HEADS UP: @TeamTrump is holding a press call starting in a few minutes.
If you need to hold a conference call at 10:50 p.m. to talk about how great your candidate did...
UPDATE: @TimMurtaugh is basically reading this statement and gloating about the press conference with the guy who says he was Hunter Biden's business partner.
Murtaugh now repeating false claim that @AOC wrote @JoeBiden's climate change policy.
Question (from @Newsy reporter) on what he'd say to Black families in response to @kwelkernbc's question on "the talk" parents give kids on police.
Murtaugh says Trump made the case that the best thing for all Americans is for more economic opportunity.
Murtaugh now says Biden "spending millions of dollars" on advertisements targeted at Black voters is a sign of weakness (it's actually a sign of having the money to spend).
Murtaugh also repeats lie that Biden told @cthagod "if you don't support Joe Biden you ain't Black" (he said "if you can't tell the difference between me and Donald Trump")
Call over.
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NEW: @realDonaldTrump's latest executive order could let him cripple a @JoeBiden administration by firing countless government experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci on his way out the door and leaving behind a corps of loyalists to sabotage things, experts say independent.co.uk/voices/trump-e…
The order could strip civil service protections from a broad swath of career civil servants who work in “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions” as soon as January 19, a day before the next President is inaugurated. independent.co.uk/voices/trump-e…
“It's a two-pronged attack — a Hail Mary pass to enable them to do some burrowing in if they lose the election,” ex-government ethics boss @waltshaub said. independent.co.uk/voices/trump-e…
NOW: @TeamTrump is holding a press call. @JasonMillerinDC is once again talking about Biden wanting to transition to clean energy and claiming the Biden campaign "failed to push back" on the claims about Hunter Biden which the @WSJ debunked last night. wsj.com/articles/hunte…
.@JasonMillerinDC also falsely claiming that Biden said @realDonaldTrump was Abraham Lincoln (he didn't) and — wait for it — talking about Biden checking his watch (FACT CHECK: It isn't 1992).
He now appears to be citing a bunch of local TV stations online polls.
.@BillStepien now going over @realDonaldTrump's schedule for the next few days (Florida, North Carolina, New Hampshire) and mocking Biden for delivering remarks in Wilmington tonight.
"It's undeniable that we are the campaign with momentum," he says.
JUST NOW: White House Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows tells @MariaBartiromo that remaining sticking points in stimulus negotiations are (still) a liability shield for businesses (e.g. restaurants) and assistance to state/local governments.
Now @MariaBartiromo is suggesting there’s a FBI coverup of something something Hunter Biden Burisma something.
@MarkMeadows, blatantly violating the Hatch Act, says there are more “documents” to come & suggests @JoeBiden must prove a bunch of negatives alleged in dubious docs.
.@MarkMeadows: “while this President, Donald Trump, was creating jobs in America, the only thing that Joe Biden was doing was creating wealth for him and his family.”
(@JoeBiden has been a private citizen since January 20, 2017)
NOW: @TeamTrump campaign manager @BillStepien says they're teaming up with the RNC for a $55 million ad buy over the next two weeks, in Arizona, Iowa, North Carolina, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Campaign spending directly on ads in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, ME-2, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
Stepien says outside pro-Trump groups' spending lets the campaign to "bob and weave and redirect" its' own funds.
NEW: Veterans of 2016 and past Republican campaigns say Trumpworld's push to turn @JoeBiden into @HillaryClinton by attacking his family and making baseless claims about his health is evidence that the Trump campaign is out of ideas and is doomed to fail. independent.co.uk/voices/hunter-…
One former Trump confidante and campaign official said the 2020 brain trust "has realized that nothing they’ve done has worked, so they’re going back to what they originally did, which was to create chaos and create distractions.” independent.co.uk/voices/hunter-…
The ex-Trump campaign official, who asked to remain anonymous because of Trump's tendency to sue people, said the president's obsession with Hunter Biden is "so bizarre" and is backfiring by making people feel empathy for the Biden family. independent.co.uk/voices/hunter-…
FYI: For those of you complaining about the various media fails happening this morning, please keep in mind:
Nearly every political reporter you see on TV or in major print publications was hired from an internship or FT gig at another major outlet, based on word of mouth. 1/
Nearly all the media job listings for political reporting positions are only posted publicly to satisfy legal requirements for doing so. They are almost always tailored to describe the person who the hiring manager plans on hiring. 2/
For all the talk about how so-and-so individual journalist relies on special access, the reality is that with some exceptions, reporters' ability to get information is heavily dependent on what outlet they work for. COVID-19 has made this even more true. 3/