Powerful ad by Biden
Getting the Covid band back together again. Hope is back!!
Oh, and no mask.
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Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter Caroline on Voting for Joe Biden | Vanity Fair
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Surge of early voting could combat any Trump planned shenagans about the count.
A few months ago, the reigning fear was that President Trump might be able to exploit delays in the mail service to try to steal the election by pushing for the invalidation of millions of late-arriving mail ballots. Trump himself all but threatened to do this, and with major mail delays setting in because of reforms pushed by the postmaster general, it seemed plausible enough.
But, in a surprise, we’re seeing an enormous outpouring of early voting right now that sets up at least the possibility of averting any serious disasters on and just after Election Day.
And at least to some degree, we may have Trump’s threats to thank for it.
The Post has a new piece that vividly details the extraordinary scope of early voting we’re seeing:
With less than three weeks to go before Nov. 3, roughly 15 million Americans have already voted in the fall election, reflecting an extraordinary level of participation despite barriers erected by the coronavirus pandemic — and setting a trajectory that could result in the majority of voters casting ballots before Election Day for the first time in U.S. history.
Indeed, Michael McDonald, who runs the United States Elections Project, estimates that we could be up to as many as 40 million people having voted by the end of next week.
“This is a completely different election than anything we’ve seen in the past,” McDonald told me. “The numbers are off the charts.” The great majority of early votes have been by mail, McDonald noted.
Much of this early voting is driven by torqued up energy among Democrats, per The Post:
Of the roughly 3.5 million voters who have cast ballots in six states that provide partisan breakdowns, registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by roughly 2 to 1, according to a Washington Post analysis of data in Florida, Iowa, Maine, Kentucky, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Additionally, those who have voted include disproportionate numbers of Black voters and women, according to state data — groups that favor former vice president Joe Biden over President Trump in recent polls.
Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean Democrats are more likely to win, since they could be getting votes that would otherwise have come in later anyway, but it certainly can’t hurt in that regard.
What’s critical is that this makes it less likely that Trump can get away with any of his planned shenanigans.
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So, in other words, Trump confirms that the New York Times Trump Taxes scoop was real and legitimate, and at the same time that he is a total threat in the White House because he owes a boatload of money to unknown interests.
Got it.
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Trumpworld is making a big deal about Biden being asked a question by an “Obama speechwriter”… only that’s not the case. The person wrote speeches for the Small Business Administration while Obama was in office, and also while Bush was.
The real story? Biden got better ratings than Trump.
THAT is why the big orange idiot is so whiny.
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Michael Bloomberg is putting out the money he promised to help the Dems for the Latino, specifically in Florida.
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the Latino Victory Fund are launching a $2.4 million digital ad campaign Thursday aimed at encouraging Latino voters in Florida to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
The ad campaign’s mission is to engage Hispanic voters through “a culturally competent multi-platform media strategy — reaching voters where they spend their time and get their information,” according to a press release on Bloomberg’s website.
The campaign comes just weeks before the Nov. 3 election. Latinos, a critical voting bloc in the battleground state, will have an impact on which candidate will snag 29 electoral votes.
“Voter turnout among Latinos in Florida could mean the difference for a Biden-Harris win in Florida,” Bloomberg said in a statement.
The Latino Victory Fund, a progressive PAC, said its goal with the campaign is to ensure all Latino voters have either registered to vote by mail or know when and where they will cast their vote on Election Day.
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It’s Go Time…Biden Harris Campaign puts out ad for NFL spot with a Beastie Boys clip special
Oh look. Trump’s DNI John Ratcliffe, a partisan hack so partisan he stopped delivering election security updates to CONGRESS until outrage forced him to start again and spent his entire time in Congress under Trump spreading insane conspiracy theories, claims that the faked Hunter Biden e-mails from three different laptops are real.
Sure, John.
Meanwhile, feds are RIGHT now investigating that whole thing.
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This is from a Fox News Viewers poll which asks about who should be protesting.
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Some campaign messaging from Trump…essentially, “I’m way beyond hearing from Fauci, the idiot and it’s old news.”
WTF
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Fox News Passed on Hunter Biden Laptop Story Over Credibility Concerns
White House was warned Giuliani was target of Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to Trump
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3 reasons why the final presidential debate (still) might not happen
On Thursday night at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will share a debate stage for the last time before the November 3 election.
