If Trump loses "Republicans might turn on the Trumps. MAGA politics may fade. And the Trumps likely can’t retreat back into the glitzy world of New York galas" (HELL no!)
Good read #Election2020#Vote politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
2-"Now, in the final stretch of the election, the Trump clan has been on a mission to save this iteration of the family venture: cultural warriors, GOP takeover artists, and, perhaps, a budding political dynasty. In a frenzied tour across battleground states,
3-"Trump’s family members are making a personal pitch to voters that it’s not just their father who should stay in power, it’s them as well. If Trump pulls off another upset win, it will cement his family’s standing in American society. The Trumps will set the cultural and
4-"political dialogue for the better part of a decade. They’ll continue to elbow their way through the halls of Washington and the GOP. They might run for office. But if Trump loses, a family brand built on ‘winning’ will be dealt an embarrassing defeat after years of
5-"successfully side-stepping creditors, bankruptcies and cultural comeuppance. Republicans might turn on the Trumps. MAGA politics may fade. And the Trumps likely can’t retreat back into the glitzy world of New York galas. Nor do they want to.
6-"Instead, they’ll try to do what they always do, according to over a dozen current and former senior administration officials and close associates of the Trump family: Keep the Trump brand alive. Expand the family business. Export it when possible.” ~politico
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After Fox called AZ for Biden last night: "Trump phoned Murdoch to scream about the call/demand a retraction. Murdoch refused, & the call stood. Trump & Murdoch have been at odds for months over election coverage .." #ElectionResults2020 vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/2…
2-"Tensions between Fox's pro-Trump opinion hosts and the news division are flaring over the Arizona call. "We called it long before MSNBC!" one outraged staffer on the opinion side told me. "We were so worried about being seen as pro-Trump that we bent over backwards."
3-"Some Republicans blame Fox for setting the narrative that Trump lost, even though the Associated Press later called Arizona for Biden. (As of Wednesday afternoon, NBC News, along with CNN, still haven’t called Arizona).
2-"President Trump stunned the political universe in 2016 with a sweep of critical Northern swing states, winning Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by less than one percentage point and forcing Democrats into four years of soul-searching about what went wrong in their
3-"historic geographic base. Four years later, the chilly Midwest looms again as the principal battleground of the election, and on Friday Mr. Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. crisscrossed the region campaigning in states that are not only must-win for the
Polling analysis' are tightening, but holding for Biden
The election could be close (nightmare scenario) or could be a landslide for Biden
PLEASE hand deliver your mail-in ballots BEFORE 11/3
It's not just @ winning, it's about winning in a way Trump can't challenge #VoteBlue
2-"President Donald Trump still has a path to a second term. But it would take a polling debacle that would make 2016 look like a banner year. According to a series of battleground state polls conducted and released in the week following the last Trump-Biden debate,
3-" the president’s chances of winning a second term now require winning states where he still trails with only days to go until voting concludes. In most of the core swing states, Joe Biden has maintained a stable — though not overwhelming — lead over Trump in polls
We hit 9 million #COVID19 cases yesterday
And more than 229K deaths (that we know of..)
And Pence is SO essential ..
But hasn't been seen at a WH C/V task force mtg in more than a month
Go figure #VoteBlue politico.com/news/2020/10/2…
2-"When Vice President Mike Pence first took charge of the White House’s coronavirus task force, among his earliest moves was establishing a standing call with all 50 governors aimed at closely coordinating the nation’s pandemic fight.
3-"Yet as the U.S. confronts its biggest Covid-19 surge to date, Pence hasn’t attended one of those meetings in over a month. Pence – who has been touting the Trump administration’s response effort on the campaign trail for weeks – is not expected to be on the line again Friday,
2-"Trailing in the polls and with little time left to change the trajectory or closing themes of the presidential race, President Trump has spent the final days of the campaign complaining that the coronavirus crisis is getting too much coverage — and openly musing about losing.
3-"Trump has publicly lamented about what a loss would mean, spoken longingly of riding off into the sunset and made unsubstantiated claims that voter fraud could cost him the election.
So Stephen Miller's hard at work with 2nd Term plans:
Salivating over limiting asylum grants
Punishing & outlawing sanctuary cities
Expanding the travel ban with tougher screening for visa applicants
Slapping new limits on work visas
END him! #VoteBlue nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
2-"President Donald Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller has fleshed out plans to rev up Trump’s restrictive immigration agenda if he wins re-election next week, offering a stark contrast to the platform of Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
3-"In a 30-minute phone interview Thursday with NBC News, Miller outlined four major priorities: limiting asylum grants, punishing and outlawing so-called sanctuary cities, expanding the so-called travel ban with tougher screening for visa applicants