Great point about Trump. Jr.
For crying out loud, Trump’s son didn’t call the FBI when a Russian operative reached out to him. https://t.co/GWdcQsDVS3
— Michael Freeman (@michaelpfreeman) September 21, 2018
At this point, the Senate has shown significantly more deference to Facebook and Google’s hearing-scheduling requests than to Ford’s.
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) September 21, 2018
What’s the rush?
The fact that Grassley and McConnell kept a Supreme Court seat open for 422 days to wait for the outcome of an election but won’t give Professor Ford an extra 24 hours to testify tells you all you need to know about the character of the Republican leadership.
— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) September 21, 2018
Republicans will push the nomination through regardless of what happens at a hearing.
I’m a former US Attorney. If a judge/juror made a public statement that their mind was made up before all testimony is in, the trial would be prejudiced & I’d move for mistrial & have the judge removed.
Mr. Leader, is this the message we want to send to victims of sexual assault? https://t.co/dWHcaOHsG0— Doug Jones (@DougJones) September 22, 2018
There has never been a Republican woman on the Judiciary Committee
Indeed, there's room for improvement. https://t.co/7RwM6nqxZY
— Carrie Cordero (@carriecordero) September 21, 2018
Carson’s crackpot theory
New: Trump HUD Secretary Ben Carson believes the Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations are part of a centuries old Socialist plot that began in England with something called the Fabian Society. https://t.co/ln3lGSlfC1
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) September 21, 2018
Obamacare
Obamacare is more popular than ever. Once it was implemented, people began to see the benefits of it such as protection for people with pre-existing conditions.
Now, Trump is lying and saying he will protect people with pre-existing conditions while his Justice Department is supporting an effort to end them.
This stuck me as a noteworthy (new, I think) claim tonight. https://t.co/jSWXWFE64c
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
In addition, Republican candidates are reducing criticism of it:
Fascinating reflection of how quickly the politics of Obamacare have changed. https://t.co/cSqzlhTXCE
— Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) September 21, 2018
I’d go further. I think the experience of Obamacare has pushed Democrats—or at least many of their voters—left on a whole host of issues. The hunger for big, bold, public solutions is informed by a recognition that Republicans will demagogue everything as a “government takeover.” https://t.co/WJk53DGnyL
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) September 14, 2018
9/21
Trump lies again about pre-existing conditions in his Missouri rally.
Trump: "I will always protect pre-existing conditions. And Josh Hawley will always protect pre-existing conditions.”
Trump's admin is arguing in court that the ACA's pre-existing protections should be voided. Hawley signed onto this same lawsuit seeking to strike down the ACA.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 22, 2018
On Obamacare:
Cruz: "I hear from Texans all over the state: I can't afford health insurance." But "every one of us agrees that pre-existing conditions need to be protected."
Texas is suing to kill the law in its entirety: https://t.co/bjiYgrXEOF
— Emma Platoff (@emmaplatoff) September 21, 2018
75 percent of voters said it’s “very important” to keep Obamacare’s insurance protections, according to a new poll, and there’s greater trust in Democrats to deal with the issue https://t.co/QKh9e5sETQ
— POLITICO (@politico) September 20, 2018
If you’re concerned about health care, you’ve got to get out the vote this November.
We must reduce the number of uninsured, enact meaningful controls on prescription drug costs, and ensure all with pre-existing conditions can obtain affordable coverage.https://t.co/PDS2ZaBSfY
— Mike Levin (@MikeLevinCA) September 22, 2018
Trump hits McCain for voting against Obamacare repeal just weeks after his death https://t.co/w8X1MZKtcf pic.twitter.com/VBEC8LXc1s
— The Hill (@thehill) September 22, 2018
Trump just attacked Heller's opponent, @RepJackyRosen, says she voted for "the disaster that we now know as Obamacare."
Only, she didn't. Because Rosen was not elected to Congress until 6 years after the ACA passed the House.
