RNC Chair Tries Catch-22 in Michigan

RNC Chair Ronna [formerly Romney] McDaniel and the Michigan Republican chair are trying more chicanery in Michigan today: they want certification put off until an audit is done. But under … Read More

Depraved and Different

Back in April, President Trump issued a hollow order that meatpacking plants remain open, with safety restrictions to be fashioned by the plants’ owners. Even though the Covid-19 virus was … Read More

Trump's options dwindle to Kleptocene's anti-democratic noise as GA recount favors Biden

Last gasps of biglygate: even Mitt Romney shades Trump as President-elect Biden has not ruled out legal action against the GSA, as Trump will have run out of options very … Read More

Trump privately tells donors it will be 'very tough' for Republicans to keep the Senate

And in case you’re giving Donald Trump credit for a level of understanding that seems beyond his ken, he also thinks Republicans will take back the House. And no one thinks … Read More

Broke and losing, the RNC spends $1million… promoting Hannity's new book

Ronna Romney McDaniel’s plan to combine the RNC with the Trump campaign has backfired spectacularly. The money goes where Trump wants it to go, which is why millions were spent … Read More

ME-Sen: Susan Collins (R) Is “Truly Grateful” For Endorsement From Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Abortion Group

From The Huffington Post: Though Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has lost several key endorsements to Democratic challenger Sara Gideon this election cycle, she received the full support last week of … Read More

Private Polls Are Showing Big Swings to Democrats in the Suburbs

It’s becoming the story of the election that the suburban areas, especially those with many well-educated people are shifting strongly toward Joe Biden and Democratic candidates. According to Dave Wasserman … Read More

“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.” No. We still vote, GOTV, for democracy.

More Trump attention-seeking shtick has happened. He’s threatened to refuse to transfer power. That could really happen because he’s nuts and even if he only represents an anti-democratic 25% of the US … Read More

Houston Chronicle Reports Texas Adds More Than 1.5 Million Voters Going Into 2020 Election

From The Houston Chronicle: Texas has once again shattered vote registration records, adding more than 1.5 million voters since the last presidential election. Texas now surpassed 16.6 million voters, according … Read More

'Mitt Romney is the Lindsey Graham of Marco Rubios' as Putin 'discredits democracy' for Trump

Apparently there is a Trump-Orban-Putin authoritarian alliance as well as coordination and support for the Trump re-election campaign. It did seem more inevitable that Mitt Romney would choose party over … Read More

only GOTV ensures any “Biden Blowout” and God will remain if Biden wins

Only a Biden blowout will stop the impending doom for so many things. But not any ontological arguments, even if Trump promises that God will not exist if Biden wins. … Read More

KY-Sen: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next SCOTUS Justice.”

Just going to leave this here: x The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. #Scalia https://t.co/QXHfOpEY6G— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) February 14, … Read More

Anti-Abortion Columnist Urges Vote for Biden

Michael Gerson is a lifelong Republican who was George W. Bush’s speechwriter for several years. He also holds strong anti-abortion (he would say, pro-life) views and he is a longtime … Read More

Beto O'Rourke Launches “Beers With Beto” Virtual Fundraiser To Flip Texas Blue

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rouke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered By People: With Election Day just weeks away, our volunteers have been working … Read More

Joe Biden Was Elected President – in 2016

Trump won in 2016 by running an insurgency campaign. Hillary was the epitome of the liberal elite who had taken over government and were using it to make us pay … Read More

Chuck Todd strikes again: He busts RNC’s chair BS justification for Trump’s COVID-19 failure.

Chuck Todd interviewed RNC chair, Ronna Romney McDaniel, about Trump's COVID-19 failure. He did not let her get away with the hypocritical spin. Chuck Todd took countered her spin x … Read More

SC-Sen: WaPo, “Sen. Lindsey Graham (R), a Trump ally, faces toughest reelection challenge in S.C.”

