Republicans will try to undo Obamacare in 2019 if they keep their majorities

Ryan reaffirms that if GOP maintains its majorities, it will again seek to undo the #ACA in 2019.
https://t.co/5326kmx5mW via @RollCall

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 12, 2018

The Trump Justice Department is not challenging laws that perpetuate voter discrimination

New state laws make voting more difficult for minorities, and the Justice Department has done less to challenge those discriminatory laws since the Supreme Court struck down a core element of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a new federal report finds https://t.co/DmF7VbSR2N pic.twitter.com/5FqAJ0dZaR

— CNN (@CNN) September 12, 2018

from the article:

“The commission said in the report that at least 23 states have enacted “newly restrictive statewide voter laws” since the Shelby County v. Holder decision, with moves like closing polling places, cutting early voting, purging voter rolls and imposing voter ID laws.
It found that 61 lawsuits have been filed challenging states’ voting laws under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — which bans discriminatory election laws — but only four of those were filed by the Justice Department, and none since President Donald Trump took office. “

Trump has made over 5,000 false or misleading claims

I think they are mostly lies.

Trump reaches a new milestone — surpassing the 5,000 mark for false or misleading claims as president, according to WaPo’s Fact Checker https://t.co/5xkBLuuXDS

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) September 13, 2018

Anatomy of a Trump rally: 68 percent of claims are false, misleading or lacking evidence https://t.co/zYjZUHdcLS

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 12, 2018

In his first 100 days, Donald Trump averaged 4 misleading or false claims.

Through 600 days, he's averaging more than 8.https://t.co/B33xold6UP

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 13, 2018

2018 election update 9/13/18

As those wonderful NYT polls are coming in, keep in mind district polling at this point in the campaign has underestimate the side that won the House popular vote in 06, 08, 10, 12, 14, and 16. In the wave years of 06, 10, 14, it really did. https://t.co/kzJidcBHog

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) September 15, 2018

Republicans – men and women – embrace Trump in their ads; Democratic women laser focused on health care (@wesmediaproject) details: https://t.co/D7oQ33qO2C pic.twitter.com/yNptIveQ5g

— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) September 15, 2018

If you're a voter in North Dakota, your vote is 26x more important in determining the fate of the Senate than the average American voter's. https://t.co/LUBG6Osgma pic.twitter.com/3xOhgi5LvI

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 12, 2018

New evidence shows that the midterm elections will be the clearest referendum on a president in at least 80 years. https://t.co/ChcSBb2xNN

— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) September 15, 2018

Democrats: 48.8%
Republicans: 39.7%https://t.co/5HUIDZs1De

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) September 13, 2018

Republicans' chances in 2018 just keep getting bleaker | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN https://t.co/psBaNKDsCC pic.twitter.com/55MPLhnhkF

— CNN (@CNN) September 13, 2018

Opinion: The anti-Trump backlash is gathering force. These new polls confirm it. https://t.co/vkTKN1wRxC

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 12, 2018

A FiveThirtyEight Election Update pic.twitter.com/xYzhmCu7r6

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) September 12, 2018

Just as Rs are far from doomed in the House, they are far from safe in the Senate. Dems need to gain a net of 2 seats to take control of the Senate and they have 5 plausible opportunities: Arizona, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas and (most debatably) Mississippi. https://t.co/zHFPWKCiDj

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) September 13, 2018

Whoa! Lots of new Senate polls, all within the margin of error.

Arizona: Sinema (D) 47-44
Indiana: Braun (R) 45-43
Missouri: McCaskill (D) 44-41
North Dakota: Cramer (R) 48-44
Tennessee: Blackburn (R) 47-44 https://t.co/VnBRDNJdHO

— Steven Shepard (@POLITICO_Steve) September 12, 2018

Democrats need 23 seats to recapture the House

in mid-term elections since WW2, presidents below 50% approval have lost an average of 36 seats

Trump is 10 points below 50%

my @cnbc column https://t.co/5FzBjIxqcU

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 12, 2018

Two interesting tidbits about the battle for the Senate:

1) Dems think they're currently ahead in Tennessee

2) National Dems are not ruling out an investment in Beto O'Rourke in Texas

That and much more in my interview with @jbpoersch of @MajorityPAC:https://t.co/CSm9yaTOZy

