Ted Cruz: Election 'could be a bloodbath of Watergate proportions' for Republicans

Wolfman Jack’s weird vestigial twin is worried about the election. He’s very concerned that the guy who called his wife ugly and implied his dad killed JFK might lose — … Read More

MS-Sen: Running Scared, Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) Backtracks On Debating Mike Espy (D)

Doesn’t sound like a safe incumbent to me: x NEW from me tonight at 10 on @WJTV . Sen. @Cindyhydesmith won't commit to debating @MikeEspyMS  at this time. Take a … Read More

The Future of a Delusion: propaganda and negative partisanship as Trump is +0.6% in RCP poll

Still about reality checks, considering that its still about GOTV and 3 November. Note that RCP is now showing a slight lead for Trump of +0.6% in some swing states, comparing … Read More

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D. MI) Is All In To Punish The MI GOP By Helping Flip The State House Blue

Sorry I missed this. Received this e-mail yesterday from Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D. MI): Leadership matters. Since the beginning, I’ve had to make tough decisions that took us from the … Read More

GA-Sen A & B: New Poll Shows A Toss Up Between Ossoff (D) & Perdue (R), Warnock (D) Leading

Here’s the latest news today out of Georgia courtesy of WSB-TV/Landmark Communications: Perdue leads with 47 percent of the vote compared to Ossoff’s 45.5 percent. Six percent remain undecided. The … Read More

Wisconsin Democratic Party Launches GOTV Phone Bank Weekend To Help Joe Biden Flip The State Blue

Apologies for missing this. Received this e-mail yesterday from the Wisconsin Democratic Party: Are you as fired up as we are after the VP debate? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris … Read More

TX-Sen: The Houston Chronicle Endorsed John Cornyn (R) In 2014 Is Now Endorsing MJ Hegar (D)

From The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board: “I work with people on a daily basis to pass legislation who I know get up in the morning trying to figure out how … Read More

kpop & TikTok, do your worst: Monday Trump rally at Sanford Florida, because Trayvon Martin

Sam Stein just said: the picture paints itself, even as Trump does another super-spreader rally, this time in Sanford, Florida, site of Trayvon Martin's murder and where a mob nearly killed … Read More

Trump appears to admit he thinks he's on the train to loserville

In a flailing attempt (what does he ever do that isn’t flailing?) to somehow pretend the current 25th Amendment buzz isn’t all about him, Donald Trump appeared to step in … Read More

Pennsylvania Democrats Launch Safe Door Knocking Canvassing Initiative To Flip PA Back To Blue

Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Hey folks, The weather is cool and crisp. The foliage is gorgeous. And Democrats all over PA are making a triumphant … Read More

ID-Sen: Joe Biden Endorses Paulette Jordan (D) For U.S. Senate

Some big news out of Idaho: x Thank you, Vice President @JoeBiden, for your support of our race in Idaho. Let’s Build Back Better. With less than four weeks to … Read More

Why are we Letting this Guy off the Scalpel?

Unlike the apparent belief of the President’s personal physician Dr. Sean Conley, looking backward is sometimes instructive. The medical profession literally relies on the scientific actions of its pass. Before … Read More

Frontier gibberish: “I’m back because I’m a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young”

The stupid is always stronger with these people (John Fugelsang) The president is outright lying right now on Rush’s show, saying we have a cure for COVID. x Trump starts … Read More

MN-Sen: New Poll Has Tina Smith (D) Beating Jason Lewis (R) 44-37

Here’s the latest news out of Minnesota: x #MNsen:Smith (D-inc) 44% (+7)Lewis (R) 37%@surveyusa/@KSTP, LV, 10/1-6https://t.co/gYfn30JyUZ— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 9, 2020 Here’s some more info: Smith leads among female … Read More

MI-Sen: Emerson Poll Has Gary Peters (D) Beating John James (R) 51-41, Biden Beating Trump 52-42

Here’s the latest news out of Michigan courtesy of Emerson University’s latest poll. First, the presidential election: A new Emerson College/NewsNation poll of the Great Lakes state shows former Vice … Read More

Mike Lee rationalizes Trump's authoritarianism but where's the super-spreader victims like Jared

Even at 36 people stricken with COVID so far from contact at the White House, all kinds of people are missing, perhaps quarantined, with a few hospitalized. Perhaps there will … Read More

just say “no” on that second debate, Joe, the White House might blame you for trying to win