New piece out in The Washington Post about the upcoming U.S. Senate race between Lindsey Graham (R. SC) and Jaime Harrison (D. SC) that’s worth the read: In a potentially … Read More

Two Prominent Conservatives Call For the Death of the GOP

It’s no longer unusual to find Jennifer Rubin, one of WaPo’s house conservatives, calling for removing many GOP officials. This morning, however, she went further and called for voting out … Read More

RNC night four features another Trump speech. Prebuttals say it all

I can’t really watch the Trump speech tonight considering how much I’ve already been exposed to the same nonsense. I actually am more concerned about Russian amphibious assault exercises in … Read More

Trump is Failing His Latest Test: Hurricane Laura

Hurricane Laura is now a strong Cat 4, with winds up to 150 MPH (Cat 5 is 158 MPH, and it may get there). Storm surges are expected to push … Read More

Trump's suburban scares falling short: 'It's appealing to June Cleaver, when June Cleaver is dead'

At some point someone must have told Donald Trump that he needs suburban women to win reelection — and that he’s losing them, badly. If there was one big takeaway … Read More

PPP Shows That Scranton Loves Their Native Son Joe Biden While Trump Is Hated Big Time In Queens

PPP’s latest poll decided to test how voters in the home towns of Joe Biden and Donald Trump feel about the candidates: Last week Donald Trump claimed that Joe Biden … Read More

1000 pages of Senate Intel Volume 5 may provide the Trump indictment if he tries to stay

It is indeed a tough way to make a living, but our lived experience tells us that we can survive Trumpism. Even if he steals the election he will get … Read More

Trump is losing it, Activating the young vote, DNC review.

It sure looks like Trump is losing it. Delilah Agho-Otoghile discusses the young vote and more. We talk about the DNC and its aftermath. Delilah Agho-Otoghile talks 2020 election, youth … Read More

Mitt Romney: 'No way to spin' Trump's coronavirus failures

Oh, check out the above photo. Mitt Romney looks like such a lapdog you might be justifiably worried that Mitt Romney is about to strap Mitt Romney to the roof of Mitt Romney’s … Read More

Former Republican Rep: GOP operates politically with a functional level of ignorance

Former Republican David Jolly explained why he left the party and the problems and affects the sycophants of the party have on the citizens. David Jolly hits the Republican Party Watch … Read More

the last free election in US history… maybe, removing swing-state postal sorting machines?

He’s golfing again this weekend in Bedminster. Will he do more pseudo-pressers and populate the “press corps” with “reporters’ from Epoch Times, Gateway Pundit, and OAN. “The president is back … Read More

We cannot allow Trump to deflect what matters for Election 2020. What matters? PDR: 07/05/20

Donald Trump has been playing the media even before he entered the 2016 presidential race. Unfortunately, that has continued. It is something we must not allow any longer. Nancy Pelosi … Read More

We cannot allow Trump to deflect what matters for Election 2020. What matters? PDR: 08/05/20

Donald Trump has been playing the media even before he entered the 2016 presidential race. Unfortunately, that has continued. It is something we must not allow any longer. Nancy Pelosi … Read More

Republican Stuart Stevens on Trump: “He is a blithering idiot.”

Stuart Stevens appeared on All In with Chris Hayes and said out loud what many Republicans and other Trump voters have got to be thinking. Stuart Stevens: You can't care for … Read More

Romney Strategist: What I'm gonna do is support Democrats because …

Former Romney Republican Strategist Stuart Stevens recently appeared on TV and said he will be voting democratic. He gave specific reasons. Strategist Stuart Stevens is voting Democratic to save Democracy from Trump … Read More

Should Joe Biden Pick Romney for State?

Taegan Goddard has a members-only piece up on Political Wire: Imagining Biden’s Team of Rivals. If Biden is elected — and I will hold my breath until he’s actually sitting … Read More

KS-Sen: Wonkette Trolls Kris Kobach (R) Over GOP Congressman Facing Voter Fraud Charges

From Stephen Robinson at Wonkette: Former Kansas secretary of State, current Senate candidate, and known loser Kris Kobach has annoyed us all with his relentless, Javert-esque pursuit of imaginary voter fraud. Well, finally, at long last, we've found … Read More

Biden will do well to heed the message of pundits like Zerlina Maxwell

Pundit Zerlina Maxwell appeared on This Week with some important advice for Joe Biden after answering a non-related question from George Stephanopoulos. Biden will do well to heed the message of pundits … Read More