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) September 21, 2018
Democrats believe they have their best chance in years to flip crucial state attorney general seats by trumpeting the same message: Republicans are trying to take away your health care https://t.co/sxRXAMVFFe
— POLITICO (@politico) September 18, 2018
Trump lies about pre-existing conditions 10/1/18
Trump on pre-existing conditions: "A lot of people think it's not a very Republican thing. It is now. And it has been for me." As part of a GOP lawsuit trying to get the entire ACA blocked, Trump's administration is arguing that its pre-existing protections should be voided.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 1, 2018
Trump’s Las Vegas speech September 20, 2018
More lies and other nonsense
"I'm not thrilled, but after the election, they're all telling me were getting our wall the way we want it, so let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. Let's see if they produce." — Trumphttps://t.co/JJonJ6h6vP
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 21, 2018
Trump says he is going to "drain the swamp." There is a "drain the swamp" chant. He says "Wacky Jacky" again.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump throws a hat. People scream. I Want It That Way plays. "The president has a weird thing for Backstreet Boys or something," the host of the Right Side Broadcasting web stream says.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says America is "being respected again," and the economy is the best ever, and if Hillary Clinton had won it would have been a "sad, sad period of time."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Except for a lot of the fake news that you see from these people back here" – BOOOO – "this is an incredible time for our country," Trump begins.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Poverty is plummeting," Trump boasts. Government report last week showed that the poverty rate dropped from 12.7% in 2016 to 12.3% in 2017.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump: "Remember the tears from the fake news media when it was obvious we were going to win. And you know what: they're still crying. Look at 'em, they're still crying. They're still crying. And let 'em cry. They don't know what the hell happened."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For at least the 12th time, Trump falsely claims that presidents had failed to pass the Veterans Choice program for decades before him. (This time he says it took "46 years.") The Choice program was created in 2014 under Obama. Trump's law modified the program.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
This is the part of the rally where Trump, on-script, attacks the local Democratic candidate, providing material for the local Republicans' ads. It is usually followed by him no longer being on script any more.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says the Democrats' new platform is "radical socialism," vowing, "I won't allow the United States of America to become the next Venezuela." There is a…"build that wall" chant.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"We started the wall a year ago," Trump lies for the 35th time of the wall he has not started. "We've done a lot."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump lies that Democrats voted for a wall in 2006. They voted for fencing. The law was called the Secure Fence Act.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump mentions Hillary Clinton. There is a very loud "LOCK HER UP" chant, the loudest chant of the night.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump: "A lot of people think that I'm always angry at Congress. I'm angry at Democrats."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump slams the media at length, then lies, for the 6th time, that the red lights of their cameras are "starting to go off" because they don't like the criticism. No station has ever turned off its camera during his media criticism.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says that without the "fake news," Democrats would not even get 5% of the vote. "I'll tell you. It's true," he concludes.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For the 12th time, Trump lies that the New York Times apologized to its subscribers after the election. It made a sales pitch, not an apology.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump lies again that his election hurt the sales of the New York Times: "When we won, they suffered." The Times added 276,000 digital subscribers in the three months after the election.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says that Americans voted to reject corrupt globalism: "Hey, I'm the president of the United States! I'm not. The president. Of the glooobe."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
This is Trump's most concerted rally pitch for his supporters to vote in the midterms, which he often makes only passingly. This time, he frames it as his own election: "I want to give a victory speech. I want to give a victory speech on the evening of Election Day."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"We've created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs," Trump says of the 348,000 manufacturing jobs created during his presidency.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Remember when President Obama said you can't have manufacturing jobs anymore," Trump falsely says of Obama's 2016 comments on PBS. Obama said some particular manufacturing jobs were gone, but boasted of how many he'd brought back and how many America still has.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump is boasting of how he told African-American voters, "WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? REMEMBER?" He says he did it because African-Americans have "the worst education, the worst home ownership" and such.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For the 26th time, Trump falsely says Asian unemployment is at a record low. (It was in May, but jumped back up to a higher level than at the end of the Obama era.) For the 27th time, Trump falsely says women's unemployment is at a 65-year low. (Again, was in May but jumped.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Donald Trump: "I'm an environmentalist."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump keeps recounting his 2016 election victory, twice speaking in the voice of a newscaster announcing that Donald Trump is the next president of the United States.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Democrats want to give welfare and free health care to illegal aliens," Trump says to boos, adding of Gavin Newsom, "How about this clown in California who's running for governor?"
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"We have the cleanest air now in the world," Trump says of air the Environmental Performance Index ranks as the 10th-best in the world. "We have the cleanest water," Trump says of the U.S.'s 29th-ranked water.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump is again mounting an extended attack on Democrats' "Medicare for all" proposals, saying that would be an all-time disaster. We'll likely hear a lot of this for the next two years.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump is trying something new recently: arguing that "Democrats would bankrupt the safety net" with left-wing proposals and with proposals to pay for benefits for immigrants. After all he's proposed, he's positioning himself as the saviour of essential benefit programs.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump has concluded. He was stunningly dishonest by the standard of any other politician but on quite good behaviour for himself, and especially on-message in pleading for midterm turnout.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Covers: Roving Gambler
The Everly Brothers recorded an album called Song Our Daddy Taught Us in 1958. It has songs taught to them by their father, Ike Everly.
