Still seeing "Harris couldn't turn out millions of Biden voters," and the count in swing states says that's not true.

In Wisconsin, Harris got 37k more votes than Biden. The most votes of any Dem candidate since Obama in 2008.

She lost bc Trump added 77k more votes since 2020. She is very close to Biden 2020 raw vote in MI and PA. Had Trump just recreated his 2020 vote, he would have lost MI and PA would be too close to call still. But he added 151k votes in MI, 108k in PA.

Day two Bannon: "Jamie Raskin is going to try to steal the election on Jan. 6. They're going to say that President Trump is an insurrectionist, and we will never certify the election of an insurrectionist."

Hello from the Libertarian National Convention. Downstairs, the LP's delegates keep booing Donald Trump; upstairs, the room for the 8 pm speech has been sweetened with dozens of suburban Republicans who drove in for it. The Hilton also did Trump a solid by making Libertarian presidential candidate Lars Mapstead remove projections of his "STOP 270" slogan - pictures of Trump/Biden, a plan to deny either an Electoral College win - from the lobby. (This acc'ing to Mapstead.)

Andrew Yang in Hanover, to support Dean Phillips.

“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?”

Turley, as usual, is wrong.

Nov. 11: Raffensperger starts audit
Nov. 19: Audit finishes, Biden wins
Nov. 20: Election certified for Biden
Nov. 21: Trump requests recount
Dec. 7: Biden wins recount
Dec. 14: Electors vote
Jan. 2: Trump "find votes" call

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1694883115271929905

Turley gets more details wrong about stuff I've covered than any other pundit - impressive guy

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/…

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

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.

Good morning. Ignore the empty seats, there a big line outside

Pelosi's correct that you didn't see this agita about Cochran, Byrd, Kennedy, etc. But the context is that the left watched RBG hand SCOTUS to conservatives for a generation. That's changed things; see how @brianefallon et al pressured Breyer to retire.

https://twitter.com/KevinLiao_/status/1646514907318468611

There's fancam politics, where you see individual actors as heroes/icons, and there's actual politics, where you put people in place to use power and redistribute resources. Fancam politics took a hit with the "yaaaaaas RBG" stuff.

Rs had a similar problem in 2018... slim 51-49 majority, Thad Cochran was ailing. Their solution: Cochran resigned early and Mississippi's governor appointed a reliable R vote in his place.

https://twitter.com/ohJuliatweets/status/1645549298820562944

"We can't confirm judges because an elderly senator is sick" is a pretty common problem! See also the near-supermajority Dems had in 2009, which kept falling below 60 bc Kennedy and Byrd were sick.

Hello from Nashville. State Rep. Justin Pearson, one of the three Dems facing an expulsion vote today, walking between state troopers and the protesters supporting him.

I'm waiting for one WI county to finish its count, but Janet Protasiewicz (D) overall doing better than Biden in the places where >80% precincts are done.

Dodge: Biden 34%, Janet 37%
Jefferson: Biden 42%, Janet 49%
La Crosse: Biden 56%, Janet 64% From WI Dem source: "This is looking extremely good. Dan Kelly’s path to victory is shrinking like Ant-Man."

Charlie Kirk just arrived at the RNC meeting. Okay, I'll do an RNC chair thread here. The meeting starts at 10 am PT; the vote will come after other business, probably within an hour. It's a secret ballot, with the 168 voting members/proxies putting paper slips in a box that'll be counted inside the room.

The RNC winter meeting is down the road at the Waldorf; the closest thing to a public RNC chair debate is here at Residence Inn. Mike Lindell in person, Caroline Wren speaking for Harmeet Dhillon, empty chair for Ronna McDaniel. Wren says the left has been more effective by standing up nonprofits to do work DNC doesn’t do. “We have to fight the war they are fighting. It doesn’t mean hoarding our money in the party committees. It means investing in people like @ScottPresler.”

For clarity, typed up the quote from my tape.

"It's interesting, right? You've got [FOP Lodge 7 president] John Catanzara on one side, [CTU president] Stacy Davis Gates on the other side. Interesting. Two sides of the same coin."

https://twitter.com/HeatherCherone/status/1616976132418461697

Lightfoot's point was that she was optimistic she could work with the unions if they had different leaders. "Hope springs eternal." Hard to do it when "that kind of leadership is there."

Back on campaign trail… see if you can figure out where based on the clues in this photo “The reason I talk so much about equity and inclusion is that I know what the world looks like when you don’t have it.”

Definitely overheated. Delaying the speaker vote for days didn't affect most peoples' lives at all.

Only hurt Rs insofar as few Americans knew who McCarthy was before last week, and now he's the guy whose power depends on MTG and Trump

https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1612573378224742405

Like, think of how squeamish Dems are about who they associate with - imagine Pelosi clinching the 2021 speaker vote and taking time to thank the most unpopular people in her party for bringing it home.

The story in PA is crazy.
1) Dems win 102-101 majority in House
2) Dem in safe seat dies
3) Dems elected LG/U.S. Rep resign
4) Ds set special elections
5) Rs challenge that bc Ds won't have majority in January
5) R running for speaker of 101-99 House

https://twitter.com/StephenJ_Caruso/status/1604992250886225921

It gets weirder! Jan. 31 special election in a safe R Senate seat. R candidate is a state rep, so if she wins, Rs go down to 100 seats. But if Rs prevent Ds from holding quick special elections, they could control the House (which they lost) until May. post-gazette.com/news/politics-…

I’m at the @approject holiday gala, where @sbalist’s Marjorie Dannenfelser accepted the Human Dignity award for her role in ending Roe.

“We must ensure that the presidential primary stage is filled with Republicans vying to be the most pro-life candidate.” Up next: the Profile in Courage award for Abby Martinez. washingtonexaminer.com/news/mother-of…

Folks...

https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1594186517400145920

(I will thread my own stuff under this "folks" tweet.) Haley singles out the Rs who won big: Brian Kemp, Ron DeSantis, Kim Reynolds. Talks about her own PAC's donations around country:

"We raised $10 million that went straight into those candidates' campaign accounts."