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Jul 12 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve.

Maybe we should cover Trump's lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/183784…
The new Marist poll also finds that 56 percent say Trump lacks the character to be president.

Dishonesty is surely part of that. WaPo found that Trump told 30,000 lies/distortions as president. @ddale8 described his lies at the debate as "staggering." 2/

newrepublic.com/article/183784…
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I'd like to suggest a crucial distinction, one between "mental" unfitness for the presidency and "temperamental" unfitness for it.

Some polls use the former language, and there Biden loses.

But when it's polled as the latter, Biden leads Trump. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/183784…
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What would it look like if media covered Trump's lying as a big strike against his temperamental fitness for the presidency?

I suggested some ideas here. See these screen caps. 4/

newrepublic.com/article/183784…

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One thing we should *not* do is cover Trump's lying as savvy or effective politics. This recent NYT example is a really grating one. 5/

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We keep hearing voter concern about age/mental unfitness is the reason the media relentlessly focuses on it. That's fine, but voters are also concerned about *temperamental* unfitness and sheer dishonesty.

Maybe it's time to cover this the same way. 6/6

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Jul 11
NEWS --> Ron Klain, a top Biden ally, acknowledges to me that polls showing Trump solidly ahead are "in the ballpark" of being right. But he insists there's still a path.

On the pod, Klain sat for 20 minutes of hard questions about Biden's way forward:
newrepublic.com/article/183675…
This is former WH chief of staff Ron Klain's first serious interview since the debate. Some highlights: I read him the latest polling that shows Biden in trouble and asked him if he acknowledges they're right. He basically concedes it is, with caveats:

newrepublic.com/article/183675…

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Kate Bedingfield, a former top adviser to Biden, tweeted that the Biden camp has not demonstrated a serious path forward. I asked Ron Klain to respond to that claim. Here's our exchange:

newrepublic.com/article/183675…

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Jul 5
NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.

"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"

Video/story here:
newrepublic.com/article/183443…
Mark Robinson yelled that "some folks need killing" as a "matter of necessity" during an extended diatribe in Lake Church in southeast North Carolina, in which he attacked a wide range of unnamed enemies.

Transcript/analysis below, video in link.

newrepublic.com/article/183443…


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Interestingly, the Pastor at Lake Church confirmed to me in an email that he and Robinson expected that the "some folks need killing" line might be "scrutinized."

Then the Pastor defended the comments.

newrepublic.com/article/183443…

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Jun 26
It's amazing that some corporate leaders are willing to support Trump for tax cuts and deregulation while shrugging about what Trump's threats to wreck democracy and the rule of law would do to the business climate. 1/

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/183147…
WH chief of staff Jeff Zients tells me he and other admin officials are making an expansive case to CEOs that a good business climate depends on stability and the rule of law. He talked to me about the case he made to the Business Roundtable recently. 2/

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Former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault has been privately arguing to executives that stability and the rule of law matter.

Notable: Chenault tells me some execs say they don't think 1/6 can happen again!

Astonishing head-in-the-sand stuff. 3/

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Jun 22
Awful: Trump just revealed that he will attack Biden over "migrant killings" at the debate later this month. It really is time to treat the Trump-MAGA use of these horrific murders to smear millions of undocumented immigrants as a big story. 1/

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/182993…
It's hard to overstate how ubiquitous the highlighting of "migrant crime" has become in right wing info spaces. Trump brings it up at rallies. MAGA lawmakers put it on T-shirts. Fox News puts mug shots on screens and highlights crimes in chyrons. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/182993…

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Right now Trump/MAGA personalities are all hyping the horrific killing of a young Maryland mom. Fox reported that the alleged killer is a "gotaway," which is supposed to indict Biden. But this actually undermines their case, as I try to explain here. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/182993…

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Jun 19
Don't overlook this: Fox News and MAGA are pushing some truly vile smears about Biden's new policy on undocumented spouses of US citizens.

Fox/MAGA are linking it to the awful murder of a young Maryland woman, allegedly by a migrant. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/182859…
There's a key tell in the Fox/MAGA attacks on Biden's policy: They all try to change the subject back to *the border.* Yet this policy is all about immigrants who have lived here for a decade or more.

I've collected some of these attacks below. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/182859…

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This is ugly stuff. Fox/MAGA personalities are linking Biden's policy to a horrific murder. RNC says the killing was done by a "BIDEN ILLEGAL." Fox is juxtaposing the new policy with footage of hordes swarming the border and even migrant mug shots. 3/

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Jun 17
On the pod, @paulkrugman is terrific on how dangerous it is that voters are forgetting the horrors of Trump's last year in office.

"Everything that should have been a disqualifying personality flaw in 2020 has gotten far worse," Krugman says.

Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/182784…
.@paulkrugman is also good on the "Trump crime wave" of 2020 and the absurdity of his lies about Biden crime.

Great line:

"We have enough data...to say that the Trump crime wave in New York is completely gone."

We covered tons of ground in today's chat:
newrepublic.com/article/182784…
.@paulkrugman and I also dig into inflation, and the deep perversity and shifting standards of voters not holding Trump accountable for the disasters of 2020 while blaming Biden for the hangover problems that came after (cc @mattyglesias).

Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/182784…
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