Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D. MT) in support of Theresa Greenfield’s (D. IA) U.S. Senate campaign: Theresa Greenfield (D. IA) I’m extremely proud of being the only working farmer in the U.S. Senate — but I’ll tell ya what, we could use another farm kid...
May 20, 2020
If you are a Republican governor who wants to cook the books on the number of coronavirus infections and deaths in your state, there are multiple methods for doing so. Place both the PCR based test with the antigen test together. The PCR test determines if the viral RNA is...
Ed Yong of The Atlantic hs a strong track record as a writer on medical issues. He has a new piece up, titled America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further and subtitled The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to...
Trump: “I was honored as the Man of the Year in Michigan… 5 or 6 years before I even thought about running for President.” x Here's my old fact check about “Man of the Year in Michigan.” Former GOP Rep. Dave Trott called me up to solve the mystery of...
Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson tweeted a response to Trump’s claim that mailing out absentee ballot applications to all voters is illegal, pointing out that a number of Republican states are doing the same thing for the primaries. Trump has threatened to withhold federal election funding from Michigan and...
Mark your calendars: Joe Biden will be a guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday, marking his fifth visit to the show and first since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee. The visit will be virtual, of course, as Biden has been doing interviews from his Delaware home. But his guest appearance will...
I received two e-mails today regarding voting by mail in my home state of Pennsylvania. First, from Governor Tom Wolf (D. PA): I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy. I wanted to send a quick update on the upcoming primary election on Tuesday, June 2,...
I was running down my usual checklist of reminders as to why I cannot vote for a Republican and the list grows daily. Bill Barr destroying the Department of Justice by subverting the rule of law, Mike Pompeo turning State Department employees into gophers and insisting on the firing of...
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D. CA), in support of Sara Gideon’s (D. ME) U.S. Senate campaign: Sara Gideon (D. ME) I’m about to ask you to contribute to Sara Gideon’s campaign to defeat Susan Collins. But first, let me explain why this...
Absentee voting, which Trump and his family utilize every year, is critical during a pandemic. However, Trump just told the states of Nevada and Michigan that he is perfectly fine with thousands suffering and dying from the coronavirus because he plans to deliberately withhold needed aid to any state that expands absentee...
Wow: On a recent call with local business leaders, Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) defended Georgia’s reopening process by comparing the risks of contracting Covid-19 to those of driving a car, indicating that calculating risk amounts to personal responsibility, according to a recording of the call obtained by Vox. “We get in an automobile, we...
Here’s the latest news out of Kentucky courtesy of Public Policy Polling: PPP’s newest Kentucky poll finds that Mitch McConnell continues to be unpopular in the state, with only 41% of voters approving of the job he’s doing to 48% who disapprove. Only 69% of Republicans approve of the job...
Last week, shock jock Howard Stern affronted a horde of MAGA dipshits when he stated the obvious: Donald Trump couldn’t care less about them. On his Sirius XM radio show, Stern said, “The oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most, love him the most” and “The people who...
Breaking news in the Washington Post: Targeting Hunter Biden, Senate panel approves subpoena for lobbying firm over Democrats’ objections A Senate committee moved Wednesday to subpoena documents related to the son of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in an escalation of GOP congressional scrutiny into Biden’s time as vice...
Recent attempts to distort COVID information in Florida are only a symptom of how GOP states will be undercounting or suppressing data. This is only part of the larger GOP project of vote suppression distorted by Trump’s ignorance of public policy. Even Rudy Giuliani has reemerged to flog Ukrainian disinformation...
Received this e-mail yesterday from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Through Pennsylvania’s first ever Vote By Mail campaign, PA Dems are building a HUGE advantage that could make all the difference this fall. To date, more than 850,000 Democrats have signed up to vote from home—relative to just 400,000 Republicans. Our 450,000+ ballot...
Likely Trump tweeted because of the haircut protest, much like his comment yesterday that Virginia needed to use the Second Amendment to protect its potatoes. https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1263087238876889090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D. IL) in support of Steve Bullock (D. MT), Cal Cunningham (D. NC) & MJ Hegar’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaigns: Thank you for continuing to stand with me in the fight to take back the Senate this fall. Today,...
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D. DE) in support of Theresa Greenfield’s campaign: Theresa Greenfield (D. IA) In the past few months, we've seen that Democrats have a real shot at flipping the Senate. One of the most important races will be in Iowa, where Democrat Theresa...
Rachel Maddow exposes a very cruel act by the President as he cuts national guard deployment by one day to avoid giving them retirement and educational benefits. Rachel Maddow exposes another Trump evil Watch full episodes here. Rachel Maddow reported the story written in Politico recently. More than 40,000 National...
Received this e-mail today from civil rights hero, Rep. John Lewis (D. GA-05), in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: Jaime Harrison (D. SC) My team just showed me an incredible new poll. Lindsey Graham is nearly tied with his Democratic opponent, Jaime Harrison. Defeating Graham is...
Let’s close out the day with some very good news out of Virginia: Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a double-digit lead over President Trump in Virginia, according to a new poll from Roanoke College released on Tuesday. The poll shows Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, with the support of a slight majority of Virginia voters...
The chaos continues as we’re only just beginning the scorched earth campaign on the way to the bunker. 167 days to go. It's May 19th, and President Trump still doesn’t have an adequate national testing strategy. — Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 19, 2020 Very old, Almost dead. 2/ This appears to...
Steve Schmidt progressively fine-tunes his critique on the president and this time he includes the president’s supporters in the Right-Wing media. The excoriation was palpable. Steve Schmidt nails the President x x YouTube Video Watch full episodes here. Steve Schmidt had some doozies in his assessment of Donald Trump in this particular...
Polls, damn polls, and probabilities. Jennifer Rubin does some wishful thinking 5+ months until Election Day. Never-Trump starts with anti-Trump.The subtext of details is whether senate flippable states also correspond to their presidential prospects. The full list of (senate) flippable states rated “toss-up” or “lean Republican” includes Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, Maine,...