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26 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The Senate is voting NOW on final confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
BREAKING: Senate votes 52-48 to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to be the next Supreme Court justice.

Every Republican votes YES except Susan Collins.

Democrats unanimously vote NO.
Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett, heralding new conservative era for Supreme Court

w/ @JulieNBCNews @RebeccaShabad 👇

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Amy Coney Barrett becomes the first Supreme Court justice in the modern era to be confirmed without any from the opposition party. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Presiding over this vote was Chuck Grassley, the former Judiciary Committee chairman who said in 2018 he wouldn't move a Supreme Court nomination to fill a vacancy in 2020, citing the Merrick Garland precedent.

He just voted YES on Amy Coney Barrett.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
And Mitch McConnell tees up more votes to confirm lower court judges.

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26 Oct
Chuck Schumer: "You may win this vote... But you will never, ever, get your credibility back. And the next time the American people give Democrats a majority in this chamber, you will have forfeited your right to tell us how to run that majority."
"You walk a perilous road," Schumer tells Republicans ahead of the ACB vote. "I know you think this will eventually blow over. But you're wrong. The American people will never forget this blatant act of bad faith."
On the Senate floor before the ACB vote, Chuck Schumer quotes Mitch McConnell from 2013 saying: "You'll regret this. And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think."

He adds: "I would change just one word. My colleagues may regret this for a lot longer than they think."
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26 Oct
President Trump in Allentown, Pennsylvania is going off on Hunter Biden and the "laptop from hell."

"That was a very expensive repair job. He didn't pick it up... And they say it's Russia, Russia, Russia."

Crowd boos.

"Does anybody here believe it was Russia?"

Louder boos.
Trump, in Pennsylvania, says he has "charged" China "billions and billions of dollars in taxes and in all sorts of things, tariffs" and given billions to farmers.

Again, that isn't how trade wars work. The tariffs are paid by businesses and consumers, not China's government.
Trump gives truckers a shout out, muses he could "drive the hell out of here."

"Just get the hell out of this. I had such a good life. My life was great. And then I said let's do this, darling!"

Says he's "happy" because "nobody has ever done so much in the first 3 1/2 years."
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26 Oct
NEW: As Amy Coney Barrett heads to confirmation today, Senate Republicans are betting that Democrats won’t retaliate and erase these gains if they win power, despite the campaign rhetoric across the country warning of “court-packing.”

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
Mitch McConnell on Amy Coney Barrett: “A lot of what we’ve done over the last four years will be undone, sooner or later, by the next election. But they won’t be able to do much about this for a long time to come.”

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
Implicit in McConnell’s remarks is that Democrats could win this election and do nothing about the 6-3 Supreme Court. And he may well be right — many Dems are jittery about adding seats. But progressives see it as a dare to call his bluff. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
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24 Oct
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.”
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23 Oct
Mitch McConnell is on the floor evoking Robert Bork in 1987 to blame Democrats and the Ted Kennedy critical speech for the judicial wars.
From 1987 to 2016, a major escalation in the judicial wars.
Another perspective on Bork
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23 Oct
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.

A 2020 sleeper?

Biden wants to raise the federal wage to $15.

Trump says no, leave it to states.

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
A very compelling chart on what ordinary Americans were thinking about during the debate. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
Economists debate the merits of a $15 wage, but there's no question it's popular across the country.

Nationally, a 2-to-1 issue (Pew).

In Wisconsin, it polls at +18 (Marquette).

Some surveys say a wage hike is *more* popular since covid hit (Ipsos).

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
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