J. Rubin Is Moving Away from Conservatism

I used to avoid Jennifer Rubin back in the Obama days, when she could find nothing good to say about the President and nothing bad to say about Romney, as … Read More

cancel culture is like cultural marxism: nonsense, but Trump will sell you their snake oil

Trump’s tweeting more gibberish replete with nonsense and continues to tank the economy built by the previous administration. Ever the opportunist, Trump would have signed off on the recent “Justice and … Read More

Punk Plutocrat sprung a stooge, but like gaslight under a bushel, Stone cannot hide under a rock

“Unprecedented, historic corruption:  an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.” — Mitt Romney x “The president may have … Read More

Now Laura Ingraham says to prepare for Trump loss

The Trump campaign has yet to reverse the slide but Trumpian chaos does continue. With COVID cases hitting record highs and Donald Trump’s poll numbers going in the opposite direction, (dinner party) guests … Read More

Vanity Fair: Republicans To Cut Loose Trump By Labor Day? Don't You Believe It!

I think highly of Vanity Fair’s Gabe Sherman, but his latest piece with the information that Moscow MItch is giving Trump until Labor Day to turn things around or he … Read More

Tucker Carlson just said black people are coming for you (whoever that privileged “You” is)

What a frightened bunch, that Fox News audience, so sensitive to racist dog whistles, because the GOP is apparently blameless for racist policies. More frightening is that “this is a … Read More

NYT: Bush, Romney won't support Trump; Colin Powell will vote for Biden

To be sure, I am not a fan of George W. Bush, no matter how many candies he hands Michelle Obama. But if Bush was a big, jagged kidney stone … Read More

AZ-Sen: Fox News Poll Has Kelly (D) CrushingMcSally (R) 50-37, Biden Beating Trump 46-42

Some good news today out of Arizona courtesy of Fox News’ latest poll: Republicans are rightly concerned about Arizona. A new Fox News Poll finds the state shading blue — … Read More

The Daily Beast, “A Surprising Sign of a Democratic Revival in Ohio”

Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast has a new piece out this week that talks about certain state that went to Trump but there are some very positive signs that … Read More

Slate's The Surge Highlights These 7 Battleground States That Make Up Joe Biden's Path To Victory

Received this e-mail from Slate Magazine’s The Surge that emphasizes the top seven battleground states that Joe Biden’s campaign should heavily focus on in order to win over 270 electoral … Read More

Trump Calls on Senate to Subpoena Obama [Update: Graham Says NO]

Trump’s hatred of Barack Obama is long and well-documented, from his attempts to find the “real birth certificate” to his dismantling of anything Obama had accomplished just because it was … Read More

Mitt Romney: U.S.' coronavirus testing record 'nothing to celebrate whatsoever'

The best I can say about Mitt Romney is that he ran for president as a Republican and somehow isn’t a garbage heap of hate and willful stupidity. The second … Read More

Mitt Romney slams Trump's Testing Czar: Nothing to celebrate whatsoever

Mitt Romney showed his independence as he slammed the president and his Testing Czar much harder than even Democrats. Is he running for president? Romney let busts the president lies … Read More

The Daily Beast, “Twitter Loophole Allows Biden Rumors To Spread Like Wildfire”

So this photo has been circulating on Twitter: https://twitter.com/prettyjanice888/status/1256411621536215040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Scott Bixby at The Daily Beast highlights why I can’t go on Twitter: But the woman in the photo is definitely, … Read More

Trump: 'I don’t think that [Americans] will put a man in who’s incompetent'

Yes, can you even imagine? For the record, Trump was talking about Joe Biden. Not John Miller, or John Barron, or even David Dennison. Reuters: During an Oval Office interview, … Read More

NC-Sen: New SurveyUSA Poll Has Cal Cunningham (D) Beating Thom Tillis (R) 41-39

Some good news today out of North Carolina courtesy of SurveyUSA’s latest poll: Incumbent Republican United State Senator Thom Tillis today finishes 2 points behind Democrat Cal Cunningham in an … Read More