Bear Family released a version in 2013 which also included a disc of recordings that had inspired the Everlys called Songs Our Daddy Learned including “Roving Gambler” by Eddy Arnold.
Billie Joe (from Green Day) and Norah Jones recorded all of the songs for their 2013 album Foreverly.
There are many other versions.
Trump is disgusting
I knew he couldn’t keep his mouth shut on Dr. Ford. His real character (or lack of it) always comes out. The man has no compassion or empathy. He just knows how to attack people. Let’s not forget that he has been accused by over a dozen women of sexual assault, I believe the women.
Obviously, Republicans will do anything to get this unpopular nominee confirmed. I don’t know why any woman would vote for a Republican in 2018.
“There’s no reason to attack her,” Kellyanne Conway said to reporters of Christine Blasey Ford at 9:09am. Five minutes later, Trump begins tweetstorm going after … Christine Blasey Ford
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 21, 2018
HOW DEPRAVED IS THE GOP AT THIS POINT?
Well, just THIS MORNING alone:
1. Trump called Dr. Ford a liar
2. Franklin Graham says "no crime was committed" and they were "just teenagers"
3. Gary Bauer says that Ford charges are like "waterboarding" Kavanaugh
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) September 21, 2018
Trump's relative restraint on Ford's accusations lasted five days. He is now following his own playbook for sexual assault claims of deny, retaliate and repeat. https://t.co/uMlMIlYF4T
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) September 21, 2018
You can always count on Trump to do the most despicable thing possible, especially when it comes to women. It was only a question of when, not if, he would attack Dr. Ford.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) September 21, 2018
I bet she still votes for Kavanaugh:
Republican Sen. Susan Collins says she is "appalled" by President Trump's tweets about Christine Blasey Ford https://t.co/8lRyVF58PI pic.twitter.com/pmCrqpG8C2
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 21, 2018
A source who has been talking to Trump told Axios "you have no idea" how hard it has been to keep him from attacking Dr. Blasey Ford.
A WH official said: "Hopefully he can keep it together until Monday. That's only, like, another 48 hours right?" https://t.co/OAe0gf6hoF
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 21, 2018
Trump has shifted from relative restraint — praising Kavanaugh and expressing general doubt — to directly suggesting Blasey Ford is a liar. pic.twitter.com/bjU6u4xMtx
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump’s tweet suggested he thinks anyone who doesn’t report a sexual assault to police “immediately” is lying. https://t.co/Xd68b4yeDY
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
2018 election update – 9/24/18
The House polling we've seen – both public and private – was already pretty terrible for Republicans, but has gotten noticeably worse since Labor Day (with a few exceptions, mostly in substantially Hispanic districts)
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 24, 2018
And here are the rankings. Joe Manchin in W Va. keeps getting more secure in his reelection, while Heidi Heitkamp in ND is the most vulnerable Senate Dem right now. She's a very close second to GOP Sen. Dean Heller in NV for most likely to lose. https://t.co/EoRVyYcaB3
— Amber Phillips (@byamberphillips) September 21, 2018
A FiveThirtyEight Election Update pic.twitter.com/UPNAxnoHQ9
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) September 20, 2018
How the Democrats can flip the house on Election Day: congressional elections in #IA01, #VA07, and #WA08 https://t.co/N9JIytM9s5 pic.twitter.com/90KEFcCxVZ
— GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) September 20, 2018
Now that the primaries have ended, there are 21 openly LGBT people nominated for Congress and four for governor, all Democrats, according to an advocacy group. https://t.co/UDKUQ11Vex
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) September 20, 2018
NEWS: Private RNC poll admits "We've lost the messaging battle" on tax cuts, via me + @sahilkapur : https://t.co/uAmGz53XYL
— Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) September 20, 2018
This is one of my pet theories about 2018 and I'm glad to see actual data behind it. Some number of voters kept their GOP rep in office to hold the inevitable President Clinton accountable. https://t.co/IK5CoGNGvd
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) September 19, 2018
Democrats are surging back in the Midwestern states where President Trump cut deepest into their old coalition in 2016 https://t.co/hqtIBXVsEd
— POLITICO (@politico) September 21, 2018
Here's context on the Gosar siblings, one of whom has run for office as a Dem. One sister says, "It would be difficult to see my brother as anything but a racist." A brother claims they don't want to speak publicly, but "he just doesn’t appear to be well." https://t.co/cVwznox3NN
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
I don't think anyone is projecting that Ds will win the Senate. Rs are definitely still the favorites
But I think the conventional wisdom is lagging on the overall competitiveness of the chamber. My model has it at 60% chance R win. FiveThirtyEight has it at 68%
That's not safe
— David Byler (@databyler) September 21, 2018
