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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President Trump’s sprawling political operation has raised well over $1 billion since he took the White House in 2017 — and set a lot of it on fire.
Trump bought a $10-million Super Bowl ad when he didn’t yet have a challenger. He tapped his political organization to cover exorbitant legal fees related to his impeachment. Aides made flashy displays of their newfound wealth — including a fleet of luxury vehicles purchased by Brad Parscale, his former campaign manager.
Meanwhile, a web of limited liability companies hid more than $310 million in spending from disclosure, records show.
Now, just two weeks out from the election, some campaign aides privately acknowledge they are facing difficult spending decisions at a time when Democratic nominee Joe Biden has flooded the airwaves with advertising. That has put Trump in the position of needing to do more of his signature rallies as a substitute during the COVID-19 pandemic while relying on an unproven theory that he can turn out supporters who are infrequent voters at historic levels.
“They spent their money on unnecessary overhead, lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous activity by the campaign staff and vanity ads way too early,” said Mike Murphy, a veteran Republican consultant who advised John McCain and Jeb Bush and is an outspoken Trump critic. “You could literally have 10 monkeys with flamethrowers go after the money, and they wouldn’t have burned through it as stupidly.”
For Trump, it’s a familiar, if not welcome, position. In 2016, he was vastly outraised by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton but still pulled off a come-from-behind win. This time around, though, he was betting on a massive cash advantage to negatively define Biden and to defend his own record.
Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien insisted money was no issue. “We have more than sufficient air cover, almost three times as much as 2016,” he told reporters Monday.
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USA Today endorses Biden
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The Lincoln Project has written an Op-Ed piece directed to the remaining (and multiples) of Republicans who are beyond loyal to Trump, and urges them to stop this enabling. Time is now to defend country over party.
Republicans Reed Galen, Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson are co-founders of the Lincoln Project. Stuart Stevens is a senior adviser to the Lincoln Project.
This is for the many men and women in Washington with whom we have worked over the past 30-plus years. Some of you hold elected office. Some are officials in the Trump administration. Many of you are members of the consultant and lobbyist class.
In two weeks, the most consequential election of our generation will come, and your time for choosing will arrive. As Republicans, will you stand with President Trump, or will you stand with, and stand up for, America? Will you protect democracy or protect a single person and his family?
We’re not merely talking about your vote.
We’re talking about what comes next.
Never before in U.S. history has an incumbent president refused in advance to accept the outcome of an election. In the days ahead, your party may call upon you to support efforts by a White House that refuses to transfer power after a loss at the polls. The weapons won’t be tanks but thousands of lawyers backed by an attorney general who works for the president, not the people.
This effort will succeed only if a Republican Party power structure offers blind allegiance to one man instead of the republic. Every Republican elected official, staffer, consultant, operative and sympathizer will face a choice: my party or my country?
To do nothing is a choice. Passivity may seem easy at first. Soon, though, what you’ll be asked to do to remain in favor will surpass your moral boundaries. By then, it will be too late.
And, by then, it will be anything but easy. Remember why you came to Washington. You came to serve, whether as an intern, young staffer or the most senior official in a government, with great hope and idealism. With time, all passions cool, but we hope that you have not, at your core, lost the beliefs that first brought you to the nation’s capital.
Trump, though, was never in anyone’s plan. From the moment he descended the golden escalator, you’ve seen him for what he is: a boor, incapable and unfit for office. His victory was an unwelcome shock. The Washington — the nation — you knew would soon be gone — none of us knew just how far gone.
Since taking office, Trump’s behavior has deteriorated. His contempt for the laws, traditions, rules and norms became breathtakingly evident. Hushed conversations over lunches and dinners became recitations of his latest outrage.
But what did you do about it? Nothing.
You know what Republican elected officials have said about Trump behind closed doors from the start because you are often — maybe always — behind those doors. You’ve seen the haunted look in a colleague’s or a boss’s eyes after a meeting with the unstable, unfit man who is our president. You know in your heart that Trump should not be president for another day.
We understand what we are asking: to choose between doing what’s best for the country and doing what’s best for your bank account. Many of you have “kept your powder dry,” waiting for the right moment to say or do something — preserving all the while the little transactional encounters that can mean the difference between failure and success.
We know what you stand to lose from taking a stand. Your phone calls and texts may go unreturned. The receptions, parties and dates on the social calendar may be outside your reach. You may be ostracized. You may lose business.
And it will be worth it.
To believe that your life or your business will continue as you’ve known them during four more years of the current administration is to close your eyes. You know what Trump is doing to the country you love.
As conservatives, we long argued that culture was the soul of America. We were right, but it is Trump who now assaults our nation’s soul.
The time for choosing is at hand. Will you choose a republic or an autocracy?
Some of you have chosen. You are already at work on this lawless and amoral project, litigating in the states to suppress the vote. Many of you are planning to replace slates of electors to win another term for Trump. Many of you are planning to snatch an election victory from the people by any means necessary.
Think hard before you continue.
Trump is collapsing. His campaign is leaderless and broke. His failures have cost nearly 220,000 Americans their lives and tens of millions their jobs. His instability is increasing; you see it every day.
Endangered members of the Senate are running from him as they finally realize that Trump will be their undoing. What are you waiting for?
None of us can choose history. History chooses us. If you ever wondered what side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge you would have stood on, this is your chance to choose. Those who went before faced dogs and fire hoses, and yet they did not flinch.
In war and peace, Americans have displayed unparalleled courage in the face of evil and injustice. It doesn’t take courage to stand up to Trump; it takes courage to stand up for your country. That is the legacy we inherited and are called to defend.
That is the choice. America or Trump? Now is the time to stand with the country you love.
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Effective ad by Biden…very nostalgic of a place in time that most Americans want to feel - hope.
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