There are several big 2020 campaign points we need to revisit right now. Team @JoeBiden campaigned on and WH claims to have "re-united" the world against enemies, particularly Russia.
He also made the general case Trump destabilized the world via non-interventionism.
All false.
Truth be told, both India and China were far more cooperative under Donald Trump. India loved him.
@JoeBiden lost India, and both of them abstained at the United Nations over the referendum to annex Eastern Ukraine.
It's a total failure foreign policy failure.
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In sum, our own aggression in support of a bandwagon power, among other mistakes, led to a great power coalition more than strong enough to balance against us.
All the progress Trump made to count India among our own coalition to balance China, was for nothing.
Bottom line: @JoeBiden did in fact unite parts of the world. He united the other Great Powers and Regional Hegemonies against the United States.
Together, their relative power far exceeds Team U.S.A.
On the topic of "stabilizing" the world?
Perhaps an even bigger failure.
Many of the experts who were right about how this would play out now believe we're the closest we've been to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Six decades ago.
But voters never got a real chance to weigh their options. @debates betrayed them, canceled the FP debate.
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Nobody outside of a tiny minority of elitists and elitist wannabes support laws like the one in Vermont that say "students can play sports and use the locker room corresponding to their [identified] gender".
"I don’t want a biological man changing with me" is a normal sentiment.
[Blake] "Allen says that the dispute started when the trans student made an inappropriate comment while members of the volleyball team were getting changed."
She doesn't want a biological man watching her undress, so that's harassment and bullying.
REPs should run hard on this.
Every single day we hear Republicans bitch and moan about suburban women.
How about they start with advocating for their daughters who are being forced to change in locker rooms in front of biological males, and are being robbed from athletic opportunities and achievements?
The more that comes out over time, the more proud I am that we @BigDataPoll were not afraid to research this subject and deliver obviously accurate results to the public re: what we found.
I only regret we couldn't ask about specific conditions consistent w/ CDC classifications.
Reason being, the CDC didn't classify certain conditions as "mild", "moderate" or "severe" re: adverse effects.
Seriousness was determined by how those side effects interfered with daily activity, not by condition.
E.g. Ranging from mild that did NOT to severe that prevented.
Same goes for FDA literature we found at the time and to which we referred in the interest of being consistent with the nomenclature and discourse in public health.
The third paragraph makes a patently false statement.
"Since Donald Trump’s unexpected 2016 victory, pre-election polls have consistently understated support for Republican candidates, compared to the votes ultimately cast."
Polls in 2014 understated REP support, significantly.
Charles Franklin, the director of the Marquette Law School Poll, who is interviewed for the article despite blowing several consecutive elections, made a statement that shows he does not have a clue how to fix his polling errors.
That statements is as follows...
“The troubling part is how much of that is unique to when Donald Trump is on the ballot, versus midterms when he is not on the ballot.”
That statement tells me, as someone who hasn't blown elections, Charles Franklin, the director of the Marquette Law School Poll, is clueless.
This attempt to protect Stacey Abrams is expected from Democratic activists, just not from the WaPo fact-checking chief.
Though I suppose there’s an argument to be made that they are one in the same.
A fetal heartbeat is not a “misnomer”. It is beating, it’s just not developed.
It is the logic Kessler employs to bail out Abrams that is used to justify abortion even up to the final month.
If we don’t recognize babies with organs and appendages that aren’t fully developed into what we recognize in ourselves, then we can justify ending their lives.
Listen to Talk 96.3 / 103.7 at 8:30am EST. I’ll be joing Patrick Johnson and we’ll be discussing the midterm elections!
The North Carolina Police Benevolent Association endorsed @TedBuddNC after backing former NC State Supreme Court chief justice @CheriBeasleyNC in her judicial elections.
NCPBA President David Rose specifically cited the impact the issue of illegal immigration has had on crime.
“Ted Budd understands the risks and dangers law enforcement officers face every day here in NC, or at the US Southern border, which now impacts all 100 counties in NC,” Rose stated in a press release announcing the endorsement.
They are asking us to be suspicious of forecasts claiming REPs have roughly the same chance of taking the House than those forecasts have to Hillary to win the presidency in 2016.
Folks, just when I though Nate Cohen and others couldn’t get more hackish/shillish…
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Nothing about 2016 other than the polls suggested DEMs would hold the WH. It’s extremely rare fundamentally for a party to hold three terms.
However, this is a first term incumbent midterm, in which only one modern in-party power gained seats.