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whitehotharlots · 3 years

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Previewing the 2024 Democrat Primary

Within a couple weeks of his being sworn in, just about every person on earth will wish Joe Biden was no longer president. Sure, the few surviving John B. Anderson voters will be thrilled to see 4 years of crushing austerity and half-assed attempts at Keynesian stimulus. But most people will begin dreaming about a brighter future.

Good news! The 2024 Democratic primary field is going to contain dozens of options. Bad news! They are all going to be disgusting piles of shit.

The “top tier”

While it’s too early to do any handicapping, these are the candidates the media will treat as having the most realistic chances of securing the nomination.

Kamala Harris

Kamala did not win a single primary delegate in 2020. This is because she dropped out before the first primary, and that was because no one likes her. She has no base beyond a few thousand of twitter’s most violent psychos. Her disingenuousness approaches John Edwards levels: any halfway incredulous person can see immediately beyond her bullshit. She has no principles whatsoever, and while that may be par for the course for Democrats, she lacks even the basic politician’s ability to intuit anything that might, hypothetically, constitute a principle.

Even better: she is an awful public speaker. She sounds like how a talking dog would speak if he were just caught stealing people food off the kitchen table. She communicates in weird grunts and faux sassy squeaks, which is how she imagines real black women sound like, but something about her is unable to sell the bit. She begins her sentences in halfhearted AAVE, stops and panics halfway through as she realizes that maybe this sounds fake and offensive, and then reminds herself oh wait, no, this is okay since I’m black. This doesn’t happen once or twice per speech. This is how every single sentence sounds.

Kamala is like Nancy Pelosi in that no sketch show will ever impersonate her correctly, because anything that came close to authenticity would be considered far too cruel. This might benefit her in the primaries, as she exists in the minds of Democrats as someone and something she absolutely is not in reality. Nominating her would be like allowing your child’s imaginary friend to attempt to drive you to the store.

Andrew Cuomo

Easily one of the 50 worst people alive, Cuomo has a solid chance because Democrats, same as Republicans, are unable to differentiate between electability and self-serving ruthlessness. Cuomo used the deadliest public health crisis in American history as a pretext for cutting Medicaid and firing 5,000 MTA workers, and his approval rating increased. New York Dems are little piggies who love eating shit. If we assume that the political media will continue their habit of refusing to discuss the legislative history of right wing Democrats, Cuomo might well cruise to the nomination and then lose to literally any human being the GOP nominates by an historic margin.

Joe Biden

The party loves him because he is a right wing racist. “Progressives” tolerate him because black primary voters over 40 supported him, and their opinion is supposedly a magic window into god’s truth. Everyone else can tell he is manifestly senile. I don’t put it above the DNC to pick a candidate who is in horrible health, dying, or even dead--whatever the financial sector wants, they’ll get. But I would be shocked if his approval rating is above 39% by mid-2023, and by that point deep fake technology will be advanced enough they’ll put out a very lifelike video in which the Max Headroom version of Joe explains he’s proud of his accomplishments--that budget’s almost balanced already--but, man, I gotta abd--I gotta abdica--, uhh, I gotta, I, uhh, I gotta move down, man.

Wild Cards

These candidates would have all have a chance if they ran, but they could all much more easily retire to Little Saint James off of kickbacks they’ve gotten from Citibank and I.G. Farben.

Rahm Emanuel

Rahm is going to receive some hugely influential post in the Biden administration. Let’s say he becomes Secretary of Education. His signature achievement will be replacing all elementary school teachers with Amazon’s Alexa, which saved the taxpayers so much money we were able to quadruple the number of armed police officers we put into high schools. This will give him several thousand positive profiles on network news programs and the near-universal support of the Silicon Valley vampires who will own 99% of the country by the time Biden’s term ends. They will use their fancy mind control devices to convince geriatic primary voters that Rahm’s the one who will bring Decency back to the white house. His candidacy will be the paragon of wokeness, as expressing concern toward the fact that he covered up the police murder of a black guy will get you called a racist.

Rahm has a bonus in that Jewish men are now Schrodeniger’s PoC. When they are decent human beings, they are basic, cis white men who are stealing attention from disabled trans candidates of color. When they love austerity and apartheid, they become the most vulnerable people of color on earth and criticizing them in any way is genocide. No one will be able to mention a single thing Rahm has ever done or said without opening themselves to accusations of antisemitism, and that gives him a strong edge against the rest of the field. The good news is that an Emmanuel candidacy would result in over 50% of black voters choosing the GOP candidate--which, I guess that’s not really good but it would certainly be funny.

Gavin Newsom

Newsom is every bit as feckless as Cuomo, but he doesn’t put off the same “bad guy in an early Steven Segal movie” vibes. He will mention climate change 50 times per speech and no one will bother to mention how he keeps signing fracking contracts even though his state is now on fire 11 months of the year. If anything, this will be spun into an argument about how he’s actually the candidate best suited to handle all the water refugees gathering on the southern border. Look for his plan to curb emissions by 10% by the year 2150 to get high marks from Sierra Club nerds. He’s also a celebate librarian’s idea of what constitutes a handsome man, so he’ll have some support from the type of women who claim to hate all men.

Larry Summers

I mean, why not? Larry, like most members of the Obama administration, has politics that are eerily similar to those of Jordan Peterson. In normal circumstances, this makes a person a dangerous fascist who should not be platformed. But if that person has a D next to their name this makes them a realistic pragmatist who has what it takes to bring suburban bankers into our tent. If current trends in Woke Phrenology continue apace, Larry’s belief that women are inherently bad at STEM will be liberal orthodoxy by 2023, and his dedication to the Laffer Curve could see him rake in massive donations. Seriously, I’m not kidding: cultural liberalism is now fully dedicated to identity essentialism and balanced budgets. Larry is their ideal candidate. If he were black and/or a woman, I’d put him in the very top tier.

Jay Inslee

Unlike Newsom, Inslee’s attempt to crown himself the King of Global Warming won’t be immediately derailed, since his state is only on fire because of protestors. This, however, poses a different problem. He’s going to be a good test case for the Democrat’s uneasy peace with the ever increasing share of the electorate who become catatonic upon hearing a pronoun. On the one hand, you need to take their votes for granted. On the other hand, they’re not like black people or regular gays: most voters actively, consciously despise wokies, and associating yourself with them will ruin a campaign even in deep blue areas. There’s still gonna be riots in a year. Biden’s gonna announce the sale of all our nation’s potable water to the good folks at Nestle and some trans freak named Sasha-Malia DeBalzac is going to use that as an opportunity to sell their new pamphlet about how it’s fascist to not burn down small businesses. No matter what Inslee does in response, it’ll end his career.

AOC

I’m not one of those “AOC is a secret conservative” weirdos, but I am aware enough of basic reality to know she has zero chance of coming close to the nomination. The right and the center both regard her as a literal demon. The party is already blaming her for the fact that a handful of faceless Reagan acolytes failed to flip their suburban districts even though they ran on sensible pragmatic proposals like euthanizing the homeless. The recriminations will only get more unhinged when the Dems eat shit in the 2022 midterms. She will be a Russian, she will be white male, she will be a communist, she will be a homophobe: any insult or conspiracy theory you can name, MSNBC will spend hours discussing. Her house seat challenger will receive a record amount of support from the DNC in 2024 and it’ll be all she can do to remain in congress.

Larry Hogan

Don’t be dissuaded by the fact that he’s a Republican. Larry is the DNC’s ideal candidate: a physically repulsive conservative who owes his entire career to appealing to the most spiteful desires of suburban white people. He’s an open racist in a material sense--if you’re old-school enough to think racism is a matter of beliefs and actions, rather than the presence of cultural signifiers--but his is the beloved “never Trump” style of racism that Dems covet. He’s also a Proven Leader who thinks the role of government should be to finance the construction of investment property and give police the resources they need to run successful drug trafficking operations. Few people embody the Democrat worldview more than Larry.

The Losers Bracket

These people will have at least a small chance due solely to the fact that the Democrats love losing. They have lost in the past, and in the Democrat Mind that makes them especially qualified.

Joe Kennedy

The man looks like a mushroom-human hybrid from a JRPG. Trump proved that physical hideousness need not doom a presidential bid, but a candidate still needs some kind of charm or oratorical abilities or, god forbid, a decent platform. Joe aggressively lacks all of these things. A vanity campaign would be a good way to raise money and perhaps secure an MSNBC gig, so Joe might still run.

Mayor Pete

I am 100% convinced that Pete’s 2020 run was a CIA plot meant to prevent working class Americans from ever having a chance of living decent lives. I am also 100% aware that Democrats are dumb enough to enthusiastically support a CIA plot meant to prevent working class Americans from ever having a chance of living decent lives. If we have some sort of military or terror disaster between now and 2023 the Dems are sure to want a TROOP, and wait wait wait you’re telling me this one is a gay troop? Holy hell there’s no way that could lose!

Stacy Abrams

Never underestimate the power of white guilt. She lost the gubernatorial race to Gomer Pyle’s grandson, and her spiritual guidance of the Dems saw the party lose black voters in Georgia in 2020. Nonetheless, she is regarded as a magic font of fierceness within the DNC. She might stand a chance if she can establish herself as the most conservative non-white candidate in the field, but there’s going to be stiff competition for that honor.

Elizabeth Warren

Liz is probably angry that the party so shamelessly sold her out even after she was a good little girl and sabatoged Bernie’s campaign for them--yet another example of high ranking US government officials reneging on their promises to the Native American community. Smdh. The fact that this woman hasn’t been bankrupted a dozen times over by various Wallet Inspectors genuinely astounds me. So Liz is probably going to run again, and her campaign will be even sadder the second time around.

It might surprise you to hear this if you don’t work at a college or NGO, but Liz diehards actually do exist. She’ll get even less support this time because there will be no viable leftist in the field for her to spoil, but she’ll still hang in long enough to make sure the very worst possible candidate beats out the second worst possible candidate. Maybe she’ll fabricate a rape accusation against Sherrod Brown. Maybe she’ll spend her entire allotted debate time doing a land acknowledgment. With Liz, anything is possible--so long as it ends in failure.

Amy Klobuchar

Amy was the most bloodthirsty of the 2020 also rans. She will double down on the unpopular failures of the Biden administration, explaining that if you weren’t such a selfish idiot you’d love the higher social security retirement age and oh my god are so such a moron you think you shouldn’t go bankrupt to get a COVID vaccine? There’s a non-unsubstantial segment of the Democratic base that’s self-hating enough to find this appealing, but it won’t be enough to make her viable.

Martha Coakley

She lost Ted Kennedy’s senate seat to a retarded man who was pretending to be even more retarded than he actually was. Then she lost a gubernatorial race to a guy who openly promised Massachusetts voters that he would punish them for electing him. Her record of failure is unparalleled, making her perhaps the ideal Democrat standard bearer for the twenty twenties.

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gehayi · 4 years

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The nation's governors have been exerting growing pressure on the president to do more to bolster supplies, despite the perceived risks of speaking out. From New York to Washington, they have pleaded with him to use the DPA to force companies to manufacture critical equipment. And they have begged for help in obtaining supplies like masks and testing agents, saying that states have been forced to compete against one another as well as the federal government on the open market, driving up prices, even as federal officials have pledged their help if states fail.

The notoriously thin-skinned Trump has not taken well to their criticism. Instead, he has lashed out at the governors, continued to diminish the risk posed by the virus and insisted that the federal government was only a “backup” as he looked to avoid political costs from a pandemic that has reshaped his presidency and tested his reelection plans.

In a Thursday night interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump declared that Washington Gov. Jay Inslee “should be doing more” and “shouldn't be relying on the federal government.” He dismissed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s requests for additional ventilators to keep patients alive, saying, “I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000” of the devices, which force air into the lungs of those too sick to breathe. And he said he was still weighing Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's request for a disaster declaration, saying, “We've had a big problem with the young, a woman governor from, you know who I'm talking about, from Michigan.”

“You know," he added from the White House, "we don't like to see the complaints.”

from “Trump Boosts Virus Aid, Warns Governors to Be 'Appreciative' “, the New York Times, published Published March 27, 2020, Updated March 28, 2020, 9:48 a.m. ET

I’ve seen a lot of people saying that this behavior will surely unseat him in November. First of all, we don’t know that there will BE elections in November. He could implement emergency powers and suspend elections indefinitely because of COVID-19. All- snail-mail elections don’t seem to be an option.

Second, the Democratic party is badly divided between two highly imperfect old white guys. And the Bernie Bros are already saying that they will vote for Trump or not vote at all if Biden gets the nomination. I think that he will, because the mainstream political establishment is scared of Bernie. The establishment doesn’t want a revolution. They want to go back to the way things were before Trump...which ignores the fact that Trump rose to power because of widespread dissatisfaction with the establishment. The Dem establishment needs to use that dissatisfaction, not ignore it. I just don’t see a lot of politicians in power who are willing to take chances.

This adds up to far fewer votes for the Dems than I would like. The ticket has been split twice--once by the establishment and once by the “no blue without our boo” crowd.

Third, many slimeballs dearly love having Trump in power because he validates their sliminess. They like having the license to lash out at people and groups that they hate. They don’t want to change that.

Fourth, a lot of smear tactics are already floating around, as well as a credulous and dangerously accepting public. A twentysomething friend of mine--who, up until now, has been a progressive--has been calling me almost daily, telling me that the Democrats are keeping people from getting money (I had to explain to her about all of the pork the Republicans wanted to shove into the stimulus bill, as she knew nothing of that). She even told me the last time we spoke that she thought Trump was within his rights to deny Michigan medical help because he’s been fighting with Michigan’s governor all month. She didn’t see why anyone should find this outrageous. “He’s the President, he’s entitled,” was how she put it. She’s even started babbling about how he’s done so much for the economy. I pointed out that he’s been coasting on Obama’s policies up to now and that Trump’s words directly caused the stock market to crash multiple times...and she hung up.

