I spoke to Cathy Brienza, who drove down from Ridgewood, NJ, to talk to voters about voting Democrat in Bethelehem, Pa. She heads the liberal group JOLT (join organize lead teach).
Amos Johnson, a home health aide now on disability, was parking his car in the Bethlehem C Town parking lot. He proudly displays his Biden bear.
Amos said that as someone who is Black and gay, he doesn’t appreciate that Trump “hasn’t been very respectful to a lot of our country.”
I joined up with @MakeTheRoadPA again in Allentown where organizer Armando was chatting with voters outside another supermarket.

Jalil Rasheed and Carlos Freites, who were selling BLM shirts are Dems voting for Biden. But Freites, a warehouse worker, liked Trump until covid.
Belatedly, Ashley Jones, a Reading social worker at Saturday’s protest against Pence, talked about what she’s hearing while making calls for Biden and the pain of her mom, a substance abuse counselor, getting laid off from the hospital due to covid-related layoffs.

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20 Oct
I just spoke to Michael Scott, a chef, and Lee Kuczynski, a food service worker.

They voted Obama, Trump and now Biden.
Lee and Michael, who has heard your joke about Steve Carell’s character in The Office, want lower health care bills. They also “back the blue,” but don’t think Biden is anti-police.
I was talking to voters outside the Luzerne County building, where the line for early voting is about an hour (most of the queue is inside). People also have questions/requests. But you can drop off a pre-completed absentee ballot in the blue box. ImageImage
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20 Oct
Had a good time chatting with Derek Cataldi, a politically active member of Carpenters Local 167, in Bensalem today.

He’s voting for Biden but it’s a source of tension with his Trump-supporting mother.
Cataldi supported Bernie but because the union endorsed Republican Brian Fitzpatrick in PA-1, Cataldi would vote for him if he lived there (he lives just outside the district). Please excuse me calling the GOP congressman Fitzgerald by accident.
Fitzpatrick is one of just 5 House Republicans to vote for the PRO Act which would outlaw right to work laws and increase fines for labor law violations. clerk.house.gov/Votes/202050 Image
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18 Oct
I stopped by a Trump promotion event in South Whitehall just outside Allentown.

@PoliticsValley tells me in the past couple years, “It’s gotten worse to be a Republican.”
Jared, 31, who declined to give his last name, is a pilot and member of ALPA, the pilots union.

He likes the union but wishes it stayed out of politics.
Jared thinks Trump’s done a “great job” with COVID-19. He admits Biden might prevent its spread more effectively but he doesn’t like the trade off of what he expects is Biden’s plan to shut things down more fully.
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15 Oct
When Kevin de León, the son of an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant and a teacher union organizer-turned-Calif. state Senate leader, stepped up to challenge Dianne Feinstein in 2018, the entire Dem Party establishment, including Obama, rushed in to make sure he posed no threat.
De León was 51 at the time and Feinstein was 85.

He ran an ad blasting Feinstein's hardline immigration comments in the 1990s: “I say return them to their own country, wherever that country may be,” she said of undocumented immigrants. huffpost.com/entry/kevin-de…
I am not saying that de León was perfect or even the right candidate for a progressive challenge.

But it's a telling example of how the Democratic establishment wields power -- harshly against challengers of all stripes and cautiously, if at all, against big business, the GOP.
Read 10 tweets
12 Oct
It's me, a non-sentient idiot.
Trump ran on:
1) Reviving manufacturing;
2) Providing universal health care;
3) Protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid;
4) Lowering Rx prices;
5) Investing in infrastructure.

Some people are annoyed that I documented how he failed to deliver: huffpost.com/entry/donald-t…
Yes, Trump was never coherent or serious about policy, and yes, racism and xenophobia were a huge part of his pitch.

But he made enough populist rhetorical gestures to confuse swing voters, excite some on the left and new right, and frighten conservatives.
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22 Aug
I encourage people following the Aaron Coleman-Stan Frownfelter election in Kansas to watch @ggreenwald's interview with Coleman in its entirety. It is a probing look at Coleman's political and personal journey. Glenn presses him very effectively too.
The portion about Coleman's adolescent abuse and revenge porn against female peers begins at 14:45 and ends at 23:00. The transcript is attached.

For those wondering, he apologizes for his comments to a relative of a victim in which he told that relative to move on.
Rather than just opine on this controversy, @ggreenwald "did the work" -- he performed original reporting that moved this story forward.

It's more than can be said of so many opinion columnists, either amateur or professional. Even Glenn's critics should commend him for it.
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