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 13, 2018

Republicans are losing ground in midterm polls

There are 8 (!!) Senate races w/RCP Avgs currently less 4 points: AZ (McSally +0.3), TN (Bredesen +0.3), MO (Hawley + 0.5), NV (Rosen +1.3), ND (Cramer +1.6), FL (Scott +2.2), TX (Cruz +3.2), and IN (Donnelly +3.8)https://t.co/ijjj5sX3BV

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) September 13, 2018

Trump drops red wave talk

This kind of says it all. https://t.co/yWSIf0S6Rk pic.twitter.com/wsdkD3T1cY

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 14, 2018

Trump lies about the death toll in Puerto Rico and then blames Democrats

Republicans do nothing to keep Trump in check except mild comments.

I’m sick of the lies. This was one of the worst.

Of all Trump‘s 4713 lies, this is perhaps the ugliest. The Talmud says that when you save a single life, it is like saving an entire world. Trump just erased 2982 worlds. https://t.co/PiJJZmHWA0

— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) September 13, 2018

Paul Ryan is now using Trump's "it's an island!" defence: https://t.co/AaQPjHWL13

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2018

.@mattgertz has conclusively demonstrated that the answer to "why is the president tweeting about THAT this morning" is almost always "because he's responding to his television." https://t.co/tB0mTTy86d

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2018

Trump has been lying about Puerto Rico from the start to make himself look better. A recap of false things he has said:

1) "It actually touched down as a Category 5. People have never seen anything like that." (It touched down as a Category 4. People have seen Category 5s.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2018

Paul Ryan claims that the deaths in Puerto Rico were “no one’s fault.” But most of the deaths were due to the federal government’s failed response to the hurricane. That *is* Trump’s fault. https://t.co/ueu18jTKg7

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 13, 2018

This is grossly misleading. The best estimate is that 3,000 died b/c of Maria. That many if not most of those deaths occurred well after the storm is an indictment of federal/local response. Thousands were without power FOR MONTHS. People died w/o access to basic services. /1 https://t.co/WnbX7qNGeg

— John D. Sutter (@jdsutter) September 13, 2018

In a normal government there would be a commission investigating the Puerto Rico response for months already and hauling administration officials to testify how the president got this information https://t.co/Rju4fCWXU9

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 13, 2018

When the facts are inconvenient, attack the facts. https://t.co/XQBz5bstY3

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 13, 2018

Trump says Dems manufactured the 3,000 death toll from the hurricane in Puerto Rico last year “to make me look bad.” For those who ask if he really believes this, the answer is yes. https://t.co/N3wJPZianj

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 13, 2018

For over a year, Trump has insisted the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria has been getting “great marks.” That’s true: It’s been getting great marks from the president himself, and almost no one else. https://t.co/LfGCPxivy1 pic.twitter.com/KTnUaraZnp

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 13, 2018

Innovations in presidenting https://t.co/3msgTRRNEV

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 13, 2018

I didn't think he could make this worse than his 1st tweet

But he did! https://t.co/OJqCsCEZqP

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 13, 2018

The idea that the huge death toll on Puerto Rico is "really no one's fault" rather than an urgent question for Congress to investigate through oversight is the perfect encapsulation of @SpeakerRyan utter abandonment of oversight role & any effort to hold Trump accountable https://t.co/AyndrkWuxi

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 13, 2018

Lindsey Graham tells us that Trump views every slight as “undercutting his legitimacy,” which is why he can’t admit mistakes like in Puerto Rico. He says that it shouldn’t be hard to acknowledge some mistakes were made.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 13, 2018

Why Trump’s tweets are Puerto Rico are untrue

Just blame everyone else for your lies:

New White House response to Puerto Rico deaths from hurricane and why @realDonaldTrump tweeted on this today stirring new controversy pic.twitter.com/mVCpJKUVkO

— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) September 13, 2018

Amartya Sen famously argued that preventable mass-fatality natural disasters don't happen in a well-functioning democracy. Political feedback loops of free press+free elections make this too costly to people in power. The extent of our polarization is frightening in this context. https://t.co/ocNmSxZk0l

— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) September 14, 2018

Refusing to endorse an unsupported conspiracy theory = disloyalty https://t.co/O7DQTsdcWg

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 18, 2018

Climate change has made hurricanes worse

and your president thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax. Sad!

