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National Journal sez about

artappraiser — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 12:13:45 +0000

In reply to 'There's just not any discipline': GOP chafes at Trump's closing pitch

National Journal sez about the Senate:

NEW Against the Grain: “Senate Democrats on Verge of Winning Back Majority”

“The only silver lining for Republicans: They’re clawing back support in red state battlegrounds, making it increasingly likely the Senate will be narrowly divided next year.”https://t.co/RzwiwRfomm
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) October 25, 2020

edit to add an interesting excerpt that Josh points out in another tweet (lots of 3rd party voters in Alaska!)

“An outright majority of voters approved of Trump’s job performance in Montana (52%), South Carolina (52 percent), and Kansas (51 percent). In Alaska, Trump’s approval rating was 47 percent, but he led Biden by six points because of third party voters”https://t.co/RzwiwRfomm
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) October 25, 2020

One of the ads Jaime Harrison

artappraiser — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 01:01:32 +0000

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One of the ads Jaime Harrison bought with the donation haul:

.@LindseyGrahamSC is always waiting to see which way the wind will blow. His time is up on Nov. 3rd. pic.twitter.com/x7SS3Pt3z1
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) October 24, 2020

edit to add: video of drive-in rally tweeted by chairman of "Lindsey Must Go"--watch with sound on!

We can feel it Jaime and I know Lindsey Graham is terrified!! 10 days!!! LFG South Carolina! pic.twitter.com/qIw5VeVJyG
— Stephen Groves (@stephengrovesjr) October 24, 2020

As the senate GOP grapples

artappraiser — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:54:05 +0000

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As the senate GOP grapples with the president dragging them down, he essentially says he doesn’t care @jdawsey1⁩ “There are a couple senators I can’t really get involved in. I just can’t do it. You lose your soul if you do. I can’t help some of them.” https://t.co/5OkG0xYlqx
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 24, 2020

quickly rising to top of the

artappraiser — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:37:41 +0000

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quickly rising to top of the charts @ WaPo: Trump privately tells donors it would be ‘very tough’ for GOP to hold Senate

By Josh Dawsey and Rachel Bade, Oct. 24, 2020 at 4:31 p.m. EDT

President Trump privately told donors this past week that it will be “very tough” for Republicans to keep control of the Senate in the upcoming election because some of the party’s senators are candidates he cannot support.

“I think the Senate is tough actually. The Senate is very tough,” Trump said at a fundraiser Thursday at the Nashville Marriott, according to an attendee. “There are a couple senators I can’t really get involved in. I just can’t do it. You lose your soul if you do. I can’t help some of them. I don’t want to help some of them.”

The attendee shared the president’s words on the condition of anonymity as the event was a closed-door gathering. It was held before the last presidential debate between Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.

The president — in a sentiment not shared by many of his party’s top officials and strategists — said he instead thinks the Republicans “are going to take back the House.” And many strategists involved in Senate races say the party’s chances at keeping the chamber are undermined by the president’s unscripted, divisive rhetoric and his low poll numbers in key states [....]

Wow Lindsay Graham is finally

artappraiser — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 06:48:21 +0000

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Wow Lindsey Graham is finally getting payback for his flipflopping in spades from all sides, not a friend left in this world, it seems:

Lou Dobbs is telling South Carolina residents not to vote for Lindsey Graham pic.twitter.com/vQ67BZZN6P
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) October 23, 2020

Don't think it's got worse

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:01:51 +0000

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Don't think it's got worse actually

I've been working on a piece charting the worst indiscretions of Trump's presidency and I'd completely forgotten about the speech he gave to the Boy Scouts Jamboree in which he talked about a friend who had orgies on a boat https://t.co/D61Ku10sAC
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) October 23, 2020

In the debate tonight, it

moat — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 22:26:04 +0000

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In the debate tonight, it would be great to have Biden do a "there you go again" treatment of the toxic talking points.

Just drive by them with something like: "You are obsessed with this part of the past but cannot say what your amazing health care plan is that is supposed to blow Obamacare out of the water."

or What I learned from time

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 21:53:28 +0000

In reply to On the road with Donnie

or What I learned from time spent with Narcissus Mad Man Madcap The Donald Traveling Show. Best insights:

Trump has an almost mystical belief in the power of his live events to affect the campaign

Trump has largely accomplished what he set out to do in 2015. After he won the presidency, CBS’ Lesley Stahl asked Trump why he attacks the press. Stahl recalled during a talk in 2018 that Trump responded, “You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.” Trump set about creating a closed information ecosystem where he defines for his supporters what is true and what isn’t. It seemed ludicrous to me at the time that this was possible. And frankly, sometimes the incessant fact-checking of Trump seems pedantic.

Trump is occasionally lanced by outsiders who don’t realize the context of a long-running gag

As the likelihood of Trump losing the election has grown, the quantity of misinformation has increased exponentially. Trump’s greatest frustration is that this sealed info bubble that he has created is no longer amplified by traditional media. Just in the last few days Trump has described the press as “dumb bastards,” “sleaze,” “crooked,” and “real garbage.” But at a Trump rally, the most privileged spot is reserved for national TV networks, which are afforded a riser in front of what the campaign seems to regard as the second-class media outlets that cover local news. Fox has started carrying the events live again, but other networks rarely do, which enrages Trump, who, even before his fundraising troubles, has needed the larger audience that cable TV brings him.

On the road with Donnie

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:49:41 +0000

In reply to 'There's just not any discipline': GOP chafes at Trump's closing pitch

On the road with Donnie
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/22/two-weeks-inside-trump...

But but but Senator Cornyn,

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:19:55 +0000

In reply to 'There's just not any discipline': GOP chafes at Trump's closing pitch

But but but Senator Cornyn, on coronavirus there's no plan to run on, actually the hide head in sand technique seems to be breaking just before the election as the delusions break and the entire country turns red zone and every day you lose more senior voters and their children have to bury them without a funeral and the whole extended family is forced to think about it:

Trump and Scott Atlas keep insisting their plan isn't herd immunity but instead protecting seniors while letting others go about their lives.

But data from @kff show that there's been no real slowdown in case totals or deaths at long-term care facilities. https://t.co/vRNS5NP1r6
— Philip Bump (@pbump) October 22, 2020

Fiery stuff from SDakota’s largest paper:

“Calls for firm and consistent leadership have gone ignored in favor of the governor’s ‘positive pants’ rhetoric and anti-mask talking points.

We’re not actually going insane. We’re just frustrated as hell.” https://t.co/ztBWTfh7bF
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) October 22, 2020

And that's without even getting into the Republican "plan" alternative to Obamacare.