Maybe.
Why only “maybe?” Well, several reasons actually.
1) Biden said last week Trump needed to test negative for Covid-19 on the day of the debate or he wouldn’t show up.
Here’s the exchange with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos at a town hall on Thursday:
Stephanopoulos : “Will you demand that President Trump take a test that day and that it be negative before you debate?”
Biden : “Yeah. By the way, before I came up here, I took another test, I’ve been taking it every day, the deep test, you know, the one, they go in both. Because I wanted to be able to — if I had not passed that test, I didn’t want to come here and not expose anybody.”
Trump, since contracting and then seemingly recovering from the coronavirus, has been very, very cagey about how often he is tested, how he is tested and when he tested negative after his initial diagnosis. As have the people closest to him.
Check out this back-and-forth on Sunday between CNN’s Jake Tapper and Lara Lea Trump, the President’ daughter-in-law and a member of his campaign:
Tapper : Does the President promise to release a negative test before he goes on stage with Joe Biden on Thursday, so that we can all see it?
L. Trump : Again, I – I don’t work in the White House.
Tapper : No, you work for the campaign.
L. Trump : You will have to ask the President that directly. He just had Covid. He has now been cleared of Covid, so that means he’s had a negative test. I’m sure he will have another one before he goes to this debate.
2) The Commission on Presidential Debates is set to meet Monday afternoon to discuss potential rule changes in advance of Thursday’s debate.
Here’s the thing: We just learned about this meeting on Monday morning! Less than three full days before the debate! Which is, well, kind of last-minute!
Remember that the day after the debacle of the first debate between Trump and Biden in late September, the Commission released a statement that said this: “Last night’s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.”
Which, yes, makes sense. After all, Trump’s incessant interrupting – of both Biden and debate moderator Chris Wallace – made the entire thing utterly unwatchable. (Worth noting: Trump’s debate performance also badly damaged the incumbent, as his poll numbers dropped even lower in its aftermath.)
Now, it’s possible, as one commission source told CNN’s Dan Merica on Monday, that no changes are made to the rules of the debate. But if the commission does make changes, it’s uniquely possible that either one side or the other – most likely the Trump side, if I am being honest – rejects those rules. (We didn’t have a second debate last week because Trump refused the Commission’s demand that it be held virtually out of concern that he was still infectious with Covid-19.)
Let’s say, for example, that the Commission comes out of this meeting and says that any candidate who interrupts their opponents more than five times will have their mic cut off when the other person is answering for the remainder of the debate. That might make for a more edifying debate, but there is a zero percent chance Trump and his team would go forward with a debate under those rules.
3) Trump is Trump
In the words of Kevin Garnett: “Anything is possible!!!”
In Trump we have the least predictable president ever. He is a showman and a provocateur first and foremost. He does things to elicit a reaction. And that’s especially true right now as Trump faces the likelihood that he is going to lose in 15 days.
There is literally nothing that I can’t fathom Trump trying between now and November 3 in order to win – or to make people believe that everything was rigged against him. And Trump’s campaign has already attacked the Commission, which is chaired by former Republican National Committee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf, as “swamp monsters” and partisan, anti-Trump[ers]."
Do you really think, given all we know about Trump and all he and his campaign have said about the debates and the organization that runs them, that him walking away from the debate at the last minute is an impossibility?
Running counter to all of this is the fact that Trump is in no position to turn away an audience in the tens of millions given his current place in the race. There simply will be no better or other chance for the incumbent to change the arc of the race tan Thursday’s debate.
Of course, that assumes Trump is more focused on doing what it would take to win this race and less on scoring political points to make the case to his aggrieved base that he (and they) were cheated out of a win.
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Another first ever endorsement:
Elect Joe Biden. Reject Donald Trump.
Our View: In 2016, we broke tradition in urging you not to vote for Trump. Now we’re making our first presidential endorsement. We hope it’s our last.
And Michael Steele:
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This one is hard to fathom…
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Here’s another powerful ad from The Lincoln Project with Lt. Col Vindman and his wife speaking out against this administration for their unpatriotic acts. She talks about the suffering they had to endure because of T’s callous remarks.
Video ad
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Ad directed to PA, which is a close battleground state from The Lincoln Project - keeps in the Mourning in America theme.
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