In Miami, Obama mocks Trump as someone who “likes to act tough and talk tough” but is weak and spends his time complaining how mean reporters are. “When 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl are too tough for you, you ain’t all that tough,” Obama says.
In Miami, Obama mocks Republican claims about Joe Biden and says their rhetoric makes Biden sound like more of a socialist than the Castros. Tells voters to ignore it. Says if he was a “secret socialist” we’d know by now.
Obama: “We don’t threaten to throw our political opponents in jail just because we disagree with them. We don’t call them un-American just because they’re in a different political party... These are American values.”
Obama plays to the normcore voter again, says if Biden is elected then Americans will have a president who doesn’t exhaust them with tweets about conspiracies and secret cabals.
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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."