White House using official Twitter account to attack two senators

The White House twitter feed lies and attacks Senators Harris and Warren. How is this constructive or legal? Taxpayers should not have to pay for this partisan venom. There will never be a good discussion on immigration as long as the Trump side says Democrats want crime, open borders and MS-13. I don’t think Trump wants to solve immigration – he likes it as an issue. Good for Senator Harris for fighting back!

White Houses lashes out at Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren https://t.co/3NUgi32sMP

— POLITICO (@politico) July 2, 2018

The Trump administration* found a disgusting new way to use the official White House Twitter account https://t.co/zs5vCPVPN1

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 2, 2018

Re: White House tweets attacking Senators: Section 1352(a) of Title 31: No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall..be used directly or indirectly to pay for any .. written matter… intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 2, 2018

White House official twitter account slams potential 2020 opponents over ICE FALSELY accusing @SenKamalaHarris of "supporting the animals of MS-13" and @SenWarren of "supporting criminals moving weapons, drugs and victims" across our borders. Raises questions of law and ethics

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 2, 2018

As a career prosecutor, I actually went after gangs and transnational criminal organizations. That's being a leader on public safety. What is not, is ripping babies from their mothers. pic.twitter.com/WyyHU3U7jE

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 2, 2018

Harris responds to the tweet from the official White House account. I’m told by a source close to her that she has used her personal campaign account to reply to this tweet to make it clear that it was inappropriate for the White House to use their official account. https://t.co/7Riq53k6LJ

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 2, 2018

Verified White House account being used to target individual US Senators. pic.twitter.com/9OXbKdvAG5

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 2, 2018

the idea here (and it should be straightforward at this point) is to do get people to repeat the (false) allegation by doing something that breaks an unspoken norm (using the White House account for trolling) https://t.co/e5AzkdkOUA

— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) July 2, 2018

wrote in October how even MS-13 experts think the Trump WH exaggerates the gang's threat to justify its immigration crackdown. still relevant nowhttps://t.co/ItbJpzrDup https://t.co/iqvxoMJn41

— Astead (@AsteadWesley) July 2, 2018

update:

There’s no basis for this claim at all. Harris has never said anything positive about MS-13. She simply called to “critically re-examine ICE and its role and the way it is being administered,” suggesting “starting from scratch” is an option. https://t.co/9Pil9ZB3Ut

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 3, 2018

https://t.co/viogk6RCNX pic.twitter.com/fzhzZnbdnm

— Share the Facts (@sharethefact) July 4, 2018

Prior Democratic votes on Supreme Court finalists

They have already been voted on by the Senate for lower judicial positions. I expect Trump’s nominee to be approved by a small margin.

Of the five most talked-about SCOTUS finalists:
–Three Dems voted for Barrett (Kaine, Manchin, Donnelly)
–One Dem voted for Kavanaugh (Carper)
–No Dems voted against Hardiman (95-0)
–No Dems voted against Kethledge (voice vote)
–All Dems voted against Thapar

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) July 2, 2018

The county that voted for Obama and Trump with margins of 20%+

Besides, in convos w/ labor Dems in Howard Co., IA (only place that voted for Obama & Trump by 20%+, 98% white), barely heard about Russia/latest POTUS tweets/scandals. Top 3 refrains?

1) Get big $ out of politics
2) Medicare for all
3) Tax wealthy morehttps://t.co/TxFYMyExUf

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) July 2, 2018

Atlas of Redistricting

So excited that our Atlas of Redistricting won News Data App of the Year!! Congrats to our crew @ellawinthrop @juruwolfe @bycoffe @RitchieSKing and everyone at @FiveThirtyEight who made it a reality. https://t.co/wXjtqxlFYi

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) June 3, 2018

Support the A.C.L.U.

Their web site

When the ACLU filed suit on behalf of families separated at the border, it was just the latest demonstration of what its leaders and donors have willed it to become: a rapid legal assault force against the Trump administration https://t.co/QcEQpAQpeD

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 2, 2018

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

President Trump has declined a request to lower flags in memory of the Capital Gazette shooting victims. https://t.co/IIa28sGclA

— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) July 2, 2018

Sad!

The Maryland flag has been lowered to half-staff, and a pair of vigils are planned tonight in Annapolis for the @capgaznews victims. https://t.co/X4cxP93lRR

— Colin Campbell (@cmcampbell6) June 29, 2018

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.

Quinnipiac finds generic ballot going from +6 to +9 D since last month. Statistically flat, but striking considering the weeks of "ARE DEMS BLOWING IT ON IMMIGRATION?" talk. https://t.co/rLsdrA8a3n

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 2, 2018

Generic ballot for 2018 now +6% D in RCP average. In Q poll out today: +9% D. The gender gap in Q is astounding. Men are +8% R. Women are +25% D.

— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) July 2, 2018

New @QuinnipiacPoll on 2018 midterms:

•Dems generic ballot- +9 overall, +15 with ind & +25 with women
•Most important issue among independents 25% immigration, 21% health care & 19% economy
•71% of USA & 51% of GOP want Congress to be check on Trump https://t.co/lGND5ltD44

— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) July 2, 2018

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

"There is no ambivalence on abortion as men and women dig in and say, ‘Hands off Roe v. Wade,’” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. https://t.co/QDgVQPJdbZ

— Maureen Groppe (@mgroppe) July 2, 2018

.@538politics's generic ballot estimate has Ds at +7.2 nationally

If that holds in TX, Dems would likely only pick up one congressional seat (23rd). They would need a +10 spread to even start competing for more seats. Gerrymandering is a helluva drug.https://t.co/LThXuhZXyb

— Justin Miller (@by_jmiller) July 2, 2018

Millennial women are D +44 on the generic ballot.

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Whoever could have predicted this? pic.twitter.com/dTHrngIVRK

— Kristen Soltis Anderson (@KSoltisAnderson) June 27, 2018

Democrats continue to have a lead in generic ballot polls that is 6 points ahead of the average margin for the opposition party since 1946. Their margin has traced a historical pattern of movement in generic ballot polls that points to a ~9% win in Nov.https://t.co/BSgfhQkgQg pic.twitter.com/9R5Z2ST350

— G. Elliott Morris📈🤷‍♂️ (@gelliottmorris) June 29, 2018

The current 538 generic ballot is Dems plus 7.2%. And they very well might not win the House at that margin. In 1994, when Gingrich’s Republicans destroyed the Dems and ushered in a new era of politics, the national margin was…7.1%. https://t.co/89qREsyKz9

— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) July 2, 2018

Another bigoted Trump appointee

Trump nominated this guy to a federal judgeship. It came out that he’d blogged favorably about the KKK. He had to withdraw. So he went back to working at the Justice Department, where he was—wait for it—in charge of vetting judicial nominees. https://t.co/PuLDzK6NUZ by @smencimer

— Aaron Wiener (@aaronwiener) July 2, 2018

Iowa voter suppression

From the article linked to in the tweet:

“In a filing Wednesday, lawyers for voting rights advocates who are challenging the law argued it will impose “significant” new burdens to participation that will fall disproportionately on voters who are young, low-income and minority. State lawyers have asked for the suit to be dismissed.”

How many eligible Iowa voters will be disenfranchised once Paul Pate's #voterID law goes into full effect? Rather than expand access to the ballot box, Pate has used his time in office to make it harder for Iowans to vote. #IApolitics https://t.co/5d5VTVMAjK

— Let America Vote (@LetAmericaVote) July 2, 2018