One side effect of Denver Riggleman’s loss in #VA05: it brings an end to President Trump’s perfect record of GOP primary endorsements this cycle, which the Trump campaign and RNC had previously boasted about.
Trump’s endorsement record seems poised to take another hit tonight. His candidate in #NC11 is trailing badly, while Rep. Thomas Massie (who Trump called to be “thrown out” of the party) is in the lead in #KY04.
THREAD: This week, Congress sent a bill to the president’s desk that I can almost guarantee you haven’t heard of.
How can I be sure?
**Not a single article has been written about it by any news outlet, anywhere**
As has been reported elsewhere, the Senate passed a lot of bills by unanimous consent this week before adjourning for the year.
Two of these bills got a lot of news coverage: a bill transferring control of the old RFK Stadium site and a measure funding pediatric cancer research.
But a third House-passed bill sailed through the Senate, too, and this one hasn’t gotten any of the attention.
It’s called the Supporting America’s Children and Families Act, and it’s the first major overhaul of our federal child welfare system in more than 15 years.
Unclear why @POTUS is visiting Georgetown. He is at Wolfington Jesuit Residence Hall, where he visited about two weeks into his presidency to receive his ashes for Ash Wednesday.
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Welcome to DC: It turns out Kamala Harris’ condo is not too far from my new apartment for the semester. The street is blocked off and there’s a small security presence (note the “VPPD” plates), although she will now reside at the Naval Observatory like past VPs.
UPDATE: Apparently the Vice President will be actively living down the street from me? If anyone’s looking for me, I might just be staking it out at all times trying to confirm.
Some news from the home front: The colorful St. Louis attorney Albert Watkins — last seen representing the McCloskeys — has now taken on the “QAnon Shaman” as a client
Watkins’s defense of Chansley is that he only “accepted President Trump’s invitation to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”
“The words and invitation of a president are supposed to mean something,” Watkins says. He’s asking Trump to give Chansley a pardon.
I guess this is answers the question @RepBrianMast dramatically asked on the House floor yesterday, about whether any of the rioters had said they came to the Capitol because of Trump. (Chansley’s defense is that Trump “invited” him there.)