Thread by @margokingston1

1. I’m gunna go mad obsessively Twitter-following the election = anxiety and apocalyptic theories in why Trump will win.

I am now Panicked by the entry of energy policy in the mix. Our nightmare on climate change ensures that.

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2. @TimAlberta is a political journo steeped in GOP politics. A must follow, but jeez, writing Biden’s victory analysis before the election makes my Irish bones ache. Lovely piece of writing, and interesting.

3. LOVE IT! Ivanka & Jared work for the Trump Swamp Family. Fine for the boss to maliciously throw baseless mud that Biden is head of a crime family & must be indicted. But tie THEM to Trump’s anti-NY invective & they’ll SUE!!! (Trump can’t be sued for defo while in office.)

4. How a long shot but surprisingly competitive Independent Senate candidate @DrAlGrossAK - endorsed by the Dems in Alaska - made his pitch in the Debate with the sitting GOP Senator. #AKSenate

5. So many HUGE US foreign policy issues atm, 0 focus in campaign. For Oz, an intolerable squeeze for us if Trump wins, because the world order we rely on would be over.

So the US & Israel did a deal with the Suni Arab States to assist their conflict with Shia Turkey & Iran?

6. Oh look! The Trump campaign pilots a copy of the @RVAT2020 self-made videos of Republican voters stating why they’re voting Biden. On campaign adviser @seanhannity’s show.

Taking a public stand is not easy these days in America. Trump’s version?

Sums it up, really.

7. GOP ecstatic at Biden saying he’d transition out of oil. Worrying. Hop Republicans defecting to Biden will be encouraged by Biden’s commitment. Like the alliance of small l Liberal, Labor and Green voters for @drkerrynphelps @helenhainesindi @MakeMayoMatter @zalisteggall

8. Link to the political fallout of Biden stating the self-evident, that addressing climate change means phasing out OIL (not gas, OIL).

9. No wonder GOP desperate to get control of Supreme Court. Make it hard for people who won’t vote for you to vote. In USA each State sets voting rules. Thank goodness Oz has a uniform, highly regulated independent @aec to conduct fair federal elections. The States too.

10. Excellent debate take by veteran WaPo chief political correspondent @danbalz helps explain Trump’s path to win - he’s got to find the right rhetorical balance between Sun Belt & Rust Belt seats he holds to keep SB and win 1 of 3 RB. Fascinating.
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…

11. agonising journalistic process deciding if and how to cover the blatant Trump Hunter Biden media shakedown. Trump Guilliani and co scream that Biden heads a crime family with ZERO evidence. Low.

12. Fascinating and informative, today’s Trump-skeptic podcast for @Commentary on the possible fallout for Dems of the debate and deep discussion of the factors in play in mainstream media’s agony over the Hunter Biden scam. @NoahCRothman

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13. Unsure Biden really wants to seriously address climate change? Listen to the Obama Bros @PodSaveAmerica 1st interview with the Democratic Nominee. WOW! Biden is making climate change’s energy policy task a top tier issue!
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/pod…

14. Biden the only top tier nominee to refuse an Obama Bros’ @PodSaveAmerica interview. His debut, to a huge nationwide following of grassroots Democrats, is mesmerising. ‘produced’ or live? He’s Inspiring, ffs. Highly recommended :)
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/pod…

15. I ‘feel’ Trump can make it very close (country in deep shit) or even win it like 2016. Experts SO confident Clinton would win (I thought she in deep trouble when Comey letter a late Oct surprise) Most now SO confident it’s different now. @NateSilver538 odds of a Trump win.

16. Fauci on the front foot calmly revealing the fact that Trump has sacked him as his lead virus adviser and replaced him with a yes man. Who do seniors trust? Fauci. Wow.

17. How Trump and MGA media change reality for his followers. Wapo White House reporter @AshleyRParker investigates how an Obama achievement became Trump’s.

18. How corruptly close are Trump and stars of Murdoch’s Fox? The GOP effectively pays Trump’s lead propagandist a $1 million dollar bonus for the GOP to get his book on the NYT bestseller lists so he gets more money.