I keep wondering how many other hopelessly naive people willingly accept the idea of Trump as a competent leader because the alternative is too scary for them to deal with.

Fifth, people tend to cling to leaders in a crisis--not because the leader is necessarily great, but because they’re afraid that change will make things even worse.

So while I would dearly love to believe that Trump will get tossed out on his orange ear in November--I think the Dems still have a long hard fight ahead.

#elections in the plague year #trump is awful #i wish that his awfulness would make him lose

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letmetellyouaboutmyfeels · 4 years

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Okay, if it's too much, don't answer that's fine. I'm not American and I've read so many different things about the political stuff that's going down over there, some saying Biden is the same as Trump, some say he's even better than Bernie. I got not clue how to sort that Joe Biden guy, sooo... Could you help us non Americans out a little? So far it's just looking like everyone is standing around a dumpster fire, shouting stuff that's not really comprehensible

Jesus Christ this was something to wake up to this morning. I’m gonna be honest, it’s not my job to educate you or anyone else on this matter, you’re all adults (supposedly, I’m doubtful about a lot of you) and Google exists. But I also understand that it can be intimidating to dive into the wide world of the internet and it feels easier to ask someone you trust or feel that you know, so I’ll do my best to be concise and explain.

Everyone is standing around a dumpster fire shouting stuff that’s not comprehensible because people, my darling, are idiots.

“No, Mads, people aren’t idiots!” A person is not an idiot. But people are. Put us in a group and we’ll happily self destruct in the most spectacular fashion possible.

Biden is nowhere near the same as Trump, people just live in an echo chamber and refuse to look at the facts. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you how awful Trump is. It baffles me that people are saying Biden, who happily supported Barack Obama and played second fiddle to him for eight years, is the same as the man who’s putting children in cages.

Here is a breakdown of Biden’s policy plans should he be elected. Very different from Trump’s, as you can see. To quote this post here:

“It's important to be critical of political figures, especially during a primary election. Joe Biden has been in politics for a very long time, and his record is by no means spotless. There's lots to criticize, politically and personally. But having Biden in the big chair instead of Trump changes the entire game.

Look at it this way: if Joe Biden wins, a democratic Congress gets a clear path to passing real, lasting progressive laws. If Joe Biden wins, Ruth Bader Ginsburg gets to retire, and be replaced by a young firebrand who will make Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh's lives a living hell for the next 40 years. If Joe Biden wins, all of the horrible executive orders Trump has enacted are gone, on day one: family seperation, abortion bans in VA hospitals, EPA funding gutted, global warming denial in NOAA, removal of LGBT+ protections, all GONE in January 2021. If Joe Biden wins, all the Trump shills in the government disappear: I'm talking about new people in the CPB, the Justice Department, the FTC, and everything other federal agency. With Biden instead of Trump, we're going to be fighting for Medicare for All vs. Obamacare, instead of Keeping Obamacare vs. Stripping Away Any Kind of Federal Insurance. We're going to be fighting for the Green New Deal vs. Having a Functional EPA, instead of Gutting The EPA or Having No EPA At All. The fight is way different, and we get to pull the conversation further left - where it belongs.

This election is just as much about getting rid of the Republican stench in the Oval Office as it is electing a particular person. So yeah, be critical of Joe Biden, but please don't lose sight of what President Joe Biden would actually look like versus President Trump.”

People seem to be forgetting that when you vote for president, you are, supposedly, not voting for One Supreme Leader Who Makes All The Decisions Ever. Putting Biden in the Oval Office is more about putting in a man who will pass the laws that a liberal, democratic Congress will put in front of him. A man who will actually listen to his advisors. It’s about putting in someone who won’t appoint a bunch of judges that will screw over everyone for the next, oh, three decades.

I don’t want Biden in office. I wanted Elizabeth Warren, for fuck’s sake. Whose policies were the same as Bernie’s, by the way, for all you bros out there who say you aren’t sexist. The last thing I want is another old white man, for the love of whatever you worship. But the idea that someone who supported and worked under someone like Obama is somehow the same as a Neo-fascist egomaniac is... ridiculous. It’s truly ridiculous. Not that Obama was perfect, far from it, but under his presidency we were making progress on things and my God, I wasn’t scared for the lives of just about everyone I know.

As for Biden versus Sanders, the argument that Biden is better stems from the fact that while Sanders has helped move the party left with his presidential campaigns and he makes pretty speeches, he hasn’t actually done anything in all his time serving as an elected public official. If you actually go and look at his track record, he hasn’t passed many laws or helped enact a whole lot of others. Everyone’s making a big deal about how he “saved millions of lives” with his big speech but actually, sorry kids, politics are not Hollywood and you don’t save the day by making a speech and miraculously everyone votes on something. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado and Schumer actually talked to people, convinced them on it, and got the votes that secured the unemployment bill being passed, and that’s what saved lives, not someone yelling (no matter how passionate or eloquent their yelling is).

It’s great to yell about how the system is corrupt etc but you have to actually follow those words with actions, and Sanders, historically, is not good about compromising, working with others, reaching out to others, being on a team. And that’s exactly what you need to be able to do in politics to get anything done. There’s an episode of Leverage called “The Gimme a K Job,” where Sophie spends the entire time running back and forth between politicians getting them to compromise and quid pro quo for one another so she can get them to vote on a law. I recommend watching it. The situation is played for laughs, but it’s also brutally honest. You cannot get anything done in politics (or in a lot of things in life) if you aren’t willing to work together and bargain and give some to get some, and Sanders isn’t, and that’s not good.

Now, Sanders has done a lot in his presidential campaign to move the Dem party left and he’s really stirred up younger voters, and those are both good things. If you look at Biden’s policies in the post I linked, you’ll see a lot of them are more liberal than most people expected, and that’s probably because Biden and his team saw everyone supporting Sanders’ policies and went, “oh, okay, this is what the people want.” Which already shows that Biden is willing to listen to the people more than Trump and his party are.

And then there’s the more personal side of things. Sanders really left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth because some of his supporters were so extreme in their support of him, to the point of acting like he’s the only person who could possibly save us, when honestly that’s not how democracy (or socialism, frankly) works. The whole idea is that all of us, working together as a movement, are what makes change. The people all standing up together and demanding that lawmakers do this, that, and the other thing. Sanders extremists, known as “Bernie Bros,” acting like Sanders is their One True Savior has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. In my experience, people don’t like being shouted at and told they’re idiots. And in my experience, one single person isn’t going to save you. And nobody’s perfect so furthermore acting like someone is perfect is only going to annoy everyone else around you and set you up for disappointment down the line.

There are a lot of people out there feeling attacked by Sanders supporters, and so frankly, they’re glad to see the back of him and throw support behind Biden, because they’re just sick of dealing with his extremist followers.

If you want to tear the system down completely then gold star to you, but the fact is otherwise you have to work within the system to change it. And I don’t see any of these people yelling on the internet actually doing the work to organize a revolution. It’s fun to yell about your opinions, it helps you feel better, it helps you feel powerful and heard. But the real work is done in volunteering, in protesting, in running for local offices, in doing research and then voting for your mayor, your governor, your senator, your state representative. Those people, as the COVID-19 epidemic is proving, actually often have more direct power to help or harm you than the President does.

People have more power than they think, but they’re just refusing to use it, and they’re refusing to think critically and to do research on the policies of candidates. I’ve seen people calling Biden a “serial rapist,” for crying out loud, which, whether he assaulted a woman or not, is not true. That’s like if I killed one person and suddenly everyone was calling me a mass murderer. People like to exaggerate, to bloviate, and to think in black and white. It’s disappointing, but true.

One final thought, for both you and actual Americans: look at how non-Americans are viewing the United States election. We are not the center of the universe (although we like to pretend we are) but we do have a huge impact on the global stage, and other countries are begging us to elect someone other than Trump. You want to claim we’re not the stereotype of the selfish, self-centered American? Than put your money where your mouth is and look at the non-Americans who are asking us to please, please, please elect someone else. Do it for them, if nothing else. The world is bigger than just us.

Biden isn’t perfect. One could argue one way or another on the Sanders v. Biden debate. It really depends on your personal opinion. But when it comes to Trump v. Biden, it really shouldn’t be rocket science. One of them has allowed racism, sexism, and xenophobia to thrive. He’s literally responsible for thousands of deaths (and counting) through his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s backed us out of the planet-saving environmental agreement that everyone else agreed to. He’s enabled corrupt, selfish politicians to have their way. He would appoint judges that will strike down everything from refugees to abortion rights. He’s destroyed our international relations, nearly started a war, and I actually don’t think he knows how to read.

And his name’s Trump.

That’s the difference.

#mads answers things #politics #this is the one and only time I am explaining this #all other questions will simply get a link to this post #yokoo-chan98

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anexperimentallife · 5 years

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Honestly, the fact that the right wing (including Dem "leadership," which in any developed country other than the US would be considered right wing) hates Sanders so much that they're hiring people to smear him, and that corporate media owners are so scared of him they're blatantly lying about the content of his speeches (even though we can WATCH them and SEE that they're lying) just strengthens my belief that this elderly Jewish man from a family of Holocaust survivors who was getting arrested for fighting for Black civil rights before he ever ran for office, and who has been supporting the LGBTQA+ community and opposing illegal wars and talking about climate change since back when all that was considered political suicide is the only viable way forward.

Dude's message has been basically the same for over fifty years, even when it was unpopular. It's just gotten more refined. And when he's been wrong, his response has been to ask those involved how to correct himself. And now that masses of voters--especially younger ones--are picking up on things to the point at which corporate owned Dems are afraid of losing their legal bribe money, they're in a panic just like all the other right wing douchebags. (Make no mistake--people like Pelosi will only oppose Trump as much as her corporate owners allow. She already vowed to fight against Medicare for All, among other things.)

But I digress.

Ahem. Keep in mind that even after the DNC ADMITTING to rigging the 2016 primary, and despite Clinton's vile smears, and despite Clinton ADMITTING that Sanders voters were intentionally disenfranchised, once Clinton was declared the Dem candidate, Sanders held 39 rallies to support her, and his supporters voted for her by a much higher percentage than Clinton supporters did Obama. And now they want to criticise him for, among other things, too much air travel to support Clinton to try to stop Trump.

Bernie is the current frontrunner, the most popular politician in the US. But establishment Dems would rather see another four years of Trump than allow Sanders or any other true progressive to run in the general.

I've studied Holocaust Literature. I've also spoken to people who lived under Nazi rule. The US is at a similar place to early-mid 1930s Germany. Ask any historian or political scientist who is an actual authority on the era, and they'll tell you the same thing.

America, thanks to the GOP and (to a lesser degree) old guard establishment Dems, now meets every single criterion to be considered a fascist state. The Intertwining of religion and government, the idea that the US is somehow "chosen by God," the idea that not being sufficiently performatively "patriotic" is suspicious and borderline criminal, the characterization of any critical press as an enemy of the state and people, the scapegoating of ethnic and religious minorities, the push against women's and LGBTQA+ rights, the disdain for education, intellectuals, and the arts, fraudulent elections, disproportionate military spending while domestic infrastructure crumbles, glorification of the military, unlimited police power (see ICE, and also how many cops get away with literal murder), disdain for human rights (we EXECUTED foreign military leaders for waterboarding, but when WE do it, it's apparently just fine), protection of corporate power and the uber-wealthy at the expense of the common people, suppression of labor power, and on and on.

Once we oust the GOP, it's time to clean house in the Democratic party and get rid of every single politician who chooses personal gain over meaningful action on climate change, racial and economic justice, and actually serving the American people and the world.

Because unless we get a series of progressives in the White House, and fill the judicial and legislative branch with progressives before its to late, there will be no saving the US from itself, and I fear no saving the world from the US.

#rob gets political #rob talks about fascism

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antoine-roquentin · 6 years

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Early this month, Cori Bush was defeated in the St. Louis MO congressional primary, by Congressman Lacy Clay. Clay has held the seat since inheriting it from his father in 2001, and his father had it for 32 years. That’s 50 years of a congressman named Clay. Missouri’s first district includes Ferguson, an inner suburb of St. Louis. When four summers ago we saw a handful of public officials in the streets trying to chill out Ferguson protesters, there was a black congressman among them. But that was Emanuel Cleaver, from Kansas City, not the black face who’s family by then had repped the district a good 45 years.

Challenger Cori Bush lost no opportunities to remind people that Clay was AWOL during the entire Ferguson episode, but it was not enough. Bush campaigned on free college, not accepting corporate money, raising the minimum wage, restraining killer cops, more money for public education and Medicare For All, but that wasn’t enough either. She had a great personal story too, a single mother who earned a nursing degree, and spent a while living out of her car. Bush won the backing of Justice Democrats, a national outfit that had quite a lot to do with the mechanics of the Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez campaign in the Bronx a few weeks before. Unlike Ocasio-Cortez, Bush is not a member of Democratic Socialists of America , and has never identified herself as a socialist.

So how exactly did she lose? Nobody else seems willing to offer explanations, beyond shallow wisdom that “St. Louis MO ain’t da Bronx.” The folks who had a thousand good reasons Ocasio-Cortez was the front end of a blue wave have passed on explaining why this blue wave missed in Missouri.

The first thing to see is the obvious, that St. Louis really is NOT the Bronx. Ocasio-Cortez was a working class Puerto Rican woman in a largely Latino district, and her opponent was a 20 year incumbent white guy who was obviously ready to leave for a more lucrative career as a lobbyist. Lacy Clay on the other hand, really wanted to keep that St Louis congressional seat. In 2016 he faced another black woman who’d been tear gassed in the streets of Ferguson, state rep Nadya Chappelle-Nadal, who got 24 thousand votes to Clay’s 56 thousand. So unlike Crowley in the Bronx, Clay didn’t sleep the 2018 race, he ran up 81 thousand votes to Bush’s 53 thousand.

