dertaglichedan · 10 months ago
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Game change? Rand Paul just made his 2024 announcement regarding Nikki Haley…
This morning, Dr. Rand Paul set the political scene ablaze, especially for Nikki Haley. With his “non-endorsement” for the 2024 primary and a pledge to oppose Haley, he’s fueling the #NeverNikki movement, and the internet can’t get enough!
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While Dr. Paul has respect for several 2024 candidates, Nikki Haley isn’t one of them. Rather than endorsing a single candidate, Senator Paul chose to use his influence to spotlight what he sees as the horrific impact of Haley’s political career. Senator Rand Paul took to X and created a savage thread that called out Nikki for the warmongering globalist she is:
I’ve been watching the GOP Primary closely for a while now, and I like various aspects of several candidates – Republicans like President @realDonaldTrump, Governor @RonDeSantis, and @VivekGRamaswy. I’m interested in the ideas of some independents too, such as @RobertKennedyJ. As I look over the field, I don’t think I yet have a first choice, but I do know one thing: count me in as #NeverNikki! ased on her record and campaign, I don’t see how any thoughtful or informed libertarian or conservative should vote for @NikkiHaley. If you agree, let your voice be heard. Go to nevernikki.net today so we can let her and everyone else know she doesn’t have your support. If you’re unsure, keep reading and following. https://nevernikki.net/ .@NikkiHaley supports Biden and McConnell and the forever-war crowd on funding for the war in Ukraine. Her thirst for war is so strong she actually said: “I’m sick of talking about a Department of Defense. I want a Department of Offense.” #NeverNikki She even personally received millions of dollars from the arms merchants who benefit from the war, a conflict of interest that undergirds her eagerness for foreign military intervention. This position isn’t new either – as governor of South Carolina she gave tax dollars to those same arms merchants, and they showered her with campaign contributions and a seat on their board when she left office. https://nevernikki.net/ While most others were decrying the mistakes of the past 20 years, and fighting for an America First foreign policy, @NikkiHaley was aligning herself with and declaring her foreign policy allies to be John McCain and Lindsey Graham. .@NikkiHaley believes in nearly unlimited foreign aid — we have sent over $100 BILLION we don’t have to Ukraine already and she wants more. But this also isn’t new. In her book With All Due Respect, she wrote “Humanitarian Assistance will always be a priority for the United States, we will always be generous.” But @NikkiHaley’s “generosity” with your tax dollars and her support for all foreign aid in the context of a $34 TRILLION dollar debt is in no way libertarian or conservative. https://nevernikki.net/ Beyond the issues of endless wars, @NikkiHaley’s lack of respect for freedom of speech is shocking to anyone who believes in the constitution. .@NikkiHaley believes that all internet posters should be registered and verified. This flies in the face of a free American Republic whose founders wrote anonymously the Federalist Papers and routinely posted newspaper articles and pamphlets under Pseudonyms. Anyone who doesn’t fully believe in free speech or who wants endless wars has no business anywhere near the White House. Go to https://nevernikki.net/ to show you agree! But wait, there’s more. @NikkiHaley routinely praised the mission of the United Nations, the results they achieved, and the people who ran it. First up, her quote “I believe the U.N. does valuable work.” By that she means your tax dollars since the US is the primary funder of UN. She repeatedly praised the U.N. Secretary General (former president of Socialist International) and declared that they “think alike.” Did I mention that I am #NeverNikki? ➡️
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dhaaruni · 3 years ago
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There's been chatter over the last few days about Trump having all but decided to run again in 2024, which is obviously terrifying. Assuming that happens, and with what we know right now, how would you rate a Biden-Trump rematch in three years? Would you agree that the battleground states that have been trending blue (AZ/GA/TX) will become even bluer in 2024, while MI/PA/WI continue to get redder, even if only slightly?
Okay so, I really don't want Trump to run again because he draws out low-propensity white voters like nobody else does, and as a result, when Trump's not on the ballot like in 2018 and during the Georgia runoffs, Democrats do better. But, I think he will run and we need to be prepared for it. I really need Joe Biden to run for re-election because literally almost other Democrat has any concept of messaging discipline, but his approval numbers in swing states need to come out of the 30s. His approval numbers ignoring outliers are in the mid-40s nationwide but in swing states, they're about 10 points lower, and he's not winning re-election against Trump if that's the case.
I think that Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are going to get redder in the next 4 years, especially if Trump is on the ballot, but my other huge concern is the Senate in 2024. Debbie Stabenow in Michigan is possibly retiring, which means there won't be incumbency advantage there and that Senate race will be competitive, and all the other Midwestern Senate Dems, Tammy Baldwin, Sherrod Brown, Amy Klobuchar, and Bob Casey, are up for reelection. I think Klobuchar is fine, but the reality is, if Trump's on the ballot, Brown is almost surely toast. He previously won in 2006 and 2018, blue wave years, and in 2012 when Obama won Ohio at the top of the ticket, and Biden/Hillary lost Ohio by 9. Manchin and Tester are already most likely gone, and if the Democrat at the top of the ticket doesn't carry Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Casey and Baldwin might viably lose too, because once again, they and Brown won re-election when Trump wasn't on the ballot. And, due to a lack of ticket-splitting, I don't believe they can outrun a losing presidential candidate on the same ballot by enough to keep their seats.
As for AZ/GA/TX, Democrats need to stop pretending that Texas is going to flip blue in 2024 (or probably even 2028) because it's not, and Republicans have that electoral buffer along with Florida unless Democrats stop talking about socialism period and do Clinton level numbers with the Cubans/Venezuelans, which won't happen. I believe Texas will eventually flip blue, but as I've said, Ohio is a swing state when Trump isn't on the ballot and a red state when he is, and Texas is a red state always, but is less red when Trump is on the ballot. As for Arizona, I honestly believe that Arizona flipped blue on the presidential level thanks to the ghost of John McCain and Cindy McCain endorsing Biden, and that also means I don't think it'll stay blue without her endorsement.
Sorry to be a huge downer but I'll end by saying that Georgia seems to be pulling a Virginia, and is helped along by Stacey Abrams' efforts of course but also by huge demographic shifts in the state and the growing Atlanta metro. Like, Arizona isn't there demographically because Phoenix and Maricopa County and the suburbs around it are much less blue than Atlanta and Fulton County and the suburbs around it. So yeah, I trust Georgia to stay blue way more than I trust Arizona, and if Joe Biden's not at the top of the ticket, god help us all.
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baseballlibertarian · 3 years ago
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Los Angeles Debate
Before I begin, please let me ask a favor. And the request comes in the form of a demand, maybe even an order.
Take a moment to ponder and savor the majestic historical break-through this debate represents. Longer. Longer. Let it soak in. Just take a moment longer.
OK.
Now, ask yourself this question: when you first became politically aware did you ever imagine a presidential debate of this magnitude and importance involving a woman and an African-American man?
I was born in 1962 and can tell you I first became politically aware when Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated. I didn’t know what it all meant, but I knew it was serious and sad. Like everyone, I was afraid our country had been changed forever and for the worse. I can’t help tonight but think back to the vague sense of dread I had about politics then and reflect tonight so many years later on the true nature of persistence and possibility.
I’ve watched politics as a journalist, I have come to understand the power of symbols and how symbols often obscure agendas. But sometimes symbols shatter old notions, accepted truths, and calcified conventions.
Tonight’s debate — whether you are a liberal, a conservative, or an independent — stands as a landmark in a nation that justifiably commands the attention and fascination of the world.
With Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama as the two remaining Democratic candidates for the presidency, the world sees the embodiment of core American traits of freedom, tolerance, diversity, grit and, yes, audacity.
This is not an endorsement of either candidate. It’s an acknowledgment that their rise to dominance in the Democratic Party breaks the mold in ways few could have imagined as recently as two years ago. When America, the most imaginative nation on Earth, surprises itself we must catch our breath, marvel at ourselves and indulge in a small blush of pride.
I can tell you the reason I am rhapsodizing about this moment. Here in the press room outside the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, many in press row are bored. On a typical debate scale, this encounter is not an edge-of-your-seat affair. The debate is certainly calmer and more substantive than the Myrtle Beach knife fight. That’s to be expected, because politicians are normatively cautious and any two politicians taking part in something THAT’S NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE are even more prone to proceed with care.
And so Clinton and Obama did.
And yet, the debate was not without its high points.
I won’t grade the debate or the performances because tonight the larger issue is the event itself and what it represents. History will record the tableau, not the transcript.
Clinton and Obama dissected each other’s health care plans carefully and fairly. Clinton knows, because she believes in it and the polls reflect it, that pushing hard for universal health care is the way to appeal bedrock Democratic values and voters. When she said anything less will be “picked apart” she not only issued a warning but rallied party foot-soldiers who don’t want to fight for a concept, but an absolute.
This is not to say that Obama lost the health care debate. The voters will decide which approach is better. Whn Obama argues the first priority is to lower costs, he raises an important but politically less-resonant point. His formula takes longer to explain and exposes him to criticism that his plan is built on a fragile foundation where an estimated 15 million adults would still lack health insurance coverage. Based on conversations I’ve had with voters, however, it seems that if Obama loses ground on substance he makes it up on style. Obama voters and those on the fence tend to believe that a larger political coalition is required before universal health care or something close to it can be achieved. They also tend to believe Obama can create that coalition and Clinton cannot.
On Iraq, it’s hard for The Bourbon Room to detect a tectonic shift tonight (hey, I was born in San Diego and can indulge in one earthquake metaphor without penalty). Most Democratic voters understand Clinton and Obama will end the Iraq war more rapidly than any Republican nominee, especially if the nominee is, as appears more and more likely, Arizona Sen. John McCain. Obama supporters were drawn to him first because he opposed the war from the start. When Clinton declined again to say her vote for the Iraq war authorization was a “mistake” she re-enforced why many Obama supporters are where they are. In Super Tuesday states where some voters may be tuning into the campaign for the first time, this could reintroduce the central weakness in Clinton’s “experience” argument. Clinton strategists, however, believe she’s already lost all the votes she’s going to lose on this issue.
On the economy, differences were substantive but not remotely combative. Obama could have used his stump speech lines about Clinton’s original stimulus plan failing to demand tax rebates or credits. Clinton could have said she was warning about a recession long before Obama and put together the first substantive stimulus plan of any major candidate. Both left that ammunition under the table.
On immigration, the most important point is that both were far more willing to talk freely about comprehensive solutions. The reason? The rise of McCain. On driver’s licenses, the differences were gently highlighted and both scored a key point — Obama that Clinton flip-flopped; Clinton that a week after the Philadelphia debate Obama couldn’t authoritatively state his position. More important was how they enthusiastically spoke of a comprehensive solution and how readily they condemned the “anti-amnesty” politics that killed immigration reform (and nearly McCain’s candidacy) earlier this year. The change in tone and temperament matches McCain’s own improbable comeback. Clinton and Obama have begun to conclude that the immigration monster either will die because will be the GOP nominee or that it will be relegated to angry third-party splinter movement (a plus for the Democrats either way).
On the running-mate issue, both turned it away easily and for good reason. At the end of this campaign Clinton and Obama will stand as enormous figures — not only in their party but in American political history. If Clinton prevails, she will seek a vice president with complementary skills, temperament and, most importantly, a keen understanding of the lesser role the vice president must play in her White House. The same is true of Obama.
Why?
Because if either is elected president, all of the old measurements will disappear. Every move Clinton or Obama makes will be historic. The focus on their presidencies will be, if possible, even more intense, personal and urgent. Under these circumstances, the centrality of the office will require a vice president eager to accept a secondary role in a new march of history. Any whiff of competition or hidden agenda will not only rankle the president, the president’s senior staff and cabinet, but the party hierarchy and the rank-and-file. It’s The Bourbon Room’s hunch that a large swath of the public will live vicariously through a Clinton or Obama presidency. Hopes will be high. The stakes will be high. The next vice president must be devoted as perhaps no vice president has been before to the task of making history work for the new president and the many things he or she will represent. Also, an Obama and Clinton presidency will also require massive legislative support on Capitol Hill. That will require skills in the cloakroom and the ability to hit the road and rally the public on behalf of the new president’s agenda. For this reason, a president Clinton will need a Senator Obama far more than a Vice President Obama. And a President Obama will need a Senator Clinton far more than a Vice President Clinton.
Lastly, for those who wonder if Obama or Clinton would need each other to defeat the Republican nominee (probably McCain), I can only say that most top Democratic strategists (those in both campaigns and those who remain neutral) tell me because Clinton and Obama break the mold, each will win or lose ENTIRELY on their own merits. The vice presidential pick, these strategists agree, will matter even less than before — which is next to not at all.
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thepoliticalpatient · 4 years ago
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RBG’s death all but guarantees the loss of the ACA
Last night was almost as hard and scary as election night, for me.
I will try to keep this brief as I can and so will be focusing on the impact of RBG’s death on healthcare policy in the US. Her death is a tragedy in many other ways, of course. She was a groundbreaking and iconic figure in the judiciary. She was forced to continue working through numerous illnesses and on her deathbed because she was in the position of serving as a 5′1″ human barrier between our already terrible reality and a much more terrible one. and And of course, her death will have numerous awful political consequences in subjects outside of healthcare. I will not be touching on any of that here. I’m sorry, I know it’s incredibly gross to move straight into the politics so fast, but there are millions of lives on the line and we have no time to lose!
The case against the ACA, now called California v. Texas, will start oral arguments on November 10, one week after the election. I have already written a number of posts on the background of this case - this one explains the basis for the case, and this one describes how the lower court has already ruled.
Obviously none of us can tell the future, but before RBG’s death, most folks were pretty optimistic about this case working out in favor of the ACA 5-4. All 5 justices who ruled in favor of the ACA in one of its previous challenges, NFIB v. Sebelius, were still on the court. Obviously this has now changed.
So the case will be heard starting on November 10. From there we should probably expect it to take months to come to a decision. Let’s talk about scenarios:
Trump and Senate Republicans manage to force through a nominee before the election
We all remember 2016 when McConnell refused to hold hearings for the nomination of Merrick Garland to SCOTUS because it was an election year. That seat was stolen by Neil Gorsuch after Trump’s election.
Surprising nobody, McConnell is a hypocrite. RBG’s body was still warm yesterday when he started politicking, releasing a statement indicating that he intends to fill the seat before the election.
If he succeeds, then of course the ACA’s chances are very slim of surviving a challenge in a 6-3 majority conservative SCOTUS.
We delay the confirmation until after inauguration
There is a nonzero possibility that this confirmation can be delayed until the new president is elected and inaugurated.
Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the Senate right now; they need 50 votes to approve a SCOTUS justice (Pence breaks ties).  Prior to RBG’s death, several sitting Senate Republicans stated that they would oppose voting on a nominee during the 2020 election year in order to be consistent with what they did in 2016. Take for instance this absolutely chef kiss video of Lindsey Graham:
https://twitter.com/vanitaguptaCR/status/1307153104941518848
I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.
Other Republican Senators who have made similar statements:
Lisa Murkowski: https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/09/18/alaska-senator-murkowski-said-friday-she-would-not-vote-for-a-justice-ahead-of-election/
Chuck Grassley: https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/410686-grassley-says-judiciary-panel-wouldnt-consider-supreme-court-nominee-in
Susan Collins?: https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1307112333253148672
Mitt Romney? Mixed signals. There’s this, https://twitter.com/JimDabakis/status/1307120855454044160, but his staff denies it: https://twitter.com/LJ0hnson/status/1307129082971385858
Sorry my sources aren’t better on some of these; this is all I’ve got right now. We will have to listen to what these 5 say over the next few days. We only need 4 of them to vote no. If any of them conveniently “change their minds” they will probably cite McConnell’s logic that this year is somehow different because Obama was a lame duck in 2016. Susan Collins and Lindsey Graham in particular might be pressurable because they’re both facing very tough challenges for their seats this year. We should keep the pressure on by pledging donations to their opponents, Sara Gideon and Jaime Harrison, in the event that they make the hypocritical decision to approve a nominee less than 2 months before an election.
I know we can’t trust these people as far as we can throw them but we have to try. What other choice do we have?
Another factor here is the special election in AZ. Martha McSally was appointed to John McCain’s seat after his death, after she previously lost her election against Kyrsten Sinema. She is being challenged this year by astronaut Mark Kelly, who is polling very well. If he wins, because of special election rules, he could be sworn in as early as November 30, reducing the Republican majority in the Senate well ahead of inauguration day.
McSally has already stated that she will vote for a nominee before the election: https://twitter.com/SenMcSallyAZ/status/1307123253845032960
Unfortunately, merely delaying the confirmation of a new justice won’t be enough to save the ACA
The situation is every bit as bad for the ACA against an 8 justice court as it would be against a court with a new conservative justice. In the case of a 4-4 tied decision, the lower court’s decision holds. And the Fifth Circuit’s ruling was that the fate of the ACA should be left to district judge Reed O’Connor, a far-right activist judge who already ruled that the entire ACA should be thrown into the garbage.
The only hope it has is if we both delay the confirmation of a new judge, elect Joe Biden, elect a Senate that will not be hostile to his nominee, and get that nominee through, all before the case is decided. The case will begin with oral arguments on November 10.
A legislative salvation for the ACA?