19. Oh, the Ivanka-Jared defamation action is just for show, to intimidate, of course. Here’s the verdict of @Popehat RT by @gtconway3d - 2 of my legal follows for US politics.

20. So THIS is why Trump wants to open up quick and dirty?

He wins he’s gunna be stunningly corrupt on foreign and domestic policy. He has stunning conflicts of public and private interest the GOP House & Senate let him get away with.

21. counter argument - Morrison is learning from Trump and he too is in partnership with Murdoch. Gunna switch off after the election, whoever wins :) But point taken.

22. Trump preemptively blames the Florida Governor whose Trump endorsement won him the GOP nomination and who’s been loyal ever since, esp on corona policy if he loses Florida. A devil’s bargain indeed. One way loyalty baby.

23. Yep. The @jonathanchait post on the stakes for democracy, in America (and the rest of the free world), if Trump wins.

24. The New York Times weighs in on where Trump’s Hunter Biden play to destroy trust in Biden is at, evidence wise.

25. Of course he will. It would be so unfair to investigate him after he demanded the arrest of Biden, Obama and Clinton for crimes he has zero evidence of.

26. The GOP-hard right media history of manufactured scandals against Democrats culminates in Trump’s a ruthless, ethically bankrupt mafia-style Hunter Biden con. Read #NeverTrump Republican @MaxBoot

27. The legal counsel for #NeverTrump Republican group the @ProjectLincoln campaigning for Biden just replied to Ivanka & Jared’s (and Trump’s) personal lawyer threatening to sue them for defamation over a billboard-

28. The @lincolnproject ads cut to the chase in ads aimed at persuading moderate Republicans to vote for Biden and the Dems just this once. This one targets GOP Senator @CoryGardner in bluish Colorado.

29. Yep. Trump hostile #NeverTrump media start up @BulwarkOnline has a good daily podcast with insight into what their Party is now and the common ground they share with Biden Democrats. One of my essentials. @SykesCharlie

30. Oh look, the @lincolnproject has a witness to get fend off the Ivanka-Jared defo action. A whistleblower who was in the room. Respect for the courage and values of @OliviaTroye

31. Biden: Phase out oil over time to save the planet. Trump: drill for oil in the an Arctic nature sanctuary.

32. Presidential candidate as his nation’s Elder Healer; Biden’s closing message.

32. Trump’s closing message: Doctors and hospitals are guilty of pandemic fraud to enrich themselves. He’d do it, so why wouldn’t everyone else?

32. Another Whitehouse coronavirus outbreak!

34. Trump’s chief of staff tried keep the new Whitehouse outbreak secret.

36. Yet another low, and that look on his face tells the story. He’s the Joker.

37. Most revealing portrait of Trump for me:

Laughing at all of us, disciples and critics. He’s conned the former & frightened the hell out of the latter. And he’s got the attention of the world, all at once, the biggest audience for a show in world history. He’s already won.

38. See what I mean?

39. Pence refuses to self isolate after close contact with his chief of staff, who has the virus. Trump Going for broke on opening up without precautions. Herd immunity. Big call. May as well throw the dice. Putting people’s health and lives on the ballot LITERALLY.

40. Kleptocracy takes over democracy in Trump’s America. We must strengthen our public service and hold political and bureaucratic leaders accountable to us if they breach their duty to act in the public interest without a conflict of interest. A #federalicac.

51. There it is: An admission the virus has defeated Trump.

52. Big oil and gas gets the Supreme Court it wants to stop climate change action. Trumpet just another puppet, really. He just leads the circus masking kleptocracy.

53. The attempted Murdoch-Giuliani-Trump shakedown of America and her fact-based media in a nutshell.

54. And we’re heading the same way under #ScottyfromMarketing. We got to find a way to stop the slide with a #federalicac

https://t.co/F3POcl1QrF

56. So sad for America.

57. McConnell concedes the election. Now the Supreme Court is solid conservative for a decade or more, isn’t this a green slip for Republicans who prioritise conservative judges to vote for Biden?

58. A newspaper in deep red Kansas flips its 2016 Trump endorsement in Biden. The Dem Senate nominee @BarbaraBollier a small l Republican MP.

