The White House denied the request to have flags at half staff for Capital Gazette victims

Sad!

Generic ballot polls

The generic ballot is a poll based on the question of which party voters would support in a congressional election.  Because of gerrymandering, voter suppression, and concentration of Democratic voters in cities, Democrats need a big edge to win in Congress.  A new Quinnipiac poll has the Democrats at +9 but this has fluctuated and varied in other polls.

This won’t stop Republicans from destroying Roe v. Wade:

Trump subordinates US foreign policy to Russian priorities

The opinion column states: “I have never believed that Trump is a Manchurian candidate — a Russian mole — but it’s hard to know how he would be acting differently if he were. If the Atlantic alliance survives his presidency in its current form, it will be a miracle.”

Trump lie about GDP

The article states “This is inaccurate two ways. First, the most recent saw GDP growth of 2.0 percent, not 3.2 percent. And second, exceeding 3 percent GDP growth in a quarter is not an unusual achievement — Obama accomplished it eight times. The real achievement would be a full year at 3 percent, which hasn’t happened under Trump yet.”