The White House is now blaming Michigan governor Whitmer for the kidnap/assassination plot against her by domestic terrorists. Similarly Trumpists think Biden is weak for not wanting to catch COVID … Read More

TX-Sen: Houston Chronicle, “How down-ballot candidates could help Democrats flip Texas”

The Houston Chronicle has a must read piece out right now about Texas: Texas remained the country’s largest red state in 2018. Republicans have won every statewide race in Texas … Read More

KS-Sen: GOP Poll Has Dr. Barbara Bollier (D) Beating Rep. Roger Marshall (R) 45-42

Some big news today out of Kansas: x Kansas Senate Poll: Bollier (D) 45%Marshall (R) 42% Sunflower State Journal (R)— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) October 8, 2020 Sunflower State Journal is … Read More

mixed messaging: “unlikable communist monster” versus the fly on the lying guy

Condescending or patronizing, how we forget until people get talked over. Tupac Shakur didn’t show up last night in Utah for the VP debate, but the truth got busted with … Read More

NH-Sen: Salon Exposes How Corky Messner's (R) Law Firm Bankrupted Mass Shooting Victim's Family

I cover a lot of U.S. Senate races and I really try to keep a focus on the ones that are the closest so I tend to overlook some races. … Read More

Biden approaches peak lead as Pence didn't help Trump with women (or flies)

There was that perceptible ‘splaining tone which is much like Mike Pence calling his wife “Mother”. Pence did himself no favors trying to bully the moderator, Susan Page. And Trump … Read More

debate winner: Pretty fly for a white guy

Gayle King: “It was very telling that a fly landed on Mike Pence’s head when he was denying America’s systemic racism. The fly was like ‘say whaaat?’” x Pretty fly … Read More

Aside from Tupac, will there be a Typhoid Mike Pence at tonight's debate

Typhoid Trump has shown that negligence has consequences. Will Pence be a disease vector. Meanwhile, Tupac Shakur will be there in spirit, for someone. Against this backdrop, it should be clear … Read More

Trump is so toxic, Maine Democrats are now distributing Trump-Collins signs

At some point early next year they’ll squeegee the COVID-riddled puddle of Trump tresses and asshole adipose out of the people’s house, but until then, the toxic diaper barge that … Read More

vindictive Trump won't support covid stimulus vote until after election day, could tank the economy

Looking more like pathological Trump is going full scorched earth, not caring whether his “Trump checks” will get to potential voters. The economy will likely tank (more), now that Trump wants to … Read More

Report: Biden's widening lead has 'panicked' Republicans

I’m getting a real Custer at Little Bighorn vibe lately when it comes to the GOP. Donald Trump has very quickly become an albatross around Republicans’ necks. An albatross with … Read More

Trump endangers our security with COVID carelessness: Joint Chiefs now quarantining

This is what happens when you don’t take a deadly virus seriously. Who knows who infected Adm. Charles Ray, but the blasé attitude that’s afflicted so many in Trump’s orbit … Read More

first rule of dissonance club: learn to live with a super-spreader in the plague house

He’s never dropped his naive belief in herd immunity perhaps because he had someone take his statistics tests in college. A quarter-million dead soon means that by the time a … Read More

On the day Trump spreads pestilence throughout White House, of course there's an anniversary tweet

Yesterday, Donald Trump showed how tough and resilient he is by endangering his own employees and standing on a balcony gasping for oxygen like a beached carp. So, naturally, there’s … Read More

“A full-blown freak-out”… the weirdest 90 seconds in history

Mussolini moment, no more #GaspingForAir at the Esso station in Milan. Trump declares himself immune. Cray-cray. x Deranged man in grips of deadly disease claims to be “immune” minutes after … Read More

Community Live Bloggers: Joe Biden Town Hall (NBC) in Miami

Lots of social distancing and challenging sound with an outdoor setting bordering a highway. Biden did well in terms of relating to the questions and the questioners. Biden was not surprised by … Read More

Texas House Democrats Raise Over $3.6 Million In Three Months To Flip The Texas State House Blue

From The Houston Chronicle: The Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee has raised over $3.6 million in just under three months, a massive cash infusion as the party pushes to take … Read More

no viral load news, Trump “not out of the woods”, but Trumpism remains infectious