59. This scares me - grassroots rural & regional Trumpsters organically gather and parade to get out the Trump vote. Gotta be a fair few shy Biden voters as a result though, I’d guess. It’s pretty aggressive, and very cultish.

60. First Pence, now a GOP Georgia Senate candidate is surrounded by staff with the virus, defies public health guidelines to isolate, and keeps relevant info secret.

61. Re Kansas tweet (58), the GOP nominee is a deep red State suddenly demands a 3rd debate! I’m following the moderate Republican MP defector nominated by the Dems @BarbaraBollier - go girl!

62. Looking forward to @4corners take on the eve of free world’s Doomscroll Election.

63. A Menacing Trump is calmly handled by legendary CBS journo @LesleyRStahl - so he flounces out.

64. Brilliant exposure by @LesleyRStahl of Trump’s empty health care plan promise.

65. Flashback: Trump tells @LesleyRStahl his purpose in attacking the media-

66. Wow.

67. Trump now wants to ban coronavirus reporting because he reckons assists Biden’s campaign.

68. Trump’s campaign - open up, no masks, learn to live with it, gunna disappear soon. The reality with 9 days to go...

69. Can young people save the free world?

70. Pence, head of Trump’s pandemic taskforce, is surrounded by stricken staff & ignores his own Govt guidelines to self isolate as the winter wave hits hard.

71. Latest @RVAT2020 video. Goal is persuasion of Republican voters to vote for Biden this time. Most are self filmed for digital and TV ads, this one a bigger deal. There’s a huge effort by #NeverTrump current and ex Republicans to help Biden.

72. My latest panic - Trump & co’s deliberate flouting of masks, precautions, rallies is deliberate to win key votes? Oh God...
Discussed in my must listen podcast, neo-conservative @Commentary. Intellectually rigorous, interesting convos. @NoahCRothman

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/com…

77. Trump on climate change - the @LesleyRStahl interview.

78. Cruel

79. We’re all mere characters in Trump’s triumphant World Reality Show now, the stakes are so high. So what if the Trump Show closes soon . It was the most watched reality show of all time. Who will win? He already has. @SykesCharlie

80. NRA press release makes it look like the gun lobby owns America’s latest Supreme Court Justice. Scary.

81. A Vote Biden tweet by a senior public servant, a Republican, who resigned and blew the whistle on Trump’s COVID policy chaos. So risky, so brave. I hope I’d have the guts to upend my life by doing the same in the public interest. I follow @OliviaTroye.

82. Barack Obama’s timely history of America’s failure to see good health care as a fundamental American human right.

newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…

83. More cruel, so casual...

84. Trump fans’ grassroots activism to get out the vote in Pennsylvania, the central battleground. Like grasssroots democratic groups led led by women in the suburbs, its not organised by the party.

washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…

85. Trump LITERALLY forgets his forgotten people. Jest another prop to set and forget.

86. True

87. wow

88. Remember Sally Yates? As deputy Attorney when Trump won General she refused to implement his Muslim ban because it was unconstitutional and resigned (she was right). Courage. Now, rallying for Biden in her home State Georgia.

89. I heard @charliesykes, conservative talk show bloke in Wisconsin, interview Trump in 2016. Tough. Now a #NeverTrump host of @BulwarkOnline podcast, a must listen for me. Great writer too-

90. Thank goodness responsible American media is withstanding Trump’s intimidation & Murdoch’s New York Post weaponisation of garbage allegations.

91. Trump spouting evidence-free corruption allegations against Biden is projection gone mad. Funny to watch, in the blackest sense.

92. The American myth of the world’s greatest democracy shockingly exposed. Third world election laws and practice. Politicised legal &
Electoral system. Massive corruption. Big donors swinging elections.

93. Whistleblowers under Trump risk not only their careers but their lives. The Ukraine scandal whistleblowers fate:-

94. The Trump survival strategy

95. Another Trump legacy

96. GOP Senator @JeffFlake who stood up to Trump early when there was a chance to contain his madness and had to retire because he was toast cuts a Biden ad in Arizona. I follow him.

97. Game over for seniors, surely.

98. Extraordinary story on how Trump tried to turn a taxpayer funded coronavirus information campaign into an Trump ad.

100. Fauci backs Biden’s pledge for mandatory masks.

This is the #coronaviruselection.

