Trump’s immigration rhetoric

Trump’s bigoted rhetoric is a cynical effort to get the bigots to vote. He has taken his campaign efforts to the gutter. The caravan is not an invasion and no threat to America. Why doesn’t he campaign on low unemployment and good GDP growth? This make is clear that he knows that the reason people voted for him was bigotry, not economic anxiety.

https://t.co/0VlhDQbuvw pic.twitter.com/p8Ws0RlvCi

— Share the Facts (@sharethefact) October 30, 2018

Recent moves to send more troops to the US-Mexico border, possibly overhaul asylum policy and rethink birthright citizenship are political ploys with dangerous implications, immigrant and civil rights advocates warn https://t.co/SbHMcxAzrV

— CNN (@CNN) October 30, 2018

Protest against Trump’s Pittsburgh visit

Pittsburgh anti-Trump protest march has ended at a Presbyterian Church with singing Hebrew song about ‘building a world from love.’ pic.twitter.com/ILk5ZC63yq

— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) October 30, 2018

Estimates bet 2,000 and 5,000 demonstrators. They are one block from the president. pic.twitter.com/XUmAEl1Ye2

— Colin Deppen (@colin_deppen) October 30, 2018

Remarkable protest scene in Squirrel Hill. Demonstrators are neither yelling nor chanting. They don’t seem angry. Old and young, they are walking peacefully, singing softly and letting their very presence (and placards) deliver their message. https://t.co/kpC56QlHDD

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) October 30, 2018

Trump’s attacks on immigrants have made immigration more popular

How Trump Made Americans More Favorable Toward Immigrants https://t.co/wxtnx2UFUB

— David Benson (@dahveedbenson) October 30, 2018

Trump Justice Standard – great tweet

TRUMP JUSTICE STANDARD
*Guilty Until Proven Innocent*
(Gillum, Clinton, Obama, Feinstein, FBI Officials)
*Innocent Until Proven Guilty*
(Moore, Saudi killers, Collins, Hunter)
*Innocent When Proven Guilty*
(Putin, Manafort, Arpaio)
*Guilty When Proven Innocent*
(Central Park 5)

— Rob Goblin (@RobGeorge) October 29, 2018

Trump lies about Gillum

He calls him a thief with no basis for the attack. How about all the money Trump stole from people like the Trump U folks? Trump is a liar and bigot. Sad!

Trump repeatedly calls Gillum, who hasn't been charged with anything, a "thief." Says he should drop out of the race.

Apparently the presumption of innocence from Kavanaugh days is over. pic.twitter.com/JF41aYJteP

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 30, 2018

>@AprilDRyan brings desperately needed questions to WH press briefings. She just asked @presssec about Trump's calling Gillum a "thief" and also about voting rights in North Dakota.

— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) October 29, 2018

Well, that didn’t take long. Trump is now calling Andrew Gillum a “stone cold thief” who would turn Florida into Venezuela. No dog whistles there, no sir President “Nationalist.” pic.twitter.com/yayqA0IQoe

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) October 30, 2018

Andrew Gillum on Trump “thief” attack: “never wrestle with a pig” https://t.co/mhmq3wSkQI

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 30, 2018

Trump has never called a candidate a “thief” before. Question for @PressSec: what, precisely, does the president believe that Florida gubernatorial candidate @AndrewGillum stole? His nomination? His station in life? His education? His lead in the polls? https://t.co/IDEbyrJ6SV

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 29, 2018

Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh

Damned if he did, damned if he didn’t. He’s a hypocrite if he goes, but we would criticize him if he didn’t.

I think Trump should not go to Pittsburgh now since the mayor said it would be better to wait. I also agree with the people who think he should do more to renounce white supremacism and tone down his rhetoric first.

Notice that no government leaders would to go with him and that he lied to them.

Further: @realDonaldTrump WH called the top #PA and #Pittsburgh officials one at a time and lied to each that the others had agreed. WH did the same to #Schumer and #Pelosi. No one bit. WH also trying to push #Trump into hospital rooms of victims but most want no part of him.

— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) October 30, 2018

Congressional leaders decline to join Trump in visit to Pittsburgh after massacre Via @seungminkim and @jdawsey1 https://t.co/xJwMzFHvg6

— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) October 30, 2018

Good Lord. https://t.co/fUmooQUTxL

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 30, 2018

New: Pittsburgh Mayor, Pittsburgh County Exec, Senate Majority Leader McConnell, House Speaker Ryan, Senate Minority Schumer, and House Minority Leader Pelosi all tell CNN they have declined WH invite to join Pres Trump in Pittsburgh today.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 30, 2018

2018 elections update – 10/30/18

Some defense here and there but overall this is a pretty ambitious list.
7 Likely R districts
6 Lean R
11 Toss-up
3 Lean D
7 Likely D
(classifications per 538 "Deluxe" forecast) https://t.co/Ng1V3kiXHD

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 30, 2018

Former Virginia Gov. McAuliffe: "The big news is we're gonna win the house, but we're gonna pick up a lot of governorships and will set the future of this party very strongly." https://t.co/CGvAhI4gNX

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 30, 2018

Democrats have about a 6 in 7 chance of winning control of the House, while Republicans have a 1 in 7 chance of keeping control of the House. https://t.co/lyNh30TEIw pic.twitter.com/OIEC1OrreA

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) October 30, 2018

Some young people aren’t voting because the process seems confusing and pointless. They’re not entirely wrong: https://t.co/V7PjIiNvwC pic.twitter.com/d59WceCXge

— Slate (@Slate) October 30, 2018

TENNESSEE
U.S. Senate:
Marsha Blackburn (R) 51%
Phil Bredesen (D) 46%
(NBC News/Marist Poll, LV, 10/23-27/18)

— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 30, 2018

In Minnesota, two Senate candidates try to avoid being dragged down by the men of their party https://t.co/YDphdrhO5Z

— Post Politics (@postpolitics) October 30, 2018

FLORIDA
Question #4: To restore voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions after they complete all terms of their sentence including parole or probation. Would not apply to those convicted of murder or sexual offenses.
Support 70%
Oppose 21%
(Suffolk U/USAT, LV 10/25-28)

— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 30, 2018

BREAKING: @Purina ends financial support for Steve King https://t.co/GTj97X5NmW

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 30, 2018

I wish I had this type of money to spend on a race where I had at best a 1/10 shot of winning. https://t.co/wq4FBrx60b

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) October 30, 2018

FLORIDA
Question #9 would ban offshore oil and gas drilling and ban vaping in enclosed indoor workplaces …
Support 46%
Oppose 35%
(Suffolk U./USA Today Network, LV, 10/25-28/18)

— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 30, 2018

I wish I had this type of money to spend on a race where I had at best a 1/10 shot of winning. https://t.co/wq4FBrx60b

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) October 30, 2018

Analysis: A good sign Republicans have bailed on the House? Look where Trump’s going. https://t.co/UHQ9mUWc5K

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 30, 2018

Arizona Senate race: Democrat Kyrsten Sinema leads Republican Martha McSally, fueled by support from Latinos, independents and women (@mmurraypolitics) details: https://t.co/bvm7mqaQ56 pic.twitter.com/at9FUVR9df

— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) October 30, 2018

The only 2 in right races are MacArthur and Rohrabacher, who both spent their big bucks with Trump back in 2017. https://t.co/wDRUPWX4Vv

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 30, 2018

New at @CookPolitical: #IA04 Rep. Steve King (R) moves from Likely R to Lean R. This is the first serious challenge he's faced in his R+11 CD since '12, except this time he's almost broke & not running a real campaign.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 30, 2018

Probably of GOP maintaining House control:

Ladbrokes: 40%
Paddy power: 35%
Betfair: 37%
PredictIt: 37%
Iowa EM: 26%
Predictwise: 37%

538: 14%

— Adrian Gray (@adrian_gray) October 30, 2018

Just about everything in this tweet is wrong. Riggleman is not an incumbent, so he's not a congressman. He didn't help on tax cuts or the military or with vets (because he isn't in Congress), and that's also not his Twitter account pic.twitter.com/7GIRtyL6Is

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) October 30, 2018

ARIZONA
The job Donald Trump is doing as president:
Approve 44%
Disapprove 49%
(NBC News/Marist Poll, LV, 10/23-27/18)

— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 30, 2018

The Midwest is, by some measures, the region where Democrats are likely to make their biggest gains this November. https://t.co/bDCAMaf3ws pic.twitter.com/qVKHH9IbfR

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) October 30, 2018

Trump whines that the media didn’t implicate Obama in the Charleston church murders

This is nonsense. I think it’s clear that Trump strongly influenced the alleged bomber. Without Trump’s frequent criticism of Maxine Waters, do you think a guy in Florida would even know the name of a House member in California. I think Fox and Trump both influence the Pittsburgh killer. We don’t know the motives of the Kentucky killer yet.