Another dimension in which St. Louis is not New York is voter turnout. New York Republicans and Democrats have deliberately engineered primary elections for low turnout, requiring votes to register as Democrats many months prior to election day just to be eligible. But in Missouri you show up and ask for the Democrat ballot. So Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s 57% of the vote was just under 17 thousand. But Clay’s 57% share in Missouri was 81 thousand, again to Bush’s 53 thousand. Ocasio-Cortez said it took 120,000 phone calls to get that. I don’t know yet how many calls Bush needed to get her 53 thousand but I’ll be asking.

We have to look at the national organizations which backed Ocasio-Cortez, Bush and the rest of this blue wave which is supposed to swamp Congress and state legislatures in 2018. There are at least 3 organizations which help raise money, funnel experienced campaign help, do social media, recruit national phone and text banking assists and more. Those would be Our Revolution, Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats. Brand New Congress claims to have “recruited” Ocasio-Cortez, who was previously one of those in charge of Bernie Sanders’ New York effort. A leader of Justice Democrats served as Cori Bush’s communications director, and both outfits named Bush, who’d run statewide in Missouri for US Senator in 2016, as one of their own. Unlike Ocasio-Cortez Cori Bush has never been a DSA member either, and has never called herself a socialist.

What Brand New Congress, Our Revolution, and Justice Democrats have in common are three things.

The first is a common commitment to taking over or rescuing the Democratic party.

The second is a real reluctance to make any but the sketchiest reference to anything that takes place outside the US – as if the US didn’t have troops in a hundred foreign countries, at least 800 bases in a hundred countries and a trillion dollar military budget supported by most of the Democrats in Congress. Justice Democrats has a statement at the end of their foreign policy that seems to put the military budget around $100 billion instead of the actual trillion, which ten times that size. Cori Bush’s page is typical of the blue wave, it doesn’t mention anything on foreign policy or empire at all.

The most optimistic way to see this collective blind spot is that maybe the blue wave of Congressional candidates don’t want to incur the wrath of the DCCC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is running about 40 former CIA, Homeland Security, State Department, local police and military types for Congress this year, and has plenty money for last minute negative media offensives against would be peacenik congressional candidates in places where they don’t even have candidates.

The least optimistic view is that sketchy or absent references to US empire and foreign policy are how the blue wave candidates signal their willingness to adopt the imperial consensus if they are lucky enough to get elected. After all four fifths of the Congressional Black Caucus and just over half the House Progressive Caucus just voted for Trump’s record military 2019 military budget.

The third thing they all have in common is that few or none have distanced themselves from the drumbeat of RussiaGate, the nonsense that holds Russia responsible for Trump’s victory in 2016, that posits a credible ongoing Russian plot to steal the US elections. To our knowledge none of the blue wave candidates nor the national outfits which back them have stood apart from themselves tendency to label anybody to their left stooges of Russia either.

Bringing it back to St. Louis, Cori Bush had to face something Ocasio-Cortez didn’t. It was something her blue wave backers hadn’t dealt with either. It was the peculiarities of black politics in the US. The 1st CD Missouri is 50% black and there are some unique and well established characteristics of the Democratic party in districts like that, whether they’re in Chicago or Philly or Dallas or Atlanta or wherever.

The first is the black church, which is ridden with local, and since the advent of Bush’s and Obama’s faith based initiative, federal patronage. Black churches are often tied hand and foot to local politicians for everything from real estate deals to charter school contracts, and their leaders are often fixtures in local Democratic party affairs, even public officials themselves. The second is the nonprofit industrial complex, a literal army of advocacy groups sometimes doing housing and homeless activism, sometimes feeding the hungry, sometimes doing worker centers, womens health, tenants rights, LBGTQ activism, environmental stuff. There’s another section of the nonprofit industrial complex which can’t even be called nonpartisan with a straight face, offshoots of the NAACP and the Movement 4 Black Lives. These forces are tied to the political preferences of their corporate philanthropic funders. Executive directors of nonprofit organizations who don’t find a way to support the right Democrats in primary season and all Democrats in general election put their careers, the livelihoods of all their employees, and the outfit’s good works in jeopardy. And there are the unions – heavily public sector and disproportionately people of color, again all tied to the most right wing established Democrats on the local, state and federal level.

Unlike the troops the blue wave outfits can raise once every two years, these things are permanent institutions in black communities. Remember when Atlanta civil rights icon John Lewis stood up in Ebenezer Baptist Church to tell young black folks that free college tuition and free medical care were un-American and the crowd was with him? That’s the complex of forces against which relatively leftist electoral candidates in black communities must run. In old school political language that’s called a Machine, a standing bunch of political institutions which can put significant money into broadcast ads and mailings, speakers and preachers into pulpits, hundreds of bodies in the street and hundreds more the phone banks. Clay had them, and Bush did not. All Bush had was what she could raise on the issues.

The big blue wave outfits probably hadn’t done much work in black communities and didn’t know this. Maybe they were listening to DSA theoreticians like Adam Hiton who imagine the Democratic Party in such places has no real organization. But it’s organized, and it’s very, very real. If you’re going to knock out the right wing Democrats who dominate the electoral politics of black communities you have to do more than hire the right black consultants, although they and the Movement For Black Lives Electoral Justice Project will be glad to keep taking your money. Somebody has to build some other permanent organizations, some other centers of popular power in those communities. It hasn’t been done yet, and won’t be done before the 2018 midterm elections. That’s why Bernie didn’t crack the black vote in 2016, and that’s why the blue wave didn’t crash Missouri in 2018. It’ll be why the wave misses in other black constituencies.

these four orgs (DSA, Our Revolution, Justice Democrats, and Brand New Congress) form the main part of the “Bernie-electoral complex”. essentially, they offer to secure the consent of enthusiastic young workers with enough spare time to be electoral volunteers for the party in exchange for concessions from the Dem donor class, ie unions, lawyers, tech companies, non-profits, etc, on social welfare. thing is, most people in dire straits tend to go for the sure bet over any potential shift in electoral loyalties, which is why machine politics tend to go so well, at least until they don’t. they prefer to have the political patronage they know they already get, even if it’s very minimal, than to risk it on an unsure thing and watch it slip away.

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On President Obama: The Black Swan

“Black swan” is used a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. I cannot think of anything that better describes President Obama. His win in 2008 was a surprise in every possible way. His win against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries was completely unexpected. His win against John McCain, even more so. No one at the beginning of 2008 would have imagined a young black man with the name Barack Hussein Obama would be elected, twice, as the president of the United States. As surprising as his elections were, the effect he has had on the country has been even more significant. Depending on what side of the political spectrum you belong, the effects of his presidency is either extremely positive or negative. What isn't up for debate is whether or not the effects are significant. He is also one of the most misrepresented, misunderstood, misaligned political figure in my lifetime, and an argument can be made in the past hundred years. As a black swan, President Obama went against the entire American history of presidencies. In every way, he stood out in contrast to his predecessor and opposition. From the first time I heard him speak at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 to his last days as President, he has reaffirmed my belief that America didn't deserve him or Michelle, but I'm damn glad they were here for us.

In early 2008, I was a Hillary Clinton supporter. I thought she had the necessary experience and qualifications to be a very good president. As the Democratic primaries played out, I saw something in Barack Obama that made me think he was what we needed at this time in our country's history. Not because he is a black man, I saw this was a secondary perk, but as someone who has a great grasp of history, ideals, and the importance of pragmatism. As a devout pragmatist, I rarely see politicians who fully grasp how moving the country forward as much as possible is more important than ideological purity. Like Justice Stewart's view of pornography, when it comes to pragmatism, “I know it when I see it.” The more I watched candidate Obama, the more I knew he understood progress in ways very few politicians have or do. After eight years of one of the worst administrations since Hoover, what America needed was someone who knew how to move us forward ethically, legally, politically in a rapidly changing world. As much as I liked and respected Hillary, I felt Barack was the one who could move us forward at that moment in our history.

On election night, when he came out on stage in Chicago's Grant Park to give his victory speech, I have never felt more proud of my country. As I wept, listening to him speak, I couldn't imagine how African-Americans must be feeling. As much as his election meant to me personally, I could not imagine the significance it had on Black America. I grew up seeing the violent police actions against peaceful Civil Rights protesters. Even though the Civil Rights Act became law, I have been well aware of how ingrained and widespread racism is in American society. I never, ever thought I would see a black person elected as president. Yet, here was the black swan president-elect in front of a quarter of a million people in Grant Park and millions more watching on t.v. and online laying out a shining beam of hope and a path towards progress. Telling everyone that we are all in this together and it is up to us to demand and work for change. It was everything I've believed in and worked for my entire adult life. At that moment in time, I felt America had finally turned the corner towards the equality, justice, and fairness promised in the country's founding documents. Within months, this feeling of hope was replaced with feelings of frustration. Frustration not at President Obama, but at the cabal of conservatives who met on the night of his inauguration to discuss their strategy of stopping and obstructing everything the new president proposed. A group that included: Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.). Along with former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, and Republican consultant, Frank Luntz. Their meeting has been well-documented and their purpose was to make sure that Republicans not support anything and obstruct everything put forth by the new administration. Keep in mind that this strategy was laid out at a time when the country and the world was going through a serious economic downturn. Their efforts were focused on making sure the new administration failed. Even though he wasn't there, then Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made it publicly known his main goal was to make Obama a one-term president. The GOP was on board, lock-step, to make sure President Obama, and by proxy, America fails. Not long after learning of conservatives' plans to obstruct President Obama, my frustration turned to the far left who turned on the new president because they didn't get what they thought was their due. They wanted single-payer health insurance, banks taken over, and bankers thrown in jail. Single-payer was never going to happen with a coalition of only sixty Democrats and Independents in the Senate. All it took was one to be against it and the whole deal fell apart. With Blue-Dog Dems like Jim Webb, VA, Landrieu, LA, and Ben Nelson, NE, and Independents like Joe Lieberman, there weren't the votes to get single-payer even put up for discussion, let alone voted on or passed. For reasons that can only be explained as a complete lack of basic civics knowledge, the far left blamed President Obama for these Senators never going to vote for single-payer. It doesn't matter that President Obama accomplished something every Democratic president since FDR had tried to do but failed, comprehensive health care reform, they were upset. Never mind the number of uninsured would drop to the lowest in history, they didn't care. They had their mind set on a unicorn and when they didn't get it, they blamed President Obama for not personally delivering it to their doorstep. The far-left had the same unrealistic attitude about the bankers. Never mind that most of the damage done from the mortgage crisis came from products and actions that were perfectly legal, the far left wanted heads on pikes. Never mind during his administration the largest fines ever imposed by the government have been against financial institutions. Never mind he helped get Dodd-Frank passed that is the strongest laws and regulations against the financial sector since FDR. Never mind he came up with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and put far-left hero Elizabeth Warren in charge of it, they didn't get the unicorns they felt was due them. While the right was organizing and whipping up the masses into an anti-socialism frenzy, forming the Tea Party, having town hall meetings around the country, and spreading lie upon lie on social media and in emails, the left was pouting. Democratic members of Congress ran away from Obama and the Affordable Care Act because they were scared to stand up to the crazies on the right. Progressives sat out the 2010 midterms because they didn't get their unicorns. The results of this have been catastrophic. Meanwhile, the black swan president kept finding ways to move the country forward. It wasn't just far-left progressives who abandoned President Obama in 2010, it was also many Democratic members of Congress who lost their spines and balls at the sight of a bunch of angry octogenarians at town hall meetings. They could have stood up for the Affordable Care Act, the stimulus, the auto bailout...but they didn't. They ran away from the President and his policies. Policies, now that he's left office, Democrats in Congress are saying have to be defended with every ounce of effort. Instead of touting how these policies helped the working class, these cowardly Democratic officials hemmed and hawed out weak ass explanations while the opposition was organizing and pushing outlandish talking points and lies that became ingrained in conservatives' belief systems. Meanwhile, the black swan president kept finding ways to move the country forward without help from lawmakers from his own party.

With no way to get anything passed in a now Republican-controlled House, President Obama moved the bar of progress forward anyway. He made sure the DOJ didn't defend DOMA. He expanded protections to the LBGT community. He had the DOJ investigate corrupt and racist police department practices. He got Syria to turn over its chemical weapons. He negotiated a treaty with Iran ending their nuclear weapons program. He did more to fight climate change than any president in history. He helped push a revolution in renewable energies. He expanded federally protected lands. He oversaw the longest positive private sector jobs growth in history. Whether it was the environment, health care, rights or jobs, President Obama did more than just about any modern-day president. And, he did it all with the least amount of help. FDR had major majorities in both houses of Congress every single one of his terms. President Obama had a slim majority in the Senate for a couple of months that was lost when Ted Kennedy got sick and eventually passed away. From that point on, he had no luxury of a working majority in the Senate and Republicans making sure nothing would get done.

