been run. They don’t usually invest in doing outreach to communities of color early.”

Yet much of the work of piecing together the strategy and the machinery has occurred in Wilmington, outside the national media spotlight, which has contributed to a perception among many Democrats that the Biden campaign is eerily, delusionally calm. “What scares me to death is they think they’ve proven everyone wrong every time,” a senior Democratic insider says. “They have this outward posture of, ‘We came from nowhere in the 2020 primary, we’re the only ones who beat Trump in the general, so trust us.’ But remember, in the fall of 2020, they sent Biden to Ohio and Kamala Harris to Texas where they had no chance, when they could have been in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. So let’s not get on too high of a horse.”

Maybe so—though Biden visited and won those four key states four years ago. And up close, it’s clear no one is resting on their horses, or their laurels. The 2024 campaign’s activities are intense and far-reaching, permeated by a deep sense of urgency. “I can certainly feel the weight of what we’re doing,” says Dan Kanninen, who leads the battleground-state effort. “But to be in it gives a measure of purpose that is different than just allowing your anxieties to take you somewhere else.” Biden’s lieutenants have forceful, detailed, logical pushbacks to every possible criticism of the campaign. There’s only one part of the reelection operation that feels unnerving: so much of the victory calculus hinges on voters, once they’ve heard the relevant facts, behaving rationally. That worry is compounded by the stakes. “If we lose this election,” a national Democratic strategist says, “we might not have another one.”

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Symone questions Biden campaign manager as Trump, voters cast doubt on strategy

One of President Biden’s leading project lieutenants Quentin Fulks signs up with The Weekend co-hosts to break down what the Biden project group is expecting tomorrow night in Iowa and how the President can equate his White House achievements into votes at the tally box …Read More

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[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Live Action News.] By Nancy Flanders Live Action News President Biden’s principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, during which he stated that Biden’s number one...

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Chris Smith at Vanity Fair:

On a sunny afternoon the views from Joe Biden’s campaign headquarters in downtown Wilmington, Delaware are so clear that if you squint hard you can almost see the White House, 100 miles to the south. The floor plan is open and the windows run just about floor to ceiling, so all 200 staffers share in the sweeping vista.

With the striking exception of probably the most important person on the premises. That Jen O’Malley Dillon sits at the very center of the office is appropriate, symbolically: She is a hub of the reelection effort’s leadership infrastructure. It also means that O’Malley Dillon, officially the campaign chair, is the only person on the team who occupies a dimly lit cubicle. Four years ago, J.O.D., as most everyone in Bidenworld knows her, became the first woman to manage a winning Democratic US presidential campaign, and the first person of any gender in three decades to knock off an incumbent. O’Malley Dillon, 47, has shunned credit and most interviews since. So her nondescript current workspace—blank walls, a tiny desk strewn with papers, a small bookshelf holding a jumble of binders and framed family photos—fits her no-nonsense approach. O’Malley Dillon is ferociously focused on reelecting Biden. Gazing out the window would be a useless distraction. “You have to keep in perspective what’s at stake because every second I waste is a second that we could lose the thing that matters most to me, which is a future for my kids,” she tells me.

Her relentlessness is a good thing, because her candidate is running uphill. For months polls have shown Trump beating Biden nationally, though the race remains tight; more important, thanks to our genius electoral college system, is Trump’s advantage in six of the seven battleground states that are likely to be decisive. Things look equally rugged for Biden when you go deeper than the horse race: A majority of Americans believe economic conditions were better under Trump—despite Biden delivering record-low unemployment numbers—and inflation remains stubbornly high. In March the share of voters strongly disapproving of Biden’s job performance reached a new peak, according to a New York Times survey. Many voters under 35 are angered by the administration’s support for Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. And voters of every age group think Biden, 81, is too old to bid for a second term.

