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Philip Bump

@pbump

6 Nov

Biden didn't "take the lead" and saying he "took the lead" bolsters Trump's false claims about something sketchy happening. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

Here's how the "lead" in Pennsylvania looks depending if you count from best-to-worst counties for Trump or best-to-worst for Biden. It's all artificial! Both land in the same place. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

How polished a professional am I? In a hit for a TV program in India, I gave up my default example of relaying football scores as an analogy for counting votes and used cricket instead.

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Philip Bump

@pbump

8 Oct

Who won the debate?

Remember: this poll is entirely valid according to Trump's campaign team, so treat it as such.

I think people are actually trying to game this, which is hysterical.

Poll over. Please feel free to share the results in response to anyone earnestly citing Twitter polls as useful or accurate.

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Philip Bump

@pbump

6 Oct

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313511340124917760

This is a great example of how Trump's tendency to reduce his rhetoric to slogans often isn't actually that useful. (1/)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313511340124917760

What Trump's saying, in essence, is that he objects to purported censorship by social media companies. It's a common complaint on the right after efforts to reduce toxicity and falsehoods led to demotion of accounts and deletion of content. (2/)

It is, in other words, an issue that's not only specific to his base but to a very particular subset of his base. It would be like Biden tweeting "MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT!" (3/)

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Philip Bump

@pbump

5 Oct

Times: Trump's "been watching lots of television, even more than usual, and has been exasperated by coverage of Saturday’s" briefing.

Post: "Trump told advisers ... he was getting bored being in the hospital and was tiring of watching coverage of his hospitalization."