Despite unprecedented political opposition, President Obama moved the bar of progress forward. Despite unrelenting racist attacks, he never lashed out. Despite the lack of support from members of his own party, he never turned on them. Despite having his legitimacy questioned from day one, he held his head up and acted with dignity. If you had to construct a president from scratch, you'd be hard pressed to construct one that would be better than President Obama. This doesn't mean he didn't have his flaws. Every president has them. However, his flaws were his willingness to believe his opposition had some bottom to the level to which they'd go, some basic ethical principles, some common ground from which he could work with them. Unfortunately, Republicans had no such limitations on their morals or conscience. It is easy in hindsight to blame President Obama for missing the nature of his opposition. That he wanted to believe the better nature of people could only be called a flaw by the most cynical of people. As the black swan president, Obama had to walk a razor's edge that no one in history has had to tread. He had to be twice as good, twice as nice, twice as everything in order to even be considered “normal.” If he would have been “No Fucks To Give Obama” from the onset, he would have accomplished nothing. His pragmatic nature knew and understood this. Unfortunately, like so many other things, too many progressives did not understand or appreciate not only the unique situation President Obama was in but how deftly he handled it to the betterment of us all. Unfortunately, the razor's edge he had to walk was not understood by even those who claim to have been his allies. Whenever I hear criticism of him from the left, I always ask, “What would you have done differently?” Inevitably, their response comes down to some idealistic act that completely ignores the realities and variables President Obama was faced with at the time he had to make his decision. “I would have pushed for single-payer!” Great, now explain how you would have got the Blue Dog Dems to even consider it so it would be discussed in committee, let alone reach the point where it would be voted on and passed. “I would have closed Gitmo!” Not without approval from Congress. “I would have jailed bankers!” Okay, on what grounds? A lot of the causes of the financial and mortgage meltdown were legal. “I would have helped those who suffered from the mortgage crisis more!” How? What mechanism would you have used and how would you have gotten the majority of Congress to approve it because it would have to have financial help and that has to go through Congress? It is easy to be a Monday-morning quarterback. Hundreds of thousands of fat, lazy, living off their self-perceived glory days of high schools sports do it every day on sports talk shows. Political decisions don't occur in a vacuum. They happen in a very complex environment with dozens of moving parts and hundreds of personal agendas. Wanting someone to do what you think should be done does not translate to what can be done. I've closely watched major political figures here and abroad for the good part of forty years. In this time, I've never seen anyone get more bang-for-the-buck than President Obama. Democrats had a workable majority (60 votes) for all of four months and one week in 2009. That is the amount of time President Obama had legitimately get all the things the left say he could/should have. For two hundred and eight weeks of his presidency, he had a workable majority for seventeen with an opposition party that refused to work with him on ANYTHING but please go ahead and tell me about how he should have done X or Y.

When the history books are written fifty years from now, when I am long dead and gone, I have no doubt that President Obama will be viewed as one of the most influential presidents in American history. Sadly, like other influential presidents before him like Lincoln, FDR, and Johnson, he was not truly appreciated in his time, even by those of his party and those who claimed to be his ally. I will always be proud of my vote for him, twice, to be our president. I will always be upset at those on the right and the left who tried to undermine him. I will always believe that America didn't deserve him. I will always be damn thankful we had him. He was the black swan. He came out of nowhere. He defied all conventions and history. He had and will have a dominant role in history. He will forever be my president.

When I think of President Obama, I am reminded of the scene at the end of “Excalibur” where King Arthur is talking to a mortally wounded Sir Lancelot: “You are that and much more. You are its greatest knight, you are what is best in men.” President Obama was our greatest modern-day president and what is best in men.

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ELECTIONS ’20 | U.S. SENATE Hegar beats West, will face Cornyn

‘Pack it up, buttercup,’ she tells GOP incumbent By ROBERT T. GARRETT and GROMER JEFFERS JR. Staff Writers MJ Hegar defeated Royce West late Tuesday in the runoff for the Democratic nomination for a Texas seat in the U.S. Senate. A little after 11:20 p.m., Hegar declared victory, and a few minutes after that, The Associated Press declared her the Democratic primary winner. “I am humbled by the support we have received from all across the state, and am confident we have a decisive victory,” Hegar said in an email. West gave her a scare, though. The veteran state senator ran strongly in his home base of Dallas County and did well enough in Harris County to offset some of Hegar’s strength in South and Central Texas, as well as many rural counties. With 79% of polling locations reporting, Hegar maintained a nearly 40,000-vote lead out of more than 930,000 cast. “While we may be celebrating tonight, we have to get right back down to work tomorrow,” she said shortly after 10 p.m. “That’s when the real work is going to start. We’re going to kick this career politician to the curb.” Hegar stopped short of declaring victory — but said the Democratic turnout was so large it was “going to cause John Cornyn to have a hard time sleeping tonight.” She then issued a message to Cornyn: “Pack it up, buttercup, because your time has ended and we’re coming back to take our seat back for Texas.” In only her second run for public office, Hegar hopes now to rally base Democrats and disaffected Republicans to an upset victory over three-term GOP Sen. John Cornyn in the fall. For West, it was a race of frustration. “Every time I turned on television, I saw MJ Hegar,” West said earlier, while refusing to concede the race because of unreported precincts in Dallas and Harris counties. “A lot of people in the [Rio Grande] Valley didn’t know who Royce West is.” West, first elected to the state Senate in 1993, struggled to raise money. His duties as a legislator after the coronavirus outbreak were another hurdle, he said. He cast himself as a battle-scarred warrior for women’s rights, gun control, public schools and foster children who could ride the nation’s new urgency about racial inequality and policing to defeat Cornyn. Hegar, a Purple Heart recipient, turns to the Nov. 3 matchup with Cornyn after selling herself as a political disrupter eager to stand apart from political parties and fight for working families — and capable of cutting into Texas Republicans’ margins in both rural areas and the suburbs. Cornyn, 68, is a team player and the former No. 2 official in the Senate Republican leadership. Democrats say he and others in the GOP’s Senate majority are chief enablers of President Donald Trump’s unconventional and divisive leadership. Cornyn has said he’ll stand against “socialism” and has successfully advanced the state’s interests, such as securing federal aid after Hurricane Harvey. While the state’s three decades of red leanings provide some comfort, Cornyn has been unable to break through 40% support in public polls. His fate may be tied to Trump’s. The GOP president’s popularity in Texas, which never reached levels Republicans have grown accustomed to, has sagged amid pushback over his handling of COVID-19 and protests. A Dallas Morning News /University of Texas at Tyler poll conducted June 29 through July 7 showed Cornyn with an 11-point lead over Hegar, 37% to 26%; and ahead of West by just a tad more, 37% to 25%. In both matchups, nearly one-third of registered voters were undecided — and an additional 6% named someone else. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.24 percentage points. While West, 67, a Black lawyer from southern Dallas, has greater backing among African Americans than Hegar, she was able in the poll’s hypothetical matchup with Cornyn to fight him essentially to a draw among independents. She had 24% to Cornyn’s 25%. In the West-Cornyn pairing, Cornyn took independents, 28% to 20%. Since leaving the Air Force, Hegar, 44, has worked as a manager for Seton Healthcare and Dell computers. She lives in Round Rock, where she made her first stab at elective office in 2018. She challenged GOP U.S. Rep. John Carter of Georgetown, losing by only 3 points. Hegar caught the eye of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and other Democratic strategists with a viral ad. It recounted how even though she survived a 2009 firefight with Taliban forces who shot down her medevac helicopter in Afghanistan, a few years later, after leaving the military, she couldn’t get into the offices of members of Congress to press the case for lifting a ban on women in ground combat. She wasn’t a campaign contributor, she explained. But as lead plaintiff in an American Civil Liberties Union suit against the Defense Department, Hegar ultimately succeeded in backing down the Pentagon. That feisty, won’t-take-no-for-an-answer mien is as central to Hegar’s persona as the cherry blossom tattoo on her shrapnel-pocked right arm and shoulder, or her love of Harley-Davidsons. “John Cornyn, I know that you’re watching,” Hegar said in a debate last month. “I’ve got bad news for you: This relationship is not working out, honey. Let me tell you, we’re just not that into you.” West, though, has dismissed Hegar’s schtick as one part real, three parts bravado. “I like MJ as a person; she’s a good person,” West told the Austin American-Statesman earlier this month. “And I applaud her service, I really do. But you know the reality comes down to, who is best qualified to lead?” West described himself as the experienced legislator, ready to shape consensus, pass bills and end Washington gridlock as soon as he lands on the Senate floor. As their runoff contest, constrained by coronavirus to virtual appearances, drew to a close, West hammered the contrast home. He called himself the “true Democrat” in the race and criticized Hegar for once giving a campaign donation to Cornyn and for voting in the 2016 GOP presidential primary. Hegar said she gave money to Cornyn because he only paid attention to donors. She described her vote in the 2016 GOP primary as an effort to stop Trump from getting his party’s presidential nomination. Then Hegar blasted West for being a “career politician” and for becoming rich while in public office. West countered that there’s nothing wrong with an experienced Black lawyer making money, suggesting that Hegar was being racially insensitive. On issues, neither Democrat actually veered as far to the left as Cornyn hoped back in February, when it looked as if the party’s presidential nominee could be Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Though Cornyn may gloss over the nuances, Hegar and West both stopped shy of endorsing Medicare for All or the Green New Deal. Like their party’s putative nominee for president, Joe Biden, they’re both for a “public option” to be added to a strengthened version of Obamacare, to serve as a check on private insurers. Hegar especially was leery of consumer price hikes that could be triggered by the Green New Deal, a progressive plan to end use of fossil fuels and ameliorate income inequality. Both Democrats endorsed legalization of marijuana and at least would consider removing funds from police departments if civil rights were violated. In the runoff, Hegar enjoyed a sizable spending advantage over West. It was augmented by last-minute TV ads on her behalf paid for by Schumer’s Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington and the national feminist group EMILY’s List. As the race turns to November, Cornyn has an overwhelming fundraising advantage. He has $14.5 million in his campaign fund. Days before the runoff, Hegar had $1.6 million in the bank, while West trailed badly with about $160,000. [email protected], [email protected] Twitter: @RobertTGarrett, @gromerjeffers

24TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Valenzuela chosen to face Van Duyne

Fall race likely to be explosive as Dems try to flip Marchant seat By NIC GARCIA Staff Writer [email protected] Democrats in Dallas’ suburbs selected Candace Valenzuela to be their nominee in one of the most hotly contested national races this year — putting her on a trajectory to be Congress’ first Afro-Latina member if she wins in the fall. Valenzuela beat retired Air Force Col. Kim Olson on Tuesday in the Democratic runoff in Texas’ 24th Congressional District, which spans Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties. As of 10 p.m., Valenzuela led in each county, a devastating blow for Olson, who invested heavily in Tarrant County and promised to deliver a slate of Democratic victories in the statehouse. Olson had not conceded the race late Tuesday. “I’m proud to announce tonight our grassroots coalition has won,” Valenzuela told supporters via Zoom before acknowledging her family. “We’ve made a commitment as this family to fight for this district, to fight for this state, to fight for this country.” Valenzuela, a former Carrollton-Farmers Branch school board member, will now face former Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne, a Republican. The fall matchup is sure to be explosive with the issues of identity and progressive policies at the center of it. Van Duyne wasted no time going on the attack. “Candace has actively sought and received support from many extremist elected officials and organizations who believe in dismantling American security, fundamental rights, and crushing North Texans under socialized medicine and higher taxes on middle-class families,” she said in a statement. National Democrats have singled out the suburban seat as key to their strategy of keeping the U.S. House of Representatives. As demographics in the district have shifted, the seat has become more competitive. Republican Rep. Kenny Marchant easily won his seat nearly two decades ago. However, he narrowly held on in 2018, beating his Democratic opponent by just three points. Marchant, a Coppell resident, is one of six Republicans retiring from Congress at the end of the year. Valenzuela was already the favorite of progressive Democrats in Washington, garnering endorsements from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Georgia Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon. National support for Valenzuela is likely to intensify given the renewed attention on race issues. Valenzuela, 36, made her identity as an Afro-Latina central to her candidacy: She looks more like the constituents of the district, which is now majority non-white. She also argued that she was better suited to craft economic and social justice policies based on her experience growing up poor and homeless. Olson and Valenzuela were the top two vote-getters in a crowded Democratic March primary. A runoff was triggered because neither woman earned more than 50% of the vote. Days after the primary, the coronavirus pandemic led to stay-at-home orders that limited campaigning and ultimately delayed the runoff, which was originally scheduled for May. Both campaigns were forced to take their message online. Each hosted rounds of town halls on Zoom and Facebook. Olson invested heavily in early voting applications while Valenzuela went big on digital messaging such as text messages. The race between Olson and Valenzuela largely focused on Olson’s resume and Valenzuela’s biography. Olson was one of the nation’s first female military pilots. Following her time in the Air Force, which included a tour in Iraq, she worked in both the public and nonprofit sectors. She raised her profile substantially in 2018 when she ran to be the state’s agriculture commissioner. The race, which intensified in recent weeks, was punctuated by hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside spending. Groups supporting both women filled the airwaves, mailboxes and social media to promote each candidate. Valenzuela’s supporters went negative, attacking Olson’s record as the former human resources director at the Dallas Independent School District

Hate Van Duyne- was our mayor for a while, then Donny-boy hired her away for what-ever- coldest bitch you will ever meet

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@RealDonaldTrump -> Here we go with the Fake Polls. Just like what happened with the Election against Crooked Hillary Clinton + IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE!

