Trouble in paradise?
Per Playbook this am:
Jr's g/f Kimberly Guilfoyle has joined Eric Greitens' Missouri Senate campaign as Nat'l Chair
Trump doesn't support him & won't endorse him
Also, Greitens did this⬇️
So.. perfectly on brand for Guilfoyle? apnews.com/article/chris-…
2/ Playbook: "One Trump adviser said Greitens has the disadvantage of being associated with MIKE PENCE because his former chief of staff, NICK AYERS, ran his gubernatorial campaign.
3/"Multiple advisers said Trump has been concerned that attaching Guilfoyle’s name to Greitens will look like an implicit endorsement from him.
4/"Since then, there’ve been signs that Guilfoyle is on the outs: She’d been nudging Trump’s team to join the Make America Great Again Action super PAC before finally being added to its roster late last month as national finance chair. .." Que the break-up!
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Per Detroit News Toyota will now stop donating to Senators who voted against certifying Biden's win
Public pressure works!
& say what you will about Lincoln Project they serve a highly effective purpose.. detroitnews.com/story/business…
2/"Toyota Motor Corp. will no longer donate to members of Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election in January, the company said Thursday, after facing blowback over corporate contributions.
3/"The move also follows an announcement earlier in the day that The Lincoln Project, a political action committee founded by Republicans to help defeat Trump in the 2020 election,
2/"Back home, Georgia’s first Black senator is more subtle, pitching a ‘comprehensive view of infrastructure’ and avoiding talk of his reelection fight already looming just months after he won a January special election runoff with Senate control at stake.
3/"Indeed, the preacher-turned-politician spent the Independence Day recess hopscotching from an inland port in the conservative Appalachian foothills to liberal Atlanta’s urban microbreweries and sprawling public hospital, then the suburban defense contractors in between.
Without passage of the For The People voting rights act the GOP redistricting could potentially be viciously aggressive
And the intra-party GOP fighting has already begun: politico.com/news/2021/07/0…
2/"Local Republicans, eager to grow their numbers in Congress and provide launching pads for ambitious state legislators, might be more inclined to carve up those blue pockets.
3/"But others in the GOP are wary of a rapid and unpredictable political realignment that complicates the drawing of new maps — and the threat of the legal behemoth Democrats have assembled to counter them.
Per ProPublica:
More evidence of what we know to be true:
Sr Trump officials were warned that 1/6 could turn chaotic
Instead of stopping the march Trump and his allies "fooled" the USCP
& accommodated the Stop the Steal leaders
(thread) propublica.org/article/new-de…
2/"ProPublica has obtained new details about the Trump White House’s knowledge of the gathering storm, after interviewing more than 50 people involved in the events of Jan. 6 and reviewing months of private correspondence.
3/"Taken together, these accounts suggest that senior Trump aides had been warned the Jan. 6 events could turn chaotic, with tens of thousands of people potentially overwhelming ill-prepared law enforcement officials.
Last night The Intercept broke a call Joe Manchin had with a billionaire donor gp asking for help with 3 more votes on 1/6 Commission
-his "last, best argument" for keeping the filibuster
Poss ethics violations trying to get a Blunt vote
Thin line Senator! theintercept.com/2021/06/16/joe…
2/"Manchin told the assembled donors that he needed help flipping a handful of Republicans from no to yes on the January 6 commission in order to strip the “far left” of their best argument against the filibuster. om lines.
3/"The filibuster is a critical priority for the donors on the call, as it bottles up progressive legislation that would hit their bottom lines. When it came to Sen. Roy Blunt, a moderate Missouri Republican who voted no on the commission, Manchin offered a creative solution.
Bernie today:
He will seek to expand Medicare, lower the eligibility age & lower drug prices with a fast-track reconciliation bill
He said: “That’s going to be right in there I mean, to me, it is incomprehensible that in the richest country in the history of the world
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"that if you are 80 years of age, you may not have any teeth in your mouth to digest your food you may not have be able to hear your grandchildren speaking, we have to address that issue
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"And the way we address that is another long neglected crisis is the pharmaceutical industry in this country gets away with murder, they charge us any prices that they want
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