If we get control of both branches of Congress and the presidency, there is a very easy way to save the ACA. The entire case is null and void if we reinstate the individual mandate’s tax at any amount over $0. A $1 tax would save it. A Democratically-controlled Congress could pass such legislation with a simple majority.
But maybe we should just let it die?
Some members of the left seem to think it’s not such a big deal if the ACA goes under. Their argument is that without the ACA, the case for Medicare for All will become more urgent. They don’t care about the chronically ill and disabled people who will die without protections in the meantime. And besides that, what chance does M4A have of surviving a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS? The fucking ACA, as insufficient and centrist as it is, has been challenged mercilessly in the courts by conservatives. This is the third major SCOTUS case they’ve brought against it. M4A would fare no better. In fact, we can expect to say goodbye to any possibility of keeping any progressive policy within our lifetimes under a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS.
So what do we do?
For now, we put the pressure on Murkowski, Grassley, Graham, Collins, and Romney. If you live in AK, IA, SC, ME, or UT, call their offices every damn day until they commit to voting no on any judge nominated before Inauguration day.
Phone numbers:
Murkowski: (202) 224-6665
Grassley: (202) 224-3744
Graham: (202) 224-5972
Collins: (202) 224-2523
Romney: (202) 224-5251
For folks who do not live in those states, pressure your Republican Senators even if it it seems hopeless, and make a lot of noise about donating to the above 5′s opponents if they vote yes. Volunteer to phone or text bank to ask constituents in those 5 states to call those Senators. There’s still plenty you can do.
Then we must do everything we can to elect Joe Biden and a Democratic Senate. Vote on November 3. Phone or text bank for Biden. Adopt a Senate race in a swing state here: https://votesaveamerica.com/adopt-a-state/
If they push a nominee through, it’s time to pack the courts
If they’re going to change the rules on us and confirm a SCOTUS justice in an election year, then we will change the rules on them the minute we get power.
Adding more justices to SCOTUS does not require a Constitutional amendment. It can be done through legislation, and it has been done many times before:
1789-1807: six seats
1807-1837: seven seats
1837-1866: ten seats
1866-1867: nine seats
1867-1869: eight seats
1869-present: nine seats
Even the threat of opening the door to court packing might be enough to convince some Senators not to move forward with this scheme.
But again, in order to pack the court, we need to elect Joe Biden, flip the Senate, and keep the House.
Let’s get to work.
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things2mustdo · 4 years ago
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Face it, the mainstream media is not only full of contradictions, but deep-seated, institutionalized biases. When a male or conservative does something, it is often considered horrendous. Yet when a female, liberal or a member of another “special” group does the same thing, passes are given or journalists’ eyes are averted.
Social media users with common sense political opinions have already started to compile these glaring double standards. Return Of Kings and its supporters should continue doing the same thing.
So here are five of the most egregious recent examples of hypocritical mainstream media madness:
1. Use of dead veterans’ families at political rallies or conventions
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When Khizr and Ghazala Khan appeared at the Democratic National Convention to lambaste Donald Trump for his views on Muslim immigration and supposed behavior, commentators and journalists went wild with fanfare. Their son Humayun, a Muslim soldier, had died in Iraq. Trump was attacked for allegedly grandstanding about and minimizing Humayun’s death.
Meanwhile, many of these same newsmen and women, including Rachel Maddow’s stooge Steve Benen, derided the Republicans for featuring Pat Smith, mother of Benghazi fatality Sean Smith, as a speaker at their own Convention. Mrs. Smith had laid into Hillary Clinton over the latter’s role in and perceived indifference to her son’s death in Libya. So one family became heroes to the media for going public after their tragic loss, while another was portrayed as so weak in their grief that they were manipulated by big, bad Republicans into talking.
Moreover, Trump had nothing to do with Sean Smith’s death. Compare this to Clinton, who was the Secretary of State at the time of the American deaths at Benghazi and whose State Department had received numerous calls for assistance. Considering that Sean Smith and others died alongside U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the first American ambassador to be killed whilst serving since 1979, the woefully insufficient security precautions taken by the Obama Administration and Secretary Clinton should not have transpired. But this spotlight on Clinton does not make for good (liberal) news.
2. Psychiatric records for a war hero vs. medical records of a pathological liar
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Countless liberals, both in the media and within other leftist cabals like mainstream Hollywood, have attacked those questioning Hillary Clinton’s health as “misogynists,” “sexists” and other undesirables. When these tags are unable to be used, leftists claim that even piecemeal doubts about her physical condition are nothing but conspiracy theories on par with Roswell UFOs and lizard people running the world.
Yet eight years ago, these same people were frothing at the bit to out John McCain for his supposedly poor health. Most perversely of all, they homed in on his decorated military service, suggesting he had Presidentially disqualifying mental health conditions from his service in the Vietnam War and the multiple years he spent as a prisoner-of-war. “Where are his psychiatric records?” bellowed one piece from Salon, in addition to a number of other articles that more than hinted at the same topic.
Whilst I, like many of you, revile his putrid, watered-down “Republican” policies on many issues, McCain had gargantuan balls in Vietnam. Here is a man who spent more time as a tortured prisoner-of-war, including a stay in the notorious Hanoi Hilton, than Barack Obama spent in the US Senate. As the son of the commander of US forces in Vietnam, McCain received numerous offers of repatriation from the North Vietnamese. He refused and would only accept being returned home once fellow American soldiers captured before him were released. By contrast, Hillary lacks the mental fortitude to tell the truth most of the time, not even after she’s had seizures, coughing fits, and dramatic collapses on camera!
3. Sexualizing political candidates (and removing their genitals)
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When an artist by the name of Lushsux painted a mural of a scantily-clad Hillary Clinton, a local Melbourne, Australia council and numerous global commentators derided it as “misogyny” and “sexual objectification.” “Take female politicians seriously!” was the crux of their shrill arguments against the rendering. Lushsux then trolled his critics by repainting the mural so Hillary was dressed in an Islamic burqa. Soon after, multiple statues of a nude and testicle-less Donald Trump appeared in American cities. Unlike the Hillary artwork, the proliferation created huge fanfare and delight amongst both prominent leftists and run-of-the-mill liberal voters. Why is one act so offensive and the other so funny, particularly in age where body-shaming and mocking someone’s appearance is meant to be so taboo?
Most of the critical commentaries about the Trump statues that appeared in the mainstream media, of which there were few, failed to take into account one glaring significance of the testicle-less Trump. Short of them being violently taken or hacked off, how exactly could Trump have no balls? Imagine the furore if a statue, mural or other representation of Hillary Clinton had lacked breasts or shown her vagina circumcised/mutilated. “They’re condoning violence against women!” would be the stock-standard answer from liberals and their even more deranged SJW cousins.
4. Lesbian’s Olympic marriage proposal vs. heterosexual male’s Olympic marriage proposal
This is bad and misogynistic:
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This is love and should be applauded:
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Leftists rejoiced when Olympic official Marjorie Enya asked her partner, rugby sevens player Isadora Cerullo, to marry her using a microphone. Love wins, right, especially when it’s gay love? But when Chinese athlete Qin Kai asked silver medalist He Zi to marry him, the knives from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) came out. The BBC, unfortunately taxpayer-funded, published an article insinuating that Qin Kai was attempting to control He Zi with the very public marriage proposal. Not only could it be control, it could be awfully pernicious “male control.” Coverage of Enya’s proposal to Cerullo, however, got the broadcaster’s tick of approval.
If either of the two proposals is a form of control or narcissistic, it was the lesbian one. Unlike the Chinese diver, who was competing individually, the lesbian proposed to was part of the Brazilian team, which had not even been awarded a medal. Brazil had come ninth and that night Australia had beaten New Zealand for the gold medal. He Zi may not have won the gold medal, but she had actually participated in the final. But do not let facts get in the way of a good male-bashing.
5. Objectifying men vs. objectifying women
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Cosmopolitan has established itself as a dual enabler of both ditzy female airheads and SJW political freaks. Over time, the magazine has come out strongly against countless normal displays of male sexuality, admonishing men who appreciate female breasts and buttocks for being “horrible.” Of the many Cosmopolitan pieces to take this line, an article in mid-2014 takes the cake for its ridiculous shaming of harmless, healthy behaviors. Ironically, though, covers for this publication feature the same sorts of thin, healthy women that men desire most in the first place.
Fast-forward a mere two years and Cosmopolitan went to the extraordinary effort of cataloguing 36 men whose crotch bulges tickled their fancy. Of course, numerous other articles during that time had objectified men in a way considered misogynistic when males do it to women, but the timing was amusing. After so much talk of valuing female athletes, whose physical accomplishments are far less than men, for their work and not their bodies, Cosmopolitan celebrated the years of sacrifice of male athletes by effectively taking photos of their barely clothed genitalia.
We could keep on going
Many other hypocritical pieces were penned about these situations, not just the ones I have referenced. Then there’s the great number of other articles we could assess and critique on separate issues. You may be convinced, and rightfully so, that the mainstream media is inherently biased. But we need to take this to the next level and disseminate the proof to wider audiences.
Journalists and commentators will continue their bad habits, that much is clear. What matters now is fighting back. Complaining about double standards only goes so far. Exposing them in an organized fashion stands a better much chance in helping us to arrest and then reverse this institutional bias.
As Return Of Kings readers, you are our extra eyes and ears. If you find more examples of extreme leftist media bias, bring it to our attention.
https://www.returnofkings.com/19995/anti-female-stem-bias-a-bayesian-explanation
The New York Times recently ran a long piece exploring the history of women in STEM fields and attempting to explain the ever-present difference between men and women in performance and participation in these fields. The article begins by citing research on perceptions of female aptitude in math and science:
“Researchers at Yale published a study proving that physicists, chemists and biologists are likely to view a young male scientist more favorably than a woman with the same qualifications. Presented with identical summaries of the accomplishments of two imaginary applicants, professors at six major research institutions were significantly more willing to offer the man a job. “
She shares an anecdote that is supposed to display the prejudice of professors against females in the field, but instead illustrates one valid reason for the bias displayed by the Yale study:
“Other women chimed in to say that their teachers were the ones who teased them the most. In one physics class, the teacher announced that the boys would be graded on the “boy curve,” while the one girl would be graded on the “girl curve”; when asked why, the teacher explained that he couldn’t reasonably expect a girl to compete in physics on equal terms with boys.”
Enter Bayes’ Theorem
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Bayes’s theorem is a foundational principle of statistics and probability that allows us to update our estimations about the trueness of a fact based on new evidence. The math of Bayes’ theorem is simple and elegant, and the overarching idea is powerful — we can use evidence in a formalized manner to change the probability that something may be true, and this can often have non-intuitive results.
The classic example of Bayes in action is medical tests — for example, if 1% of women have breast cancer, and a mammogram detects the cancer 80% of the time with a 10% false positive rate, what is the probability that a positive result means the woman has cancer? If a mammogram is positive, the chance of cancer is less than 8% due to the presence of false positives, as well as the low baseline population rate of cancer.
What does this have to do with women and STEM fields? Readers of this site are familiar with the allure that even a plain looking girl can have at the height of her availability and youth. This isn’t just a factor when getting free drinks at the bar – it extends to the classroom, hiring for jobs, treatment in everyday life, and many other areas. Girls in primary and secondary school are judged to be better students, despite boys showing a significant advantage in standardized tests starting around middle school. The article highlights the ways that women are supposedly discouraged by the system, but makes no mention of the advantages they enjoy.
Put simply, women are more likely to be handed accomplishments without having to work for them, both due to the power of their sexuality and as unconscious overcorrection for their supposed disadvantages in opportunity. Given an applicant with a certain pedigree – a Ph.D, say, from a top graduate program —we will have a certain estimation of that person’s intelligence and aptitude. However, the “false positive” rate on those qualifications identifying extremely high aptitude is likely to be much lower for a man, who has not enjoyed the advantages of a feminized education system, catch-up programs, and the hint of his sexuality influencing the evaluations of his superiors.
The bias against hiring a woman whose qualifications are equal to a man, and their subsequent lower salary offer, is simply a use of Bayesian inference. It accounts for the implicit probability that the female will not be as good as her résumé suggests, to say nothing of the chance that she will leave her job to begin a family and leave her employer empty-handed at some point in the future. If, as the example above states, both men and women implicitly behave as if men are superior in math and science, we must give some consideration that this is a possibility.
If Men Are Better At Math/Science — What’s The Big Deal?
The media is encouraged to sing the praises of women where they excel compared to men, and females indeed show demonstrated advantages in many cognitive areas. They are better at language acquisition, picking up on non-verbal cues, and we are all familiar with their evolved capacity for psychological manipulation. Many would suggest that women have better organizational skills. They are incarcerated for violent crimes less often, are less prone to risky behavior, and are more resilient to psychological trauma such as PTSD.
But when it comes to exploring why men have long-demonstrated advantages in certain disciplines, the media scrabbles to ascribe the boogeyman of injustice perpetrated on the protected class. The article is quick to dismiss the repeatable and longitudinal difference between males in females in standardized testing, a long-standing form of evaluation that every college and grad school uses to give out valuable admissions spots. It also does not mention the lack of female representation in technology entrepreneurship, a field that is less dependent on credentials and more on individual drive, creativity, and aptitude.
It could certainly be true that women are discriminated against AND that they are simply less common at the far right of the aptitude bell curve necessary for competitive positions in academia. But I challenge you to find this idea entertained in any mainstream publication despite the mountains of circumstantial evidence. Larry Summers was tarred and feathered for even mentioning research on population dynamics as a potential driver of this difference. The lesson here is that, when you begin an “inquiry” by presupposing the conclusion, you will end up with a politically correct and eminently intellectually dishonest worldview.
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She paused to maintain her composure as she spoke. She recalled the attacks, and how her reports of them were handled. The despair, she said, almost made her leave the military.
Senator Martha McSally, Republican of Arizona and the first woman in the Air Force to fly in combat, told a hushed Senate hearing room on Wednesday that she had been raped by a superior officer, one of multiple times she was sexually assaulted while she served her country.
“I thought I was strong, but felt powerless,” Ms. McSally said during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on sexual assault in the military. “The perpetrators abused their position of power in profound ways.”
In sharing her experience — pride in her historic military service, betrayal over the assault and determination to help find a solution — the junior senator from Arizona offered one of the most powerful testimonies to date in the growing and heated debate on Capitol Hill over how to adjudicate claims of sexual assault in the military.
Ms. McSally, a former member of the House who lost an Arizona Senate race last year and then was appointed to the seat once held by Senator John McCain, did not offer any details about the assaults or name the senior officer.
She said she did not immediately report the attacks because she “didn’t trust the system at the time.” Later, when she began talking about them, she said she was so horrified about how her account was handled that she thought about quitting the Air Force. “Like many victims, I felt like the system was raping me all over again,” Ms. McSally said.
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PHOENIX | Arizona Republicans brush off talk about McCain Senate seat
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PHOENIX | Arizona Republicans brush off talk about McCain Senate seat
PHOENIX — Sen. John McCain’s legacy was thrust into focus nearly one year ago when he announced his brain cancer diagnosis. The six-term Senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran is now fighting the illness from his beloved Arizona, and filling the role of one of the few Congressional Republican voices to publicly rebuke Trump administration decisions.
Yet the question of what happens if McCain steps down from office before 2022 is a lingering one, casting an uncomfortable haze around the future of a seat that can’t quite ever be filled.
“John McCain is a one-of-a-kind politician, and there’s no replacing him,” said Stan Barnes, an Arizona Republican consultant. “No one serving in political office today remembers a time when John McCain was not representing us in Washington.”
Some Arizona Republicans have criticized conversations about the future of McCain’s seat as inappropriate. But reflections around the 81-year-old statesman’s life, legacy and status as a national political figure have resurfaced via a new HBO documentary, “John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls,” and his new memoir, “The Restless Wave.”
The McCains have a family retreat south of Sedona, Arizona, along tree-lined Oak Creek. Daughter Meghan McCain was married there.
She said on KTAR’s Mac and Gaydos radio show Tuesday that she’s been trying to visit her father every other weekend. She said he’s strong, walking, talking and hanging in there.
“Everybody’s just dealing with it the best they can,” Meghan McCain said.
Following a decorated military career that included spending more than five years in prison camps, McCain entered the political arena in the early 1980s. He went from the House of Representatives to being elected to the Senate in 1986, following Barry Goldwater who retired. McCain gained a reputation as a lawmaker who was willing to stick to his convictions rather than go along with party leaders. It is a streak that draws a mix of respect and ire.
Matt Salmon, a former Arizona congressman, said McCain was instrumental in his own political career —along with countless other Arizona Republicans. Much like Goldwater, McCain’s been “the godfather of Arizona politics” for decades.
Salmon said McCain exemplifies how to stand up for one’s convictions and constituents regardless of the wants of party leadership. During the late 1990s, Salmon drove a successful effort to remove Newt Gingrich as Speaker.
“I don’t know that I would’ve had the courage to go do something like that without a maverick like John McCain paving the way,” he said.
When Salmon was elected to Congress, McCain, as a mentor, was supportive, loyal and quick to share his dry sense of humor.
“He said to me, ‘Congratulations Matt, now you’re part of the problem,'” Salmon said.
