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THREAD: Many Canadians grieved #RBG's passing, and I wondered if some are so engaged with U.S. politics that they are volunteering.

I found out that there could be "unprecedented" levels of Canadian engagement in #US2020 elections this year. thestar.com/news/canada/20… @TorontoStar
U.S. law allows foreign nationals to do most routine volunteer work, such as phone canvassing and door-knocking. But experts say there are still questions of undue foreign influence and ethical concerns: thestar.com/news/canada/20…
This is Canadian software engineer Ravi Jagannadhan. When he moved to the U.S. in 2005, he had no intention to stay.

But @BarackObama inspired him, and he faced no problems as a foreigner on a work visa to go into his local campaign office to volunteer. thestar.com/news/canada/20… Image
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🇺🇸 Donald Trump’s job approval ratings are falling among his once unshakeable base 📉

It is a pattern that can be seen in polling among all the groups that handed Mr Trump his victory in 2016

*A thread*
Tommy Stallings never envisioned the time would come when he would consider voting for a Democrat

Born and bred in deep red Texas, he had no doubt who to vote between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016. Four years on, he deeply regrets his decision
With the state suffering some of the worst coronavirus rates in the country, some polls have put Biden and Trump neck and neck in Texas

Some pundits have gone so far as to suggest that this November, the Lone Star could turn blue for the first time since 1976
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Billionaires would prefer that the 2020 Democratic Party nominee for the presidential contest be another politician who talks about the poor but backs the rich in practice, ideally Hillary Rodham Clinton, but if not her, then the easygoing Joe Biden.
Others in the Democratic Party who wear a liberal exterior but who support hardline policies against the poor and for the wealthy in private are also being primed to enter the fray, to keep out genuine reformers such as Senators Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris... .
Secure in the knowledge that Joe Biden will not rock the yachts of the billionaires, the powerful Clinton machine in the Democratic Party is priming itself to get him annoited as the Party nominee in case a second bid by Hillary fails.
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