NEW from me: Michigan was Trump's narrowest win in 2016. Democrats have spent four years trying to figure out how to get it back. Here's what they did: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
This story is, effectively, Part 3 in a four year, three part series. It started in 2016, with just how many ways the Clinton campaign screwed up in Michigan in 2016: politico.com/story/2016/12/…
And now, a week out from 2020, part 3:the lessons learned, and why what happened over the last four years mattered. Much of what happened in Michigan is larger shifts related to geography and demographics. But there have been major operational changes too: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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the White House is still a coronavirus hot spot, and the coronavirus czar is still not following scientific recommendations about how to keep people safe:
at the beginning of the summer, Pence was insisting there was no second wave of infections coming. There was, and it's here. But this could be a second wave of infections just within the White House grounds.
this is from a few weeks ago -- after the VP debate -- but here's Short and Pence and the rest of the debate prep group, no masks
more of the White House's Twitter account focusing on publicizing government action only in states where the president is focusing his campaigning:
Now as Trump has landed for another campaign stop in Wisconsin, the White House Twitter account is tweeting about federal help to Wisconsin. As the information states, it is a government account, not a campaign account. Yet:
The president is headed to New Hampshire to campaign, so today the official White House government account has started the day promoting work in New Hampshire:
Obama, in Florida, on the pandemic: "the idea that this White House has done anything but completely screw this up is nonsense."
"maybe we shouldn't had the president get on television and said if you put some bleach in you, that might clean some things out," Obama says. "The mismanagement might be comical and ridiculous if it didn't mean people losing lives."
This is Obama's reaction when he repeats Trump's claim that he's been the best president for Black Americans since Abraham Lincoln:
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.
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, joining a round table in Philadelphia in his first in-person stop for the Biden-Harris campaign
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.”
Obama on Trump, not by name: “it’s been a long history in America: You try to distract working people from coming together by highlighting racial differences or religious differences, so the people who got what they got can keep what they got.”