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Jul 23 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Not only did Trump lie, again, during his #TrumpRally when he said that he won the 2020 election. He also claimed he did better the second time. This is false.

He got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016 because more total people voted. But the percentage voting for him fell.
Also, some Trump folks get confused because Trump got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016 but yet lost.

People, this is the FOURTH TIME IN U.S. HISTORY that an incumbent President got more votes in the election he lost (his re-election bid) than he got in the election he won.
Incumbent President John Quincy Adams got more votes in 1828 when he lost re-election than he got in 1824 when he won the Presidency.

Incumbent President Martin Van Biden got more votes in 1840 when he lost than he got in 1836 when he won the Presidency.
Incumbent President Grover Cleveland got more votes in 1888 when he lost re-election than he got in 1884 when he won the Presidency.

And President Donald Trump, got more votes in 2020 when he was Incumbent President but lost re-election than he got in 2016 when he won.
In 2016, Trump became only the fifth President in US History to win a Presidential election despite not getting the most votes.
If Trump had been able to successfully overturn the 2020 election, which he LOST, he would have been the only President in US history to have won TWO elections without EVER having gotten the most votes.
So, Trump is lying again.

He lost the election.

He did not do better, margin-wise, the second time.

In fact, in 10 states in 2020, he did worse than any Republican candidate had done in at least several decades.
But he lies because he always lies.

And he thinks that the people he’s lying to are either stupid or simply don’t care whether or not he’s lying.

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Jul 24
A note to all the people who are upset about whatever but who mock people who tell them that the answer is voting. The MSNBC crowd seems to especially get all upset at this. “Stop telling us to ‘vote harder!’“

That’s exactly what I’m telling everybody. And I brought facts.
About one third of the US Senate was elected in 2016, when 40.8% of eligible voters didn’t participate at all. Another third was elected in 2018 when 50.6% of eligible voters didn’t participate. And the other third was elected in 2020 when 33.8% of eligible voters didn’t vote.
Were you among this number? Did you vote for Senator, US Representative, Governor, Mayor, County Council, etc? Or did you just vote for President?

These are the people who make decisions about your life. And your country. Where you live.
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Jul 23
I love reading biographies. I love trying to learn lessons from other people’s lives and experiences, both positive and negative. As I read them, I add to my list of things that maybe I should do and thinks I shouldn’t do based on what happened to other people.
My motto is, just as it’s better to get a scholarship and have other people pay for your education than it is to pay yourself, it’s better to learn from other people’s examples than to learn the hard way myself.

I learn a lot from both good stories and bad stories.
One thing I just realized though is that I get through them slowly because I’m an obsessive fact checker.

If somebody says they were at a famous event on a Tuesday in 1975, I actually stop to check to see if the event happened in 1975. And if it happened on a Tuesday. I’m weird.
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Jul 20
A Gallup survey from earlier this year polled the political ideology of American adults by group.

It shows self-described liberals are the SMALLEST segment of the public by percentage.

(Democrats hoping to save the country from Trumpism please take note)
news.gallup.com/poll/388988/po…
Self-described liberals are the smallest segment of the adult population.

The smallest segment among both men and women.

Do not make up the plurality of any age group. NOT EVEN the 18-29 year olds
Do not make up the plurality of any education level except for postgraduates, where moderates and liberals are tied.

Are the smallest group among every income level.

Are not the plurality among any racial/ethnic group categorized in the poll.
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Jul 20
Latest Economist/YouGov Poll.
“How likely is it that you will vote in the 2022 congressional elections in November?”

% of each group answering “Definitely will vote”:
Age 18-29: 27%
Age 30-44: 33%
Age 45-64: 67%
Age 65+: 80%

docs.cdn.yougov.com/k4maehoie4/eco…
% of each group answering “Definitely will vote”:
Men: 53%
Women: 54%

White Men w/no degree: 50%
White Women w/no degree: 51%

White Men w/degree: 76%
White Women w/degree: 69%

Black Adults: 41%
Hispanic Adults: 40%
% of each group answering “Definitely will vote”:

Voted for Biden: 67%
Voted for Trump: 78%

Democrats: 60%
Independents: 39%
Republicans: 65%

Liberals: 59%
Moderates: 52%
Conservatives: 68%
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Jul 17
Biden and his party got three major pieces of legislation enacted in less than a year and a half.

1) The American Rescue Plan of 2021
2) The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
3)The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
The American Rescue Plan delivered COVID relief to individuals as well as to state and local governments, including police departments and schools.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided funding to states for much needed improvements in core infrastructure.
And the Safer Communities Act was the first federal gun safety legislation in 28 years, enacted in the wake of the mass murders in Uvalde and Buffalo.
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Jul 16
The opinion that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances is uncommon even among Republican voters according to this Gallup poll:
news.gallup.com/poll/244097/le…

% of each group who say abortion should be illegal in ALL circumstances:
Republicans - 22%
Republican Leaners - 21%
% of each group who say abortion should be illegal in ALL circumstances (continued):

Conservatives - 26%
Attend Church Weekly - 38%
Identify as Pro-Life - 30%
On the other extreme, this is the percentage of Democratic-aligned groups who think abortion should be legal in every circumstance.

% of each group who say abortion should be legal in ALL circumstances:
Democrats - 57%
Democratic Leaners - 57%
Liberals - 66%
Pro-Choice - 58%
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