McCain’s maverick ways have pressed on in the era of President Donald Trump. He continues to release statements and tweets from Arizona. Following Trump’s decision to not endorse a G7 statement with other global trade leaders, McCain tweeted a message to U.S. allies that said in part “Americans stand with you, even if our president doesn’t.”
Sen. Jeff Flake, Arizona’s junior senator who is not running for re-election, said McCain’s mantra of “country before party” sets him apart from other senators. Flake praised his honesty and transparency, as witnessed in the recent documentary.
“He was open about his mistakes, and his failings, and that’s part of what’s so endearing about him,” he said.
Flake said during a recent visit with McCain at his home, the two sat on the deck for about an hour and talked about what they miss about Arizona politics, the kind that put party and partisanship aside. Flake said he’s concerned that Arizona voters may miss out on having an independent voice that they’ve grown accustomed to when McCain is no longer in office.
“Today’s politics kind of reward those who stick with the crowd,” Flake said. “The incentives are not here to be independent and it takes a strong personality, like John, kind of an outsized personality, to pull that off.”
Former Arizona congressman John Shadegg said most lawmakers don’t work as hard as McCain. He cited town hall meetings in Arizona that McCain held in non-campaign years. One time at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport, Shadegg was speaking with McCain but had to cut the conversation short when “about a hundred people” came over to talk to the senator.
“There’s a personal side to John McCain, which is very different than the public John McCain, and one that you can’t help but like and respect,” Shadegg said.
Some of the state’s Republican voters have been critical of McCain for not being conservative enough. In 2016, primary challenger Kelli Ward came within 11 percentage points in a four-way race after running as a more conservative alternative. A few years before that, a censure effort from the state party called out McCain for campaigning as a conservative but voting more moderate.
On the flip side, McCain’s service and his ability to stick to his convictions have earned him respect from Democrats. McCain’s vote against a repeal of the Affordable Care Act shortly after he announced his diagnosis further endeared him to those who might disagree with him on other policies, Democratic consultant DJ Quinlan said.
“He did have his high profile moments where he was really willing to stick it to his party,” Quinlan said.
In the event McCain steps down from his Senate seat before 2022, state law requires the governor to fill a vacancy with an appointee of the same political party who will serve until the next general election. Republican Gov. Doug Ducey hasn’t been keen on speculating. He and his wife Angela visited John and Cindy McCain about two weeks ago.
“To anyone who uses this as an opportunity to speculate or fan the rumor mill: Washington DC’s obsession with this when there is no issue to be discussed is disgraceful,” Ducey spokesman Daniel Scarpinato said in a statement.
Yet rumors abound, with names being suggested as possibilities to fill the seat as an appointee, such as Cindy McCain, former Sen. Jon Kyl and former state attorney general Grant Woods.
Republican consultant Barnes called replacement rumors “desperate barbershop gossip,” though he said he understands the uncertainty some might have about the exit of such a dominant figure from the political stage.
“That particular Senate seat has been an outsized, powerful voice on the floor of the United States Senate, and you just can’t overstate the importance of that phenomenon,” Barnes said.
Some had wondered whether McCain’s seat would be up this year if he left office before May 30, the deadline for candidates to file signatures to get on the ballot. That opportunity is likely closed — meaning the next general election where a candidate could run for the seat would be 2020 instead of 2018. Secretary of State Michele Reagan’s office has said her office won’t speculate on responses to possible vacancies, and will make any decisions once a vacancy becomes available.
Salmon said he doesn’t think anyone can fill McCain’s shoes. He recalled a trip to Vietnam where he saw a monument to McCain.
“His voice is not just an Arizona voice,” he said. “It’s a world voice.”
He said many are wishing McCain well and hoping for the best.
“He’s one of the toughest guys I’ve gotten to know,” Salmon said. “It’s not a disease that most people diagnosed with are successful at fighting. But they’re not John McCain. He’s a fighter.”
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I dipped into some of Trump’s speech in Michigan and couldn’t stop watching. It was like a train wreck. Here’s a break down if you want to read about the crazy.
He talked about his 2016 victory and how no one thought he could win Michigan. He railed against the media. He praised, by name, several Fox News hosts. He called out the intelligence community. He talked about how elite he was (school, homes, etc.). He said Democrats shouldn’t investigate him. He talked about how he is building the wall (spoiler: he’s not). He complained about Jussie Smollett and Chicago. He said the Republican Congressmen in the audience got bad seats while thanking them (for something?). He had BREAKING news that he likes lakes (after his budget cut funding to the Great Lakes region)? He bashed the freshly elected Democratic Governor of Michigan for I guess.... also liking lakes? He said his rich friend shouldn’t be shy and that the people of Michigan probably don’t like him because he owns more land the people in the audience (it was weird). Then asked his rich friend how much money he made this month. He talks about how smart people are for investing in the stock market, ignoring that almost half of Americans don’t own stock or have 401(k)s. He has a weird story about how wives must be loving their husbands for their smart investments? Socialism bashing! Some economic numbers, clearly read from prompter. He lies about how he did great with women in 2016 (he didn’t). Talks about cutting regulation. Russia hates him (lol), but Russia is doing fine. Windmills are dumb because you can’t watch TV if there’s no wind. Hypes up his unpopular tax cuts. Talks about how some people hate their children and won’t leave them their businesses (estate tax). Told everyone about how he’s trying to kill Obamacare in the courts. Throws shade at John McCain. “The Republican Party will become the party of great healthcare. It’s good. It’s good.” Hypes up his junk health plans. More socialism bashing. Criticizes Obama’s “You can keep your doctor” line from like 10 years ago. Says people don’t care about their deductibles? Says he will protect people with preexisting conditions (while suing to eliminate laws doing just that). Talks about the VA (while unknowingly arguing for Medicare for All). Praises veterans five minutes after throwing shade at veteran John McCain. Worked in a “You’re fired!”. Criminal justice reform. Democrats have an “agender” of resistance and radicalism. Repeats “resist” a bunch of times for some reason. Apparently doesn’t know what resist means? Lies about the Green New Deal (no more cows! One care per family? Electric cars suck!). How would you get to Europe? NOBODY KNOWS! Kavanaugh and Gorsuch shout outs! Throws shade a Senator Mazie Hirono (Hawaii). Talks about how he “violently” attacked Elizabeth Warren, declaring her candidacy dead. Back to manufacturing (which was DEAD when he took over but he saved it). Mexico needs to do more to protect our border. CATCH AND RELEASE! VISA LOTTERY! Call back to Mexico is sending us criminals and rapists. CARAVANS! Threatening Mexico? Apparently we’re going to shut down the entire southern border (lololol). Closing the border means JOBS. It’s all very simple. Trans-Pacific Partnership slam! NAFTA slam! I guess there’s empty factories all over the place even though he’s bring back the jobs? Continues to show that he has no idea what trade deficits are. Talks about USMCA without giving any details about it, threatens to withdraw from NAFTA as leverage. Hypes up his tariffs. I guess there’s a chicken tax or something? You would think the only kind of jobs America has is manufacturing. He tells everyone that he’s fighting with the unions and GM. Back to the borders and extremist Democrats who want open borders and crime. Immigrant criminals are invading. Now we’re talking about how drugs are smuggled across the border and people are dying and you can’t believe the official numbers. Proud to have vetoed a bipartisan condemnation of his national emergency. Somehow House Republicans gave him money to build the wall? He’s going to a certain place (shhh its a secret) to show the people some of his brand new wall. 2020 is gonna be easier than 2016. He’s 1 for 1 in elections! He’s never debated but he was always center stage! He never said he was going to create jobs? Back to the border and Democrats. 4 MORE YEARS! 4 MORE YEARS! He’s gonna give us a question: lowest unemployment rate for African Americans! (wait...) He did a good job during his first election. 2020 will be easy. Democrats caused the border crises so they can get votes. Democrats want AMNESTY! Lawyers are helping refugees who all look like heavy weight champions. Sanctuary cities aren’t protecting borders. Its not the money! Walls work. Call it whatever you want but he called it a wall and he got the money anyway. 4,000 troops at our border and they’re fantastic. We're defending other countries' borders but not our own! We love ICE. Donald Trump likes making cars. Immigrant statistics. Democrats want to get rid of very tough people at ICE. Democrats want to set violent offenders free. ICE and border patrol are HEROES. We're throwing immigrants in jail or out of our country! MS-13. Democrats want to kill babies. Democrats love taxes, abortion, hoaxes and delusions. Republicans are the party of real Americans. Promises Made, Promises Kept! Talks about his pointless college campus free speech order. The American military is more powerful than ever. Withdrew us from Iran nuclear deal and now Iran is a different country. Opened the American embassy in Jerusalem and recognized the Golan Highs as part of Isreal (“very important, very important”). Venezuela is a mess. Constitution and Rule of Law! Dignity of Work and Sanctity of Life! Faith and Family! Religious Liberty! Free Speech! The right to keep and bear arms! Children should be taught to love their country and to respect the flag. USA! USA! USA! We're not changing the words of the national motto. Back to the 2016 election; it was the most exciting campaign in the history of the country. It was a historic day. We're getting out of foreign wars. They stood up to the rigged power structure in DC and he won't forget it and they will be very proud. They took back their country. TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! Donald Trump is loyal to them. Michigan will never be forgotton ever again (does Flint have clean water yet?). We're winning so big and nobody ever thought it could happen. We're going to take a beautiful stand. The people of Michigan are inspiring and we're going to make American wealthy. America is strong again. America is safe again. America is GREAT AGAIN. Then he walks out to creepy music.
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JACOBIN MAGAZINE
If you go by most of what you see in the media, you would think politics is governed by some strange version of Newtonian physics. “Both sides” are perennially to blame, and if there’s ever dangerous excesses on one end of the political spectrum, then they must of course be evened out by the existence of equally dangerous excesses on the other end.
It’s why, after George Soros was mailed a bomb, Chuck Schumer felt the need to announce that “despicable acts of violence and harassment are being carried out by radicals across the political spectrum.” And why the New York Times, after more explosives were sent to individuals hated by the Trump-loving Right, decidedthe explosives were adding “to [a] climate of overheated partisan rancor.”
Yet we’re now at a moment when it’s indisputable that only one of these “sides” has actually become a vehicle for dangerous, violent extremism.
I’m speaking about the quickly fading line between the far Right and “mainstream” conservatism. This isn’t really a new phenomenon. The dividing line between US conservatism and fringe bigots of various kinds has always been pretty flimsy; the old, “respectable” conservatism represented by William F. Buckley and pined for by today’s centrist pundits was also a deeply racist one. It’s not a mystery why the Klan endorsed Ronald Reagan for president twice.
But just consider some of the events of the past few weeks. The “theory” that the bombs sent by Trump superfan Cesar Sayoc were a “false flag” orchestrated by the Left quickly moved from far right internet message boards to being broadcast by “mainstream” conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Lou Dobbs, Michael Savage, various Fox News guests, and even a Republican lawmaker, Matt Gaetz. Gaetz, along with “mainstream” conservatives like Newt Gingrich, also floated the idea that the thousands of Central American migrants traveling to Mexico and the US-Mexican border were being funded by some mysterious agent of chaos. One of these conservatives was pundit and prolific conspiracy theorist Erick Erickson, who for some reason was invited this past Sunday onto Meet the Press where he play-acted as a sober moderate and lectured conservatives to drop the crazy talk.
It called to mind the recent episode in which conservative legal thinker Ed Whelan invented an alternative“explanation” for Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged assault of Christine Blasey Ford that involved a Kavanaugh doppelgänger, defaming an innocent man in the process. It also calls to mind that, even now, a majority of Republicans believe Obama was born in Kenya.
This is far from the only recent instance of crossover between the far and “mainstream” Right. British far-right figure Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (a.k.a. “Tommy Robinson”) was invited by Republican congressman Paul Gosar to speak to the Conservative Opportunity Society, a group of right-wing House Republicans founded by Steve King. This is only a few months after Gosar traveled to London and spoke in support of Yaxley-Lennon at a protest peopled with other far-right figures, where he called Muslim men a “scourge.” The Arizona GOP said nothing.
Speaking of Steve King — the Republican congressman who, whoopsie daisy, just happens to somehow constantly retweet, meet with, and sound exactly like neo-Nazis — his “mainstream” colleagues seem to have a hard time condemning him. Here’s a parade of local GOP officials defending King and whitewashing his various racist comments (“he’s a godly, upright man��; “I think that he says what he means”;“maybe it’s crude, maybe a little mean, but it gets the point across”). One GOP county chair, when asked if King’s statement that “we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies” was racist, responded: “I think it’s a reality.” (The head of the Republican Congressional fundraising arm did finally criticize King on Tuesday.)
King has helpfully made clear an obvious truth that would be considered too “partisan” if uttered by anyone in the media. Referring to the Freedom Party of Austria, a far-right party of actual Nazis, King said: “If they were in America pushing the platform that they push, they would be Republicans.” And he’s not wrong: this November features a gaggle of real-life, no-kidding neo-Nazis and white supremacists running as GOP nominees.
Meanwhile, the Proud Boys, a ridiculous but nonetheless violent fascist gang led by Vice founder Gavin McInnes, have been welcomed into the Republican Party fold, with McInnes invited by the Metropolitan Republican Club of New York City — traditionally a hub for the GOP’s establishment elite — to give a lecture. The talk involved McInnes re-enacting the 1960 assassination of Japanese Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma, complete with caricatured Asian eyes, and concluding, “Never let evil take root,” a line reportedly met with hooting and cheering by the Republican audience. The Proud Boys also acted as “security” for Joe Gibson, a far-right activist who was briefly a Republican Senate candidate from Washington, and a recent protest by the gang was organized by a local GOP official in Florida.
We can also see this shift in Fox News, the most popular and powerful media arm of the conservative movement. Fox has long been a bastion of racist dog-whistling, as Megyn Kelly’s tenure at the network can attest, but it’s recently opted to swap the dog whistle for a bullhorn. Tucker Carlson runs shows about the dangers of Roma immigration and supposed anti-white discrimination in South Africa, while Laura Ingraham told viewers that “massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people” through both illegal and legal immigration, and that “the America that we know and love doesn’t exist anymore” in parts of the country. Earlier this week, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested that the migrants headed toward the US are carrying unnamed “diseases,” which Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale accurately called “a staple of racist and anti-semitic incitement for hundreds of years.”
But the fact that Fox has never been far from these more alarmingly explicit appeals to racism is key, because the same goes for “mainstream” conservatism. As the Left has been at pains to point out for the past three years, other than on trade and some aspects of foreign policy, there is very little real substantive difference between Trump and “mainstream” conservatives, which is why Republicans, including his fiercest“opponents”, vote almost exactly in line with Trump’s policy positions most of the time. It’s also why Trump’s approval ratings are sky-high among Republicans and why “mainstream” conservatives have walked back their previous disapproval of Trump and now declare they’re “thrilled” with him. As one pollster has said, the “Never-Trump” Republicans that tend to appear on TV and in op-ed pages don’t really exist in real life.
Take a look at the recent midterms, which have seen the entire GOP heavily stoking racism in advance of voting day. The Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC, affiliated with House speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP leadership, has been running some breathtakingly racist ads. But the GOP’s “moderate” elements have been flirting with extremism for a while now.
Hatred of refugees, which motivated the latest far-right terrorist attack, was stoked by the “mainstream” Right in 2015, when 31 governors (all but one of them Republican) refused to resettle any Syrian refugees in their states. Hapless “moderate” Jeb Bush suggested letting in only the Christian ones. The following year, Ted Cruz, then another “moderate” alternative to Donald Trump, ran a campaign ad that was essentially Willie Horton for immigrant communities.
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual confluence of “mainstream” conservatism’s brightest lights, has for many years been a cesspool of far-right talking points, ideas, and figures. Figures like Pamela Geller and Frank Gaffney were fixtures for years (Gaffney, a conspiratorial, anti-Muslim hate-monger, was also an adviser to Ted Cruz in 2016, and other GOP hopefuls that year lined up to be associated with him). Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch politician, turned up once at CPAC to a forty-second standing ovation. This was the same year Wilders had been invited to the Capitol by Jon Kyl, the extremely conservative Republican former congressman who was considered a “pragmatic” choice to fill John McCain’s seat in Arizona.
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Bernie deserves nothing but hatred and distrust for his actions in 2016 and beyond. The fact he’s even thinking of running in 2020 proves he’s learned nothing
Ok, I have been planning this for a while, so here it goes.
A THREAD on why I hate Bernie:
Keep in mind, Bernie lost April 19th with a huge defeat in NY, where he lost to Hillary by 16 points 58% to 42%
Trump won the GOP nomination on May 4th, that is when he became the GOP nominee, and the GOP started lining up behind him.
Bernie waited until July to concede.
Now here is a good article on why so many people learned to dislike Bernie so much.
Most of us started out liking him, that changed when he became toxic.
medium.com/voluble/on-bec…
another piece talking about why they dislike Bernie, and it comes with a LOT of receipts.
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Scorched-Earth Politics: Bernie Sanders and the Dishonest Campaign that Gave Us Trump So began Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in his inaugural speech as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. It was an exceedingly sunny day on April 30, 2015, as a gaggle of reporters… https://medium.com/@blairdurkee/scorched-earth-politics-bernie-sanders-and-the-dishonest-campaign-that-gave-us-trump-eb0bc82ab2c1
Bernie started his campaign saying:
“I have never run a negative political ad in my life,”
I guess he never did rallies before… so I guess he left himself a loophole
When his audience boo’ed Hillary at his rallies, he would just stand there and smile.