The leaders of his reelection team aren’t in denial; they understand they’re facing daunting challenges. The coalition that elected Biden in 2020 has splintered. “We believe that Joe Biden has an important story to sell and has been a historic president,” a senior campaign strategist says. “But that doesn’t mean to say that everyone is going to love him perfectly.” Which may not make for the most stirring political rallying cry. But it underlies the campaign’s methodical drive to raise tens of millions of dollars to assemble a sophisticated operation that will press the fight in both conventional and innovative ways. The plan stretches from boosting Latino turnout in Arizona to winning Michigan—despite the state’s much-hyped “uncommitted” Democratic primary voters—to flipping North Carolina to wooing a meaningful number of Nikki Haley-Republican-primary voters to aggressively educating potential Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voters about his beliefs. For months the campaign has quietly built infrastructure in key states—a foundation that is now allowing it to capitalize on Republican gifts, like the Arizona supreme court’s approval of a near-total ban on abortion. “We know exactly the voters we need to turn out,” a senior campaign operative says, “and we’ve got a plan to do it.”

That confidence flows from data research that assigns probabilities to individual voters. It is also based on a deep roster of human political intelligence, like Quentin Fulks, the principal deputy campaign manager, who was a top aide on Raphael Warnock’s winning Georgia senate reelection campaign over Herschel Walker in 2022, and Julie Chávez Rodríguez, the 46-year-old campaign manager who is a granddaughter of pioneering labor leader César Chávez. “We wanted to make sure we had strong campaign experience, but also really strong lived experience for the communities and voters that we want to reach. So it’s not by default that it’s myself and Quentin running this campaign. That was extremely intentional,” Rodríguez says. “And being able to prioritize our base targets, it’s not the way that most presidentials have been run. They don’t usually invest in doing outreach to communities of color early.”

Yet much of the work of piecing together the strategy and the machinery has occurred in Wilmington, outside the national media spotlight, which has contributed to a perception among many Democrats that the Biden campaign is eerily, delusionally calm. “What scares me to death is they think they’ve proven everyone wrong every time,” a senior Democratic insider says. “They have this outward posture of, ‘We came from nowhere in the 2020 primary, we’re the only ones who beat Trump in the general, so trust us.’ But remember, in the fall of 2020, they sent Biden to Ohio and Kamala Harris to Texas where they had no chance, when they could have been in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. So let’s not get on too high of a horse.”

Maybe so—though Biden visited and won those four key states four years ago. And up close, it’s clear no one is resting on their horses, or their laurels. The 2024 campaign’s activities are intense and far-reaching, permeated by a deep sense of urgency. “I can certainly feel the weight of what we’re doing,” says Dan Kanninen, who leads the battleground-state effort. “But to be in it gives a measure of purpose that is different than just allowing your anxieties to take you somewhere else.” Biden’s lieutenants have forceful, detailed, logical pushbacks to every possible criticism of the campaign. There’s only one part of the reelection operation that feels unnerving: so much of the victory calculus hinges on voters, once they’ve heard the relevant facts, behaving rationally. That worry is compounded by the stakes. “If we lose this election,” a national Democratic strategist says, “we might not have another one.”

Rob Flaherty rates a private corner office. One of its walls is decorated with images of Biden’s trademark aviator sunglasses in a repeating pattern of green, blue, black, and orange. The opposite wall is dominated by a banner, its black background contrasting with large white letters reading “NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING.” Flaherty had better know something. His title, deputy campaign manager, doesn’t even hint at the magnitude of his responsibilities. The 32-year-old oversees two crucial aspects of Biden’s campaign: digital strategy and relational organizing. The first role means not simply figuring out how to target a multi-million-dollar pro-Biden online ad campaign, but trying to fight off a fire hose of right-wing attacks and disinformation. Flaherty did this craftily for Biden during the 2020 campaign, particularly in steering an effort to identify “market moving” issues—separating things that had the potential to actually influence voters, like concerns about Biden’s mental fitness, from mere noise, like the Republican obsession with Hunter Biden. In some respects—most notably Gaza and inflation—there are new substantive challenges this time. One major concern hasn’t changed: Biden’s advanced age. “The way you combat the age issue,” Flaherty says, “is, one, he gets out there and addresses it. What you see him doing in his paid [media] right now. And it’s by fighting on the issues that people care about. If we address the fact that they want to see him go and fight for them, the issue goes away pretty quick.”