Rallies -v- Drive-ins.

Trump all out herd immunity, let the weak, old poor & unlucky die. till a Biden is let’s care for others and open up safely.

101. Trump’s GOP goes to town on voter suppression to stay in power.

102. @TheEconomist endorses Biden.

economist.com/leaders/2020/1…

If Trump wins, this is what Americans voted for, for themselves and the world. A Democratic Seal on the harm he’s done. And Devastating for the survival of democracies everywhere.

103. Wondering why @ossoff is surging in the Georgia Senate race?

The coronavirus election

105. Trump’s reality show principles for success.

106. Latest example of the World Kleptocracy Trump’s reality show masks.

107. Last ad by Republican Voters Against Trump.

198. Enjoying the daily challenging conservative Jewish intellectual discussion on #USElection2020 on @Commentary.

Today they got me thinking about Stoicism, the rules of logic, and why the Girls Scouts cancelled over Amy Coney Barrett. @NoahCRothman

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199. My friend Greg is taking drastic action to stop me wearing out and going crazy before November 4. He will Quarantine my phone - working out timeline now :) #USElection

200. Good luck, Joe.

“If you believe in liberal democracy — in persuasion, dialogue, and civility — and want to resist tribalism, Biden may be our unexpected but real last chance.”

201. Facebook for Trump

202. Your 50 States primer for the #USElection by @daveweigel, a must follow for@me. He’s on the ground ALL the time, and very dry.

203. Panic post

204. Texas GOP Govt forcing over 65s to vote in person, no compulsory masks at polling stations.

205. Could the Dems win the Senate race in the Southern red State of Georgia? GOP Senator Perdue backs out of final debate, keeps his campaign secret from the media.

206.

207. Australian politics reporter @jonathanvswan, the only Press Gallery reporter to take #Ashbygate seriously, has become a top tier US politics journalist since Trump became president. So proud of him, as a journo and as an Australian. Here’s his take on #USElection

298.

299. Disagree. If he’s voted out of his Reality Show he’ll be boring, nothing he says will be taken literally or seriously, and a Biden presidency will be tumultuous and fascinating to cover sans Trump. His influence on the GOP and the right wing propaganda media is another story

300. State of play in America.

301. Yep. If Trump wins political horse race polling is dead. A good thing it escalates policy free horse race as music to the SHOW. Really interesting discussion at @Commentary to end the last week of the longest campaign ever. @NoahCRothman
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302. Trump v COVID latest

303. A Biden-Trump duel on COVID in the crucial mid west

washingtonpost.com/politics/campa…

304. Texan Trump fans force a Biden-Harris bus off the road, tour cancelled when police would not help. Thread -

305. Final Fox poll has Trump with the same percentage of the vote as its final poll in 2016.

306. I predict Red Southern State North Carolina turns blue at #USElection. I mean, sheriff orders tear gas breakup of a Democrats voters march to a polling station to vote.

307. Fitting end to the career of a Trump ultra/loyalist who found a line he couldn’t cross.

308. Trump’s re-election plan

309. Laugh don’t cry

310. Trump tells the Supreme Court to give him the election if he needs them.

311. Trump is killing fans

312. Trump thinks people who don’t see money as their only priority are losers.

313. Obama v Trump, a thread

315. Devastating closing message to voters by Dr Fauci at #USelection

LOVE his style and LOVE his substance.

316. Good Omen PLEASE

417. Trump praises armed heist of Biden get out the bus tour in Texas.

418. Gulp: gold standard Iowa poll shows strong Trump momentum.

419. Trump abandons his fans at another rally, this one in Pennsylvania.

320. Read the official Texas Republican response - a perfect angry Trump impersonation - except even he’s not demonised Jewish donor George Soros - to armed Trump supporters driving a Biden get out the vote bus off the road.

My conclusion: Texas really is in play.

321. Maine just adopted our preferential voting system. Many are voting Biden, and 1 of 2 moderate GOP senators left in the Senate, Susan Collins. 3rd candidate a left Democrat whose preferences might decide the race. Big debut for our system in USA - the loser would go CRAZY.