When people boo’ed at an Obama rally, Obama said to them, don’t boo, vote.
When people were going after Obama in 2008, claiming he was Muslim, John McCain was FAR MORE honorable than Bernie:
we all remember this exchange at a McCain rally… you won’t find this kind of honor at a Bernie rally, that’s for sure
here in April, Bernie who failed to read an article, where an interviewer was trying to bait Hillary into saying Bernie wasn’t qualified, yet she NEVER took the bait.
Here’s Bernie at his rally, saying Hillary is not qualified.
Bernie was pulling all this shit during an election when Hillary would have to go up against Trump, and while we had an open Supreme Court seat.
He didn’t care about the Supreme Court.. he only cared about himself and his time in the limelight.
and, we all know, Bernie is so CLEAN.
but what is a little know fact is that, Bernie is the ONLY Non-Republican, who is on list of the top 25 NRA Donation recipients in 2016.
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Here are the members of Congress who take the most money from the gun lobby The list of lawmakers who get most of campaign cash from the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights groups reads like a who’s-who of the Republican Party. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lawmakers-who-take-the-most-money-from-the-gun-rights-lobby-2017-10-03
Bernie hammered Hillary on the Crime Bill, yet conveniently left out that not only did he vote for it, but he ran heavily on it, as showing he was TOUGH on crime
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Bernie painted Hillary as the biggest hawk, what he again leaves out is that the Iraq Authorization is literally the ONLY time Bernie voted no military intervention in his 30 year career.
1 NO vote, on ONE military authorization does NOT make a candidate anti-war dove.
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Here, Bernie seems rather proud of himself for not LYING about the Clinton Charity, or going after Bill’s personal life.
He lied and twisted the truth, and smeared Hillary on a lot of other things, why NOT jump on the Republican lies while he’s at it?
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Bernie Sanders lists Hillary Clinton criticisms he doesn’t raise Bernie Sanders, responding to Gov. Jerry Brown’s concern about a “scorched earth” primary hurting Hillary Clinton, said Tuesday he has avoided hitting the likely Democratic nominee on “major, major a… https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article80017262.html
Again.. he LOST in April. Bernie posted to his website on May 2nd 2016 again after losing NY by double digits, and literally had NO path to winning the nomination,
Bernie flat out accuses Hillary of MONEY Laundering.
It was NOT money laundering:
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Politico Exposes Clinton Campaign ‘Money-Laundering’ Scheme “You cannot exploit a broken campaign finance system one day and vow to get big money out of politics the next.” https://berniesanders.com/press-release/politico-exposes-clinton-campaign-money-laundering-scheme/
PROOF that it was not money laundering:
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Hillary Victory Fund: Joint Fundraising Committee Summary OpenSecrets.org has fundraising profiles for all 535 members of Congress (and more). https://www.opensecrets.org/jfc/summary.php?id=C00586537&cycle=2016
In a Primary with a candidate in your same party, who is the winner, who is going up against a racist fascist, you do NOT start going after your opponents character to this degree… NOT after losing.
This is the kind of stuff you can’t take back, and it is DAMAGING.
again, after Bernie lost NY on April 19th 2016, by 16 points,
he is STILL attacking Hillary on April 21st, even though he has a snowballs chance in hell of winning the primary.
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Bernie Sanders Renews Attacks on Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania Two days after he lost the New York primary to Hillary Clinton, a feisty Bernie Sanders showed up in Pennsylvania and renewed his now-familiar attacks on the Democratic front-runner. https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/04/21/bernie-sanders-goes-back-on-attack-in-pennsylvania/
This again, after his huge loss in NY April 19th:
It’s time for Bernie to face Reality and Avoid Going Scorched Earth
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It’s Time for Bernie Sanders To Face Reality and Avoid Going Scorched Earth He doesn’t have to quit, but with his path to the nomination at a virtual dead end, for the benefit of himself and the progressive movement, Sanders needs to throw cold water on the rage within his c… https://thedailybanter.com/issues/2016/04/22/face-reality-bernie-sanders/
This was published at the end of April after he lost NY by a HUGE margin
An Open Letter to Bernie Sanders:
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An Open Letter to Bernie Sanders - The Boston Globe I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but maybe a little tough love is in order. https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/04/22/open-letter-bernie-sanders/AfEtRwYJmTJ5lTNIuw4q8O/story.html
People say… but.. “come on, look at the 2008 Primary.. that went negative as well”
Ok.. let’s look at the 2008 and the 2016 primaries an compare them, shall we?
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Here’re the facts from 2008 and 2016 and what’s so different from the 2 elections, other than the fact that Democrats have NOT won a 3rd term in YEARS it’s the HARDEST type of election to win, and the best way is to get voters to want to build on the progress made while in office
from from May 31st. Trump is the GOP nominee and the GOP are lining up behind him, Bernie has NO way to win.
Keep in mine, the Democratic National Convention was July 25th - 28th
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Bernie Sanders jabs back at Jerry Brown, ‘Democratic establishment’ Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tuesday said Gov. Jerry Brown is part of “the Democratic establishment,” after the California governor endorsed Hillary Clinton. https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article80908912.html
Again, this was written at the END of May.
Now, GOP is lined up behind Trump, now Hillary is fighting 2 campaigns. Bernie was becoming MORE vicious at the end.
Bernie, Don’t Do This. Scorched Earth Campaign
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Bernie. Don’t Do This. Bernie Sanders is still in it to win it. Which is a problem. Because he can’t. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/05/bernie_sanders_scorched_earth_run_against_hillary_clinton_is_a_mistake.html
In May, the GOP was soundly uniting behind Trump
End of May, Bernie was still threatening to take it to the Democratic Convention and fighting Hillary’s nomination.
Bernie Says Democratic Primary not a Monarchy: a Jab at Hillary being crowned.
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Sanders: Democratic primary not a ‘monarchy’ Sanders rejected the assumption that Clinton will win the nomination. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/281032-sanders-democratic-primary-not-a-monarchy
Bernie went FULL ON character assassination.
May 19th 2016 a month after losing in NY
Then went after the DNC claiming he was CHEATED, even though there’s NO way for the DNC to rig the primary in Hillary’s favor.
NYT bernie willing to harm Hillary
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Bernie Sanders, Eyeing Convention, Willing to Harm Hillary Clinton in the Homestretch Determined to transform the party, the senator is aiming to amass enough leverage to press his agenda at the convention — or even wrest the nomination. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-campaign-accuses-head-of-dnc-of-favoritism.html
So, here’s Bernie:
“Yes I know I told you all Hillary was not qualified and that Hillary was a corrupt shill for Wall St.. But, HEY, Now I want you to vote for her!!”
THIS, is why you NEVER go after the character of the front runner of your political party in an election
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May 27th, to be EXACT.
Scorched Earth is working pulling his numbers up, and pulling Hillary’s numbers DOWN, on purpose at the end of the primary, after he lost
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Bernie Sanders’s ‘Scorched Earth’ Strategy Seems to Be Working The socialist senator is driving up Clinton’s disapproval rating with his supporters – and winning concessions to the party’s left flank in the process. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/sanderss-scorched-earth-strategy-is-working.html
*** Bernie saw the Bernie or Bust movement growing and still refused to address it, and kept on with the attacks, painting Hillary as corrupt, and claiming she was money laundering
He does this AFTER he lost, and when it’s clear Trump is the GOP nominee.
This is from April 27th 2016
It’s ONE thing to stay in hoping he’d get more say in the platform, but he became far MORE vicious after April went after her character, even after he KNEW he had lost.
Bernie Sanders Knows He Can’t Win the Nomination Now
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Did Bernie Sanders Just Admit Defeat? Yes and No. Hillary Clinton went four for five on Tuesday, and in the process removed pretty much any remaining doubt about whether she will be the Democratic… http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/04/27/bernie_sanders_refuses_to_quit_a_race_he_can_t_win.html
Four reasons Bernie Sanders waited so long to endorse Hillary Clinton
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He cared far MORE about being in charge of the platform, than the Democrats winning an election with an OPEN SCOTUS seat, and a fascist as the GOP nominee.
He KNEW Trump would be dangerous for MANY poor and People of Color.
That, in my opinion is UNFORGIVABLE.
Bernie KNEW that Russian Troll and Bot Farms were trying to help him win, yet he never said ONE word about it in the primary
He eventually blamed Hillary, for not informing his supporters.
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Bernie Sanders trying to evade questions about why he didn’t let his followers know about Russian interference. Bernie Sanders knew about the Russian Bots and trolls helping his Primary campaign, but did and said nothing. (Upload of dejah @bowiegrrl11’s Audio clip). #NeverBernie https://vimeo.com/256930828?ref=tw-share
Who can forget about Bernie attacking Hillary for speeches she was paid to give, that we later found out were even more liberal than her rallies, which is most likely why she didn’t want to release them, as to not hand FOX News a few days of breathless reporting.
While he was attacking her speeches, he was still refusing to release his taxes, even going so far as to LIE about his releasing them, earning him 4 Pinicios at Washington Post
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Is Mr. Sanders positioning himself to join the “Bernie or bust” crowd, walking away if he can’t pull off an extraordinary upset, and possibly helping put Donald Trump or Ted Cruz in the White House? If not, what does he think he’s doing?
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Opinion | Sanders Over the Edge The revolutionary isn’t cute anymore. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/opinion/sanders-over-the-edge.html
Yes, Bernie Sanders Is Questioning Hillary Clinton’s Integrity
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Yes, Bernie Sanders is questioning Hillary Clinton’s integrity   https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/yes-bernie-sanders-questioning-hillary-clintons-integrity/
MAY. 18, 2016, while Hillary was leading Bernie by over 3 MILLION votes.
Sanders’s scorched-earth campaign is a gift to Trump
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again, May 15 Bernie had NO path forward.
and WHO can forget the Nevada Convention?
Here’s somebody who didn’t forget, let me introduce you to Tim Hodge, a Delegate for Bernie, who was at the Nevada Convention May 15th and had this to say about it:
medium.com/@the_thodge/i-…
and, here was Bernie’s response to the fiasco and violence at the Nevada Convention:
It was to BLAME the PARTY…. so, now instead of accepting his defeat gracefully, he is now going after the Democratic Party, all while Trump is the GOP nominee.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sanders…
and, just so you can all see what Bernie’s Nevada delegate had to say about the Nevada Convention:
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April 19, 2016 Hillary wins the NY Primary, where just a day or 2 before, Bernie was being introduced and the person introducing Bernie called Hillary a Democratic WHORE.
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Sanders under fire for supporter’s 'whores’ remarks It’s hardly the first time a speaker at a Sanders event has created distractions and headaches for the Sanders campaign. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sanders-under-fire-supporters-whores-remarks
BY the way, Dr. Paul Song, the man who called Hillary a Democratic Whore, is Lisa Ling’s husband, Hillary had sent Bill Clinton to North Korea to SAVE his fucking FAMILY members. This is how the Clinton’s were repaid for that.
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Bernie Feels the Bern of His Anti-Clinton Delegates Party unity update: not united.
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Bernie feels the Bern of his anti-Clinton delegates Party unity update: not united. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/bernie-sanders-delegates-speech-philadelphia/
Bernie Sanders Can’t Figure Out Why His Supporters Don’t Like Hillary Clinton
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Bernie Sanders can’t figure out why his supporters don’t like Hillary Clinton   https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/bernie-sanders-cant-figure-out-why-his-supporters-dont-hillary-clinton/
In closing, my issue is the he went to insanely negative, scorched earth, and was fully willing to damage Hillary, all in the pursuit of power. He didn’t care if the Democrats won, or that there was a Supreme Court seat open.
He acted like a spoiled brat, victim… claiming when he lost that it was rigged against him, but when he won it was a legitimate win, due to his awesome skills.
He ran on taking down the MAN!
in the end, he helped take down an entire country.
It was the accusation that he was cheated, he used to convince his followers that Hillary and the DNC were corrupt.
He’s never apologized for the blatant lies of the primary being rigged, and he’s never fully tried to convince his followers that while he thought it was rigged during the election, in the end, he lost because 3.7 MILLION more Democrats voted for Hillary over him.
He literally stabs the driver in the back, then gets indignant that the driver crashed the car in a ditch. a crash that he set up to happen. all so he could have power.
I can NOT forgive this, and I can’t reward this with handing him power.
Get Control, Senator Sanders, or Get Out
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In Opinion: Bernie Sanders should either control the obscene behavior of his supporters or get out of the race If the Democratic presidential candidate can’t even manage the vicious thugs who act in his name, the author writes, he can’t be trusted to run the country. https://www.newsweek.com/2016/06/03/bernie-sanders-get-control-get-out-race-461195.html
MAY. 18, 2016
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The sad decline and fall of Bernie Sanders   https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/05/decline-fall-bernie-sanders/
Bernie Goes Negative
April 6th
I’m done with Bernie Sanders: Why this democratic socialist is voting for Hillary Clinton
Bernie’s not a more progressive choice, just a different one. The more I compare the two, the less I feel the Bern
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I’m done with Bernie Sanders: Why this democratic socialist is voting for Hillary Clinton Bernie’s not a more progressive choice, just a different one. The more I compare the two, the less I feel the Bern https://www.salon.com/2016/04/04/im_done_with_bernie_sanders_why_this_democratic_socialist_is_voting_for_hillary_clinton/
Dear Bernie: Thanks, but…I’m done.
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Dear Bernie: Thanks, but…I’m done. – Boo Radley – Medium I’m not sure I’ve ever been more disappointed in a politician than I’ve become with Bernie Sanders. He was My Guy in the beginning. I really wanted him to be the real deal. I hoped for a year, that… https://medium.com/@Boo_Radley/dear-bernie-thanks-but-im-done-6c6bc6e23993
I Felt the Bern But the Bros Are Extinguishing the Flames
I’m having a hard time being a Bernie Sanders supporter at the moment.
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I Felt the Bern But the Bros Are Extinguishing the Flames Sanders supporters at the Democratic state convention in Nevada became unruly and threatened the state party chair—This is unacceptable. http://time.com/4339865/bernie-sanders-supporters-violence/
It Comes From the Very Top
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It Comes From the Very Top For months I’d thought and written that Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver was the key driver of toxicity in the… https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/it-comes-from-the-very-top
and, in case you want to know what Bernie thinks since 2016, when the Democrats and the COUNTRY LOST?
In case that’s NOT enough… I see comments like this still, multiple times a day, and Bernie didn’t BOTHER to dispel this myth, cuz he created it.
Constantly telling his followers that he was cheated, that it was rigged against him.
He is a LIAR with NO HONOR
#NeverBernie
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I will continue to add links and various articles other Tweet storms regarding the dislike for Berne and why he should NOT be the Democratic Nominee due to his ugly petulant behavior from 2016.
I’ll also add links to his racism and misogyny.
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The Trouble With Bernie: Your Handy Vetting Guide The MSM Won’t Publish Bernie Sanders may have lost the Democratic nomination, but that’s not stopping him from continuing to sop up the mainstream media’s adoration of him. Mo… https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-trouble-with-bernie-your-handy-vetting-guide_us_59cba33fe4b028e6bb0a6707
so this comment screen cap threads to this whole thread.
Ohhh yes, I hear about the Democratic Mega Donors.
Yes, when we hear of millionaires and billionaires, we think Koch Bros, we don’t think about Hollywood, where most people are extremely Liberal.
Many millionaires actually want the same things YOU want.
“If he comes to South Carolina, he’ll have his 15 people will show up,” Brown said. “I hope it’s worth it to him, because he’s doing greater damage to the party overall.”
South Carolina Democrats: Better if Sanders ‘got lost’
dailyjournal.net/2018/10/10/us-…
One thing I hated the MOST about Bernie is:
Bernie blamed the media, the DNC, DebbieWS, Rigging, Cheating, for his loss.
He NEVER once took responsibility for losing, and even complained in his book that it was rigged against him.
NOT one peep from the MEDIA.
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People wonder why I dislike Bernie with such a passion.
It’s because he LIES to the voters.
He constantly LIED about the Democratic Party, and Twisted things.. he never explained WHY things have not progressed since 1995
How he’s lying? 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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He NEVER explains to his young audience, the GOP have been rigging elections, and that they’re the ones who’ve prevented/ blocked any progress.
He never even explains to his followers that Obama was stuck between a rock and a hard place because he didn’t have a Super Majority.
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He NEVER explains government to them at all. He keeps 'em ignorant
He could tell his followers that while the Dems aren’t perfect they still have the peoples best interest at heart, but due to the GOP holding the House for 20 YEARS out of 24 yrs, progress was near impossible.
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But NO he can’t help his young followers understand how government works, cuz then he wouldn’t be able to LIE about the Democrats and drag them, like he has for 30 years.
He can’t win unless he drags the Democratic party down, claiming that HE’s the only one who can fix it.
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Which, brings me to another thread, with MORE receipts, and the lies about how Hillary wasn’t Liberal enough, when fact is, Hillary and Bernie voted the SAME 93% of the time.
