.@JoeBiden: "We have no need for armed militias roaming American streets, and we should have no tolerance for extremist white supremacy groups menacing our communities."
@JoeBiden Biden: "Wearing a mask is not a political statement."
@JoeBiden After Biden flees before reporters can ask questions, @NicolleDWallace heralds his remarks as historic: "This was, I thought, Joe Biden at his very best."
— “Perfectly encapsulates what we need this this country.”
— "Very appealing to those of us who sit at home and wonder how we get out of the pandemic, the racial injustice, economic inequity and knowing that Joe Biden actually has a pathway for us.”
@JoeBiden@NicolleDWallace Wallace: “Joe Biden reached for history, did Joe Biden grab onto the right sort of pillars in that effort for you?"
Jason Johnson: "Yeah, Nicolle. This speech by Biden is exactly why you don't need to run negative ads right now. Because Donald Trump is his own negative ad."
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MSNBC’s @FrankFigliuzzi1 proposes creating a "bipartisan commission" to vet presidential candidates to prevent another Trump: "We got this wrong, and this can’t happen again."
@FrankFigliuzzi1 More from MSNBC: Jeremy Bash warns voters: "Actually what’s on the ballot is a choice between democracy or whether or not we’re going to revert to some Russian form of dictatorship or autocracy"
@FrankFigliuzzi1 And Eugene Robinson w/ perhaps the most partisan appeal so far: "We have to vote, we have to vote in huge, undeniable numbers. I voted on Tuesday. People are voting in many states across the country now. And, you know, the old saying is voter early and often — but just vote now."
A) This ADL stat should be consumed w/ hefty heaps of salt as the vast majority of this 76 percent are antisemitic attacks, which does not automatically = “right wing.”
B) This is a diversion, meant to distract from the obvious reality of the last 4 months
Look at the report; it clearly started w/ a conclusion and then went looking for data. Many of the “hate incidents” are things like this: "White supremacist Travers Proulx was arrested on first-degree murder charges after he allegedly stabbed his mother” adl.org/murder-and-ext…
If that’s the standard, why not include all gang-related crime, as that often has a racial component? Probably b/c then they could no longer lead the report w/ “right-wing extremists” adl.org/news/press-rel…
The smartest thing Trump ever did was NOT create an overarching “national strategy” for Coronavirus, media caterwauling notwithstanding. 1) There’s no constitutional basis to do so. /1
2) Creating national protocols to counter a virus we still don’t completely understand would've frozen in time our developing understanding of the virus, as every state would be testing the same variables. /2
3) Only through dynamism have we been able to compare and contrast policies' effectiveness, their respective unintended impacts, and thus perform basic risk/reward analyses. /3
.@TrumpWarRoom just sent out 17 proposed questions for tonight’s debate. A few funny ones:
"You recently said you 'got started' at Delaware State University, an HBCU. The school says they have no record of you ever attending. What did you major in there?"
@TrumpWarRoom "Your campaign says it is a ‘lie' that 'the Biden-Harris ticket is the most radically pro-abortion' ticket 'in U.S. history.' Are there any restrictions on abortion that you support, and if so, please be specific?"