Nine of the 10 costliest hurricanes to hit the US mainland since 1900 have been in the last two decades. Here's a look at how coastal development and climate change are making hurricanes more costly. https://t.co/hJcJhJIeSE pic.twitter.com/JJqsQNpU4q

— CNN (@CNN) September 12, 2018

Opinion: As Hurricane Florence closes in on the East Coast, the Trump administration’s reversal on U.S. climate policy has made the situation all the more dire. https://t.co/HYHWB04QRd

— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) September 11, 2018

Just now: The first-ever pre-event attribution study has been published.

Compared to a world w/o climate change:

– Florence will have 50% heavier rainfall
– 50mi wider at landfall, boosting storm surge

Climate change is making #HurricaneFlorence worse.https://t.co/VQQAotPCWu pic.twitter.com/zl26mW29CQ

— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 12, 2018

Climate change has increased the vulnerability of North Carolina’s low-lying eastern plain, expanding the size and water mass of hurricanes by as much as 50%. https://t.co/2W1XIjJLcN

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 18, 2018

The other side:

Rush Limbaugh on Hurricane Florence: "The forecast and the destruction potential doom and gloom is all to heighten the belief in climate change." https://t.co/YvwZm8vTO5

— Media Matters (@mmfa) September 12, 2018

Trump lies to Gold Star families

Trump lies to Gold Star families.

Woodward reports that Trump lies in phone calls with Gold Star families about what their dead loved-ones did in the military. #Fear pic.twitter.com/lLSFqvBo8c

— Max de Haldevang (@MddeH) September 11, 2018

Increase in uninsured Americans

Thanks to the Republicans.

Change in # of uninsured Americans from previous year –>

2014: -8.8 million
2015: -4 million
2016: -900K
2017: +492K

Today via Censushttps://t.co/Pc8lqsbG6F pic.twitter.com/0pzLnNKy1V

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) September 12, 2018

New Census data continues to show the historic progress in reducing the number of people uninsured has stalled. In a different environment, we might be having a debate about how to change that. https://t.co/zSCVv2m6Va

— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) September 12, 2018

2018 election update 9/12/18

Blue wave > Red wavehttps://t.co/Z7hTFCBElS

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 11, 2018

Very good story. The Senate could tilt a lot of ways on very narrow margins. But the GOP's worries are revealing. https://t.co/VqbyER22Eg

— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) September 12, 2018

And in mid-term elections since 92, per exits, 83-89% of disapprovers have voted against the president's party in House races while 82-87% of approvers (except in one case) voted for the party's party. It is the single most powerful measure. https://t.co/vloP9JlVTb

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 12, 2018

Analysis | As mid-terms draw near, Trump’s numbers with independents should worry Republicans https://t.co/YNDiJZ3vpg by @Eugene_Scott

— bitchthattrump (@bitchthattrump) September 12, 2018

CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains how a combination of toss-ups and Democrat-leaning seats might give the party a road to victory in the House pic.twitter.com/dvBE0ZkcMa

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 11, 2018

Trump lies about Puerto Rico

Trump lied and said the government did a great job in Puerto Rico. Even GAO said they didn’t. Sure, it was harder because of the electric problems and because it was an island but that’s no excuse. Trump did not say one word about the almost 3,000 Americans who died because of the hurricane. He has no empathy, only anger and hatred.

This is simply not true. Death toll in Puerto Rico was near 3,000, basically same as 9/11. GAO ripped FEMA response: https://t.co/VPzOKkRvzl https://t.co/24E5RPHxc0

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 12, 2018

Trump is bragging about his handling of Puerto Rico.

3,000 people DIED. What an awful human being.

— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) September 11, 2018

The current death toll for Puerto Rico – revised upward from 64 initially – is now estimated at roughly the same as those on Sept. 11, 2001. https://t.co/JsptEzlubE

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 11, 2018

Trump just told reporters that the admin's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was "incredibly successful." He continues, "it was an incredible, unsung success."

Puerto Rico just changed the death toll from Maria from 64 to 2,975.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 11, 2018