Signs are growing that voter turnout in 2020 could reach levels unmatched in over 100 years. Which side will that help most? I take a closer look. https://t.co/oYMBXfljCm
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) June 13, 2019
Category: 2020 election
Polls on Trump vs. potential 2020 opponents
Too early to read too much into these polls.
Stop hyperventilating over polls of Trump vs Biden, etc. – too early to be predictive:
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) June 11, 2019
-June 1983: Mondale 49%, Reagan 39%
-June 1991: George H.W. Bush 51%, Democrat 28%, Don't know 21%
-June 1995: Dole 48%, Clinton 44%
-June 2011: Republican 44%, Obama 39%
(all Gallup data)
This is not the only poll like this, and they all kill the “electability” argument. There are people who would have voters believe that only a white man can win this election. The hopes of some candidates rely heavily upon that notion. Don’t buy it, folks. Choose who you like. https://t.co/XKBapUncmS
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) June 11, 2019
Trump 41% is trending nationwide. So feel free to keep saying it.
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 12, 2019
Like this:
Americans who want pre-existing conditions to be covered 98%
Trump 41%
Or:
Support for universal background checks on guns 85%
Trump 41%
Or:@Browns win Super Bowl 51% (Sorry I'm a fan)
Trump 41% https://t.co/NhWYa5z3wh
There are some… differences by age in new Quinnipiac poll of the 2020 Democratic primary:
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 11, 2019
Under 50 years old:
Sanders 32%
Biden 18%
Warren 16%
Buttigieg 7%
Harris 6%
50 years old and over:
Biden 41%
Warren 15%
Buttigieg 10%
Harris 9%
Sanders 5%
Issues voters are concerned about
Worth remembering that midterm voters ranked the Russia investigation dead last in importance out of the 12 issues Gallup asked about: https://t.co/rqZ0PSZWH5
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 8, 2019
Trump campaign has not paid El Paso
His campaign has stiffed El Paso just like Trump as a businessman stiffed some contractors. Sad!
Beto O'Rourke and Pres. Trump held events on the same day in El Paso, TX.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 3, 2019
O'Rourke's campaign paid his outstanding bill to the city, the Trump campaign has not paid Trump's outstanding bill.
The Trump campaign still owes El Paso $470,417.05. https://t.co/kjPMPVNdap
The Trump campaign has not paid the city of El Paso the more than $470,000 it was billed for the costs stemming from a rally there two months ago. The bill includes a $380,942 charge from the police department, ABC-7 reports. https://t.co/gCKopbDZaH
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 3, 2019
Trump may use the government to attack Biden
and the media like the New York Times will help him by spreading what he finds.
This is so unethical and an abuse of the presidency. There’s no bottom for Trump.
Are Trump & Giuliani corruptly pushing AG Barr to weaponize DOJ against the Biden family over matters in Ukraine? Looks like it to me. Unending abuse of power . . . https://t.co/olE4OiZkWJ
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 2, 2019
Yup, as @paulwaldman1 says, the fact that Trump is already mobilizing to turn loose law enforcement for the purpose of damaging Joe Biden should be a scandal right at this moment:https://t.co/7L1wIZRiPB
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 2, 2019
I called this. @realDonaldTrump will call for criminal investigation of all potential opponents in 2020. Next up for @JoeBiden : "lock him up" chants. https://t.co/kxX9EhmPKw
— Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) May 2, 2019
Trump doesn’t want to hear about 2020 Russian interference in our elections
Before Nielsen was forced out, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities as DHS secretary: preparing for new and different Russian forms of interference in 2020. Mulvaney told her not to bring it up in front of the president. https://t.co/WDNjfC52O4
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 24, 2019
Don’t tell Donald Trump about Russia’s election interference!https://t.co/I0uawbktw8
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 24, 2019
Not quite a denial, but a counterattack! (After the story published.) pic.twitter.com/WNBOEoD01o
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 24, 2019
The fact a foreign adversary will continue efforts to interfere in our sacred elections should alarm all of us. No less alarming is the idea a senior government official can't brief the President on it because it might hurt his feelings. pic.twitter.com/mY7ixBZhI5
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) April 24, 2019
I see a congressional hearing in which former Trump officials are asked how much attention @realDonaldTrump devoted to protecting the United States from another Russian attack on an American election.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 24, 2019
Just in from @RepAdamSchiff, on reports that Mick Mulvaney didn't want Kirstjen Nielsen to bring up the need to protect our political system from outside attack, because Trump would see it as denigrating the greatness of his victory: pic.twitter.com/MKIQ7gEFTN
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 25, 2019
What's behind President Trump's lack of engagement on Russian threat? @TiffanyDCross @amandacarpenter @ahrferrier @stefcutter discuss @TheLeadCNN https://t.co/nN4BwVlj5d pic.twitter.com/9ez2iI6iMV
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 24, 2019
U.S. government official: 'Like pulling teeth' to get WH to focus on Russia election interference threat @TheLeadCNN https://t.co/JhJJj2kwnz pic.twitter.com/O7poHy5yk0
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 24, 2019
A senior administration official tells me that while Secretary Nielsen grew frustrated with the White House‘s lack of engagement on election security, she continued to push the matter on her own, organizing two principals' meetings on her own — hosted at DHS offices in DC 1/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 24, 2019
Rudy Giuliani says “There’s nothing wrong with getting information from Russians.”
It’s not alright. Rudy is wrong. It looks like they’re inviting the Russians to help again in 2020. There are big implications for future elections. If Trump wins in 2020, it will be hard to believe he didn’t win because of Russian help. Sad!