How on earth does Trump think Obama should be blamed for an attack by a white supremacist on black people? Sad!

In his first television interview since a mail bomb scare and a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, Trump said that journalists did not seek to implicate Obama in a racially motivated shooting at an African-American church in Charleston in 2015 https://t.co/CspSDuudwU

— POLITICO (@politico) October 30, 2018

The context for this was Trump's unhappiness with the Washington Post front page that mentioned him in connection with the attacks this month. Trump said this was unfair, that they didn't do this for Obama and Charleston. https://t.co/PMmLxidl8B

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 30, 2018

Genuinely puzzled— what Obama rhetoric would have inspired the Charleston killer? (Trump just complained Obama didn’t get blamed for that)

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 30, 2018

Haley rips critics blaming Trump for synagogue shooting: “We didn’t once blame Obama” for Charleston church shooting https://t.co/DRqroJxObX pic.twitter.com/XGzM2MajFH

— The Hill (@thehill) October 30, 2018

Amb Haley, I genuinely respect you but this is just false. Obama didn’t go rally after Charleston or send shitty sports tweets. He called community leaders. I was there for days like this. Even if you can’t change what happened, you can choose how you respond. Empathy not chaos.

— alyssa “please vote” mastromonaco (@AlyssaMastro44) October 30, 2018

I thought President Obama after Charleston shooting was extraordinary. https://t.co/98mpMJlxGG

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 29, 2018

Donald Trump once again links Bernie Sanders to the Congressional baseball practice shooting, but throws in a new twist: President Obama unfairly evaded blame for the shooting of Black Americans inside a church in Charleston. pic.twitter.com/ZCe5gbKion

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 30, 2018

Trump and others wonder why Bernie Sanders wasn’t blamed for the shootings of Congressional Republicans. Sanders did not criticize specific people like Trump does. It’s not the same thing.

Longer quote about Obama: "Bernie Sanders had a fan who shot a very good friend of ours, Steve Scalise, and other people. He was a total maniac. Nobody puts his name in the headline…*I* was in the headline…they didn't do that with President Obama with the church."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 30, 2018

Trump wants to end birthright citizenship by executive order

This won’t happen – it’s just a way to get his bigots riled up for the midterms.

The founders set up the constitution so the president can’t do what he’s proposing to do with birthright citizenship. It’s a stunt, like sending the troops to a border for a non-existent invasion.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 30, 2018

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday broke with Donald Trump and contested his claims that he could circumvent the 14th Amendment https://t.co/gGFGHXuclg

— POLITICO (@politico) October 30, 2018

House Speaker Paul Ryan rejects President Trump’s idea of ending birthright citizenship by executive order – The Washington Post https://t.co/bOPLUhENyw

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 30, 2018

Clarification: Legal scholars broadly agree the 14th Amendment's language covers children of undocumented immigrants, and the Supreme Court addressed it in a footnote to a 1982 casehttps://t.co/2DhM3q1Nrp

— POLITICO (@politico) October 30, 2018

GOP lobbyist just told me this birthright issue was raised by Trump so Republicans in leadership and in tough districts can attack him. It makes a lot of sense. The GOP can fight the message that they’re all Trump pawns. A message that has resonated nationwide, because it’s true.

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 30, 2018

Trump says no other country has birthright citizenship. He’s wrong. https://t.co/8wPZhJAgsD

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 30, 2018

Can Donald Trump end birthright citizenship with an executive order? Probably not https://t.co/3ZelOoXppU pic.twitter.com/tmwSzbef5r

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 30, 2018

Opinion | Steve Vladeck: No, Trump can't reverse birthright citizenship. Here's why. https://t.co/8HBSz2Kje3

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 30, 2018

"With this court, you never know." https://t.co/Hq2GQgJURh

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) October 30, 2018

May 5, 2016 https://t.co/uYRDqkeumN

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 30, 2018

Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. A judge he appointed says he can’t. https://t.co/v1SQ1cJnVp

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 30, 2018

Another reason why the Trump's attack on birthright citizenship is not just a "distraction"…

As @JamilSmith tweeted, the 14th Amendment gave citizenship to former slaves in 1868. This is not just an immigration issue, its about the historical place of black people in the U.S.

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) October 30, 2018

Russians Flock to Trump Properties to Give Birth to U.S. Citizens