The GOP won’t renounce Trump’s bigotry

The only conclusion I can draw is that they agree with him. It’s a white nationalist party now.

It’s appalling that the GOP will do nothing about Trump’s bigotry. I have to conclude they support it. https://t.co/8S0cAbBj6s
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 17, 2022

Not even @LeaderMcConnell, who directly refused to criticize Trump's racist attack on his own wife. Quite a statement about how disruptive McConnell believes it would be in the coalition to draw any line against Wallace-level open racism from & around Trump. https://t.co/zjU6MbhzUK
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 17, 2022

Trump Organization charged the Secret service outrageous rates. Eric Trump lied about it.

Lying grifters

In 2019, Eric Trump said the Trump Organization charged the government only “like $50" for hotel rooms during presidential visits.

“What gets me is, over and over again, how they just lie about this stuff,” @CarolynBMaloney said in an interview. “Documents don’t lie.”
— Luke Broadwater☀️ (@lukebroadwater) October 17, 2022

NEWWW – Trump Org charged @SecretService five and six times the government rate for agents who had to stay at his properties to protect him and his families.
As much as $1185 a nite for Trump International — not "at cost" and "free" as Eric Trump claimed
https://t.co/cSSvzSmYXT
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) October 17, 2022

“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free…it saves a fortune because if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like $50.”
– Eric Trumphttps://t.co/rfWOIGxqFm https://t.co/fvmMyasx2x
— Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) October 17, 2022

yikes — in light of new reporting that the Trump Org charged the Secret Service as much as $1,185 a night to stay at Trump hotels, it's worth revisiting this clip just played on MSNBC of Eric Trump lying in 2019 that the govt was only being charged "like, you know, 50 bucks" pic.twitter.com/qHDH5ciJos
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 18, 2022

Don’t put Big Lie believers and candidates who won’t accept election results on TV

How many times do I have to say this?

Don’t put Big Lie believers on TV.

I’ll add don’t put people who won’t accept election results on TV.

There is no incentive for them to change if they are rewarded with TV time while spouting their dangerous lies. Both parties are not the same. The networks should not normalize the extremist Republicans that now dominate their party.

CNN should not put people who won’t accept election results on TV.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 16, 2022

It should also disqualify her from being on TV.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 17, 2022

Pence’s appalling appeasement of people who supported the insurrection

Pence could have died. Now he’s supporting people who approved of the Capitol riot. Disgraceful.

The story should be that Pence is supporting election deniers whose movement almost got him injured or killed. https://t.co/GFljsITsKu
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 17, 2022

CNN left something important out when comparing Biden and Trump

In their eagerness to appease Republicans, CNN pointed out that Biden spent more time in his Delaware home than Trump did at his properties. They left out how much Trump ripped us off by the rates he charged the Secret Service.

I pointed it out twice. Trump is a scumbag grifter. Biden is not.

If you’re comparing Trump and Biden, include this https://t.co/WGlbGvNTJ0
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 17, 2022

If you’re going to compare Biden to Trump, you should include this:https://t.co/fMfe61ZRS5
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 17, 2022

Walker probably believes the cop in the Village People was real

Walker probably believes the cop in the Village People was real.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 16, 2022

Kari Lake should not be on TV

GOP candidate for governor in Arizona should not be on TV. If you aren’t willing to accept the results of your election and/or deny the 2020 results, networks should not have you on to spread lies.

Why do you put Lake on TV?
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 16, 2022

CNN should not put people who won’t accept election results on TV.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 16, 2022

Generic poll update 10/16/22

In @FoxNews national generic ballot, Ds are +18 w/voters under 45, +9 w/college+ whites & +36 w/non-whites-even though pluralities of each group say they are worse off than 2 years ago. Another telling measure of resistance to Trump-era GOP on rights/values/democracy.
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 16, 2022

Unsurprisingly, Fox News buries the lede in its new poll:

Democrats up 3 in generic ballot, and "these results indicate a tight battle for control" of the House.https://t.co/1jda7rOwhM #FoxNews
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 16, 2022

Generic Congressional Ballot:

Democrats 46% (+4)
Republicans 42%

.@MorningConsult/@Politico, 2,006 RV, 10/7-9https://t.co/lex8qH1p7E
— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 12, 2022

Generic Congressional Ballot:

Democrats 48% (+2)
Republicans 46%

.@YouGovAmerica/@TheEconomist, 1,030 LV, 10/8-11https://t.co/Sjo8RU3UNU
— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 12, 2022

Generic Congressional Ballot:

Democrats 48% (+3)
Republicans 45%

.@MorningConsult, 8,381 LV, 10/7-9https://t.co/0gsNJcFYrd
— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 12, 2022

New Monmouth poll on the generic ballot (with leaners):

Republicans 47
Democrats 44

Dems had 7 point edge in August. Now they’re down 3 pts. https://t.co/y735oGf1Aa
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) October 3, 2022

Examples of rich people influencing elections with money

Blame the terrible Supreme Court Citizens United decision for allowing for dark money.

The richest man in the state decides he does not like the Dem gubernatorial candidate (calls himself an "anti-Tina person”), spends a bunch of money on the two competing candidates, and a Dem +16 state a toss-up.

Best democracy money can buy. https://t.co/FbbelwXcP1
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) October 15, 2022

NEW: Diana Hendricks, the right-wing billionaire and Trump advisor donated $9.6 MILLION last quarter to Wisconsin Truth PAC, a Super PAC devoted to reelecting @SenRonJohnson and attacking his opponent @TheOtherMandela

Hendricks is best known for tax dodging pic.twitter.com/bosYlFll3N
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 15, 2022

Reclusive climate-denier billionaire seeking to “steer history” with dark money — that‘s how we roll these days? Not good.https://t.co/DwpmTCopmV
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) September 7, 2022

For months, a $1.6 billion donation has been influencing American politics from the shadows. Voters won’t get the transparency they deserve, but this article does a good job of connecting the dots:https://t.co/tK6itGR3Hu
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) September 1, 2022

Conservative political activist Leonard Leo's group has received the largest dark money donation ever reported: $1.6 billion.

Leo has been referred to as Donald Trump's "Supreme Court whisperer" and was influential in the confirmation of all three justices Trump nominated. pic.twitter.com/DQRyzHUj9p
— The Recount (@therecount) August 22, 2022

A computer ad with wrestler King Kong Bundy

KIng Kong Bundy in a computer ad!

Yeah? Well, I heard Hulk Hogan learned to use that computer in one minute and spent the next 22 leg-dropping communists. pic.twitter.com/w7xikEjWpr
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) October 15, 2022

As it turns out, King Kong Bundy, who played a bald-headed monster on screen, was quite the opposite off-camera! #WWE https://t.co/N2YQqfUCcw
— Pro Wrestling Stories (@pws_official) October 14, 2022