But again, he can’t win if he tells the truth.. so, Bernie LIES, a LOT. 👇👇👇👇
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Remember when Al Gore wasn’t Liberal enough?
Gore was a Corporatist… Sold out to Wall St.
If Al has been elected We would not have gone to Iraq We’d have addressed global warming Tax cuts would not have happened
But, Al Gore was not Liberal enough, so we got Bush instead
again with the LIES they’re doing it again with Kamala, LYING about her.
They spent the entire primary lying so badly about Hillary, so they could drive her poll numbers down and Bernie’s up
Here’s some of the lies, this from Jimmy Dore 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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I’m so fucking SICK of Democrats being called Republican Lite, or Neo-Liberal, Corporatist.
It’s getting fucking OLD.
Thread what the Democrats have been doing for the last 25 years:
Keep in mind, the GOP had the House or 20 out of 24 yrs.
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I do NOT like holier than thou, sanctimonious people. I don’t like hypocritical people.
I do NOT like politicians who tear the other person down, to build themselves up.
That’s exactly what Bernie did, at the expense of our nation.
Worse, he did it AFTER he lost the primary
Bernie Sanders Is The Biggest Loser
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Bernie Sanders Is The Biggest Loser – Oliver Chinyere – Medium A hypercritical examination of Senator Bernie Sanders https://medium.com/@ochinyere/bernie-sanders-is-the-biggest-loser-4c43b1feacfc
It’s rather curious how he is so Liberal… yet, so many of his followers were perfectly fine with Trump?
Trump’s NO McCain McCain was moderate'ish
Cassandra Fairbanks: Bernie Sanders Fan Who Flipped To Donald Trump Contacted Russian Hacker Guccifer 2.0
inquisitr.com/4553267/cassan…
Funny, when he won an election it was due to his greatness, when he lost, it was because it was rigged.
After MONTHS of LYING to his followers, he finally admits softly…
Bernie Sanders agrees: Democratic process not ‘rigged’
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Bernie Sanders agrees: Democratic process not 'rigged’ There’s a difference between a process that’s “rigged” and one in which an underdog faces institutional challenges that are difficult to overcome. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/bernie-sanders-agrees-democratic-process-not-rigged
At the Convention:
He CREATED this.
Lock her up: his supporters use Trump’s attack line on Clinton
‘We have to defeat Donald Trump and elect Clinton,’ Sanders says – but protesters boo and express anger in Philadelphia over the leaked emails 👇👇👇👇👇
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'Lock her up’: Sanders supporters adopt Trump’s attack line on Clinton ‘We have got to defeat Donald Trump and elect Clinton,’ Sanders says – but protesters boo and express anger in Philadelphia over the leaked DNC emails https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/25/lock-her-up-sanders-trump-clinton-chant
Bernie at the end was acting like an out of control Mob Boss.
Holding the party hostage, like Trump did with the Shut Down
“It would sure be a shame if the Democrats lose… but, if you pay me off with enough power, I’ll see about making sure that doesn’t happen… wink wink”
He did this all so he could be in charge of the platform
and have power he didn’t actually earn
He was forcing Hillary to adopt his platform, the very platform the Democratic voters soundly REJECTED.
Rejected by 3.7 MILLION votes.
I heavily suspect he knew he was hurting Hillary tho, and knew that his ticket to REAL power would only come if the Democrats lost against Trump
again, in 2018 he said:
Bernie Sanders at a book party in DC says “in many ways we did win the election.”
He KNEW, the only way for him to gain power was if Hillary lost.
It was NOT good enough for him to stop and help Hillary win so that she could be POTUS, and continue Democratic progress, while he would lead congress to pass some progressive bills, that Hillary WOULD have signed.
When people claim: “But, he campaigned heavily for Hillary.”
That’s a FLAT OUT…. LIE!
Primary ENDED June 7th
Bernie conceded July 12th
Democratic Convention July 25th
By September 5th, he’d only campaigned 2 times for Hillary
This from Sept 5th
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“He reluctantly and belatedly endorsed her. And the 2 speeches he has given since for her have basically been papered-over versions of his own stump speech. In short, since he ended his own campaign, Bernie Sanders hasn’t done much publicly to help get Hillary elected president.”
The Convention was July 25th
WTF? from Sept 5th
“The Vermont senator will make his first post-convention campaign pitch for Clinton on Monday in New Hampshire, where he’ll be, according to the Clinton campaign, discussing her "plan to build an economy that works for everyone.”
on July 12th, when he FINALLY conceded… 14 DAYS before the Democratic National Convention.
here’s a piece on his speech:
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And, yes, he did say this: “I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she must become our next president.”
(It was the only time that Sanders used the words “endorse” or “endorsing” in a speech that ran 2,161 words.
a FAR cry from Hillary and her endorsement of Barak Obama, and her calls for Democratic party unity.
Clinton endorses Obama, calls for party unity
edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/…
Hillary gave a ROUSING speech on how important it was to ELECT Barak Obama.
I LOVED how she repeated his name as she smiled warmly.
She acted with grace.
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Hillary Clinton Endorses Barack Obama Following is a transcript of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech Saturday on suspending her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/us/politics/07text-clinton.html
I am standing with Senator Obama to say… YES WE CAN!!!
That is why we need to help elect Barak Obama our President
and that is why me must elect Barak Obama our President
and that is why we have to help elect Barak Obama our President
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Now… THAT’S how you give a concession speech and endorse your primary opponent.
This is how you do it how you act with grace, even after a loss
This is how you act like a TEAM player.
Have no doubt, our party is our team, and that is why it’s important to be a team player.
I’ll expect and accept NOTHING less of the candidates who are running for the Democratic nomination.
That’s why I have such strong dislike for Bernie.
In the end, I don’t care about pure voting history it doesn’t matter, what I want is a person who is graceful, even in defeat.
What is NOT acceptable is a losers campaign Tweeting weeks before the election
September 25th
Jane Sanders Tweets video of Bernie telling his supporters
Regarding voting for Hillary as POTUS
“Don’t Listen to Me”
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In the summer of 1988 I was a young driver/guide working for a cruiseline in Ketchikan, Alaska. It was just the beginning of the tourism boom that would see the total cruise ship visitor number increase from about 100,000 in that year to today’s annual visitation of over 1,000,000. The company liked to pickup extra work when it could and I reported to work on a July morning with news that I would be driving around a charter group for the next three days. I was hoping to get the days off as it was the Fourth of July and that was always the most celebrated holiday of the year in Alaska on the account that it happened in the middle of summer. That was reason enough for people to take a break and hike, steer, paddle, and fly to town to have a little fun. The events actually started the day before and ended the day after the fourth making it a small festival rather than a holiday. Ketchikan was still a lumber town back then too, with fishing a close second. The town was a bit scruffier then too but Senator Ted Stevens never missed a Fourth of July celebration in Ketchikan. My displeasure at having to work the holiday was quickly ended when I was told that Senator Stevens had brought several senate colleagues and their wives to town with them to celebrate the 4th with him and do a little fact finding on Alaska issues. They would be staying at the newly opened Salmon Falls Resort and would be needing a ride from the airport, then rides into town the following day, then a ride back to the airport in a couple of a days. My dispatcher told me that I would be driving the bus for all these trips. I was a bit of a political junky at the time and knew the players pretty well. If they had had political cards like baseball cards I would say I did well with the pack that came with Senator Stevens. There was Fritz Hollings the Democrat from South Carolina, John Warner from Virginia, Tom Hawkins from Iowa, and a couple more that I frankly don’t remember now, and a freshman newly elected from Arizona named John McCain. Now to get to the airport I needed to take a 7 minute ride on a small ferry to the island directly across the channel from town. [see video] There was nothing else on that island, so the road from the ferry terminal on that side led to the airport and no where else. A bridge had been proposed, but at the time no one call it a “the bridge to nowhere” yet. I remember driving out to the tarmac to pick up the Senators and their families. I had been giving tours all summer and had my script down. I knew my facts and had the benefit of growing up in Ketchikan, and so the ride across the channel between the island the airport was a great opportunity to point out fishing boats, ferry boats, and floatplanes. I wonder now if Senator McCain had any premonitions of the future that day as he rode the ferry between the islands. On the drive out to Salmon Falls, we went past Ward Cove Cannery and saw eagles perched on trees. My standard tour spiel was to look for the white “golf balls” against the green backgrounds as the first clue to see them. And then to call out those who were “experts at finding golf balls in trees” to help those who were not to find one. The pulp mill was still active in 1988 so I gave them my standard spiel about its economic impact and the environmental issues. I remember is taking them into town one day so that they could shop. I parked my bus on the dock and they all got off to shop. I had set a return time and since I had no place to go I just stayed with my bus and broke open a book to read. After awhile I heard someone knocking on the door and I opened it to see Senator McCain. He explained he was early but he had grown tired of shopping. I invited him onboard. I fully expected him to go back to his seat and start reading important papers from out of briefcase or something but instead he sat in the front seat across from me and started a conversation. I don’t recall what we actually talked about but what I remember is total lack of pretense, the sincerity in his eye contact, and the manner that he conversed that made you feel that you were talking to an old friend. This side of John McCain doesn’t translate in stump speeches, but I have heard other people who have had similar encounters with him that will tell you same thing. It’s why he is respected by so many from both sides of the political isle. I didn’t know his story back then. That he had once been a fighter pilot. That he was the son of an Admiral. That he had been shot down and was repeatedly tortured in that time, that he was a close friend of Senator Mo Udal, a Democrat. That he would lose the 2000 Republican nomination because he would refuse to indulge in dirty campaign politics. That he would nominate the governor of Alaska, and former classmate of a cousin of mine, to be his historical nomination for Vice President. But even though I often disagreed with his politics, I have never met a politician I have respected more than John McCain. I think if everyone in America had the chance I did to talk with him like I did, he would be president.
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Are Any Republicans Running Against Trump
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Governor Of Arkansas
Trump takes aim at Republicans who have spoken out against him
Outgoing White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hugs US President Donald Trump during a second chance hiring and criminal justice reform event in the East Room of the White House
Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced her plans to run for the governor of Arkansas on January 25, and Trump gave her his endorsement the same day.
Sanders has a long and positive history with Trump, having served as his White House press secretary from 2017 to 2019.
In Gop Poll From Hell Republicans Say They Want Donald Trump Jr To Be President In 2024
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A recurring nightmare among millions of Americans is that come 2024, Donald Trump will forget the fact that he actually hated being president, decide to run again, and win. Seriously, can you think of a more horrifying scenario, except perhaps falling through a sidewalk into a rat-filled chasm,;which some people might still prefer? We maintain that you cannot. But an equally terrifying, skin-crawling situation would definitely be to turn on the TV on January 20, 2025, and see Donald Trump Jr. being sworn in as president of the United States, which a number of Republican voters apparently actually want to happen.
The poll, which was conducted between July 6 and 8, did not include Donald Trump Senior, who maintains an inexplicable grip on voters despite the mass-death stuff, an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and a mental state that suggests he should be in a home or studied by a team of Swiss doctors.
And the fact that Don Jr. came out on top is not where the scary news ends. Because apparently if Republicans cant have Sheep Killer over here, their second-favorite choice is Florida governor Ron DeSantis, the man currently responsible for this:
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Sen Mitt Romney Of Utah
A Gallup poll last March found Romney, 74, has a higher approval rating among Democrats than Republicans, so you might figure he doesnt have a prayer in taking his partys nomination again. A February Morning Consult poll, though, had Romney polling ahead of Republicans like Pompeo, Cotton and Hawley. So, youre telling me theres a chance? Yes, a one-in-a-million chance.
The 2012 GOP presidential nominee and his wife, Ann, have five sons. He graduated from Brigham Young University and Harvard Law. Romney is a former Massachusetts governor, and the first person to be a governor and senator from two different states since Sam Houston, who was governor of Tennessee and a senator from Texas. Romney is this years JFK Profile in Courage Award recipient.
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Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner and a Wrightsville, Ga., native, has long lived in Texas after a professional football career that ended in Dallas, but he changed his voter registration last week to an Atlanta house owned by his wife, Julie Blanchard. Blanchard is under investigation by the Georgia secretary of state’s office over potential illegal voting after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported she voted in Georgia despite living in Texas.
Walker has also repeated false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election despite elections officials finding no evidence of widespread fraud that affected the outcome.
It’s unclear when Walker will make a formal Senate announcement. The campaign paperwork filed Tuesday ends months of speculation about his political plans, including a prediction in June from Trump that the former football star would soon suit up for the Republican primary.
“He told me he’s going to, and I think he will,” Trump said on the conservative talk radio Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. “He’s a great guy. He’s a patriot. And he’s a very loyal person, he’s a very strong person. They love him in Georgia, I’ll tell you.”
Some national Republicans have been wary of Walker’s candidacy, though. The first-time candidate comes with potential baggage that could harm his chances in both the primary and general elections, including his Texas residency.
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John Boozman: Senator Arkansas
WASHINGTON, DC FEBRUARY 02: U.S. President Donald Trump applauds at the National Prayer Breakfast February 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. Every U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower has addressed the annual event. Also pictured are Rep. Robert Aderholt , television producer Mark Burnett, and Sen. John Boozman .
Trump announced his endorsement for Republican Arkansas Sen. John Boozman on March 8.
INBOX: Trumps Endorsement of Senator John Boozman
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Senator John Boozman is a great fighter for the people of Arkansas. He is tough on Crime, strong on the Border, a great supporter of our Military and our Vets, and fights for our farmers every day. He supports our Second Amendment and has my Complete and Total Endorsement! Trump said in a statement.
Trump Ally Herschel Walker Is Running For Us Senate In Georgia
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Then-President Donald Trump elbow bumps Herschel Walker during a 2020 campaign rally in Atlanta. Walker filed paperwork Tuesday to run for U.S. Senate in the key swing state of Georgia.
Herschel Walker, a former University of Georgia football standout and a friend and ally of former President Donald Trump’s, is running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, setting up a high-profile Republican primary next year in the crucial battleground state.
Walker enters a growing field seeking to unseat Democrat Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first Black senator, with strong encouragement from Trump, who has been fixated on Georgia politics since narrowly losing the state’s 16 electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election.
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Sen Josh Hawley Of Missouri
Though controversial, Hawley, 41, is a fundraising machine and hes quickly made a name for himself. The blowback Hawley faced for objecting to Bidens Electoral College win included a lost book deal and calls for him to resign from students at the law school where he previously taught. His mentor, former Sen. John Danforth of Missouri, said that supporting Hawley was the biggest mistake Ive ever made in my life.
Still, he brought in more than $1.5 million between Jan. 1 and March 5, according to Axios, and fundraising appeals in his name from the National Republican Senatorial Committee brought in more cash than any other Republican except NRSC Chair Sen. Rick Scott of Florida. Just because youre toxic in Washington doesnt mean you cant build a meaningful base of support nationally.
One Republican strategist compared the possibility of Hawley 2024 to Cruz in 2016. Hes not especially well-liked by his colleagues , but hes built a national profile for himself and become a leading Republican voice opposed to big technology companies.
Hawley and his wife, Erin, have three children. He got his start in politics as Missouri attorney general before being elected to the Senate in 2018. Hawley graduated from Stanford and Yale Law.
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Former Trump Aide To Run Primary Challenge Against Kinzinger
Representative Adam Kinzinger will face a primary challenge from a former Trump administration aide as the pro-Trump faction of the GOP looks to oust Republicans, such as Kinzinger, who voted in support of the former presidents second impeachment.
Catalina Lauf, who served in the Department of Commerce under the Trump administration, launched a bid Thursday to oust Kinzinger from his seat in the 16th congressional district of Illinois.
I never thought Id primary a fellow Republican, but is Congressman Kinzinger really a Republican anymore? He isnt and we have the proof, the 27-year-old challenger said in a campaign announcement video.
Lauf said her 42-year-old opponent is a weak-kneed, establishment Republican who cares more about his next MSNBC appearance than the voters who elected him.
She claimed Kinzinger does not support the America First movement, noting his one in three votes in Congress that have sided with House speaker Nancy Pelosi
Instead of being in our fight, Adam betrayed his constituents for a life in the D.C. swamp, said Lauf, who branded herself the anti-AOC.
She blasts her Fake Republican opponent for backing the phony impeachment hoax for a president who has already left office.
He said impeachment was necessary to save America. What? Lauf said. You know what I think is necessary to save America, Adam? Setting term limits for people like you and the rest of your friends out. Six terms in Congress is enough.
This Republican Is Running Against Donald Trump Is Anybody Listening
Bill Weld thinks GOP voters should bail on the president. So why is he making his case to independents?
Erick Trickey is a writer in Boston.
MANCHESTER, N.H. â Bill Weld leans back in a chair, hand on his hip, and talks about the Republican Party like someone whoâs been away for a while and is trying to get used to all the new developments. âI know a lot of the Republicans in Washington, and theyâre good people,â says the sandy-haired, ruddy-faced primary challenger to Donald Trump. âTheyâre just cowed by this president somehow.â
This was three days into his long-shot bid for president, and the former Massachusetts governor is talking in a Hilton Garden Inn lounge that looks out on the New Hampshire Fisher Catsâ minor league baseball field. On his campaignâs opening day, Weld declared heâd chase Trump as ferociously as a fisher cat, the weasel-like native of New Hampshire known for eating porcupines. But the president seems not to have noticed he has an angry 73-year-old on his tail, at least not one from his own party; Trump hasnât aimed so much as a tweet at his erstwhile opponent or bothered to taunt him with a nickname. Weld, however, is basically screaming at the TV. Heâs worked up over a news report that Trump aides fear the presidentâs âwrathâ because they talked to special counsel Robert Mueller.