Yet the online landscape has changed dramatically in four years, with media consumers fractured into ever-more-personalized content silos, many of them hardened against campaign messaging, a shift that seems to benefit Trump. “Voters who do not want to hear about politics never have to,” Flaherty says. “People who are not hearing about politics, they are not trusting of politicians, they’re not trusting the media. So it becomes incumbent on the campaign to think about, how do we reach those people where they are? You have to diversify the way you do paid media, right? You can't just spend 70% on linear broadcast television and hope you’re going to reach folks.”

One of Flaherty’s priorities is reaching tuned-out potential voters. “The voters who we think are pretty much the difference makers in this election, these voters, you have to persuade them to participate,” he says. “This is going to be a back-loaded election for when people start to pay attention. They are largely a younger, more diverse set of people who voted for us last time, who lean Democrat. They hate Trump. They are really hard to reach. And there’s just more of those this time.” A related task is neutralizing the deluge of Republican disinformation. “At the close of any campaign, I know my candidate is in trouble if key parts of the electorate are awash in more negative than positive information about my candidate,” a top Democratic strategist says. “And right now, particularly younger voters of color on social media, they’re hearing more negative than positive information about Joe Biden. How do they turn that?”

Massive spending is part of the answer. But the campaign believes the cash must be spread on a wider array of formats than ever before and in creative ways. So when Biden visited a North Carolina home in March, Flaherty’s team enlisted the family’s 13-year-old son to post a video on TikTok, generating more than five million views across a range of sites, the kind of reach a conventional rally doesn’t produce. The White House has bolstered the president’s online presence by encouraging the work of independent liberal influencers, including Aaron Rupar and Ron Filipkowski, who have driven news cycles by circulating video clips of Trump’s stumbles and incendiary comments. Biden’s team is also investing heavily in first-person testimonial ads from ordinary Americans. “Having elected officials give speeches or be on Sunday talk shows is important,” says Roger Lau, who was Elizabeth Warren’s campaign manager in 2020 and who now works closely with the Biden effort as deputy executive director of the Democratic National Committee. “But finding that nurse in Nevada who can talk about why capping the cost of insulin at 35 bucks a month is important to their families because Filipinos have a much higher rate of type two diabetes than other communities—that kind of video, digital, and social content, it just cuts through in a totally different way.”

Flaherty comes across as ebullient and exhausted, which is understandable given that he’s crafting in-real-life organizing plans at the same time he’s trying to counteract the Laura Loomers of the world online. His digital turf overlaps with his more experimental turf, relational organizing. “You have to get people to share content through their friends and family, trusted messengers,” Flaherty says. “This is important because of what I think is the second trend that is different from ’20. In 2022, half of the content shared on Instagram was in private. So if you’re running a digital strategy that is aimed just at reaching people in their feeds, you’re missing where a lot of conversation on the internet is happening.”

[...] While Biden’s Gaza-fueled problems with younger voters have likely been overstated, the conventional wisdom has been understating the damage the war could cause the president with swing voters—and not because of their allegiances to Israel or Palestine. The conflict itself fueled a sense that the world remains volatile, though it was still happening at a distance, literally and politically. Now campus skirmishes have made the mess domestic, and the president’s brand is all about delivering calm. “Biden has got to be seen as the reasonable guy who gets shit done, where Trump is a madman,” a top Democratic strategist says. “You can’t do that when you’ve got chaos on the southern border or chaos on campuses.”

The Biden administration has put together a compelling record in some big-picture ways, including the revival of the economy, the defense of Ukraine, and advances in the battle against climate change. The campaign’s challenge is to translate the president’s record into gains that voters recognize in their everyday lives. “If we’re able to frame the president’s accomplishments in the face of Republican extremist obstructionism,” Tyler says, “you actually have a fantastic story to tell. I mean, I’ll talk about Black folks, for example, right? Since before the pandemic, Black wealth is up 60%, highest rate of small business growth for Black-owned businesses in a generation, cutting Black child poverty in half through the child tax credit before MAGA Republicans ripped it away, which Joe Biden is going to bring back in a second term to make permanent.”

