Elder surrogates kicking off his first event today, warning that if Newsom wins, California will become a failed state where “our children are selling bottles of water to tourists.”
Former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado says he has a question for his fellow Latinos: “What do you have to lose?”
Elder appearing with his top Dem endorser, former state senate President Gloria Romero, as well as former Monterey Park Mayor Betty Chu, a Republican. Both appear in his ads
*former senate majority leader
Romero says that Newsom will be recalled when all the ballots are counted, “even the fraudulent ones.”
Sort of a rainbow coalition of Latino and Asian and White supporters behind Elder, as one supporter eaves a sign saying he “does not divide us by skin colors.”
Elder going into detail about the private education history of Barack Obama and his family, to make his point about liberal hypocrites opposing school choice.
Elder onto his main stump — homelessness, cost of living, businesses and wealthy leaving the state.
Elder hitting the media for not running more coverage of the egg-throwing incident in Venice
Elder repeats a whopper he’s used before: That none of the Newsom surrogates have said “Gavin Newsom has done a good job.” Warren, Harris, etc have all praised his record in their speeches, but the lines that get quoted are all about recall/Elder.
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“Someone asked if they should introduce me as the former next president of the United States.”
Biden is “failing the George Washington statesmanship test,” says Yang, by not recognizing that it’s time to go. “Given that Joe Biden is such a depleted, vulnerable candidate, why is he not getting more competition?”
Very funny moment just now. Yang says he’s endorsing Phillips. Music blasts and Phillips walks out. Yang says he’s still got more time and the Phillips campaign played him on too quickly: “They have the text of my speech!” So Phillips walks back to holding room.
The Biden "no comment" saga is a great little study in choose-your-own media. I've seen multiple pieces claim that Biden literally did not comment on the Maui fires until he headed there, like this day-of-the-rope-ish piece in American Greatness. amgreatness.com/2023/08/22/a-l…
The wildfires started on August 8. The WH approved relief on August 10. The same day, Biden commented on the fires/recovery during an event in Utah. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Three days later, coming back from beach, Bloomberg asked for a comment on the wildfires' rising death toll. and Biden said no. It's fair to call that a mistake; it would have been easy to say something brief.
Matt Gaetz warming up crowd for Trump, saying they grilled burgers rare, medium rare, and well done but “the most done you can be is Ron DeSantis.”
Matt Whitaker introduces himself as “Donald Trump’s favorite attorney general” — definitely true, the only one he hasn’t feuded with
Trump arrives and invites more Florida Rs to speak. Donalds asks Iowans to help him “three-peat,” Gus Bilrakis asks “why risk it?” with another Republican.
New frontiers in “super PACs aren’t allowed to coordinate with the campaign.” (DeSantis is the “special guest” on the Never Back Down super PAC tour.)
DeSantis rolled up with three Chevy Suburbans of reporters and cameras; flanked by four security guys, local police, state senate president Amy Sinclair. Some hand-shaking and convos, some waving as he walks by.