The question is: Are they listening?
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Presidential primaries and caucuses of the Republican Party took place in many U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories from February 3 to August 11, 2020, to elect most of the 2,550 delegates to send to the Republican National Convention. Delegates to the national convention in other states were elected by the respective state party organizations. The delegates to the national convention voted on the first ballot to select Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election, and selected Mike Pence as the vice-presidential nominee.
President Donald Trump informally launched his bid for reelection on February 18, 2017. He launched his reelection campaign earlier in his presidency than any of his predecessors did. He was followed by former governor of MassachusettsBill Weld, who announced his campaign on April 15, 2019, and former Illinois congressmanJoe Walsh, who declared his candidacy on August 25, 2019. Former governor of South Carolina and U.S. representative launched a primary challenge on September 8, 2019. In addition, businessman Rocky De La Fuente entered the race on May 16, 2019, but was not widely recognized as a major candidate.
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If the former president proves to be a kingmaker in the 2022 midterms, his allies say he may seek reelection in 2024.
The Republican Party is just a name, Steve Bannon told me last week. I had called him to ask about the influence he believes his old boss still carries inside the GOP. The bulk of it is a populist, nationalist party led by Donald Trump. As for the rest of it? The Republican Party, pre-2016, are the modern Whigs, he added, referring to the national party that collapsed in the mid-19th century over divided views on slavery.
Bannon might not be the most reliable barometer of the political moment, but some of Trumps fiercest Republican critics share his belief that the former president maintains a strong grip on his party. He sparked this , and now others are going ahead and taking the baton of batshittery, Representative Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois and a staunch Trump critic, told me last week.
After losing badly in 2020, the GOP wants candidates who can win in 2022. But the partys biggest star seems less concerned with fellow Republicans electability than with their fealty. Trump aims to punish incumbents who voted for his impeachment and reward those who support the culture war hes stoked. Republicans want to talk about Joe Bidens liberal leanings and how inflation is making life more expensive for most Americans. Trump wants to talk about himself and his personal woes.
What will voters want to hear?
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‘the Stars Have Aligned For Both Parties’ Interests’
Trump employed a scorched-earth brand of politics throughout his presidency, and often undercut his own efforts. In 2019, he abruptly pulled out of infrastructure talks with Democrats as they started investigating his administration. “Infrastructure week” soon became a running gag referring to his repeated failures at passing a new bill.
Biden, on the other hand, is applying the opposite approach. He’s had an unyielding faith in bipartisanship and repeatedly sought compromise with Republicans. That hasn’t always panned out Biden muscled through a $1.9 trillion stimulus law earlier this year without any GOP support once negotiations collapsed.
Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the second-ranked Senate Republican, serves as a barometer of where many rank-and-file Republicans stand. Thune pushed back against Trump’s recent criticisms, saying he believed each side’s political interests have aligned recently. Infrastructure has long been something popular with voters.
“I disagree with former President Trump on that,” he told Insider. “You want to celebrate successes no matter when they happen. It just so happened the stars aligned right now for both sides to come together on this.”
“As is always the case up here, timing is everything,” he said.
“I’m not sure the nature of his objections,” Cassidy said in an interview with Insider, referring to Trump. “Somehow, he says it’s a win for I view it as a win for the American people.”
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Rand Paul: Senator Kentucky
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
Trump announced his endorsement for Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on April 8, praising the longtime politician for his war against the swamp in Washington.
Rand Paul has done a fantastic job for our Country, and for the incredible people of Kentucky.; He fights against the Swamp in Washington, the Radical Left Liberals, and especially the destructive RINOS, of which there are far too many, in Congress, Trump wrote in a statement. Rand will continue to stand up for our great AMERICA FIRST policies because he believes in stopping wasteful spending, defending our Second Amendment rights, and taking care of our Military and our Vets.; I am proud to be working with Rand in our battle to Make America Great Again.; He has my Complete and Total Endorsement for another term in the U.S. Senate. ; The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a true champion in Rand Paul.
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Interview with Mary Trump
"Donald Is a Fascist and the Republicans Are Trying To Destroy Our Democracy"
In an interview, Mary Trump, the only niece of the former American president, talks about an uncle she describes as dangerous, his enduring power and the growing hate in America.
— Interview Conducted By Marc Pitzke | 08.25.2021
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Mary Trump: "He's literally the weakest person I've ever known." Foto: Sara Naomi Lewkowicz / DER SPIEGEL; Michael Reynolds / Zuma Press / action press
Mary Trump, Donald Trump's only niece, has just finished a talk show appearance by video chat from her kitchen. She's sitting in the library of her apartment building, trying to relax. The ceiling-high shelves behind her are filled with carefully curated coffee table books. Through the wall of windows, one can see Manhattan's thick traffic below.
Trump, however, seems irritated. "This was the first time I've been treated badly in an interview," she says.
She had just appeared on "The View," a popular morning chat show, where they discussed politics, the pandemic and racism. Yet one co-host checked out of the conversation without even greeting her: Meghan McCain, daughter of the late senator John McCain, who had been reviled and insulted by Donald Trump even as he went to his grave.
The younger McCain is famous – infamous – for her own conservative tirades. After the show with Mary Trump, she tweeted: "There is no 'good' Trump family member to me."
And there it is, Mary Trump's burden: her last name.
She will be forever linked to her uncle, his lies, is hubris, his incompetence, his autocratic tendencies – and the damaging fallout from his one term as president.
Last year, the psychologist published her memoirs: "Too Much and Never Enough." The book revealed the horrific family history of the Trumps – and made her a target of Trump fanatics, who still worship the former president. For months, she hardly left the house – because of COVID-19, but also out of fear of being recognized and vilified.
Now Trump, 56, has written a second book, "The Reckoning: America's Trauma and Finding a Way To Heal." It addresses the darkest period of U.S. history, with the nation's enduring racism, and, of course, her uncle.
DER SPIEGEL: Ms. Trump, last summer you called your uncle the world's most dangerous man. Now that he's out of office, do you still feel that way?
Trump: After the election, I was happy for about a minute. I was very relieved, of course, but the number of people who voted for him was just heartbreaking. Seventy-four million! Yes, Joe Biden won. But the Democrats in general didn't win enough. We needed a total repudiation of Donald and his party, and we didn't get one.
DER SPIEGEL: So, you think he still presents a danger?
Trump: We're not out of the woods. It became clear right after the election that he was going to do everything in his power to undermine the legitimacy of the results and that the Republicans were just going to let him do it. For him, losing is not acceptable and winning doesn't mean legitimately winning, it just means getting the win. He knows he didn't win, but I don't believe he knows he lost, either.
DER SPIEGEL: How so?
Trump: He's been trying for two years to steal this election. I don't believe he can wrap his head around the fact that everything he did, all the stops he pulled out, all the stops the Republican Party pulled out for him, haven't worked. So, he's still trying to steal this election.
DER SPIEGEL: Do you see Jan. 6, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol Building, as such an attempt?
Trump: He is very good at finding people weaker than he is, which is shocking because he's literally the weakest person I've ever known. But they're out there obviously, in large numbers. Then, there are people who are much smarter and powerful than he is, who know how to use him. So, it's a very dangerous combination. Were there people around him who knew that it could very possibly lead to that moment? Absolutely. Was he completely willing and comfortable to take advantage of the situation and make it worse for his benefit? Absolutely.
DER SPIEGEL: Do you think he welcomed what he saw on Jan. 6?
Trump: Oh, my gosh, yeah. It was probably one of the best days of his life. The worse it got, the happier he was. It wasn't an accident when he told the mob that if he wasn't granted the victory, it was Mike Pence's fault. So, should we be surprised that people were running around with nooses wanting to string Mike Pence up? It would have been perfectly fine with him. Absolutely. The only thing he probably regrets about that is that there wasn't more violence.
DER SPIEGEL: What went through your mind that day?
Trump: I hadn't listened to his speech beforehand, because I've tried whenever possible not to listen to him or look at him, because I don't care what he has to say. At first, like everybody else, I found it really hard to know what precisely was going on. It just looked like a mess. The first word that came to mind was tawdry. But then it became obvious to me that it was much worse than that. This is our Capitol! This is the center of – well, I don't like to say American democracy, because I don't think America has ever completely been a democracy like we aspire to be.
DER SPIEGEL: Do you think he will run again in 2024?
Trump: I don't know. But because he's being enabled, he sees an opening. He feels the power. He also knows that the only way he stays out of legal trouble is to get back into power.
DER SPIEGEL: Does it weigh on you to be so personally connected to his world? In your new book you reveal that in 2017, a few months after your uncle's inauguration, you went into inpatient treatment for post traumatic stress disorder. What happened?
Trump: I just remember feeling so out of control. I remember spinning out and didn't know how to stop. I lived in a very Republican town then, so I was really isolated. For the first time in my life, I lost friends because of an election, and I knew I needed to do something. But despite the fact that I'm a psychologist, I didn't know there were treatment programs for that. I knew there were for addictions, but I didn't know there was such a thing for post-traumatic stress.
DER SPIEGEL: Your uncle traumatized half the nation.
Trump: Every once in a while, I think about how this country will be forever stained by what he did. That's really hard. We never recover from that. Maybe in 200 years, but not while I'm alive.
DER SPIEGEL: Don't you think his spell is broken? Joe Biden's policies are pretty popular, and Trump's "Big Lie" hasn't amounted to anything.
Trump: The Democrats don't understand the seriousness of the threat. They are playing by rules in a rulebook that the Republicans lit on fire. There are no rules anymore. They need to start fighting like their lives depend on it. But they're just not willing to do that. There is an unwillingness – also in the U.S. media – to use the kind of language that is accurate and necessary to get people to understand the seriousness of the threat.
DER SPIEGEL: How serious is it?
Trump: Donald is a fascist, and the Republicans are an autocratic, anti-democratic, counter-majoritarian party that would be perfectly happy to establish some kind of apartheid in this country. They are actively trying to destroy our democracy. If they win back the House in 2022, it would be fatal to the American experiment. I wouldn't be surprised if they make Donald, two years before the presidential election, speaker of the house. And then there will never be another Democrat allowed to win an election.
DER SPIEGEL: Do you really believe that?
"The Democrats don't understand the seriousness of the threat. They are playing by rules in a rulebook that the Republicans lit on fire. There are no rules anymore."
Trump: We see it happening already. Last year, there were 155 million presidential votes cast in this country. There have been maybe 36 cases of voter fraud, which is a vanishingly small number. And yet, we've got hundreds of voter suppression laws in place or being pushed by the Republicans. If the Democrats lose the House and/or the Senate in the 2022 midterms, it's over. It is over.
DER SPIEGEL: You don't think the U.S. democracy is resilient?
Trump: The way this country is structured is inherently anti-democratic.
DER SPIEGEL: What do you mean?
Trump: The U.S. Constitution is not a democratic document. For example, we currently have a 50-50 split in the Senate, but the 50 Republican senators represent 40 million less people than the 50 Democratic senators – because the constitution gives every state two senate seats, no matter how populous.
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DER SPIEGEL: In your new book, you write: "The ugly history of our country is filled with sordid, barbaric and inhuman acts committed by average citizens which were encouraged or at least condoned by the highest levels of government. To deny this history means to deny our national trauma." That's a devastating judgement – how did you come to that conclusion?
Trump: If there's one thing Americans are very good at, it's perpetuating myths about ourselves.
DER SPIEGEL: For instance?
Trump: One of the most astonishing things this country got away with was portraying itself as a beacon of democracy during World War II, while at the same time an entire population of people was being held in what was essentially a closed, fascist state in the South. Black Americans who served their country came home only to be lynched because they had the audacity to wear the uniform. Part of that is also that people think that the North were the good guys. But a large percentage of Northerners were really racist, too, and perfectly happy to have Blacks freed, but did not want them to have any political power, so they decided that it was more expedient to make common cause with the former Confederates than with the freed men and women.
DER SPIEGEL: Isn't the way of looking at U.S. history changing rapidly?
Trump: The right is doing everything to make sure that Americans continue to stay ignorant about their own history. Imagine if post-World War II Germany hadn't taken the steps that it has taken.
DER SPIEGEL: Not all Germans back then were too excited about that, either.
Trump: That's a good point. It requires the political will. We let people off the hook for flying the Confederate flag because they claim it's just about their Southern history. But they know what it means. It means that they are completely on board with white people owning black people.
DER SPIEGEL: Is the U.S. still a racist country?
Trump: If you're a white adult American, it's almost impossible not to be racist because of the media environment we grow up in, our families or our friends' families, the influences of our education. But when you become an adult, you need to take responsibility for that stuff. If we don't acknowledge it, then it's never going to change. But it's very hard to acknowledge that.
DER SPIEGEL: How much do you blame your uncle for that?
Trump: I blame him for the fact that it's becoming more and more acceptable to be openly racist. What Donald did was prove that racism is a successful platform when you run for office in this country. People like him are out there very openly being racist and white supremacist, and they're getting tens of millions of people to vote for them because either they agree with them or they don't have a problem with it because lower taxes are more important. We're in a really dangerous place.
"The Republicans are an autocratic, anti-democratic, counter-majoritarian party that would be perfectly happy to establish some kind of apartheid in this country."
DER SPIEGEL: Do you also blame him for the disastrous COVID-19 situation here last year?
Trump: That's been one of the worst things for me to deal with. Knowing that your uncle is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people is not a good feeling. That many died in exactly the same circumstances my father did, alone, because my uncle, who could have gone to the hospital to be with my dad, rather went to the movies. So, that's been really, really hard. Because of his incompetence and his cruelty we're still struggling with this. Because of his encouragement of the unvaccinated and his failure to model decent behavior, which he is incapable of doing. It's just a kick in the teeth.
DER SPIEGEL: Wasn't he one of the first to get vaccinated?
Trump: Secretly! Everybody in the family got vaccinated. They're all vaccinated. Imagine how people are going to react when they find out that they've all been betrayed and the people they put their faith in lied to them for political expediency.
DER SPIEGEL: Psychologically, how do you get people to admit they've lived a lie for so long?
Trump: It's hard. I don't hold out hope for most of these people. I really don't.
DER SPIEGEL: That sounds rather pessimistic.
Trump: I am bizarrely a quite optimistic person. Maybe that took a hit over the last couple of years. But I am pretty much an optimist. I haven't given up hope.
DER SPIEGEL: Yet the next Trump generation seems ready. Do you expect your cousin, Donald Jr., or your cousin Ivanka, to run for political office?
Trump: No.
DER SPIEGEL: Why not?
Trump: My uncle is such a buffoon, but he does have charisma. If you met him, for the first 10 seconds you would see it. After that, you would realize that he's a total psychopath, but a lot of people are very susceptible to his kind of charisma. Donald Jr. and Ivanka don't have any of that. They don't survive politically without him. They don't survive in business without him. No, I don't see that. Hopefully, they'll all end up in jail.
DER SPIEGEL: What's next for you?
Trump: My next book will not be about my uncle. I'm taking a break. Never write a book about trauma while you're still being actively traumatized.
DER SPIEGEL: Ms. Trump, we thank you for this interview.
— Mary Trump's latest book, "The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way To Heal," was published in August by St. Martin's Press. The book has also been published in German translation by Heyne Verlag.
— Mary Trump, 56, holds a doctorate in psychology and has known the former president since childhood. Her father Fred Trump, Jr., Donald Trump's older brother, died in 1981. Her first book, "Too Much and Never Enough," about her uncle became a bestseller in the United States in 2020.
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How Many Republicans Voted For Obama In 2008
Bush Ties In The 12 Biggest States
Election 2008: Republican Mistakes Help Obama Victory
In 2004, the 69,323,699 votes cast in the 12 biggest states divided almost equally:
34,784,178 votes were for Kerry, and
34,539,521 votes were for Bush.
Kerrys slender 244,657-vote margin of victory in the 12 biggest states was about one-third of one percent of the 69,323,699 votes cast in those states .
Kerry received 50.2% of the popular vote from the 12 biggest states, and Bush received 49.8%.
Having fought Kerry to a near-tie in the 12 biggest states, Bush then won the 39 smallest jurisdictions by a margin of 3,256,828 votes , thereby ending up with a margin of victory of 3,012,171 in the national popular vote.
Table 9.33 shows the popular vote for Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush in the 2004 election in the 12 biggest states. Column 4 shows Bushs percentage of the two-party vote. Columns 5 and 6 show the Republican and Democratic margins, respectively, for each state. Columns 7 and 8 show the Republican and Democratic electoral votes, respectively, for each state.
Table 9.33 Results of the 2004 election in the 12 biggest states
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Appendix HH presents the 2012 two-party presidential vote for all 50 states and the District of Columbia in alphabetical order. See table 9.45 for the presidential vote for Barack Obama , Mitt Romney , Gary Johnson , Jill Stein , and the other 22 minor-party and independent candidates who were on the ballot in 2012 in at least one state.