There are also large vulnerabilities in Biden’s first-term record: the suffocatingly high price of housing and the immigration crisis, to pick two. But presidential elections are weird, unique animals that more often turn on personality than on policy, on what Americans are feeling they need in the White House as much as what might objectively be best for the country. Mood is a powerful force in national elections, and the Biden campaign has identified an intriguing, and ominous, headwind. “We don’t like to talk about the fact that COVID still has an impact,” a senior strategist says. “It’s easy to kind of be nostalgic for a time before COVID, to remember, ‘Oh, well, the economy was better, or I felt like prices were better.’ And you don’t hear Trump every day. People are not viscerally feeling how they felt when he was a leader, because he’s been silent for lots of reasons. So we have a lot of work to do. Now, it just so happens that Trump says such crazy stuff all the time that we have ample opportunity.” Everyone at Biden HQ is well aware of the possible consequences, both for the country and for themselves, of Trump winning and turning the craziness into policy. “The people behind him are very well organized,” a Biden campaign operative says. “It can feel like an abstraction, but actually there are people I know, and myself, who would be targets.”

Vanity Fair has a story on the Biden campaign’s re-election team that is navigating tough headwinds to get Joe Biden re-elected.

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Report: Jill Biden Vets Staff, Blasts Presidential Aides; Seeks to Protect Husband

  First Lady Jill Biden is playing an outsized role in her husband’s administration, mostly to protect him, according to a new report.

   Sources claimed that Jill Biden is wielding quite a bit of influence over President Joe Biden’s decisions as she participates directly in vetting administration officials, sitting in meetings, protecting her husband from long events, and many other duties that appear to shield her husband from handling too much on his own.

   “Jill Biden’s reported influence in the White House comes as Joe Biden has been scrutinized for being led off stage by the first lady, and appearing to be physically led away from reporters’ questions. Jill Biden has been appearing frequently at public events and plans to hit the campaign trail going into the 2024 election,” The Guardian reported.

   The outlet noted that Jill is “running the show” behind the scenes:

   Behind the scenes, First Lady Jill Biden might be running the show. In an interview with David Muir, President Biden was asked about a second run, and he joked, “I gotta call [Jill] and find out.” He was kidding, but there is some truth behind his wife’s influence. A former senior adviser told Politico, “She is always his final gut check.” As of April 2023, the president officially made his re-election bid. He released a campaign video where his wife can be spotted embracing the vice president, speaking out, and politicking on the campaign trail.

   A former advisor to the Head of State shared, “She is usually in the room when senior campaign staff is presenting a strategy to her husband. She will ask questions. But she never weighs in on the decision.”

   “The first lady, Jill Biden, encouraged her husband to seek a second term. According to the president’s senior advisers, he will often consider her opinion before making final decisions on official matters. She is also expected to play a large role on the campaign trail as Biden faces backlash for his family. A career educator, she offers a perspective over GOP fights about book bans and other policies in schools and has served as a connection to suburban voters, particularly women,” the outlet added.

   She is really effective in talking about how the Biden agenda is good for moms, for women, for working women,” Kate Bedingfield, a former White House communications director, and 2020 deputy campaign manager, told Politico.

   Jill Biden also went public recently amid questions surrounding Joe Biden’s mental acuity:

   His age raises concerns about agility and mental capacity. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley proposed that politicians over the age of 75 should be required to pass a mental competency test.

   However, the first lady says a competency test is absurd. In an interview with CNN, Jill Biden defended her husband saying, “How many 30-year-olds could travel to Poland, get on the train? Go nine more hours, go to Ukraine, meet with President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy?” There’s no need for a competency test in her eyes, you just need to open yours. She says, “So, look at the man. Look what he’s doing. Look what he continues to do each and every day.”

