Even if you don't agree with where he lands, it's worth reading @ezraklein's Biden piece, especially since a LOT of Democrats share his exact concern: yes, Biden's a good man, has been a great president, and isn't too old for the job. But because he looks and sounds so much older than when he ran in 2020, he hasn't yet been able to convince most voters that he's the right choice for 2024. The challenge is, we just don't know - and will likely never know - if nominating Biden is riskier than letting Democratic activists and insiders pick a lesser-known and potentially weaker general election candidate at the convention with three months to go.

I find myself wishing our anti-Trump coalition would spend just a bit less time yelling about political coverage that shows no signs of changing and more time telling people how their lives would be different under a Trump presidency vs. a Biden presidency "Honey, did you see this thing in the news about Biden being too old? Must be more important than this other thing about Trump shitting on our NATO allies because it's above the fold on the print edition that no one reads anymore" - a swing voter who doesn't exist

I’m tweeting about this absolute nonsense against my better judgment because I’m seeing it rub off on way too many smart people.

1) Most Democratic ads and speeches are currently about GOP extremism and abortion. 2) Other ads draw economic contrasts with a plutocratic GOP in order to speak to most people’s top concerns, inflation and gas prices. It is incredibly patronizing and politically obtuse to call people’s financial struggles “chief news distractions.”

@elonmusk Hey Elon! I know you’re concerned about voting for a party that supports division and hate, so I just wanted to make sure you’re aware of a few updates:

1) Here’s the ex-GOP Governor of Missouri who’s now running for U.S. Senate:

https://twitter.com/EricGreitens/status/1538876823978713089

@elonmusk Here’s Mayra Flores, whom you recently voted for, telling her followers to buy more guns just three days after the January 6th attack on the Capitol (as you know from your Q&A with Twitter employees, she’s also tweeted QAnon hashtags):

https://twitter.com/MayraFlores2022/status/1347953027341279232

It sounds like Manchin wants to wait for a CBO score so he can say that he voted for a bill that didn't increase the deficit and long-term debt. That presser also added support to my theory that the problem with Joe Manchin is that Joe Manchin isn't all that bright.

If he really wanted the House to pass infrastructure, he could've sounded much more positive on Build Back Better.

Masks are good but not nearly as protective as vaccines. If @lapublichealth actually wants to get more people vaccinated and slow the spread of Covid, why not mandate that everyone in a public setting must provide proof of vaccination? For people saying it’s time consuming for businesses: it requires flashing a QR code on your phone, like people do with their IDs at any bar or restaurant or a million other places.

I won't pretend that Democrats have a lot of good options here, but pretending Joe Manchin didn't write that op-ed and then telling everyone "see you in the fall" doesn't seem like a winning strategy.

Why not try this:

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1402259843105406984

1) Maybe a few folks in Congress can...work a few extra nights, get the John Lewis VRA ready, put it on the Senate floor for a vote, and show Manchin that he still can't get 10 Republicans for his preferred bill.

A running list of Republican officials who haven’t deleted or corrected their tweets about what has now been proven to be a completely fabricated conspiracy from the trash at the @nypost:

The RNC Chairwoman

https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1386675474802352137

@TomCottonAR

https://twitter.com/tomcottonar/status/1386424009839894528

Our NEW AZ poll on voting rights:

- 57% support HR1
- 60%+ opposed to nearly all the GOP suppression bills
- 46% say nuke the filibuster to pass HR1, 42% say keep it
- 27-44% favorability rating for @SenatorSinema (!), driven largely by unhappy Dems

crooked.com/articles/polle… Digging in to our new @crookedmedia/@ChangePolls poll of Arizona, there's majority, bipartisan support for HR1:

How unbelievably out of touch do you have to be to whine like this?

Millions of people are sick and struggling. Biden presented a plan to deal with it and reached out to Republicans. They’ve responded with process gripes and hurt feelings.

Grow up.

politico.com/news/2021/01/2… What don’t Republicans like about the plan?