Exit Polls: How Obama Won
Barack Obama, who will be the nations first African-American president, won the largest share of white support of any Democrat in a two-man race since 1976 amid a backdrop of economic anxiety unseen in at least a quarter-century, according to exit polls by The Associated Press and the major television networks.
Obama became the first Democrat to also win a majority since Jimmy Carter with the near-unanimous backing of blacks and the overwhelming support of youth as well as significant inroads with white men and strong support among Hispanics and educated voters.
The Illinois senator won 43 percent of white voters, 4 percentage points below Carters performance in 1976 and equal to what Bill Clinton won in the three-man race of 1996. Republican John McCain won 55 percent of the white vote.
Fully 96 percent of black voters supported Obama and constituted 13 percent of the electorate, a 2-percentage-point rise in their national turnout. As in past years, black women turned out at a higher rate than black men.
A stunning 54 percent of young white voters supported Obama, compared with 44 percent who went for McCain, the senator from Arizona. In the past three decades, no Democratic presidential nominee has won more than 45 percent of young whites.
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It also appears youth turnout rose 1 point since 2004, to constitute 18 percent of the electorate.
Electoral History Of Barack Obama
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This is the electoral history of Barack Obama. Obama served as the 44th president of the United States and as a United States senator from Illinois .
A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996 representing the 13th district, which covered much of the Chicago South Side. In 2000, Obama ran an unsuccessful campaign for Illinois’s 1st congressional district against four-term incumbentBobby Rush. In 2004, Obama campaigned for the U.S. Senate, participating in the first Senate election in which both major party candidates were African American, the other being Alan Keyes. Obama won the election, gaining a seat previously held by a Republican.
In 2008, Obama entered the Democratic primaries for the U.S. presidential election. Numerous candidates entered initially, but over time the field narrowed down to Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton from New York. The contest was highly competitive between the two, with neither being able to reach a majority of delegates without the addition of unpledged delegates. Eventually, Clinton ended her campaign, endorsing Obama for the nomination, prompting his victory. He went on to face Senator John McCain from Arizona as the Republican nominee, defeating him with 365 electoral votes to McCain’s 173.
Fact Check: Clarifying The Comparison Between Popular Vote And Counties Won In The 2020 Election
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Posts circulating on social media point to the number of counties won and number of votes cast for President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 U.S. election, suggesting that disparities in those numbers are evidence of fraud or election irregularity. This is misleading. Given counties vary widely in population size, so does the number of votes cast per county.
Examples are visible here , here . Most iterations include a screenshot of a tweet by conservative activist Charlie Kirk dated Dec. 20, 2020 here , which has been retweeted over 48,400 times as of the publishing of this fact check . 
The post reads: Barack Obama: 69,000,000 votes 873 counties. Donald Trump: 75,000,000 votes 2,497 counties. Joe Biden: 81,000,000 votes 477 counties …And were not allowed to question his victory.
Some posts with this claim referring to voter fraud or election irregularities read: Its a mathematical impossibility!!!! Let me make it even more plain. THERE ARE NOT 81 MILLION PEOPLE IN THOSE 477 COUNTIES!!! ,  Wake up people! This is the integrity of our United States elections. Its not about Democrat or Republican. Its about Americans future and current Corruption!!!   and You dont have to be good at math to see the fraud.
In 2008, Obama did obtain 69,498,516 votes, 52.93% of the popular vote , while only winning 28% of the counties .
Reelection And Political Gridlock
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Discontent over Democratic President Obamas Affordable Care Act helped the Republicans capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections. It also helped spawn the Tea Party, a conservative movement that emerged from the right wing of the Republican Party and pulled the traditional conservative base further to the right. The Tea Party, which was strongly opposed to abortion, gun control, and immigration, focused primarily on limiting government spending and the size of the federal government.
Obama won reelection in 2012, but the Republicans retained their hold on the House of Representatives, and the Democratic majority in the Senate grew razor-thin. Political bickering and intractable Republican resistanceincluding a 70% increase in filibusters over the 1980s, a refusal to allow a vote on some legislation, and the glacial pace at which the Senate confirmed the Presidents judicial nominationscreated political gridlock in Washington, interfering with Obamas ability to secure any important legislative victories.
In Big Shift Latino Vote Was Heavily For Obama
Nov. 6, 2008
Latino voters shifted in huge numbers away from the Republicans to vote for Senator Barack Obama in the presidential election, exit polls show, providing the votes that gave him unexpectedly large margins of victory in three battleground states: Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada.
Mr. Obamas pull on Latino voters also extended to Florida, where a majority of them voted for a Democratic presidential nominee for the first time since at least 1988, when exit polls were first conducted in the state.
In a year when turnout among many groups surged nationwide, the number of Latinos who went to the polls increased by nearly 25 percent over 2004, with sharp rises among naturalized immigrants and young, first-time voters, according to a study by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Hispanic support for the Democratic nominee increased by 14 points over all compared with 2004, the biggest shift toward the Democrats by any voter group.
For the first time, Latino voters emerged as a mobilized Democratic voting bloc in states across the country, Latino officials said.
They really delivered, said Efrain Escobedo, director of civic engagement at the Latino officials association, a bipartisan group that ran voter registration drives across the country. This is an electorate that now understands the importance of voting, and they made a significant shift in the political landscape.
Barack Obama: Campaigns And Elections
Obamas election to the Senate instantly made him the highest-ranking African American officeholder in the country and, along with the excitement generated by his convention speech and his books , placed him high on the roster of prospective Democratic presidential candidates in 2008. After spending a low-profile first year in office focusing on solidifying his base in Illinois and traveling abroad to buttress his foreign policy credentials as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama spent much of 2006 speaking to audiences around the country and mulling whether to run for president. According to annual National Journal evaluations of senators’ legislative voting records, Obama ranked as the first, tenth, or sixteenth most liberal member of the Senate, depending on the year.
From February through early June, Obama and Clinton battled fiercely through the remaining primaries and caucuses. Overall, Clinton won twenty primaries to Obamas nineteen, including victories in most of the large states, notably California, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Both candidates were bidding to become historic firststhe first African American president or the first woman president.
Midterm Election of 2010
The 2012 Election
Midterm Election of 2014
Postscript on the 2016 Election
President Obama And The White Vote No Problem
In the run-up to Tuesday’s election, there was much talk that President Obama could be headed to a historically poor showing among white voters, a result that could jeopardize his ability to win the overall popular vote.
And, while Obama did lose white voters by 20 points to former Massachusetts governor  Mitt Romney  he still won a clear popular vote victory — with a majority of his total vote nationwide coming from white voters.
Take a look at this chart — from the wizards in the Post’s polling unit — that shows the percentage of white voters supporting the Democratic candidate all the way back to 1972.
Obama’s 39 percent showing among white voters matched the percentage that Bill Clinton received in 1992 — albeit it in a competitive three-way race — and exceeded the percentage of the white vote earned by Walter Mondale in 1984, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George McGovern in 1972.
And, Obama’s showing among white voters mattered less than did Mondale’s or Carter’s because the white vote accounted for significantly less of the overall electorate in 2012 than it did in either 1984 or 1980. In fact, the white vote as a percentage of the overall electorate has declined in every election since 1992.
In the end, President Obama’s “problem” with the white vote wound up being less than advertised — and certainly less problematic to his political prospects than Mitt Romney’s 44-point loss among Hispanic voters.
The General Election: Key Dates
Obama On Election Day
September 26: First presidential debate, in Oxford, Miss., on the campus of the University of Mississippi, moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS.
October 2: Vice presidential debate, in St. Louis, Mo., on the campus of Washington University, moderated by Gwen Ifill of PBS.
October 7: Second presidential debate, in Nashville, Tenn., on the campus of Belmont University, moderated by Tom Brokaw of NBC.
October 15: Third presidential debate, in Hempstead, N.Y., on the campus of Hofstra University, moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS.
November 4: Election Day
December 15: Electors meet to cast electoral votes
January 8, 2009: Electoral votes are counted in the U.S. Congress
January 20: Inauguration of Barack Obama
Plenty Of White Bigots Will Vote For Barack Obama On Tuesday There Are Some Things They Fear More Than Black People
Sean Quinn, of the polling site FiveThirtyEight, respected for its obsessiveness and eerie prescience, recently posted a hair-raising story about a pair of Barack Obama supporters. Quinn seems ready to verify its source, but only after the election. At any rate, it goes like this: A man canvassing for Obama in western Pennsylvania asks a housewife which candidate she intends to vote for. She yells to her husband to find out. From the interior of the house, he calls back, “We’re voting for the nigger!” At which point the housewife turns to the canvasser and calmly repeats her husband’s declaration.
Ah, racism. It’s always a step ahead of us. Even before the majority of Democrats decided that Obama was electable despite being the first openly black presidential candidate, pollsters began gradually raising the level of speculation about the tide of bigotry that might overwhelm white voters once they got into that private little booth and faced the prospect of pulling a lever that suddenly seemed to read “Some Black Dude.”
If you got to a white neighborhood in the suburbs and ask them, “How would you feel about a large black man kicking your door in,” they would say, “That doesn’t sound good to me… But if you say, “Your house is on fire, and the firefighter happens to be black,” it’s a different situation.
Who Really Voted In 2016
The national story
Exit polls indicated that the voting electorate in 2016 was 71 percent white, 12 percent black, 11 percent Latino, and 7 percent Asian or other race. Compared to 2012, the share of white voters dropped by a percentage point, as did the share of black voters. The vote share of Latinos increased by a point and the vote share of Asians and all other racial minorities increased by 2 points.
Our estimates tell a significantly different story about the racial/ethnic distribution of voters. The most salient difference here is that the exit polls underestimated the share of white voters and overestimated the share of voters of color. Our estimate is that 73.7 percent of voters were white , 8.9 percent were Latino , and 5.5 percent were Asian or other race . However, our figures agree with the exit polls on the percent of black voters .
As for shifts from 2012, our data show that the white vote share declined by only 0.3 percentage points in 2016. We found that the black vote share declined by 1.1 points, which mirrors the exit poll results, while the Latino vote share increased by 0.9 points and the vote share of Asians or other races increased by 0.5 points. So, other than shifts in the black vote share, we generally found less change in the racial/ethnic structure of the voting electorate between the two elections.
The story in the states
Well start with the trio of Rust Belt statesMichigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsinthat were decisive to Trumps victory.
How Biden Won: Ramping Up The Base And Expanding Margins In The Suburbs
The other reason, though, is Trump, who remains one of the most polarizing figures in American political history. Lots of people turned out for and against him.
Democrats have now won the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. A Republican hasn’t won it since George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004.
And yet, Democrats have only won the presidency in five of those elections because of the Electoral College. Democrats are concentrated on the coasts and in cities, making it harder to win the White House than their popular vote margins might suggest.
In fact, in this election, Biden won the national popular vote by some 6 million votes so far, more than double Hillary Clinton’s margin over Trump four years ago. But just 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin separated Biden and Trump from a tie in the Electoral College.
Michael Brown And Ferguson
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Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was shot and killed on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, by Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old white Ferguson police officer. The disputed circumstances of the shooting of the unarmed man sparked existing tensions in the predominantly black city, where protests and civil unrest erupted. The events received considerable attention in the U.S. and elsewhere, attracted protesters from outside the region, and sparked a vigorous debate in the United States about the relationship between law enforcement officers and African Americans, the militarization of the police, and the Use of Force Doctrine in Missouri and nationwide. Continued activism expanded the issues to include modern-day debtors prisons, for-profit policing, and school segregation.
As the details of the original shooting emerged, police established curfews and deployed riot squads to maintain order. Peaceful protests were met with police militarization, and some areas of the city turned violent. The unrest continued on November 24, 2014, after a grand jury did not indict Officer Wilson.
Notable Expressions And Phrases
Yes We Can: Obama’s campaign slogan
That one: McCain’s reference to Obama during the 2nd debate.
Lipstick on a pig: Obama used this phrase to insinuate that any changes that McCain was advocating from the policies of George W. Bush would only be slight modifications of Bush’s policies but the underlying policies would be the same, and in Obama’s opinion, bad. Some called it sexist, claiming it was a reference to Sarah Palin, who cracked a joke during the Republican convention that the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick.
Attempts To Change Or Repeal
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The Affordable Care Act was subject to a number of lawsuits challenging some of its provisions, such as the individual mandate and the requirement to cover contraception. Four of these lawsuits were heard by the United States Supreme Court, resulting in changes to the law and how it was enforced. In addition, since the law’s enactment, lawmakers in Congress have introduced and considered legislation to modify or repeal parts or all of the Affordable Care Act. Finally, between 2010 and 2012, voters in eight states considered ballot measures related to the law. This section summarizes the lawsuits, legislation, and state ballot measures that attempted to change, repeal, or impact enforcement of parts of the law.
United States V Windsor
United States v. Windsor was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court held that restricting U.S. federal interpretation of marriage and spouse to apply only to heterosexual unions, by Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act , is unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. 
Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer , a same-sex couple residing in New York, were lawfully married in Toronto, Canada, in 2007. The state of New York had recognized the marriage beginning in 2008 following a court decision. Spyer died in 2009, leaving her entire estate to Windsor; however, when Windsor sought to claim the federal estate tax exemption for surviving spouses, she was barred from doing so by Section 3 of DOMA, which provided that the term spouse only applied to marriages between a man and woman. The Internal Revenue Service found that the exemption did not apply to same-sex marriages, denied Windsors claim, and compelled her to pay $363,053 in estate taxes.
Overturning DOMA: Photo of gay rights advocates gathered on the steps of the United States Supreme Court building on the morning of June 26, 2013, hours before the court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act.
Inside Obamas Sweeping Victory
How Obama Won: Election 2012 Breakdown
Barack Obama captured the White House on the strength of a substantial electoral shift toward the Democratic Party and by winning a number of key groups in the middle of the electorate. Overall, 39% of voters were Democrats while 32% were Republicans a dramatic shift from 2004 when the electorate was evenly divided. The Democratic advantage in Election Day party identification was significantly larger than in either of Bill Clintons victories.
While moderates have favored the Democratic candidate in each of the past five elections, Barack Obama gained the support of more voters in the ideological middle than did either John Kerry or Al Gore before him. He won at least half the votes of independents , suburban voters , Catholics , and other key swing groups in the electorate.
Without a doubt, the overwhelming backing of younger voters was a critical factor in Obamas victory, according to an analysis of National Election Pool exit polls that were provided by National Public Radio. Obama drew two-thirds of the vote among those younger than age 30. This age group was Kerrys strongest four years ago, but he drew a much narrower 54% majority.
Obamas expanded support did not extend to all age groups, however. In particular, McCain won the support of voters age 65 and older by a 53%-to-45% margin, slightly larger than Bushs 52%-to-47% margin four years ago. Notably, Al Gore narrowly won this age group in 2000 .
How Many Republicans Voted For Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, received no Republican votes in either the Senate or the House of Representatives when it was passed in 2009. In the Senate, the bill was passed with a total of 60 votes, or 58 Democratic Party votes and 2 Independent Party votes. The House passed the legislation with 219 Democratic votes.
The Affordable Care Act received 39 votes against it in the Senate, all from Republicans. One senator abstained from voting. In the House, the ACA received 212 votes against it, with 34 coming from the Democratic Party and 178 from the Republican Party. There were enough votes for the ACA in the Senate to prevent an attempt to filibuster the bill, while the House vote required a simple majority.
The ACA originated in the Senate, though both the House and Senate were working on versions of a health care bill at the same time. Democrats in the House of Representatives were initially unhappy with the ACA, as they had expected some ability to negotiate additional changes before its passage. Since Republicans in the Senate were threatening to filibuster any bill they did not fully support, and Democrats no longer had enough seats to override the filibuster, no changes could be made. Since any changes to the legislation by the House would require it to be re-evaluated in the Senate, the original version was passed in 2009 on condition that it would be amended by a subsequent bill.
Kennedy Edges Out Nixon
In a very close election, John F. Kennedy edged out Richard Nixon by a mere 112,827 votes. Though Nixon won more states , Kennedy triumphed in Electoral College votes . This was, in part, a result of political strategy: Nixon campaigned in all 50 states, while Kennedy focused on swing states.
This election also featured the first televised debate, in which Nixons famously waxy, sweating face likely docked him public support.
Get A Compelling Long Read And Must
To say the Republican presidential primary has become interesting would be a gross understatement. With three different winners in the first three contestsan unprecedented situationeveryone is asking why the frontrunners keep falling and why the GOP base cannot unite behind a leader.
Well, hold on to your seat, because heres a big question: Would you believe that both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 primary? And after they became disenfranchised by the Republican Party for moving too far Left, they decided to do the only logical thing: become Democrats? And in addition, does it blow your mind that besides voting for the Big O, they took out their frustrations over a too-liberal GOP by financially supporting the most far-left Democrats in the entire Congress?
Seem far-fetched? Well, it isand it isnt.
No, of course, Romney and Gingrich didnt switch parties, vote for Obama or support liberal Democrats. If either had, it would, without question, be lunacy for any element of the Republican Party to endorse them. To many in the GOP, Obama is not just a political adversary but the Devil Incarnate who must be defeated at all costs. So running someone against Obama who had previously supported him would be a surefire recipe for disaster.