332. The Sydney Morning Herald endorses Biden. Any other Australian or overseas editorials yet? Would be fascinating to assess each newspaper endorsement.

Has The Age done one yet?

Any msm radio or TV endorsements?

333. WaPo-ABC poll of the bottom-line States of Florida and Pennsylvania.

334. The @NateSilver538 assessment of the WaPo-ABC Florida/Pennsylvania poll.

Biden best path looks good

336. #USelection polls today in a tweet.

337. Trump does an Abbott style attack on Biden’s climate change energy policy

339. All female panel - led by the Cook Political Report’s @amyewalter (I follow her) give their top campaign moment and discuss why women have swung so hard against Trump.

Recommended.

@samanthamaiden

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/pol…

340. Today’s #USElection poll news begins with good news for Biden (phew) in the New York Times/Siena swing state polls.

431. Authoritative account of the Texas bus shocker from the @TexasTribune. Why authoritative? Check it out - wish Brisbane had one.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas…

432. Yep

433. Fitting that Trump’s hand picked COVID medical adviser makes his closing message on Russia’s propaganda TV network.

434. I’ve followed former Wisconsin Republican @Zathras3, an earnest Tweep with a penchant for Oz, for years now. His closing.message for #USElection, a thread-

435. Trump’s strategy to win.

436. Via @workmanalice, The Economist endorses Biden.

437. Trump tells fans he’ll fire Fauci after #USelection day.

436. Twitter’s #USelection policy for Tweeps

437. Former Liberal Party leader Alexander Downer endorses Trump. You know, the bloke who earned the enmity of Trump & his fans for telling the FBI before the last #USElection of a Trump adviser’s claim the Russians had Clinton’s emails.

438. Again, laugh don’t cry.

438. Trump abandons his rally goers yet again. Feature, not bug.

439. Trump’s lie playbook when voting ends for the #USElection, by the reporter who made his name Twitter fact checking Trump in 2016, @ddale8.

440. Scary

441. We know

I did my #USElection prediction on season 2 debut of #transitzone, a rip roaring discussion on COVID, journalism, Murdoch, Trump.

Biden will win well because if he doesn’t - close or Trump wins- the consequences are too frightening to think about.

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/tra…

442. @HacksOnTap podcast breaks down Trump’s pitch to Pennsylvania voters that he wins if he’s@leading in election night and absentee ballots are fraudulent. Even I was shocked, never thought I could be again about Trump’s GOP. RECOMMENDED

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/hac…

443. Obama on Trump pledge to fans to declare victory before postal votes are claim fraud if he loses.

Maybe even more people will vote for Biden on Election Day to avoid a civil war? @NoahCRothman

444. Fascinating pod on how top campaign managers with long experience talk about polls. And very entertaining :)

445. The #NeverTrump Republican campaign manager class went wild on ads for their @ProjectLincoln operation. They try to persuade moderate Republicans to vote Biden; critics think it’s just political porn for Dems. @MediaActive has been analysing them.

446. Trump thinks he’s immune, that all that matters, who cares about the fools who fly his flag, and those they come in contact with. Rally goers a nihilistic cult.

447. An old deep story of the South by thread for the #USElection via @coonavass

448. Your essential data-driven wrap by @FiveThirtyEight. @NateSilver538 explodes that with voter intimidation & threats to declare victory before all votes were counted then polls would be useless if Trump won. Great show.

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/fiv…

449. Hell of a closing message from Biden. Springsteen let him use My Home Town.

450. And a hell of a closing message from Trump too. To the Village People’s YMCA.

451. Feels like Trump knows even if he loses he’ll have directed & performed an epic finale to the most watched TV show ever. His fantasy fulfilled. So weird, so America. We’re learning lessons, aren’t we?

452. OMG, the photo!

453. He didn’t write and it sounds off any anyway. Insincere. His fans are just props.

453. Big call by @LarrySabato

454. USA election day voting begins.

455. The final @NateSilver538 forecast for the #US election, via @samanthamaiden

456. What do you think of Biden’s GOTV message to young people?

457. Dunno about you, but I’ll turn my back on the USA Twitter wise. Enough.

458. The adulation!