Obama, hitting the stump at a car rally in Philadelphia:
Obama on Trump: “by the way, his ratings are down. And you know that upsets him.”
Obama on Trump: "He’s got a secret Chinese bank account. How is that possible? Can you imagine if I had had a secret Chinese bank account when I was running for re-election. You think Fox News might have been a little concerned about that. They would have called me Beijing Barry"
Obama says unlike Trump, he probably paid more than $750 in income taxes in his first job, working at Baskin Robbins. That proves, Obama says, that Trump doesn't understand working people.
"Tweeting at the television doesn't fix things. Making stuff up doesn't make things better. You've got to have a plan," Obama says. "We literally left this White House a pandemic playbook .. they probably used it to prop up a wobbly table somewhere."
"Donald Trump isn't going to protect us. He can barely take the basic steps to protect himself," Obama says. Then mocks Trump saying he's gone back to work after recovering from COVID. "If he'd actually been working the whole time, it never would have gotten this bad."
"Joe's not going to screw up testing. He's not going to call scientists 'idiots.' He's not going to host a super spreader event at the White House," Obama says.
Panoramic shot of Obama at the drive in rally:
Obamacare on the Republicans' and Trump's claims of a new plan for health care: "It’s been coming in two weeks for the last 10 years. Where is it? Where is this great plan to replace Obamacare? They’ve had 10 years to do it. There is no plan."
"I can tell you this. Joe Biden would never call the men and women of our military 'suckers' or 'losers,'" Obama says. Says Trump has failed to protect America from dangers "foreign, domestic or microscopic."
Obama says Americans wouldn't tolerate Trump's behavior from a crazy uncle. Mentions his tweets "about secret cabals running the world or that Navy SEALs didn't call bin Ladin. Think about that. The president of the United States retweeted that. Imagine that. What? What?"
Obama says Trump's comments are not only damaging, but "racist," and fraying the fabric between us. Says also "it effects how the world looks at America. That behavior matters. Character matters."
Obama says, Biden and Harris "believe that no one, especially the president, is above the law."
Obama: "Our democracy's not going to work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders lie every day. ... We just become numb to it. Every single day. Fact checkers can't keep up. ... These aren't Republican or Democratic principles, these are American principles."
"The president's already said, 'if this is even close, I'm just going to make stuff up,'" Obama says. "So we can't have any doubt. ... I don't care about the polls. There were a whole bunch of polls last time."
"We've got to vote, and then get some change, and then vote some more, and get some more change, and keep on voting," Obama says.
"For all the times these last four years that we've seen our worst impulses revealed, we've also seen what our country can be at its best," Obama says, mentioning the airport protests of Muslim ban, the March for Our Lives, Black Lives Matter, essential workers in the pandemic
"America is a good and decent place. But we've seen so much noise and nonsense, it's hard sometimes to remember," Obama says. Asks people to believe in Biden's and Harris's ability to lead, to channel the activism into action.
At the end of his speech, Obama put on a new face mask, with VOTE on it:

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Trump aides have been telling people that the big surprise in store for tonight's debate is he's bringing Tony Bobulinski, the former Hunter Biden business associate, as a guest tonight.

They're hoping to spring this on Biden, the way he brought Bill Clinton accusers in 2016
Bobulinski was the subject of a Breitbart article yesterday portrayed as a "bombshell" in which he says that he read Ron Johnson's report on the Bidens and got mad that he "connected the dots" to think they were making money behind his back.
The Breitbart article about Bobulinski also mentions that he was the subject of the Wall Street Journal article which Trump mentioned at the beginning of the week and said would be a huge problem for the Biden campaign -- but which so far, hasn't run.
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Obama just compared voting to going to the gym & people who complain that they don’t end up looking like @TheRock. “The easiest thing to do is to say, ‘Well, I quit.’ But we can’t afford to quit.”

But then adds he’d still like to look like The Rock. “Maybe if I shave my head.”
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But that’s why they call him Carlos Danger.
Weiner is asked in this interview if he feels any responsibility for Clinton’s losing b/c of his cameo in the last two weeks of 2016. He does not.

(In an interview with me 2 weeks ago, Clinton still pointed to the Comey letter as the turning point: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…)
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Here’s the Trump campaign making a show of attacking the press, when aides often follow up and ask to speak off the record after this kind of thing to say it’s all tactics and a show:
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This attack the press in public/then be solicitous of the press in private theme was part of the 2016 campaign, the White House, the 2020 campaign for Trump and top aides. Meanwhile, some reporters have had real threats to their safety from Trump supporters who take it seriously
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Then-Sen. George Allen, 2006: “Macaca, or whatever his name is.”

Sen. David Perdue, tonight: “Kamala-mala-mala-whatever"

(Though Perdue is making fun of the actual name of a woman he has served with for four years.)
Perdue and Harris are not just in the Senate together, but both serve on the Budget Committee. So Perdue either doesn’t know the name of a woman he’s served closely alongside, or he intentionally mispronounced to say he thinks it’s weird as part of a campaign rally.
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NEW - Biden’s campaign looked into an endorsement from W, but it’s not coming. But if Biden wins and Trump causes chaos, Biden would lean on him to get involved.

Bush doesn’t want to get mixed up in any of it.
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Bush last month, deliberately gently: “People look around and see America at its worst. Not those of us at the Bush Center.”

@BillKristol: “If not now, when? If you’re not going to blow the whistle now and say, ‘This is beyond the pale,’ when are you going to do it?”
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