Obama is skewering Trump in Philly, saying he’s “incapable of taking the job seriously,” bashes him for failing on Covid relief, saying only billionaires better off than 4 years ago, torches his Chinese bank account, says he may be paying more to foreign govts than U.S. Treasury.
Obama on Trump: "He continues to do business with China because he’s got a secret Chinese bank account. How is that possible?... Can you imagine if I had a secret Chinese bank account while I was running for reelection? You think Fox News might’ve been a lil concerned abt that?"
Barack Obama on Donald Trump: "He did inherit the longest streak of job growth in history. But just like everything else he inherited, he messed it up."
Obama mocks Trump and Republicans on health care: "It’s been comin' 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… They don’t have one."
"Nothing but empty promises. It's shameful."
Obama speaking to normcore voters here: "With Joe and Kamala, you're not gonna have to think about the crazy things they say all day. And that's worth a lot." He says Americans might be able to get through Thanksgiving without arguments. "It just won’t be so exhausting."
Obama: "We can't have any doubt. We can't be complacent. I don't care about the polls. There were a whole bunch of polls last time. Didn't work out. Because a whole bunch of folks stayed at home and got lazy and complacent. Not this time. Not in this election. Not this time."
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NEW: The most Google-searched issue in most of America during the Trump-Biden debate was WAGES. It spiked just as @kwelkernbc asked about the minimum wage.
?? Trump claims the COVID-19 vaccine is "ready" and "going to be announced within weeks."
.@kwelkernbc follows up with Trump to ask if he's guaranteeing a vaccine within weeks. He backtracks: "No it's not a guarantee. But it will be by the end of the year."
Trump tells @60Minutes in footage he released that he wants to see the Supreme Court wipe out Obamacare.
“I hope that they end it.”
Trump insists he‘ll have a health care plan that protects preexisting conditions, but doesn’t point to a proposal or say what policies would be in it amid repeated questioning from Stahl.
He repeats that he’d like SCOTUS to invalidate the ACA.
“It’ll be so good if they end it.”
Trump on a health care plan: “It’s fully developed. It’s going to be announced very soon, when we see what happens with Obamacare.”
Then he says “large sections” of it are written, points to previous GOP plans, says he’ll “make a deal” on a bill. (There is currently not a plan.)
.@SenSchumer: "The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process I have ever witnessed in the Senate. And her potential confirmation will have dire, dire consequences for the Senate, for the Supreme Court and our entire country for generations to come."
Dianne Feinstein speaks, criticizes Mitch McConnell and Republicans on reversing the Merrick Garland precedent.
"There's an old adage. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Now, however, Republicans are proceeding regardless."
Dianne Feinstein defends the decision to participate in the Barrett hearings, saying Democrats made their case about how the ACA and Roe v. Wade "could be lost." Then, seeing they lacked the votes, she says "there was no further reason to participate" in a "rush" of a process.
NEWS: Senate Judiciary Committee votes to send the Amy Coney Barrett nomination to the full chamber for a vote.
Democrats boycotted it.
Republicans, who have a majority, proceeded anyway.
After voting to advance Amy Coney Barrett without Democrats, Lindsey Graham says "I could not have lived with myself" if the committee didn't vote her out favorably.
Lindsey Graham defends Dianne Feinstein, saying it's "a shame" she's being criticized for "a moment of human interaction" when they hugged, accuses the critics of want her not just to agree with their cause but to "hate."