Do they think people don’t deserve $1400 checks?

Do they think we should accept hundreds of thousands of state and local layoffs? Is it child care assistance that offends them? Paid leave that pisses them off?

Tell us!

I can’t tell who hates this Farewell Address more, me or Trump. Four years and Stephen Miller never once tried to capture the voice of the person he was writing for. It’s always like Trump is reading somebody else’s speech on the prompter for the first time.

The Articles of Impeachment should begin before Trump’s rally:

1) The President said the election he lost was fraudulent and rigged. Not a single Democratic or Republican election official agreed. Not a single liberal or conservative judge agreed. 2) Trump then pressured multiple Republican officials to break the law, violate their oath of office, and overturn the election - election officials, state legislators, Members of Congress, and his own Vice President.

Again, two straightforward options if both Rs vote against certification:

1) Dems seek a court order to certify, which the courts have granted in the past

2) Whitmer can replace the R board members who are refusing to do their job

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1330588907604480001

And again, if for some reason the courts fail here, and the MI legislature decides to send Trump electors, the law says that the executive’s (Whitmer’s) slate of electors should be recognized by Congress (where a majority in both houses now recognize Biden’s win).

What the Michigan and national Republican Parties are asking for here is against Michigan law. An audit cannot be conducted until the election is certified.

https://twitter.com/migop/status/1330175605787201538

From Michigan’s top election official:

https://twitter.com/jocelynbenson/status/1329907638243651584

Watching Jason Miller on MTP: they’re actually going with “You can’t just hide in your basement, you have to go confront this virus” as a message. The Trump campaign’s closing message is, literally, “You’ve got to go out there and confront this virus - BY CONTRACTING IT.”

What did we find? A thread:

1. These voters are highly motivated to show up in 2020

2. They generally don’t like Donald Trump

3. They don’t really know Joe Biden (41% of undecideds have NO opinion of him), though he’s doing better with them than Hillary (49-37% vs. 35-30%)

https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/1306602155663450121

What do these voters believe?

1. The economy is by far the top issue with Trump voters AND undecided voters. Biden voters care about Covid response, civil rights, and health care.

2. Biden and Trump are tied on managing the economic recovery, Biden leads everywhere else.

For the Nothing Matters crowd:

- 23% say opinion changed of Trump’s COVID response because of Woodward tape, including 15% of Trump voters

- 23% of indys and 6% of Trump voters say troop comments increased support for Biden

- Biden goes from +6 to +10

news.yahoo.com/new-yahoo-news… I will say: it’s one poll, the shifts are small, and the effects of stories and controversies like these are often fleeting. But in a close election where more than 150 million people might cast a ballot, none of us have any idea what might change certain minds.

Good morning! I just wanted to take a second to thank our @PodSaveAmerica and @crookedmedia community for what you've already done to help win this election. 1) You've raised $1.3 million through our Unify or Die fund with @swingleft - money we'll be giving to our friends at the Biden-Harris campaign next week.

No more important context for the negotiations on Capitol Hill than this story. Take a few minutes to read it.
washingtonpost.com/local/coronavi… Reading it will make you even more infuriated to hear Republican politicians push the false (according to multiple studies) talking point that an extra $600 per week is somehow preventing people from going back to jobs that don’t actually exist.

Joe Biden should announce that the first bill he’ll introduce as President is the John Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2021, a law that would guarantee every American the right to vote and the right to equal representation.

It would restore the Voting Rights Act, but also ensure: 1) Every American is registered to vote (through Automatic Voter Registration, and that includes those who’ve been incarcerated)

“Stick with Trump to avoid dystopia” is the most darkly hilarious campaign message I could possibly imagine.

https://twitter.com/michaelscherer/status/1284520212960890888

“Vote for Trump, unless you want the times we’re living through to disappear forever!”

“Vote for Trump unless you want the kind of country where you can leave your homes and visit your families!”

“Vote for Trump unless double digit unemployment isn’t your thing!”