   The White House has experienced unprecedented departures under President Biden.

   According to a new report, Jill Biden’s office is now undergoing massive turnover as a top aide has departed.

   Elizabeth Alexander, Jill Biden’s communications director, will take a brief leave of absence to lead the “messaging arm” of President Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign.

   “The move speaks to how Biden’s campaign is still taking shape, one week after he announced he would seek another term. The campaign announced only two staff hires on its first day: campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez and principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks,” Brookings reported.

   “Since 2006, Elizabeth has been a steadfast advisor to President Biden and the first lady. Her deep communications knowledge and expertise will serve the campaign well — helping stand up a campaign communication team that will reach voters where they are across all forms of media while staying true to who Joe Biden is,” Anita Dunn, a Biden adviser, said in a statement.

   Rory Brosius, who has been running the Joining Forces project, left her post last week. Sheila Casey, the wife of former Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, will take over for Brosius.

   Jill Biden has also been caught up in leaks to the media, with reports saying she rages at staffers and tries to control her husband throughout the day.

   The Brookings study found that the turnover rate of Biden’s top-level aides is at the second highest since former President Ronald Reagan was in office.

   The study found that 21 “A-Team staffers” were gone after two years.

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Chicago Tribune: Transgender woman accuses Gov. J.B. Pritzker's campaign of discrimination in federal lawsuit A transgender woman and field organizer for NoDemocratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker filed a federal lawsuit Friday accusing Pritzker’s campaign of firing her “because of her sex and/or gender.” Emma Todd was hired by Pritzker’s campaign in 2017 and fired in late March of 2018, according to the lawsuit. Her supervisor “viewed transgender identity as a sexual fetish, asked about transgender sexual habits in a prurient manner, and stated that Ms. Todd was ‘the reason people don’t like transgender people,’ ” according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit said Todd’s work “was not the type of performance that merited serious correction or criticism that would subject her to termination … unless illegal discrimination were a motivating factor.” Pritzker campaign spokesman Quentin Fulks said “Ms. Todd was fired for cause.” “She had a number of behavioral issues that she was reprimanded for throughout the course of the campaign,” Fulks said. He also said Todd’s termination was part of a downsizing of the campaign operation after the primary election. Pritzker pumped more than $171 million of his own money into his campaign operation, paying for both advertising and a massive field operation that carried him to victory over former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. Todd’s attorney, Jillian T. Weiss, said she had “extensive conversations” with the Pritzker campaign about settling the lawsuit before it was filed. Lawsuit accusing Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker of racial discrimination includes 'outright falsehoods,' attorneys say “Ms. Todd is very much in favor of Gov. Pritzker and the work that he is doing. She’s not blaming him for what happened,” Weiss said. “But unfortunately it did happen.” In the lawsuit, Todd asks for damages related to humiliation and job loss and wants the campaign to “carry out policies, practices, programs, and training which provide equal employment opportunities for employees who are transgender, have undergone a gender transition, or are undergoing a gender transition.” Todd’s lawsuit isn’t the first charge of discrimination in the Pritzker campaign. Three weeks before Election Day, Pritzker campaign staffers filed a federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in their months on the job, accusations the then-candidate called “just not true.” That lawsuit alleged that African-American and Latino campaign staffers “are herded into race-specific positions where they are expected to interact with the public, offered no meaningful chance for advancement, and receive less favorable treatment than their white counterparts.” mriopell@chicagotribune.com Twitter @mikeriopell https://trib.in/2RCp5or See this link: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-jb-pritzker-transgender-federal-lawsuit-20190118-story.html

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D.U.D.E Bios: Ulysses May

The First Price of Hell Ulysses May (2020)

The only child of Damian and Linda, the permanently injured Ulysses. He would prefer to never talk about his father and would rather keep his business and his father's separate.

"A successful business man knows when he makes foolish mistakes."