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@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Here we go with the Fake Polls. Just like what happened with the Election against Crooked Hillary Clinton. ABC, NBC, CNN, @nytimes, @washingtonpost, they all got it wrong, on purpose. Suppression Polls so early? They will never learn!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019

July 15, 2019 at 10:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150779375358480390

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE! It is your choice, and your choice alone. This is about love for America. Certain people HATE our Country….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019

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@realDonaldTrump tweeted

….They are anti-Israel, pro Al-Qaeda, and comment on the 9/11 attack, “some people did something.” Radical Left Democrats want Open Borders, which means drugs, crime, human trafficking, and much more….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019

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@realDonaldTrump tweeted

….Detention facilities are not Concentration Camps! America has never been stronger than it is now – rebuilt Military, highest Stock Market EVER, lowest unemployment and more people working than ever before. Keep America Great!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019

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@realDonaldTrump tweeted

The Dems were trying to distance themselves from the four “progressives,” but now they are forced to embrace them. That means they are endorsing Socialism, hate of Israel and the USA! Not good for the Democrats!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019

July 15, 2019 at 05:26PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150879404593205249

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

The Obama Administration built the Cages, not the Trump Administration! DEMOCRATS MUST GIVE US THE VOTES TO CHANGE BAD IMMIGRATION LAWS.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019

July 15, 2019 at 05:46PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150883529141739520

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019

July 15, 2019 at 05:56PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150886874325630976

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

“The best economy in our lifetime!” @IngrahamAngle

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

July 15, 2019 at 10:06PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150948978218979328

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

The Democrat Congresswomen have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party. Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

July 16, 2019 at 07:21AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151089268535767042

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

…..shouting of the F…word, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills. Why isn’t the House voting to rebuke the filthy and hate laced things they have said? Because they are the Radical Left, and the Democrats are afraid to take them on. Sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

July 16, 2019 at 07:21AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151089269538217984

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

“Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason. He accuses Google of working with the Chinese Government.” @foxandfriends A great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone! The Trump Administration will take a look!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

July 16, 2019 at 07:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151095675213553664

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

If you come after the President, the Country, the Flag – he’s going to defend himself. What the squad doesn’t like is that Donald Trump is enforcing the very laws that are on the books that were put there by Congress.” Jason Chaffetz. Also, buy Jason’s great new book, POWER GRAB!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

July 16, 2019 at 08:02AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151099363445358592

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Our Country is Free, Beautiful and Very Successful. If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

July 16, 2019 at 08:21AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151103647637487616

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body! The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game. Republicans should not show “weakness” and fall into their trap. This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements and lies told by the Democrat…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

July 16, 2019 at 10:02AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151129281134768128

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

…..Congresswomen, who I truly believe, based on their actions, hate our Country. Get a list of the HORRIBLE things they have said. Omar is polling at 8%, Cortez at 21%. Nancy Pelosi tried to push them away, but now they are forever wedded to the Democrat Party. See you in 2020!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Joe Biden was caught on camera saying: “We need family separation.”

VIDEO:https://t.co/sl4Nt7QylD

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 05:02PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150147469134704640

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is a far superior leader than was Lame Duck Speaker Paul Ryan. Tougher, smarter and a far better fundraiser, Kevin is already closing in on 44 Million Dollars. Paul’s final year numbers were, according to Breitbart, “abysmal.” People like…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 05:21PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150152760362438657

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

….Paul Ryan almost killed the Republican Party. Weak, ineffective & stupid are not exactly the qualities that Republicans, or the CITIZENS of our Country, were looking for. Right now our spirit is at an all time high, far better than the Radical Left Dems. You’ll see next year!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 05:21PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150152762044440576

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

94% Approval Rating in the Republican Party, an all time high. Ronald Reagan was 87%. Thank you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 05:21PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150153250806685697

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

A big risk of major flooding in large parts of Louisiana and all across the Gulf Coast. Please be very careful!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 07:31AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150366822547562496

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:31AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381394234941448

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:31AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381395078000643

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:31AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381396994723841

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Proof it’s all about emotion to liberals! I’m not a small guy, and she was afraid of my @realDonaldTrump hat!

Are You Kidding Me!!!

Thank you @FogCityMidge for standing in battle with me! #maga #trump #WomensMarchpic.twitter.com/I5aFjLHXZQ

— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) January 24, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:36AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150382536977199107

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Thank you to @realDonaldTrump for your incredible acknowledgment & support of #WalkAway back in October. #WalkAway turns 1 year old today!!! And I must agree with POTUS, it is something very special. https://t.co/ZQ3zMfkWX2

— Brandon Straka (@usminority) May 26, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:36AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150383183084568576

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

“In January of 2017, I bitterly proclaimed on social media that I would never be able to understand how anybody could vote for a man who stood before a cheering crowd & mocked a reporter’s disability. That’s when somebody sent me this…” SEE FULL VIDEO: https://t.co/HPihnCtVZn pic.twitter.com/m7P5bxbibY

— Brandon Straka (@usminority) July 12, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150383647385640969

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Thank you, so nice, but we are getting it done anyway! https://t.co/w2fhJK6FmF

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150384263088525312

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Wow! Somebody is actually doing Something about this! Bravo! Brandon is a true patriot!

— CarrieDunfee (@Carrie_Dunfee) July 12, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150384410035924993

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Thanks Brandon! Keep it coming!

— Mary Marsh (@mhmarsh82) July 12, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150384452713025542

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Amen! You got it right Brandon!🏻🇺🇸

— Deplorable Diane (@akita915) July 12, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150384489518051328

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Frm Zimbabwe I stand with Pres Trump, so sick of CNN pundits, haters

— Ba’milan (@Bamilan6) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150384566739329028

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Love this! You’re awesome

— Melissa McIntyre (@teamzachy) July 12, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150384597047361536

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Bravo Brandon

— Darren (@dtvaneps) July 13, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150385990550380544

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

You nailed it! Thanks, Brandon Straka!

— Marlowe Macintyre (@MarloweMacinty1) July 13, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150385998464991232

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

You are an inspiration. I applaud your courage.

— CuddleyAnimal (@CuddlyAnimal1) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386027024015360

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

This film is AMAZING! You’ve got tremendous courage!

— Patti Lynn (@PattiLy79084071) July 12, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386062235226112

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

At some point the light bulb comes on. I hope there are more Brandon’s out there.

— Dot Jones Vallin 12312020 (@Blondenevadan) July 13, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386124235386880

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Great job Brandon 🏻️

— JacquiRiker (@RikerJacqui) July 13, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386148629504000

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Great job Sir. Keep the fires burning. The TRUTH WILL win out!

— Ken Gentry (@kenpgentry) July 12, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386185040273408

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

That was powerful thank you!

— ️Always️ (@bellavochi) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386258373480448

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Preach it brother Brandon!!

— Carl Colburn (@gatorfin40) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386319698382848

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

🏻🏻🏻🏻🏻 I am so thankful you saw the light!!!

— Amy Johnson (@MsMaimie) July 13, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386390733074432

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

great video

— JJ Bruno (@JJmyriteload) July 13, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386396605145088

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Thank you for loving America.

— JBRC4EVER (@Jbrc4E) July 12, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386427177443328

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

I love President Trump!! #Trump2020Landslide

— Debra Garrett (@debragarrett) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150386648196243457

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

This is what the ‘new conservative movement’ looks like https://t.co/10b4pnxoNT#FoxBusiness @usminority @MariaBartiromo

— Joy Villa (@Joy_Villa) July 8, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 08:56AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150387910841176064

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Friday’s tour showed vividly, to politicians and the media, how well run and clean the children’s detention centers are. Great reviews! Failing @nytimes story was FAKE! The adult single men areas were clean but crowded – also loaded up with a big percentage of criminals……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019

July 14, 2019 at 09:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150400995177959427

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

…..Sorry, can’t let them into our Country. If too crowded, tell them not to come to USA, and tell the Dems to fix the Loopholes – Problem Solved!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Alex Acosta informed me this morning that he felt the constant drumbeat of press about a prosecution which took place under his watch more than 12 years ago was bad for the Administration, which he so strongly believes in, and he graciously tendered his resignation….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 10:56AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149693838300024833

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

….Alex was a great Secretary of Labor and his service is truly appreciated. He will be replaced on an acting basis by Pat Pizzella, the current Deputy Secretary.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 10:56AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149693842263642113

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

We have a GREAT TEAM in Pennsylvania! I’m proud to say that our good friends Lawrence Tabas & Bernadette “Bernie” Comfort will now be working together to run the @PAGOP. Lawrence will be Chairman & Bernie will Chair my Pennsylvania Campaign. We must have, & do, great UNITY in PA!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 12:26PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149715365741703170

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

As hazardous conditions arrive along the Gulf Coast today with #Barry, get information on local weather and impacts from @NWSNewOrleans @NWSLakeCharles @NWSMobile@NWSJacksonMS pic.twitter.com/XRl4EiBHoN

— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 12:56PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149721665494048768

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

I am thrilled to be back in the Great State of Wisconsin with the extraordinary men & women of Derco Aerospace! We are here today to celebrate the triumphant return of American Manufacturing, and everything we are doing to keep the assembly lines rolling…https://t.co/6jR72cNNPH

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 04:31PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149777787747803136

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Tennessee loving Bill Hagerty, who was my Tennessee Victoy Chair and is now the very outstanding Ambassador to Japan, will be running for the U.S. Senate. He is strong on crime, borders & our 2nd A. Loves our Military & our Vets. Has my Complete & Total Endorsement!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 04:41PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149779387077791749

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Toured the Donna Processing Center with @SecondLady and saw firsthand how even in the face of our overwhelmed facilities, @CBP is providing humane and compassionate care. Congress MUST reform our laws to end this unsustainable crisis of illegal immigration at the border. pic.twitter.com/zQZkJKRGU4

— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 05:11PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149788113968910337

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Earlier this year President @realDonaldTrump declared the border crisis a national emergency and today Mexico is doing more to secure the border than Democrats in Congress. We won’t rest or relent until we put an END to the crisis once and for all!

— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 06:21PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149804154434596869

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

In 2016 Wisconsin came up big for @realDonaldTrump. With him visiting us again today, let’s show him how much support he has in our state for 2020! Support President Trump and his conservative champions in Wisconsin at this @winred link. Let’s roll! https://t.co/C047F6uyJN

— Sean Duffy (@Duffy4Wisconsin) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 06:21PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149804499499921409

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

The DOW, S&P 500, and NASDAQ all close the week at a new record high! pic.twitter.com/wPJiM8n7m2

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 06:51PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149812548625195008

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Leaving the Great State of Ohio! pic.twitter.com/WTLC1fFzWl

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 09:16PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149849263268147201

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

.@RepAndyBiggsAZ is right. For months, Democrats claimed there wasn’t even a crisis on the border!

They sure have changed their tune. pic.twitter.com/Mxmm2LFvKa

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 10:21PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149865224490684417

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

#WGDP is proud to work w/ @USAID to advance women’s economic empowerment. Thank you @USAIDMarkGreen for your commitment to advancing a true national security imperative. https://t.co/M3Mjl3dhUM

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 10:21PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149865408943595520

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Great to have UNITY in Pennsylvania! We are excited to get to work with @PAGOPChairman Lawrence Tabas and @TeamTrump Pennsylvania Chairwoman Bernadette “Bernie” Comfort. Together, they will deliver the Commonwealth for @realDonaldTrump! https://t.co/SyzTNnQ0ml

— Brad Parscale (@parscale) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 10:21PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149865831767187456

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Rep. @Jim_Jordan let’s loose on all of the elected Democrats in Congress who’ve denied there’s a crisis at the border and prioritized political smear hearings like the one they had with Michael Cohen over the very real crisis at our southern border. pic.twitter.com/3CGmhJmk5Y

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 10:21PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149865892429357056

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Just returned to the beautiful @WhiteHouse after a great day in Wisconsin and Ohio! pic.twitter.com/WVp3KeKg8h

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 11:41PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149886161432797184

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

“BOOMERANG OF JUSTICE” @SeanHannity pic.twitter.com/MUbkCXRpfM

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2019

July 12, 2019 at 11:56PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149889094664802311

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

“EXPOSING THE REAL 2016 ELECTION SCANDAL!” pic.twitter.com/WUNOSKZC6T

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 12:11AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149893888951369728

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

“MUELLER’S PARTISAN WITCH HUNT!” pic.twitter.com/XTD5f5ZOz2

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 12:26AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149896948507430912

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Three of the most spectacular golf courses in the world @TrumpGolf

Tune into @GolfChannel next week during @TheOpen to catch our latest commercial #TheTrumpTriangle pic.twitter.com/UQVtUgFpba

— The Trump Organization (@Trump) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150006303793844224

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Thank you to @realDonaldTrump for the invite to the White House Social Media Summit. I enjoyed my time and am grateful for the chance to be heard.

Trump told the room “some of you are extraordinary…can’t say all of you…but, the crap you think of is unbelievable.”

— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) July 11, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150006694862315520

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

ignoring the excellent care being provided to families and children. Our great @CBPagents deserve better and the American people deserve the whole story from CNN! pic.twitter.com/hsKsU6umhW

— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150007068209942529

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

CNN is so dishonest. Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well.

— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150007131179048961

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Federal, state, and local law enforcement must work together to enforce our laws and protect our communities. I applaud @GovMattBevin for taking action on this issue. https://t.co/DReXMK1Smb

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:41AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150007316818907136

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

.@realDonaldTrump is right: we can’t just hope Big Tech will behave better. We have to hold them accountable https://t.co/Kt8ibPAcXF

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150007369163771904

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Rick Perry: Now that Ross Perot is gone, I can tell this story | Commentary | Dallas News https://t.co/pWaySYxYLh

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150007481558396928

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Does anyone else remember when Democrats used to oppose illegal immigration? pic.twitter.com/PFfx1guFm7

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150007756499365889

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

My latest OpEd read and RT🇺🇸

Donald Trump will win the Democratic Party civil war | TheHill https://t.co/NhftUC975e

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150007979858698241

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Former Obama Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson warned that decriminalization would attract hundreds of thousands of new migrants to the southern border https://t.co/XSD6eq94Pe

— The Hill (@thehill) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:46AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150008225691066368

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

At @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell’s request the Trump Administration will aid #Kentuckyin the War on #AsianCarp by dedicating @USFWS @USGS personnel & equipment to work with @kyfishwildlife and fishermen: https://t.co/R8WSFCzO5ppic.twitter.com/ySvQdQWdaj

— Senator McConnell Press (@McConnellPress) July 11, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150008723601010688

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Increased agency coordination. Millions of dollars in direct aid to state election officials. Updating election systems. These are just a few of the parts of the ongoing, coordinated federal, state, and local campaign to shore up America’s election security.

— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) July 11, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150008850008985602

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

It’s a fact: The Trump administration, hand-in-hand with the Senate has punched back hard at Russian election interference that happened on the Obama administration’s watch. pic.twitter.com/2k4SSGse5E

— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) July 10, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150009014803214337

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

BREAKING: John Hackett, former Director of IPS, which handles records management at the State Dept, testified that he raised concerns that Clinton’s staff had “culled out 30k” of her “personal” emails w/o following strict National Archives standards (1/3).https://t.co/mBB1hZwcWn

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 2, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 07:51AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150009390583439360

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Andy McCabe is a major sleazebag. Among many other things, he took massive amounts of money from Crooked Hillary reps, for wife’s campaign, while Hillary was under “investigation” by FBI! https://t.co/bHweiBBj7z

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:02AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150011125347627009

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

.@TomFitton‘s breaking news on #Clintonemailscandal: “New testimony shows Obama State Dept hid Clinton emails & then let her delete 33k contrary to law. Also, Obama State put national security at risk by purposely under classifying Clinton Benghazi emails.”https://t.co/mBB1hZwcWn pic.twitter.com/96D7m0MsfZ

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:02AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150011785795293185

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

JW announced that it filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ for records of communications between the FBI & former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe related to his book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump. https://t.co/DbXXJvQsgS

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:15AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150014763931525120

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

.@TomFitton: “The president should direct the DOJ to re-open the Clinton investigation to reassure Americans that there was a fair, competent & unbiased investigation. It’s clear that there was a cover-up to protect Hillary that goes beyond misconduct relating to her emails.” pic.twitter.com/GTTO0SvKYp

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:15AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150014951421087750

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Hillary Clinton is not above the law, yet she has a record of contempt for the rule of law. Our leaders are bound by the rule of law, so Clinton must be held accountable. Sign JW’s petition now to demand that Hillary Clinton answer for her corruption! https://t.co/izzxGTqd2D pic.twitter.com/llJ33j36tR

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:15AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150015062201032704

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

@TomFitton: Why Didn’t Mueller Investigate Clinton Campaign Getting Anti-Trump Dirt from Russians? https://t.co/bHMktH5Fre

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:15AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150015104437633024

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

.@TomFitton: “We are all supposed to pretend that Mueller’s investigation was legit & it was part of an effort to remove the president from office improperly by making up allegations of foreign interference and conspiracy that they knew didn’t exist.”https://t.co/QdFvnaKc0m pic.twitter.com/stiV6p2Y7a

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:15AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150015199644135427

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

.@TomFitton: “The dossier, used by Mueller to target @realDonaldTrump, should have been investigated by #Mueller if he was interested in the real Russian interference in the election. It’s the cornerstone of the real Russia interference in the campaign.”https://t.co/mEoAgoFtQj pic.twitter.com/xs6kgSf07J

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:15AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150015388316577792

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

.@TomFitton in @FoxNews: “The Dems recognize there are issues w/Mueller’s testimony. They’re trying to protect themselves by breaking the rules of Congress to get @realDonaldTrump, not only w/subpoenas, but destroying the rights of members themselves.”https://t.co/I7mxMQ50xb

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:15AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150015655044952065

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

Judicial Watch’s latest press release on CA cleaning up 1.5M names on the voter rolls is a step towards cleaner elections and #electionintegrity. Retweet if you agree and CLICK HERE: https://t.co/uHl3mXC6mc pic.twitter.com/f9HthOlVkB

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:15AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150015724838146048

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

JW 60 Seconds: John Hackett, former Director of IPS, which handles records management at the State Dept, testified that he raised concerns that Clinton’s staff had “culled out 30k” of her “personal” emails w/o following strict National Archives standards.https://t.co/mBB1hZwcWn pic.twitter.com/sbCil1Nk7D

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 12, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:16AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150015946070941701

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

This is one of the most horrible abuses of all. Those texts between gaga lovers would have told the whole story. Illegal deletion by Mueller. They gave us “the insurance policy.” https://t.co/EEa41Kn6fX

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019 at 08:21AM via Twitter http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150017240395395077

@realDonaldTrump tweeted

#Barry will slowly move inland today and continue to produce the following hazards…

-Life-threatening storm surge to coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi

-Heavy rainfall and flash flooding

-Strong wind and the threat for downed trees and power lines https://t.co/TlLORwLDeR

— National Weather Service (@NWS) July 13, 2019

@RealDonaldTrump -> Here we go with the Fake Polls. Just like what happened with the Election against Crooked Hillary Clinton + IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE! @RealDonaldTrump -> Here we go with the Fake Polls. Just like what happened with the Election against Crooked Hillary Clinton + IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE!

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HAPPPPY SATURDAY PATRIOTS!Hope everyone is enjoying another TREMENDOUS afternoon under our glorious President, Donald J. Trump! This is u/ivaginaryfriend here to help kick off this Saturday, recap style! If you guys wanted to catch up on any past recaps, you can check them out here!Now onto the show!Sunday, October 21st:TODAY'S ACTION:2018 White House Fall Garden TourPresident Trump Delivers a Statement Upon Departure🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Full efforts are being made to stop the onslaught of illegal aliens from crossing our Souther Border. People have to apply for asylum in Mexico first, and if they fail to do that, the U.S. will turn them away. The courts are asking the U.S. to do things that are not doable!The Caravans are a disgrace to the Democrat Party. Change the immigration laws NOW!Best Jobs Numbers in the history of our great Country! Many other things likewise. So why wouldn’t we win the Midterms? Dems can never do even nearly as well! Think of what will happen to your now beautiful 401-k’s!Facebook has just stated that they are setting up a system to “purge” themselves of Fake News. Does that mean CNN will finally be put out of business?Ron @RonDeSantisFL DeSantis had a great debate victory tonight against Andrew Gillum, a mayor who presides over one of the worst run, and most corrupt, cities in Florida. Ron will build on the great job done by Governor Rick Scott. Gillum will make Florida the next Venezuela!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Trump administration considering narrowing legal definition of gender: report - 2 Genders!!Guatemala catches 100 ISIS fighters ahead of migrant caravan arrivalTRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN MANAGER BRAD PARSCALE: Incredible numbers for #HoustonRally. 100,000+ RSVPs. I have flown in early and my great team is setting up the first ever TAILGATER for outside. So everyone come, room for everyone. Come see @realDonaldTrump inside or out!🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:NPC protests POTUS ignores real issues"No way José" - GodNPCs in Europe right now.Monday, October 22nd:TODAY'S ACTION:President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration PostsPresident Trump Delivers a Statement Upon Departure🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Congressman Tom Reed of New York’s 23rd District has done a great job. He has my complete and total Endorsement!Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy. Must change laws!Every time you see a Caravan, or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our pathetic Immigration Laws! Remember the Midterms! So unfair to those who come in legally.Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them.Big Night In Texas!!!!“Shock report: US paying more for illegal immigrant births than Trump’s wall”“America: the Cleanest Air in the World - BY FAR!”The Fake News Media has been talking about recent approval ratings of me by countries around the world, including the European Union, as being very low.... ... ....I say of course they’re low - because for the first time in 50 years I am making them pay a big price for doing business with America. Why should they like me? — But I still like them!WOW - thank you Houston, Texas! I am departing @Andrews_JBA now. See you in a few hours!! #MAGA🇺🇸Last day to register to VOTE in Alabama, California, South Dakota and Wyoming! #JobsNotMobs http://Vote.GOPLet’s go FLORIDA! http://bit.ly/2yEwVSQ crowds inside and outside of the @ToyotaCenter in Houston, Texas. Landing shortly - see everyone soon! #MAGA🇺🇸http://bit.ly/2OcK36C YOU HOUSTON, TEXAS. Get out and http://bit.ly/2HIbOFb ! #JobsNotMobs http://bit.ly/2O9qXOT stake in this Election is whether we continue the extraordinary prosperity we have achieved - or whether we let the Radical Democrat Mob take a giant wrecking ball to our Country and our Economy! #JobsNotMobsToday’s Democrat Party would rather protect criminal aliens than AMERICAN CITIZENS - which is why the Democrats must be voted OUT of OFFICE! #JobsNotMobs http://bit.ly/2yE7UHx send our deepest condolences to @RepLouBarletta and the entire Barletta family, on the passing of his brother. Lou has been working so hard despite this terrible situation for the people of Pennsylvania. Our thoughts and prayers are with Lou and the entire Barletta family!Congressman Erik Paulsen of the Great State of Minnesota has done a fantastic job in cutting Taxes and Job Killing Regulations. Hard working and very smart. Keep Erik in Congress. He has my Strong Endorsement!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:President Trump Takes Aim At Voter Fraud, Liberals Go BerserkTrump 'obsessed' with getting to 5% growth. Larry Kudlow: “I can tell you after a few months on the job, this man is indefatigable. Donald Trump doesn’t stop. He barely sleeps. It’s almost impossible to keep up with him. He is truly obsessed with restoring American greatness.”A question for all the liberals and Democrats who lurk here, courtesy of El RushboTrump vows to send as many troops 'as necessary' to keep growing migrant caravan outHundreds of Trump supporters wait in cold for MAGA rally HoustonPRESS BRIEFINGS, INTERVIEWS, RALLIES:MAGATHREAD & WATCH PARTY: President Trump & Senator Ted Cruz Rally - Houston, TX - 10/22/18🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Texas Pedes are killing it today 😂😂If This Doesn’t Fire You Up, Check Your PulseHmmmm.....Captchas are getting out of hand...Outrage UpdatedTuesday, October 23rd:TODAY'S ACTION:Presidential Proclamation on United Nations Day, 2018President Trump Delivers Remarks at the White House State Leadership Day ConferencePresident Trump Signs S.3021, 'America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018'President Trump Receives a Briefing from Senior Military Leaders🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Jay Webber of New Jersey, running for Congress, is doing a great job against a person who is looking to raise Taxes substantially. Jay wants big Tax Cuts and Changes. A Harvard graduate and father of seven, Jay will be great for New Jersey and get the job done-and I will help!The people of Puerto Rico are wonderful but the inept politicians are trying to use the massive and ridiculously high amounts of hurricane/disaster funding to pay off other obligations. The U.S. will NOT bail out long outstanding & unpaid obligations with hurricane relief money!Congressman John Faso of New York has worked hard and smart. Strong on Crime, Borders and our 2nd Amendment, John is respected by all. Vote for John. He has my complete and total Endorsement!(Video)#JobsNotMobs http://bit.ly/2O9qY5p of dollars are, and will be, coming into United States coffers because of Tariffs. Great also for negotiations - if a country won’t give us a fair Trade Deal, we will institute Tariffs on them. Used or not, jobs and businesses will be created. U.S. respected again!(Retweeting U.S. Dept of Defense) Never forgotten! On Oct. 23, 1983, the #Beirut Marine Barracks bombing took the lives of 241 #Marines, #sailors and #soldiers. 35 years later, family, military and community continue to honor them at the #BeirutMemorial. #HonorThemI agree with President Obama 100%!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Claire McCaskill: I Want James O'Keefe Investigated... Because He Exposed My Anti-Gun Views And I Want To Be Re-ElectedChick-fil-A overtakes (liberal) Starbucks as teens' favorite restaurant!Trump's Deputies Are Ending Obama-Created Outsourcing ProgramPro-tip: If you say "those jobs aren't coming back" and ask your successor "what magic wand do you have?", you get exactly ZERO percent of the credit when he does it.Paul Manafort has not told Robert Mueller anything incriminating about Donald Trump - NO COLLUSION!PRESS BRIEFINGS, INTERVIEWS, RALLIES:WATCH PARTY: Georgia Gubernatorial Debate 7:00 PM ET🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Two Very Important Pronouns!NO ONE CAN STOP THE MASSIVE CROWD OF THE GOD EMPERORPerfect summary of the two choices America has10×'s a weekWednesday, October 24th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Donald J. Trump Announces his Designation and Intent to Nominate Individuals to Key Administration PostsPresident Trump Delivers Remarks on a Year of Historic Progress & Action to Combat the Opioid CrisisVice President Mike Pence Leads a Meeting of the Space Council🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:For those who want and advocate for illegal immigration, just take a good look at what has happened to Europe over the last 5 years. A total mess! They only wish they had that decision to make over again.We are a great Sovereign Nation. We have Strong Borders and will never accept people coming into our Country illegally!Brian Kemp will be a GREAT Governor of Georgia. Stacey Abrams will destroy the State. Sooooo important, get out and VOTE for Brian!Republicans will totally protect people with Pre-Existing Conditions, Democrats will not! Vote Republican.I agree wholeheartedly!The safety of the American People is my highest priority. I have just concluded a briefing with the FBI, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Secret Service...Just arrived in Wisconsin to help two great people, @ScottWalker and @LeahVukmir!Just leaving Wisconsin. @ScottWalker and @LeahVukmir are fantastic people, badly needed for our Country! #MAGASIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:"Pipe bomb" recovered from CNN. Odd the stamps aren't postmarked, but somehow got mailed to the CNN building.Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter: This is the dumbest statement in the history of both politics and economics. Remember when @realDonaldTrump said he would hit 4% GDP growth and you said “There’s no magic want for that”? Well ABRACADABRA @barackobama, we are at 4.2%.Line-up to Trump rally began more than 29 hours before the President's arrivalIt’s almost as if everyone forgot that just a few weeks ago ricin was sent to Trump.PRESS BRIEFINGS, INTERVIEWS, RALLIES:WATCH PARTY - President Trump and Governor Scott Walker - Mosinee, WI - 10/24/2018🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:MFW I'm supposed to believe right wing terrorists are suddenly mailing bombs to Democrats that don't currently hold any power, two weeks before midterms that are looking great for Republicans nowFull panic mode with less than 2 weeks to cram.Suspicious package found at Michelle Obama’s home.When the MAGA rallies end...every timeThursday, October 25th:TODAY'S ACTION:Presidential Memorandum on Developing a Sustainable Spectrum Strategy for America’s FuturePresident Trump Delivers Remarks at the 35th Anniversary of the Attack on Beirut Barracks🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council is right when he says on @foxandfriends that the Democrat inspired laws make it tough for us to stop people at the Border. MUST BE CHANDED, but I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!The New York Times has a new Fake Story that now the Russians and Chinese (glad they finally added China) are listening to all of my calls on cellphones. Except that I rarely use a cellphone, & when I do it’s government authorized. I like Hard Lines. Just more made up Fake News!“Remarks by President Trump on a Year of Historic Progress and Action to Combat the Opioid Crisis” http://bit.ly/2yD2I6B those in the Caravan, turnaround, we are not letting people into the United States illegally. Go back to your Country and if you want, apply for citizenship like millions of others are doing!Spoke with French President @EmmanuelMacron this morning. Discussed many topics including the very exciting upcoming visit to Paris where @FLOTUS Melania and I will attend the Armistice Day Centennial Commemoration!Just spoke with Prime Minister @GiuseppeConteIT of Italy concerning many subjects, including the fact that Italy is now taking a very hard line on illegal immigration... ... ...I agree with their stance 100%, and the United States is likewise taking a very hard line on illegal immigration. The Prime Minister is working very hard on the economy of Italy - he will be successful!.@JohnChrin of Pennsylvania is fantastic. He is strong on the Border, Crime, the Military, our Vets and the 2nd Amendment. He is a powerful vote for #MAGA and loves the Great State of Pennsylvania. Please get out and vote for John, he has my Total and very Strong Endorsement!.@Troy_Balderson of Ohio is doing a great job as your Congressman, already very respected in Washington. Get out and VOTE for Troy - we need him – great guy – has my Total Endorsement!.@LloydSmuckerPA is doing a great job for the people of Pennsylvania. He is strong on the Border, Crime, the Military, our Vets and the 2nd Amendment. Lloyd has my Total Endorsement!.@MikeDunleavyGov will make a fantastic Governor of Alaska. Mike is for Energy and Jobs, is tough on Crime, loves our Vets and our Great Second Amendment. Mike has my Complete and Total Endorsement!.@BrucePoliquin from Maine is a great Congressman. He is in a tough fight against a very liberal Nancy Pelosi Democrat. Bruce has helped bring JOBS back to his State and totally protects your Great Second Amendment. We need to keep Bruce in Washington. He has my Full Endorsement!We are gathered together on this solemn occasion to fulfill our most reverent and sacred duty. 35 years ago, 241 American service members were murdered in the terrorist attack on our Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. Today, we honor our fallen heroes...In 1983, roughly 1,800 Marines were in Beirut to keep the peace in a Nation torn apart by Civil War. Terrorists had bombed the U.S. Embassy earlier that year, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans...The Service Members who died that day included brave young Marines just out of high school, accomplished officers in the middle of their military careers, and enlisted men who had served in theaters all over the world...Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, “it’s just not Presidential!”SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter: Jim, did you or your colleagues take any responsibility for your rhetoric in constantly calling my family Racists and Nazis for 2 years when my wife actually opened an exploding envelope of white powder intended for me? What about when it happend to my brother?MAGA AF! Vote and feel the HYPE! November 6th is going to be EPIC to watch!!All of a sudden everyone on the left is NOW pretending to be innocent and non-violentHundreds of US troops heading to the border to deal with migrant caravan, official says | Fox NewsSomething to make a liberals head explode!🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:This is what the left is really scared of.They’re evolvingRed Wave RedemptionLook out for POP UP PEPEs! Your news articles are about to GO GREEN!What can possibly make General Mattis blush like a little schoolgirl? VANQUISHING AMERICA'S ENEMIES. President Trump: "We have stepped up the fight (against ISIS) to a level that even General Mattis was very happy to get that order, is that right, General?"Friday, October 26th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Trump's Message on Drug PricingFirst Lady Melania Trump Welcomes Students to the White House Movie TheaterPresident Trump Delivers Remarks at the 2018 Young Black Leadership Summit🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:The United States has been spending Billions of Dollars a year on Illegal Immigration. This will not continue. Democrats must give us the votes to pass strong (but fair) laws. If not, we will be forced to play a much tougher hand.Twitter has removed many people from my account and, more importantly, they have seemingly done something that makes it much harder to join - they have stifled growth to a point where it is obvious to all. A few weeks ago it was a Rocket Ship, now it is a Blimp! Total Bias?Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this “Bomb” stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!I will be speaking at the Young Black Leadership Summit in 15 minutes where I will address the investigation into the bomb packages.I would like to begin today’s remarks by providing an update on the packages and devices that have been mailed to high-profile figures throughout our Country, and a media org. I am pleased to inform you that law enforcement has apprehended the suspect and taken him into custody.I want to applaud the FBI, Secret Service, Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorneys’ Office for the Southern District of New York, the NYPD, and all Law Enforcement partners across the Country for their incredible work, skill and determination!It is my great honor to be with so many brilliant, courageous, patriotic, and PROUD AMERICANS. Seeing all of you here today fills me with extraordinary confidence in America’s future. Each of you is taking part in the Young Black Leadership Summit because you are true leaders...Whether you are African-American, Hispanic-American or ANY AMERICAN at all – you have the right to live in a Country that puts YOUR NEEDS FIRST!It was my great honor, thank you!If you meet every day with optimism – if you confront every obstacle with determination – if you refuse to give up, if you never quit, if you face every challenge with confidence and pride – then there is no goal you cannot achieve, and no dream beyond your reach! #YBLS2018Fantastic evening in Charlotte, North Carolina with great PATRIOTS. Get out and VOTE for @buddforcongress and @MarkHarrisNC9! http://bit.ly/2HIbOFb #MAGARally replay: http://bit.ly/2O9qYSX TWEETS AND NEWS:Q3 GDP at 3.5%! Magic wand!EXPOSED: NBC News Hid Information that Would Have Cleared Kavanaugh of Avenatti Rape AllegationsClaire McCaskill's husband invested in pro-veteran properties that tried to evict homeless vets over $233 owed rent---Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill has championed herself as a supporter of veterans in the run-up to the Midterms, but her husband's past is coming back to haunt her again.I just saw someone asking why we haven't publicly denounced political violence today. Here's why.YES. Plaque commemorating the completion of the first section of President Trump's big, beautiful, border wall.PRESS BRIEFINGS, INTERVIEWS, RALLIES:WATCH PARTY: President Trump & Mark Harris Rally - Charlotte, NC - 10/26/18🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:When they say the bombs are trump's faultNever gets oldI surfed on the red wave this morning. The line in my 70% Republican district was YUGE!I’m at the White House right now, with hundreds of other black conservatives listening to the president inspire this crowd!Saturday, October 27th:🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Trump Thunders at Media for Smearing His Supporters after Bomb Scares http://bit.ly/2RfT00U via @BreitbartNewsA big change is coming - don’t want the Dems anymore!Good luck Mary!Thank you Charlie!.@realDonaldTrump is delivering results for all Americans, and it’s inspiring our future leaders to get involved in the conservative movement!Martha McSally is a great warrior, her opponent a Nancy Pelosi Wacko!Budd and Mark, two great patriots for Congress!(Retweeting Diamond & Silk) LIVE: President @realdonaldtrump #MAGA rally in Charlotte, NC#Walkaway Walkaway from the Democrat Party movement marches today in D.C. Congratulations to Brandon Straka for starting something very special. @foxandfriendsWatching the events unfolding in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Law enforcement on the scene. People in Squirrel Hill area should remain sheltered. Looks like multiple fatalities. Beware of active shooter. God Bless All!Events in Pittsburgh are far more devastating than originally thought. Spoke with Mayor and Governor to inform them that the Federal Government has been, and will be, with them all the way. I will speak to the media shortly and make further statement at Future Farmers of America.SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:No more "they're seeking asylum" claims: 'Migrant caravan members reject offer to stay in Mexico'Texas Democratic Party Leader Funded ‘Voter Fraud Ring,’ Says AGBeto's DWI cost Beto $1,500 and charges got dismissed. If you are Not Beto, expect to pay about $15,000, and have a record for the rest of your life.🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Media blackout on John James, successful businessman and combat veteran. If only he was a guy with a fake name who rides skateboards and gets DWI's.What truly happens at MAGA Rallies.THE RALLY IN MURPHYSBORO ILLINOIS GETS AN EARLY START!We're just happier people folks. We know it. THEY KNOW IT. We ALLLLLLL know itWEEEEW LAD!!!Of course, no recap is complete without some jams to help yougo through all this WINNING!ShineGhost TownChampagne RoseFear Of FlyingGooeyGoldMAGA ON PATRIOTS! #robgray