The Walter Reed medical briefing this afternoon answered some questions about Trump’s return to the White House, but left contact tracing information unknown. His return will likely coincide with the Biden … Read More

NC-Sen: PPP Has Cal Cunningham (D) Beating Thom Tillis (R) 48-42, Biden Beating Trump 50-46

Some very good news today  out of North Carolina courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: PPP’s new North Carolina poll finds Cal Cunningham leading Thom Tillis 48-42. That represents a slight … Read More

You will not believe this insane Trump campaign spin about the pr*sident's COVID

I thought I’d seen everything from this campaign, but “Donald Trump has firsthand experience with COVID-19 and Joe Biden doesn’t” has to be the wackiest political spin ever.  Trump campaign … Read More

Republican source: 'Don Jr. thinks Trump is acting crazy'

Yes, that’s Don Jr. we’re talking about. The guy whose every video makes him look like Tony Montana six seconds before the cartel goons show up. The redoubtable Gabriel Sherman … Read More

MT-Sen: Daines (R) Voted To Reauthorize Visa Program Rampant With Fraud After Getting Huge Donation

The right-wing publication, The National Review, has been pushing this narrative against Governor Steve Bullock (D. MT) in his bid to unseat U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R. MT): ‘When you … Read More

KS-Sen: CNN, “Kansas could do something in November it hasn't done in almost 100 years”

From CNN: The last time Kansas sent a Democrat to the US Senate, the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby was all over the news. “Tarzan the Ape Man” was a … Read More

a “bored” Typhoid Trump promenades, as Biden's net favorability improves to a steady polling lead

Trump still has it and is contagious. He did his contagion parade outside the hospital to wave to supporters because he was “bored” but wanted to expose his Secret Service … Read More

“More than 205,000 Americans are dead. We need leadership. Not photo ops.” Trump gaslights again?

Jason Miller, ready to dose your smoothie with Plan B, now with miraculous Trump recovery. Trump may have only had a panic attack, given all that disinformation. x Jason Miller, … Read More

GA-Sen B: HuffPost, “Matt Lieberman (D) Hosted Fundraiser For Lindsey Graham (R. SC) In 2013”

Since today is a heavy Lindsey Graham (R. SC) news day on Daily Kos, I figured it was important to highlight this from The Huffington Post: Democrat Matt Lieberman hosted … Read More

Sr. WH official: 'There are reports that COVID is spreading like wildfire through the White House'

So a plague is ripping through the White House and no one knows what to do or what’s really going on, as top officials downplay the threat and keep everyone … Read More

1st positive diagnosis on Wednesday, knowingly became 'Typhoid Trump' for several days

More incompetence, as reports came forward only because of a Bloomberg journalist in the WH press corps. Trump knew of the positive diagnosis before he did a rally and a … Read More

ID-Sen: Harry Reid Is Back & He's Here To Help Paulette Jordan (D) Kick Jim Risch's (R) Ass

Received this e-mail today from one of my personal political heroes, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D. NV), in support of Paulette Jordan’s (D. ID) U.S. Senate campaign: … Read More

Julia Louis-Dreyfus & The Cast Of Veep Reunite To Help Joe Biden Win Wisconsin

Received this e-mail today from Emmy Award Winning Actress, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, on behalf of the Wisconsin Democratic Party: Friends, I’m so excited to announce a cast Reunion of VEEP to support … Read More

Now, more COVID cases in White House than in all of New Zealand: Red Wedding/Red Death

“Literally Thursday night President Trump told people at a dinner: ‘The end of pandemic is in sight ‘“ It’s not a plot, he’s just that stupid, and he’s also that … Read More

Beto O'Rourke Launches Calling Texas: The Millionth Voter Phone Bank On October 12th

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered By People: I’m excited to invite you to one of the biggest voter … Read More

Trump brags: we haven’t YET had the millions of deaths that we will under my herd immunity approach

Recently, Trump (a latest Covid case) claimed credit, and gave himself an “A+,” on his Covid response because we only have 200,000 plus deaths when models predicted 2 to 3 million deaths if we … Read More

The Michigan State Supreme Court Just Reminded Us We Need A Second Huge Blue Wave To Hit Michigan

So this bull shit just happened: The Michigan Supreme Court issued a split decision late Friday that ruled against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a battle over her power to extend … Read More