Name

Full Legal Name: Ulysses Montague May

First Name: Ulysses

Meaning: Latin form of Odysseus, which is derived from Greek 'odyssomai' meaning 'to hate'

Pronunciation: yoo-LIS-eez / YOOL-i-seez

Origin: Roman Mythology, English

Middle Name: Montague

Meaning: From a surname meaning 'pointed mountain' in French

Pronunciation: MAHN-ta-gyoo

Origin: English

Surname: May

Meaning: Derived from the given name 'Matthew’, which is the English form of 'Matthaios’, which was a Greek form of the Hebrew name 'Mattityahu’ meaning 'Gift of Yahweh’, from the roots 'Mattan’ meaning 'Gift’ and 'Yah’ referring to the Hebrew God

Pronunciation: MAY

Origin: English

Alias: N/A

Reason: N/A

Nicknames: Uly, Monty

Titles: Mr

Characteristics

Age: 38

Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: British

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: April 18 1982

Symbols: Walking canes

Sexuality: Straight

Religion: Christian

Native Language: English

Spoken Languages: English

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Aries

Theme Song (Ringtone on Vi's Phone): 'My Sacrifice' - Creed

Voice Actor: Arthur Darvill

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Barnstaple, Devon, England

Current Location: Barnstaple, Devon, England

Hometown: Barnstaple, Devon, England

Appearance

Height: 6'4" / 193 cm

Weight: 180 lbs / 81 kg

Eye Colour: Heterochromatic, one blue, one green

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: Sparse

Facial Hair: Clean shaven

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) None

Piercings: None

Scars: Surgical scars on his back and knees

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Social drinker, uses an 'E-cigarette', doesn't use drugs

Illnesses/Disorders: Limp caused by trauma

Medications: Pain medication

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: N/A

Enemies: N/A

Friends: Vasco Romero, Desmond Grady, Ulliam Rhydderch, Wyn Rhydderch, Neifion Rhydderch, Mostyn Rhydderch

Colleagues: N/A

Rivals: N/A

Closest Confidant: Kestrel May

Mentor: Linda May

Significant Other: Kestrel May (39, Wife, Née Coy)

Previous Partners: None of note

Parents: Damian Lum (61, Father), Linda May (59, Mother)

Parents-In-Law: Norman Coy (62, Father-In-Law), Octavia Coy (63, Mother-In-Law, Née Gore)

Siblings: Viola Nye (41, Half-Sister, Née Lum), Wanda Ott (35, Half-Sister, Née Lum), Tristan Lum (32, Half-Brother), Xavia Lum (29, Half-Sister), Sullivan Lum (26, Half-Brother), Yasmine Lum (23, Half-Sister), Roger Lum (20, Half-Brother), Zella Lum (17, Half-Sister), Ourania Fenn (35, Half-Sister, Née Fear-May), Noah Fear-May (32, Half-Brother), Monica Fear-May (29, Half-Sister), Luke Fear-May (26, Half-Brother), Kelia Fear-May (23, Half-Sister), Jonah Fear-May (20, Half-Brother), Irene Fear-May (17, Half-Sister)

Siblings-In-Law: Quentin Nye (42, Viola's Husband), Heath Ott (36, Wanda's Husband), Gardenia Lum (33, Tristan's Wife, Née Day), Jett Fenn (36, Ourania's Husband), Ireland Fear-May (33, Noah's Wife, Née Gibb), Perry Coy (42, Kestrel's Brother), Roseann Coy (43, Perry's Wife, Née Gray), Sylvan Coy (36, Kestrel's Brother), Topaz Coy (37, Sylvan's Wife, Née Grey), Vera Haig (33, Kestrel's Sister, Née Coy), Winton Haig (34, Vera's Husband), Arthur Coy (30, Kestrel's Brother), Bristol Coy (31, Arthur's Wife, Née Hale), Crystal Coy (27, Kestrel's Sister), Dunstan Coy (24, Kestrel's Brother), Euphemia Coy (21, Kestrel's Sister), Fulk Coy (18, Kestrel's Brother)