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Duncan Mighty: 10 essential songs by the Port Harcourt first son

Duncan Mighty carved his name on the music scene many years ago and in honour of his contributions to the game, we compile 10 of his most essential career records.

Duncan Mighty is the hottest property on the music scene at the moment, the in-demand name for features since the release of 'Fake Love' in May, and the most talked about artist across social media.

But Duncan Mighty did not just arrive on the scene, he actually has been here over a decade and despite the unnecessary social media debate surrounding his relevance, making hit songs is no new territory for him.

Duncan Mighty released his debut album, ''Koliwater'' in 2008, which had the hit single, ‘Ako Na Uche’ and introduced the Wene Mighty to mainstream listeners beyond his Port Harcourt area.

During his decade-plus career, the Port Harcourt first son has 5 studio albums, which includes the commercially successful ''Ahamefuna'' (Legacy) released in 2010.

The sophomore body of work enjoyed a greater success with songs like ‘Port Harcourt Son’ and ‘Obianuju’ going onto dominate the airwaves, winning him awards and nationwide recognition.

He has also influenced the Nigerian music scene overtime as a lot of artists have tapped into his style as witnessed by the likes of Wakomzy and Davido on his biggest single for 2017, 'If'.

Now that everyone wants to record a song with Duncan Mighty, it again restates his status as a true creative force and a music icon, whose style stays compellingly vibrant and progressive with time.

As a tribute to the Wene Mighty, we look back at 10 of the most essential songs in his illustrious career.

'Obianuju' (2011)

There are few songs that solidified Duncan Mighty's place in the heart of music lovers and one of them is 'Obianuju'.

The song takes its name from Duncan Mighty's love interest as he tells a story of his feelings, channeling the right emotions to deliver a classic record.

'I Don't Give a Shot' (2011)

From his second album, Ahamefuna (Legacy), which birthed a number of hits including 'Port Harcourt Son' and 'Hand of Jesus' came one of his most iconic songs, 'I Don't Give a Shot.'

The explicit song whose hook focuses on the feminine feature became a dancehall anthem and a crowd pleaser whenever he stepped on stage.

'Port Harcourt Son' (2011)

It was in this record that Duncan Mighty made the solemn ambassadorial declaration of where he represents.

Painting a picture of a beautiful city, Duncan Mighty delves into politics as he reels out names of politicians and leaders who have emerged from the city, declaring himself as the first son of the land.

'Ako Na Uche' (2008)

'Ako Na Uche', which literally translates to wisdom from God is philosophical and uplifting.

It is a contagious tune that seeps into your memory and captivates your senses as it drifts you into worship mode.

''Ako Na Uche better in your life, na him be the wisdom, e come from the lord'', he sings.

'Dance For Me' (2008)

Song after song, Duncan Mighty's profile keep hitting new heights and in 'Dance For Me', he scored a party anthem that topped charts and rocked dance-floors nationwide.

'Jesus Bu Eze' (2008)

'Jesus Bu Eze', which means Jesus is Lord sees Duncan Mighty looking back and thanking God for the journey so far.

Delivered largely in his native language, the song still had the right energy and vibe to grow into a favourite among his fans,

'Ijeoma' (2008)

From the album, ''Koliwater'', Ijeoma takes on a dance-hall vibe as he relates a romantic tale and chase before finally winning the heart of his lover.

'Sanko Love' (2008)

Another reggae influenced tune that details his experience in the hands of the law caused by love.

The song narrates how he fell in love with a woman who turns out to be the Inspector General (I.G), who accuses him of taking a photograph of her with her best friend.

This soon leads to an ugly experience, where police officers invade his home, arrest him and he is detained at 'Sanko'.

''Baby girl, me can't believe say ya carry me go Sanko, Sanko'', he sings.

'Killing Me Softly' (2016)

The lyrics, ''If I break your heart, it's like oil spillage'', that a number of music fans fell in love with on the new song with Tiwa Savage, 'Lova Lova', were originally used in this song released on his last studio album.

When he is not thanking God or going political, delivering charming love tunes is one area Duncan Mighty flourishes and this is one example.

'Mama Born Dem' (2016)

From ''The Certificate'' album released in 2016, Duncan Mighty draws inspiration from the names of well known individuals around the world, as he affirms that with God on his side, he will also take over the world from his Port Harcourt base.

source http://www.newssplashy.com/2018/08/duncan-mighty-10-essential-songs-by.html

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From Obama to Clinton, Hamilton County Democratic leader reflects

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From Obama to Clinton, Hamilton County Democratic leader reflects

A brief highlight from election night.

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Thanks, Tim Burke.

Just in case no one else has said it to him for the last quarter century. Burke is stepping down as chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party this weekend, ending a 25-year tenure in a thankless, time-consuming, unpaid role.

The party’s new era begins Saturday, when Democratic leaders are expected to elect Springfield Township Trustee Gwen McFarlin and former state Rep. Connie Pillich as new co-chairs.

Burke, 70, served as chairman since 1993. The Mount Lookout resident, who’s been involved in local politics since 1971, will remain on the Hamilton County Board of Elections until next year. His term expires in March. Burke also will remain on the party’s state central committee and continue to practice law full-time at Downtown-based Manley Burke.

In the two years this column has existed, Burke was always willing to answer tough questions and offer historical perspective on local politics. He was accessible and offered story ideas.

More: Dem ‘peacemaker’ told Jerry Springer to fess up

Burke could be feisty, and naturally he disagreed with Republicans. But he is respected as someone who placed great importance on civility and implored his candidates to try to work with the other side.

