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Daniel Dale
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Donald Trump made 52 false claims last week in a blizzard of immigration lying: thestar.com/news/world/ana…
Last week was better than the week before, when he made 78 false claims, and it paled in comparison to his pre-midterms dishonesty blitz, but it was still the 23rd-worst week of his presidency. Here's the updated week-by-week chart from @EdTubb:
Here's the complete database of Trump's false claims since inauguration. He's up to 4,167 false claims, 5.8 per day. That is double the average at the end of 2017. projects.thestar.com/donald-trump-f…
And one note: I've deleted from the false-claims database 8 instances in which Trump touted the success of an Israeli barrier. I'd thought he was talking about the West Bank one, but it's been brought to my attention that he might be accurately talking about the Egypt one.
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Daniel Dale
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There's going to be extensive scrutiny of the history of every significant Democratic candidate, including from me, starting real soon. That's how it should work, though obviously we of The Media can do lots of things better than we did in 2016.
Don't hand Trump endless unfiltered airtime. Challenge lies to candidates' faces and in news copy. More and more-nuanced policy coverage. Don't let Trump gimmicks (mean nicknames, etc.) set daily agendas. For me, Daniel: less certainty about polling data.
I think it is clear that there were various kinds of very major media errors in 2016. I just see some people on Twitter responding to normal, necessary media scrutiny of 2020 Dems and saying "here we go, But Her Emails, 2016 all over again," and I think that's unfair.
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Daniel Dale
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Will be interesting to see how Harris addresses questions about her history as a prosecutor, which gives critics on both left and right a lot of individual decisions to question:
Gillibrand has a challenge in trying to explain her relatively recent past as someone taking much more conservative positions than she is now:
Sanders, who was in South Carolina today speaking about racial justice, needs to figure out how to do better with Black voters (if he runs) this time than he did last time: cnn.com/2019/01/21/pol…
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Periodic reminder: Ann Coulter and Breitbart do not speak for Trump’s base. When Trump started speaking positively the first time about protecting DACA recipients, Republican support skyrocketed into the high 80s. The base shifts with him.
There’s a segment of Trump supporters that is stridently anti-illegal-immigration or just anti-immigration. On the whole, it’s a group way less ideological than Breitbart. It’s more like Fox - will shift to accommodate his shifts.
Trump himself seems to care what Coulter and Breitbart think, so it’s useful to see what they think. But that doesn’t mean we have to treat them as quasi-spokespeople. /the end
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Based on this nbc data you can still find lots of bot/troll accounts twitter missed.
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