Nieces & Nephews: Glory Coy (22, Niece), Humbert Coy (19, Nephew), Ione Coy (16, Niece), Jesse Coy (13, Nephew), Kelda Coy (10, Niece), Lucius Coy (16, Nephew), Mona Coy (13, Niece), Norbert Coy (10, Nephew), Ottoline Haig (13, Niece), Paxton Haig (10, Nephew), Rosalind Coy (10, Niece), Adam Nye (21, Nephew), Paulette Nye (18, Niece), Benjamin Nye (15, Nephew), Olivia Nye (12, Niece), Charles Nye (9, Nephew), Magnolia Ott (15, Niece), Laurence Ott (12, Nephew), Naomi Ott (9, Niece), Humphrey Fenn (15, Nephew), Grace Fenn (12, Niece), Fulton Fenn (9, Nephew), Daisy Lum (12, Niece), Vance Lum (9, Nephew), Eve Fear-May (12, Niece), Durward Fear-May (9, Nephew)

Children: Earl May (18, Son), Jane May (15, Daughter), Flint May (12, Son), Imogen May (9, Daughter)

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: N/A

Trainer: N/A

Managers: N/A

Wrestlers Managed: N/A

Debut: N/A

Debut Match: N/A

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: N/A

Stables: N/A

Teams: N/A

Regular Moves: N/A

Finishers: N/A

Refers To Fans As: N/A

Extras

Backstory: Ulysses grew up as an ill child, constantly getting sick or injuring himself. He irreparably damaged both his spine and knees in a car crash at the age of 18. His wife Kestrel found him a job at her father's business and he worked his way up the ladder with her support.

Trivia: None of note

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Former President Obama tells allies Biden needs to seriously consider his viability

Tyler Pager and Michael Scherer at Washington Post:

Former president Barack Obama has told allies in recent days that President Biden’s path to victory has greatly diminished and he thinks the president needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy, according to multiple people briefed on his thinking. Obama has spoken with Biden only once since the debate, and he has been clear in his conversations with others that the future of Biden’s candidacy is a decision for the president to make. He has emphasized that his concern is protecting Biden and his legacy, and has pushed back against the idea that he alone can influence Biden’s decision-making process. Behind the scenes, Obama has been deeply engaged in conversations about the future of Biden’s campaign, taking calls from many anxious Democrats, including former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and has shared his views about the president’s challenges, according to people with knowledge of the calls, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

[...] Principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said Thursday morning that Biden’s campaign was moving ahead.“He is not wavering on anything,” Fulks said. “The president has made his decision. I don’t want to be rude, but I don’t know how many more times we can answer that.”

[...]

Congress’s top Democrats, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), have both spoken directly with Biden in the past week, warning about the widely held concerns that his candidacy could hurt the chances for Democratic control of either legislative body next year.

Obama sees his role as a sounding board and counselor to his former vice president, telling allies that he feels protective of Biden. In these conversations, Obama has said he thinks Biden has been a great president and wants to protect his accomplishments, which could be in jeopardy if Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress next year. In some conversations, Obama, who has long looked to data for political insights, has told people he is concerned that the polls are moving away from Biden, that former president Donald Trump’s electoral path is expanding and that donors are abandoning the president. Publicly, Biden and his campaign advisers have remained defiant, saying the president will not drop out of the race. On Wednesday, Biden cut short a campaign swing in Las Vegas because he tested positive for the coronavirus. He returned to Rehoboth Beach, Del., where he has a vacation home, to quarantine.

[...] Pelosi has taken an even more active role behind the scenes, resisting efforts by Biden to end the debate about his continued candidacy, according to people familiar with her efforts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. Obama, perhaps the party’s most revered figure, has tried to keep a lower profile, hoping to draw on his longtime friendship with Biden, his former running mate and vice president. But Obama’s role as the leader of the party from 2008 to 2016 has made him a sounding board for concerns across the party.

The Washington Post reported today that Former President Barack Obama (D) has told allies that President Joe Biden (D) needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy.

Is this a sign that Biden is cutting short his time on the ticket? Possibly.

Biden has publicly stated that he’ll stay in the campaign.