Enter the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania.
A) Became a Democrat because the GOP wasnt conservative enough.
C) Voted for Barack Obama in 2008.
Brilliant.
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twoguystrybbq-blog · 6 years ago
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Arthur Bryant’s Barbeque
Ben:
I feel like I should be embarrassed that I hadn’t yet tried Arthur Bryant’s. It is, after all, what I’d consider one of the few major heavyweights of Kansas City barbecue. Along with Arthur Bryant’s, we’ve got Joe’s, Gates, Jack Stack… and that’s about it. As we’re seeing, there’s no shortage of world class barbecue outside of those few, but they remain the titans of the scene -- the most well known and long-respected barbecue joints.
And I had never been to Arthur Bryant’s. Hell, I don’t even think I had tried the sauce, which is ubiquitous at all Kansas City Price Choppers (“P-Chops,” if you’re cool). But to be honest, I think I subconsciously always had my reasons. The logo reminds me of Famous Dave’s -- a barbecue chain I’d loosely consider the Chili’s of barbecue. The aesthetic of Arthur Bryant’s is simple; they’re not making an effort to attract me as a customer. There’s no cool gimmick about the location (compared to, say, Joe’s at a gas station). There’s only a couple of locations in Kansas City (compared to Gates, which has six). For whatever, reason, Arthur Bryant’s had always avoided my radar.
Until now. This would be our first stop at a heavyweight of Kansas City barbecue.
We had decided earlier in the week to hit up Arthur Bryant’s, and Leo told me “go hungry.” Per custom, that’s never a problem. What am I going to do, pack in a country breakfast before eating world class barbecue? Of course not; this isn’t my first rodeo and thankfully isn’t even close to my last.
We visited Arthur Bryant’s for a late lunch on a Saturday after, you guessed it, a night of over-serving ourselves the night before. But, in our defense, I offer two credible reasons for our drinking. 1) Hungover hungry barbecue is absolutely the best barbecue; and 2) it would be irresponsible to not purchase three-dollar shots.
In any event, I skipped breakfast, and by the time Leo arrived at my apartment around 2:00 pm, the hunger was something fierce. I left Gracie a fresh bone to occupy her time and we were off into the rainy Kansas City afternoon.
My first impression of Arthur Bryant’s is everything I’d expect: in an old but large building and a line out the door. The line is, of course, a good and bad sign. The good: the food is so good people are willing to wait. The bad: I was starving. I peeked inside to survey the line and was pleasantly surprised it wasn’t too tightly packed and, like any good barbecue joint, customers are moving through quickly.
Once our spot in line moved inside, we had plenty of opportunity to admire Arthur Bryant’s wall of accomplishments -- articles, awards, plaques, thank you notes from celebrities, and the restaurant’s most recent claim to fame, the Obama visit (next to a less prominently featured photo of John McCain and Sarah Palin sharing a plate of brisket). This place clearly has some history and is a true destination for barbecue.
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I loved ordering at Arthur Bryant’s. The counter set up is one of my favorites unique to barbecue joints: you speak to one employee who completes your entire order by cutting the meat right in front of you. It’s like an old-fashioned ice cream parlour, but better, because it’s meat.
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After some discussion, Leo and I decided to eat our barbecue family style; we’d split brisket, ribs, burnt ends, baked beans, and fries. A feast was in order.
By the time we had both ordered our respective halves of the meal, grabbed the necessary utensils, and seated ourselves, I was frantic with hunger, ready to plunge into our magnificent bounty. Like asking a child on Christmas morning to hold off on opening his gifts, I had Leo hold off for a few precious seconds so I could snap a handful of photos of meat piles in front of us.
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I can’t recall what item I tried first, but what I do recall is this: every single bite of Arthur Bryant’s was superb. Elite barbecue. If I had to pick my favorite, I’d go with the brisket. It was thin sliced, Kansas City style. Not greasy, but incredibly moist. It’s the type of brisket that really allows the flavor of the meat to shine; I could eat a pound of this brisket without sauce or bread. It’s like a fine steak… only better.
And the sauce. Remember, I had never even tried Arthur Bryant’s famous sauce. Each table has three sauce options: Original, Rich and Spicy, or Sweet Heat. The original here is actually pretty unique. It’s not thick or sweet, but rather super tangy, and pairs perfectly with everything (my personal favorite was to drizzle the sauce over a heap of brisket on top of a slice of bread, allowing the bread to sop up all that goodness). The Sweet Heat was more akin to what I expect from a traditional Kansas City sauce -- thicker and sweeter. But the original, man. The original sauce is a “must try” in the pantheon of Kansas City sauces.
Simply put, my entire meal at Arthur Bryant’s was one of the best barbecue experiences I’ve ever had. The ribs, like the brisket, were moist but not greasy, with the meat sliding right off the bone. The burnt ends fall apart on the plate, leaving you a mess of meaty goodness with bursts of charred flavor. The beans were just the right amount of sweetness. And to pack it all in, we had a mountain fries; fries that could be dipped in barbecue sauce, juices from the burnt ends, or some magical mixture of both.
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In the religion of barbecue, Arthur Bryant’s is the Vatican. It’s Mecca. It’s the Bodhi Tree. You owe it to yourself to make the pilgrimage.
After about fifteen minutes of gorging myself, I was approaching my breaking point -- fullness was nigh. I didn’t want to stop. One more fry. One more slice of brisket. Maybe pick at the rib a bit more. Arthur Bryant’s is so good that even when I’m full to the point of pain, I keep pushing forward, onward toward meat sweats and an inevitable meat nap.
Our feast at Arthur Bryant’s was the only meal I had that day. And, to be honest, I’d have no problem with making that my only meal every single Saturday. On the drive home, Leo and I couldn’t stop talking about just how damn satisfying the meal was, how it’s incomparable. Each week I struggle to find new ways to describe the unique experience of eating world-class barbecue, and this was no different. For lack of a better word, I’ll leave Arthur Bryant’s at “incomparable.”
Leo:
The best yet.
Thunder cracked, lightning flashed, and rain poured down as I rushed out to my car.  “Whew,” I thought, “what a great day for a rain!”  Prior to the storm, it had been about 95 degrees outside, but now it was down in the 70’s.  I didn’t even need the air conditioning!  The night before, I had bested Ben 3-out-of-five Bocce ball and my “reward” was a shot of Fireball.  Due, at least in part, to this “reward,” I was feeling it and had been struggling with a headache all morning.  The abatement of the heat was much welcome and I felt my headache start to slip away.
While Ben and I could have met at Arthur Bryant’s, I volunteered to drive because I wanted to see his new dog Gracie.  Gracie is awesome!  But the last time I went over to Ben’s, she barked a bit and growled at me for a few minutes before she warmed up to me.  I hoped this time would be different.  I knocked at the door: “Baaaark,”said Gracie.  “shhhhh, it’s just Leo,” said Ben.  The door opened and Gracie barked again and growled a bit.  I held out my hand for her to smell me and this time, instead of retreating away, she smelt me and became a big ol’ cuddlebug.  “Great!” I thought, “she remembers me.”
I petted Gracie for a bit until Ben said that he hadn’t eaten all day (it was about 2:00 pm) and I got the signal that it was time to go.  We said goodbye to Gracie and walked out of Ben’s apartment.  It had stopped raining, but it was still cool and it was nice to ride to Arthur Bryant’s with the windows down.  And, as it turns out, Arthur Bryant’s is only a six-minute drive away from Ben’s apartment.  Because it was well past lunch time, I figured that we wouldn’t have much of a wait, which was good because I was getting hungry, too.
We pulled up and I found a parking spot right on the street.  We also noticed a group of people standing in front of Arthur Bryant’s.  “Surely, that’s not the line,” I thought, “it has got to be some kind of group that is leaving or is waiting to go in.”  But it was the line, all the way from the cash register to outside the front door. 
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 We stood in line and talked about the Handmaid’s Tale (which is excellent, by-the-by) and looked at all the pictures and news articles on the walls.  Arthur Bryant’s clearly had a history of being a well-respected barbeque restaurant!  We saw pictures of Hollywood stars (Danny Glover and Steven Spielberg) and President Obama and Senator John McCain.  
Then, we saw the menu.  I’d eaten at Arthur Bryant’s once before with my roommates and we ordered several pounds of meat and two or three sides to share.  I mentioned that this might be a good way to get a taste of different meats instead of getting a sandwich and Ben agreed.  At first, we were going to get two pounds of meat, a half-rack of ribs and two sides.  Did I mention we were hungry?  Luckily the line was long enough for us to think about this decision and we decided to get a pound and a half of meat instead of two pounds.  We ordered a pound of brisket, a half-pound of burnt ends (yes, a pound of burnt ends costs the same as a pound of any other meat!), a half-rack of ribs, an order of fries, and a side of beans.  
The food was ready very quickly and then we were sitting at a table with a feast before us.  Where to start?  I decided to try out the sauces with a couple fries to see which the best was (by-the-by an order of fries is a tray of fries, so, so many fries).  There were Original, Rich & Spicy, and Sweet Heat, each with its own consistency and color.  The Original was a tangy delight and I could immediately taste why Arthur Bryant’s had won so many awards.  The Rich & Spicy added a kick of heat to make things interesting.  But the Sweet Heat was my favorite.  It was the thickest of the three sauces and was the perfect blend of sweet, the Original’s tang, and just enough heat to keep your mouth constantly watering.  Enough fries! On to the meat!
I grabbed a rib and slathered it in Sweet Heat.  Oh my God.  It was the best rib that I’d had in memory.  It was smoky and delicious.  The meat was just the right amount of tender.  
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Then, I got some of the burnt ends.  I can’t explain how good these burnt ends were!  They gave me a whole new category of good barbeque.  While other burnt ends were good because they were buttery, fall-apart-in-your-mouth good, Arthur Bryant’s burnt ends were tender and so rich.  Little squares of heaven.  I had a couple that were charred and these were the best because you could taste the years of flavor that had built up in the smoker.
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Lastly, I got to the brisket.  I piled a heaping helping onto my tray and covered it in Original, Rich & Spicy, and Sweet Heat.  Again, it was tender without being fatty.  It was smoky without overpowering the taste of the meat.  It was a beautiful combination of the meat, the rub, and the sauce, all of which came through to my taste buds.  As quick as I could, I was through with the first pile of brisket and I got some more and some more burnt ends.
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This whole time, Ben and I were mostly silent except to comment on how good the meal was.  I think a comment arose that “all other BBQ only tastes good because I’d forgotten how good Arthur Bryant’s is.”  That comment sums up our experience nicely.  
We had so much food.  I can eat a lot and was stuffed before the end of the meal.  We made it all the way through the meat and then divvied up the remaining fries and beans (which made a nice snack later!).  We walked back out to the car in stunned silence.  I couldn’t believe it was over!  I wanted to go back and get more barbeque, despite my stuffedness.  Whew, it was good!  All we could talk about on the way home was how great Arthur Bryant’s was and that it was the best so far.  Other places have one or two items that you must try, but everything at Arthur Bryant’s was amazing.  If you can only go to one barbeque joint in KC, it has got to be Arthur Bryant’s.  But we’ve only been to six restaurants so far, so maybe I’ll have to revise this opinion in time.
Well, I hope that you are hungry!  If you don’t have lunch plans today, you should go to Arthur Bryant’s!!!  
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Poll of the week
There’s been a flurry of polls released over the past two weeks in key U.S. Senate races, giving us a fresh picture of the electoral dynamics in that chamber less than five months ahead of the election. Remember, Republicans have a 51-49 majority and the vice presidency, so Democrats need to net two seats in November to take control. Let’s start with the polls we got among the 10 states where Trump won in 2016, but now have incumbent Democratic senators. Here’s what we’ve learned:
The Republicans look to be in real trouble in Ohio and Pennsylvania — Democratic Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Sherrod Brown of Ohio had double-digit leads in polls released last week. Brown’s margin, in particular, is a good sign for Democrats, since Trump won Ohio by 8 percentage points in 2016. Ohio has recently been a bit more Republican-leaning than the nation, so if Democrats can win comfortably there, it’s likely to be a good night for them overall come November. (Trump won Pennsylvania by less than 1 point.)
Montana, West Virginia and Wisconsin are looking good for Democrats, too — In Montana, incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester had a 51 percent to 44 percent lead over his GOP challenger, State Auditor Matt Rosendale, according to a Gravis Marketing poll from last week. West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin had a 48-39 lead over state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, according to a Monmouth University survey released this week. And according to a new Marquette University Law School poll, Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin is ahead of her two most likely GOP challengers — Wisconsin’s primaries aren’t until Aug. 14. She had a 49-40 advantage over state Sen. Leah Vukmir, and a 50-39 lead over businessman Kevin Nicholson.
Democrats should be worried about their incumbents in Florida and North Dakota — A Mason-Dixon poll released this week found Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota leading Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp 48 percent to 44 percent. In Florida, primaries don’t happen until August, but in a recent Politico/AARP survey, incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and his likely GOP challenger, Gov. Rick Scott, were basically tied, 39 percent to 40 percent. A Gravis Marketing survey released this week, on the other hand, showed Nelson ahead 50-40.
There’s still a lot that we don’t know about the Senate landscape. The number of polls we’ve had over the last couple of weeks counts as a flurry in June, but we won’t really start getting lots and lots of polls until the fall.
How are Democratic incumbents doing in Indiana, Michigan and Missouri, three other states that Trump carried in 2016? There haven’t been recent, non-partisan polls of those states’ Senate contests. Nor are there recent polls in Arizona, Nevada or Tennessee, the three GOP-held seats that surveys back in April suggested Democrats could win. Another state to watch, but where there has not been much polling is Minnesota, where Democrats have two incumbents (Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, Al Franken’s replacement). Trump lost there by only 2 percentage points in 2016.
Overall, the landscape is better for Democrats than it seemed at this time last year. But more recently, several things have broken the Republicans’ way. Republicans avoided nominating the controversial Don Blankenship in West Virginia. Scandal-plagued Eric Greitens resigned from the governorship in Missouri, removing a potential political problem for Missouri Attorney General and GOP U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who has brain cancer and has not been on Capitol Hill for months, opted not to resign. If he had stepped down by May 31, there would have been a special election this November for his seat. But now, if McCain’s seat is vacant (either because he dies or steps down from office), GOP Gov. Doug Ducey will appoint his replacement.
The Weekly Standard’s David Byler (a friend of our site) this week released an election model estimating that Democrats have a 31 percent chance of winning the Senate. FiveThirtyEight will have its own model, but I think Byler’s conclusion broadly lines up with what we know right now about the Senate dynamics.
Other Polling Nuggets
About two-thirds of Americans opposed separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an average of polls. Democrats were almost unanimously opposed to the separations, but about half of Republicans supported them.
Asked by YouGov who was more responsible for the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families apprehended at the border, 48 percent of Republicans answered Democrats in Congress. Twenty-five percent said Trump, and 27 percent weren’t sure.
A Quinnipiac University poll found that a majority of Republicans believe Trump’s June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was a success for the U.S. A majority of Democrats believe it was a failure. Almost 80 percent of both Democrats and Republicans agree that the summit was a success for North Korea.
Voters are split on whether raising tariffs on Chinese exports to the U.S. will help or hurt the U.S. economy. According to a Morning Consult poll, 38 percent of registered voters believe the tariffs will help, while 42 percent believe they will hurt.
According to a Monmouth University poll, 52 percent of Americans say that free trade agreements with other countries are good for the U.S. That share has more than doubled since November 2015. The change represents a 23 percentage point increase among Republicans, a 33 point increase among Democrats, and a significant reduction in people who say they aren’t sure.
FiveThirtyEight teamed up with WNYC’s “Death, Sex & Money” podcast and SurveyMonkey to gauge the attitudes of American men about masculinity, workplace culture and intimacy, among other things. When asked about the advantages of being a man in the workplace, such as being taken more seriously or making more money, 59 percent of employed men suggested that there were no added benefits.
In a recent Fox News poll, 68 percent of registered voters said political correctness in the U.S. has gone too far. That includes 55 percent of Democrats and 83 percent of Republicans.
When asked about genetic testing, 60 percent of American adults said they would want to know if they carried a gene associated with an incurable disease; 39 percent said they would rather not know, in a poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The Pew Research Center asked more than 5,000 adults to identify 10 statements as either factual or opinion. A majority of Americans correctly identified three out of five statements in each category, which is only slightly better than random guesses. People who were more digitally savvy and politically aware fared better.
70 percent of Canadian adults believe that when it comes to trade negotiations with the U.S., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should stand up to Trump, according to a poll by Angus Reid. Only 30 percent said Trudeau should be careful not to offend Trump into hostile actions.
Trump approval
Is Trump’s approval rating surging because of his talks with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, which the public viewed positively, according to polls? Or is his popularity falling because of the attention around his administration’s now abandoned practice of separating children from their parents at the border? Or maybe they’re canceling each other out? Or maybe neither has affected Trump’s standing? Trump’s approval rating this week is 42.6 percent, while his disapproval is 51.3 percent — little changed from last week (42-52) or this time last month (42-53).
Generic ballot
Democrats have a 6.2 percentage-point advantage on the generic congressional ballot, compared with a 4-point advantage this time last month.
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