President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, insisted on Sunday that it was acceptable for a political campaign to use hacked information about its opponent obtained from a foreign adversary — though he personally would have advised against it https://t.co/l8pKeuT66w
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 21, 2019
Why didn’t the Trump campaign call the FBI when approached by Russia? https://t.co/mMVVJHFanH
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 21, 2019
One of the most remarkable things about the last couple years is we have been given no indication that Trump’s re-election campaign will hesitate to take advantage of Russian help again, in whatever form it might take. https://t.co/TNG2Zvcmfx
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) April 21, 2019
Question: with Trump allies defending acceptance of Russian campaign help – & Mueller absolving them of criminal wrongdoing – has the US given license to its citizens to do same in 2020 & beyond? What will stop the next American from accepting the next offer of Russian help?
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 21, 2019
Trump's lawyer offered another one of his Sunday news show stunners. https://t.co/LehTA1cgax
— Esquire (@esquire) April 21, 2019
Wrong. Mueller evaluated the facts under campaign finance violations which prohibit foreign interference in elections. The only reasons he was unable to charge was because he was couldn’t place a $ valuation on the info and couldn’t show that Treason & Co. acted “willfully.” https://t.co/skjTHYYzUx
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) April 21, 2019
Rudy Giuliani declared Sunday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had been nearly “tortured” in jail as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation, and referred to one of Mueller’s lead prosecutors as a “hit man” before walking both comments back https://t.co/LouD8IjCin
— POLITICO (@politico) April 21, 2019
Ask any national security professional in the military, Defense Department, intelligence community, FBI or Justice Department what would happen to them out they accepted stolen material from the Russians. https://t.co/gKPVBk8u0V
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) April 21, 2019
My G-d. There’s nothing wrong with getting information from Russians to help win a U.S election???!!!!
— Carrie Cordero (@carriecordero) April 21, 2019
So that’s it? The floodgates are open for 2020? Saudis? Chinese?
This is from the president’s lawyer?
These people are not acting in America’s national security interests. https://t.co/yRaHppeRqm
Former federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani: “There's nothing wrong with taking information from Russians.”
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) April 21, 2019
Fact-check: There’s something majorly wrong with a campaign taking information from Russians.https://t.co/aFJcFNEYd9
“So it’s now okay for political campaigns to work with material stolen by foreign adversaries?” “It depends on the stolen material.” @RudyGiuliani tells me. Compares stolen WikiLeaks emails to the Pentagon Papers. #MTP
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) April 21, 2019
Adlai Stevenson in 1960 and Hubert Humphrey In 1968 both felt and acted differently, refusing Russian offers of help out of hand. https://t.co/j923vIi762
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 21, 2019
Stunning.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 21, 2019
This is the personal lawyer of the President of the United States praising the illegal hacking of emails by a foreign government to influence an election as a public service. https://t.co/lHjgROI3ge
A plan I'm sure is already in motion, if I know my Russians. (But that's not really my area of expertise or anything.) https://t.co/Qrim254m8P
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2019
This is just the wrongest wrong imaginable. https://t.co/xMmRFnEyDw
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) April 21, 2019
This reveals the frightening implications of the blank check given to Trump by Republicans.
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) April 21, 2019
They’ve given our adversaries a green light to undermine our elections, and future candidates a green light to accept their aid. https://t.co/i7kJ6uaiJl
Rudy suggests to @jaketapper that he knows of some nefarious activity involving Romney 2012 campaign without offering evidence. “I could tell you the things he wanted to do,” calling Romney a “hypocrite.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 21, 2019
“There’s nothing wrong with getting information from Russians,” he adds
Whatever @realDonaldTrump is paying @RudyGiuliani is not enough to compensate him for the complete and utter sacrifice of integrity and credibility required to defend the indefensible. https://t.co/T4GJTTmHmq
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 21, 2019
I am not amused when Trump jokes about term limits
This is how authoritarians act. If he loses in 2020, he may not leave voluntarily.
Trump again jokes about staying on as president for more than two terms https://t.co/Ho9kg0ERyQ
— Derek Cressman (@DerekCressman) April 20, 2019
This isn’t the first time Trump has “joked” about staying on as President. We should take this seriously-he often excuses his worst comments as jokes & he knows he’s only protected from criminal prosecution for as long as he stays in office. https://t.co/DotbvCS0XW
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) April 21, 2019
Stupid attempts at humor often reveal what the jokester secretly wants to attempt . . . 😡👺👹😈https://t.co/sQ1s8wOMDv
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 21, 2019
Be prepared for Trump not leaving office even if he loses. I know you think I'm nuts but I've always taken him literally and seriously. People thought we were nuts when we told them he will implement the Muslim Ban..
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) April 22, 2019
563 days until the election: who led at this point in the past
563 DAYS TO GO:
— Who led? (@LedPast) April 20, 2019
2008 Dem: Clinton led by 9.7 points.
2008 GOP: Giuliani led by 12.2 points.
2012 GOP: Romney led by 7.4 points.
2016 Dem: Clinton led by 56.6 points.
2016 GOP: Bush led by 1.8 points.https://t.co/OLynKLRaJh
Flipping state legislatures
My piece this morning on Future Now, the most ambitious of the Democratic groups that started post-2016 to flip state legislatures: https://t.co/hzb7FG2Yko
— Russell Berman (@russellberman) April 17, 2019
Sad! 