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13 Oct, 8 tweets, 3 min read
The Senator that Biden spoke of affectionately during this story he told today?

It's noted segregationist James Eastland

Eastland is one of the two segregationist senators Biden praised last year for their "civility"
Here's Biden telling the story in 2012, where he names Eastland
Biden spoke more positively today about a segregationist than he did about a majority of the American people

Kamala Harris eviscerated Biden last year for invoking Eastland

"To coddle the reputations of segregationists... [is] misinformed and wrong"

Harris said Eastland "made and built [his] reputation on segregation."
Even Biden's own advisors admitted he shouldn't invoke Eastland

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10 Oct
That Moody's report Biden keeps citing to say his economic plan is better? Not really worth the paper it's printed on

The same economist - Mark Zandi - estimated Trump's plans in 2016

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Zandi's projections for job growth by mid-2019 if Trump was elected, compared to where we were in mid-2016:

▶️1.7 million
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More than 6 million jobs, double Zandi's ***best*** scenario ImageImageImage
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Unsurprisingly, Joe Biden again is lying about the the Trump Administration's record on funding law enforcement

Here are the facts...
Federal aid to state and local law enforcement fell during the Obama-Biden Administration

Meanwhile, funding has gone up under the Trump Administration

cato.org/blog/federal-a…
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A record setting jobs report:

➡️4.5 million jobs - largest gain in history
➡️2.8 million women's jobs - largest gain in history
➡️3.2 million fewer unemployed workers - largest drop in history
➡️2.2% point drop in unemployment - largest drop in history

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Jobs, jobs, jobs - June's jobs report beat expectations by 2 million jobs

➡️4.8 million jobs added in June, 7.5 million in the last two months
➡️2.8 million jobs for women
➡️356,000 manufacturing jobs
➡️3.2 million fewer unemployed Americans
Unemployment keeps falling:

➡️the unemployment rate fell by 2.2 % points, a record
➡️Women's, Black, Hispanic, Asian American, and veteran's unemployment rates all fell
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1/3 Joe Biden grossly overstating death tolls: a short thread

Yesterday Joe Biden claimed 120 million Americans had died from the Coronavirus, a number that was off by a mere 119.88 million
2/3

In February, Biden claimed that "150 million" Americans had been murdered with a gun since 2007, a number that was off by a factor of 1,000, or roughly 149.85 million
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In 2014, Biden pegged the death toll from the 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado at 161,000

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This is nonsense and an insult to the men and women at the CDC, HHS, and other public health agencies who have been working on coronavirus since early January

The CDC set up its incident management system for coronavirus on Jan 7
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