Trump supporters are very ready to be done with Covid, even if Covid isn’t done with them. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
On the left: Kamala Harris’s rally
On the right: Donald Trump’s rally
Both in the same Phoenix area on the same day, even if it looks like alternate realities. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
Been a lot of talk about Trump supporters’ fears of socialism. Not much about Biden supporters’ fears of authoritarianism if he’s re-elected, some of which I picked up here. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
Trump's "Art Of The Deal" co-author Tony Schwartz: "Trump has always been about creating a fictional world that conforms to the one he'd like to be true." nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
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NBC News exclusive: Stephen Miller has big plans for U.S. immigration policy if Trump wins four more years. He told me what they are. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
Donald Trump's top four immigration priorities if re-elected, per adviser Stephen Miller:
• New pacts to limit asylum
• Punish and outlaw "sanctuary cities”
• Expand travel ban w/ tougher screening
• New restrictions on work visas
News — Stephen Miller tells me it's unclear if the current U.S. immigration freeze will expire on 12/31/2020 or be renewed. He said that will be "entirely contingent" on governmental analysis that factors in the state of the labor market. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
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."
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."
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.”
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.”
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-…
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.”