“Tim is a man of honor and integrity, and we work well to further in the interests of the board of elections,” said Alex Triantafilou, chairman of the Hamilton County GOP. “I wish him well in his next endeavor.”

Triantafilou recalled having a voicemail when he walked into GOP headquarters his first morning on the job in March 2008. It was from Burke, who had called to offer congratulations. In 1993, then-county GOP chairman Gene Ruehlmann had called Burke to congratulate him on his first day.

“I did not know him, but here he was calling me up and saying, ‘I want to come have a cup of coffee with you,’ ” Burke told Politics Extra. “It blew me away. That’s how politics should be. You have fights, but we have to have relationships.”

Burke leaves the county party in much better shape than he found it. He stepped into the big chair at a time when the Democrats were relatively powerless in what was then known as one of the most politically conservative urban counties in America.

In recent years, Democrats have gained control of the Hamilton County board of commissioner. They also have taken over offices of the sheriff and clerk of courts – seats most around here thought the Republicans would never lose.

Changing demographics in Hamilton County have had a lot to do with the Democrats’ victories, but let’s not take anything away from Burke. He’s held together a party that’s been divided in recent years. So-called urban progressives have tried – and failed – many times to wrest control from the establishment.

Burke had the unenviable task of trying to manage an ugly ongoing feud between Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley and City Councilman Chris Seelbach. The chairman took on lots of social media grenades from Seelbach and other progressive keyboard warriors, but Burke publicly handled the criticism with grace. Frankly, not many others would have.

Burke also had to keep things together amid some party leaders constantly trying to play racial politics. Throw in all the nighttime fundraisers and weekend party meetings, and, well, few people would do a job like this for free – let alone for so long. In fact, Burke stayed for so long because no one else wanted this pain-in-the-butt job.

In a wide-ranging interview with Politics Extra, Burke reflected on some memories and politicians from his tenure as chairman:

Top memories

1. Long lines for Obama: In the 2008 and 2012 elections, hundreds of early voters waited for hours outside of the board of elections headquarters, then in Downtown. Burke cherishes the memory because of the historical significance – the election and re-election of the first African-American president. “Those lines turned into parties,” Burke recalled. “Everyone was trying to cooperate with one another. We had a miniature horse come by. People were juggling. Jesse Jackson came by. Congressman John Lewis came by and urged people to stay in line and vote.”

2. Bill Clinton’s visit to Xavier in March 1996: Burke had previously met the president several times. But Clinton’s visit to the Evanston campus was special because XU is Burke’s alma mater and his daughter, Tara, was a student then and helped organize the event. Burke has a T-shirt from the even framed in his Downtown office.

3. White House visit: Weeks before Clinton’s visit to Xavier, Burke and then-party co-chair Mark Mallory visited the White House. They had a good rapport, and while there got the fun idea to start mentioning names of as many people they knew from Cincinnati. Said Burke: “We did that just so we could come back home and tell people, ‘Hey, your name was mentioned at the White House the other day.’ “

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Tim Burke, right, in 2014 at a rally outside City Hall with P.G. Sittenfeld, left, and Greg Landsman (Photo: Enquirer file)

In a word, phrase, sentence

Burke’s take on some political leaders, current and past:

Jerry Springer (former Cincinnati mayor, major donor): “Incredibly generous friend.”

William Mallory Sr. (late Ohio House Majority Floor Leader): “Changed the color of justice in Hamilton County.” (Mallory led effort to implement municipal court districts, which helped African-American candidates get elected.)

Roxanne Qualls (former mayor): “Very dynamic.”

Alex Triantafilou: “Damn conservative.” (laughs)

John Cranley: “Very smart.”

Alicia Reece (state rep): “Incredible spark plug for voting rights”

Tom Luken (late mayor, congressman): “One of a kind. His political understanding of this community was better than anyone else maybe in the history of Hamilton County.”

Charlie Luken (former mayor, congressman): “Much more intellectual than his dad –and much nicer.”

Aftab Pureval (county clerk of courts): “One of a kind for this generation; the complete package.”

Dusty Rhodes (county auditor): “Sometimes a challenge, but a good friend.”

Biggest surprise win: Pat Foley

In 2014, a 66-year-old political rookie decided to run against respected, long-time Common Pleas Court Judge Carl Stich Jr. Foley had not been involved in Democratic politics, having spent most of his career in administrative law. He took 53 percent of the vote in what Burke calls the biggest surprise victory during his chairmanship.

“My favorite memory from that night at the board of elections was Alex Triantafilou walking around (griping) about good Irish ballot names,” Burke recalled, chuckling. “Pat did some good training, ran a very quiet campaign and went out and did it.”

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"The democratic national committee rsquo s unity tour is over and the reviews are in most journalists panned it ldquo at a lsquo unity rsquo stop in nebraska democrats find anything but rdquo wrote the new york times ldquo is dem unity tour tearing the party apart asked msnbc rsquo s amjoy vice didn rsquo t even bother with the question mark proclaiming quot the democrats are falling apart on their quot come together tour quot 1 journalists treated the ldquo unity tour rdquo as a spectacle meant to spotlight party unity it was anything but mdash yet it was necessary dnc chair tom perez and senator bernie sanders don rsquo t see eye to eye on many policy disputes sanders had of course backed rep keith ellison for the job that went to perez and depicted the former labor secretary as a stalking horse for the barack obama hillary clinton wing of the party more than once on the tour perez was booed by sanders backers the sanders and dnc folks don rsquo t seem to have collaborated enough on screening the candidates the tour traveled to support there was a huge dustup around the issue of choice for example as well as a skirmish over a promising democrat seemingly rebuffed by sanders as not sufficiently progressive 2 but these are real intra party conflicts and the debate they rsquo ve inspired as well as the compromises and clarifications of each faction rsquo s positions have been necessary this unity tour launched deliberately and self consciously in search of greater concord within a party still rent by the fierce primary battle between sanders and clinton 3 the embers smolder on social media and controversies can reignite them into firestorms almost a year after he was mathematically eliminated by clinton sanders voters still feel like their man could have beaten trump if the dnc hadn rsquo t had a thumb on the scales clinton voters believe her victory was hobbled not merely by james comey and russian hacking but by ldquo bernie or bust rdquo voters who sanders helped create by treating the former secretary of state as a creature of wall street and the 1 percent 4 there are genuine gulfs in ideology as well as political strategy on one side sanders and many supporters want to see democrats fight to win back working class white voters who rsquo ve abandoned the party ldquo i come from the white working class and i am deeply humiliated that the democratic party cannot talk to the people where i came from rdquo he sternly intoned a week after the election a few days later he added in a speech ldquo one of the struggles that you rsquo re going to be seeing in the democratic party is whether we go beyond identity politics rdquo naturally the party rsquo s existing base overwhelmingly female and multiracial don rsquo t like seeing their issues derided as ldquo identity politics rdquo and shunned as distractions lifestyle questions or political correctness run amok while the troubles of white downscale men are centered 5 a unity tour was bound to roll into that pothole and it did almost immediately when it headed to omaha nebraska to support a former state senator running for mayor heath mello mello rsquo s feisty economic populism caught the eye of sanders rsquo supporters what they didn rsquo t necessarily see right away by the accounts of some people close to the process is that he had a history of anti abortion votes back in the state legislature including support for a 20 week abortion bill and one that mandated telling women they had the right to see an ultrasound of the fetus before an abortion mello supporter and nebraska democratic chair jane kleeb says the bill was a compromise to prevent a worse bill mdash one that required women to watch the ultrasound mdash from becoming law when reproductive rights groups rightly howled sanders dug in his heels and reiterated his own pro choice stand but added ldquo i think you can rsquo t exclude people who disagree with us on this one issue rdquo 6 that sounded funny to a lot of people though because sanders was at the same time doing something comparable to the most promising politician to rise from the ashes of last november rsquo s defeat jon ossoff making a real challenge to pick up hhs secretary tom price rsquo s vacant seat in suburban atlanta full disclosure my daughter works as ossoff s deputy field director sanders hadn rsquo t endorsed ossoff or even commented on him but on election day the vermont socialist told a wall street journal reporter ldquo i don rsquo t know rdquo when asked if the young democrat was a progressive ldquo some democrats are progressive and some democrats are not rdquo he stated that night ossoff finished first in a 16 candidate primary to face the woman who helped inspire the revitalization of the pro choice movement karen handel who decided that breast cancer behemoth susan b komen foundation should stop supporting planned parenthood rsquo s provision of breast cancer services she rsquo s been running for office unsuccessfully ever since it seemed an odd time for sanders to throw shade at ossoff rsquo s progressive bona fides 7 to be fair ossoff isn rsquo t as progressive as sanders would like he made a good government anti gridlock pitch to his suburban district for the left his worst move to that point was to criticize wasteful government spending in one of his ads but a berniecrat is unlikely to win the moderate suburban seat held by tom price in omaha sanders seemed to tell women and pro choice advocates to just suck it up in the georgia sixth district race he didn rsquo t seem fired up to defeat karen handel ldquo it tells your most active political base that we rsquo re just negotiable political property rdquo naral pro choice america rsquo s leader ilyse hogue told the new york times 8 so everyone hit their battle stations a bad look for a so called unity tour and then people tried to come together again perez issued a statement clarifying his and the dnc rsquo s fervent support for choice and sanders endorsed ossoff though he refused to call him a progressive 9 all rsquo s well that ends well not necessarily these issues are likely to come up repeatedly because there are real policy divides among these factions and some things will be hard to compromise on sanders is entitled to continue to say that ossoff isn rsquo t sufficiently progressive although it begs a question can a mainstream liberal democrat be powered by a genuinely progressive movement and should the left see that as worth cheering in slate michelle goldberg wrote about the surge of women into the ossoff campaign denied their chance at the first female president they threw themselves into campaigning for this unlikely tossup seat goldberg writes inspiringly about these women warriors of suburban atlanta 10 women lead the local indivisible chapter in march two women formed a women rsquo s group called pave it blue devoted to running progressive candidates in local races mdash contests where in the past republicans often ran unopposed a private invite only facebook group called liberal moms of roswell and cobb or lmrc has swelled to 1 700 members 11 those new activists deserve respect in their own right and any unity tour that ignores them won rsquo t bring unity 12 on the other hand sanders supporters wonder why ossoff has gotten national democratic support while more progressive democrats in kansas and montana have not gotten the same it rsquo s not fair to paint ossoff as the creature of the dnc 7 75 million of the 10 million he rsquo s raised came in small dollar act blue donations and daily kos chipped in another 1 million still ossoff is attracting some of the same national leaders and celebrities who traveled the country working for clinton who he supported berniecrats say they haven rsquo t seen the same generosity 13 but then so far our revolution and other groups have been slow to get off the ground to provide meaningful support to the lefty democrats the group gave james thompson a berniecrat running to represent wichita kan only 900 though members offered more as in kind contributions after thompson rsquo s relatively narrow defeat earlier this month it makes sense that tom perez would want to travel with bernie to support a heartland progressive in omaha mdash though no one had apparently done a deep dive on his entire political history 14 still i think it rsquo s progress that these issues are being faced in donald trump rsquo s first 100 days when the resistance still seems sizeable and urgent and people can come together around the necessity of defeating trump mdash even as they disagree on tactics as well as policy none of the unity tour stumbles were fatal a few ended productively and the party factions will have to keep working to define what ldquo unity rdquo means in the wake of the transformative sanders clinton battle 1 Keep on reading: The Unity Tour Was Kind of a Mess—and That’s Okay

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Be Encouraged: To the So-Called Red States from [email protected]

Blue State Digital Mailing Template : Democrats everywhere are organizing rallies, calling their representatives, packing town halls, and winning critical special elections. With your support, I've been criss-crossing the country headlining fundraisers and campaign events to help push our candidates over the finish line. Can I count on you to help keep me on the road for Democrats? We won an Iowa House seat in January, with an astonishing 72-27 victory when Hillary only carried the seat 52-41. In Delaware, we won a State Senate seat by 16 points when in 2014, Democrats won by a mere 2 points. Now it's time to target the so-called "red states" like Nebraska and Georgia that our Party has ignored for far too long. Tomorrow, I'm headed to Omaha, Nebraska to campaign for Heath Mello in support of his effort to flip the Mayor's seat from Republican to Democrat. A 50-state strategy means electing Democrats everywhere. Donate $3 to elect Democrats from all 50 states. Yours truly, Martin Dems look south to test anti-Trump strategy By Eric Bradner, CNN Updated 8:38 AM ET, Fri March 31, 2017 Roswell, Georgia (CNN) Voters here sent Newt Gingrich to Congress for two decades. Tom Price, the conservative Republican tapped by President Donald Trump to dismantle Obamacare, represented the district for another dozen years. In other words, this isn't the type of place where Democrats often seek solace. But the party, reeling from Hillary Clinton's loss in November and locked out of power in Washington, is looking to Atlanta's northern suburbs to test its ability to bounce back. While most of the country tries to move on from a bruising campaign, voters in Georgia's 6th congressional district return to the polls in April for a special election to replace Price, who Trump selected to become Health and Human Services secretary. Democrats are aiming to turn the race into an early referendum on the Trump presidency and hope success here could be replicated in gubernatorial races later this year in Virginia and New Jersey -- where suburban voters are also crucial -- and maybe even provide a playbook for regaining control of the House next year. "It's a bellwether for what the Democratic Party is going to be about," Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez told me recently, almost giddy about the prospects for the race. There's little reliable polling about the contest and, given recent political history, Democrats are careful not to display overconfidence. But the party is optimistic about its main candidate in the race, 30-year-old Jon Ossoff, a former congressional staffer who could benefit from demographic changes in the district and has a $4 million campaign war chest largely funded by small donors. But most importantly, Democrats sense a distrust of Trump that could help them here and in other wealthy, highly-educated and increasingly diverse congressional districts around the country that might otherwise support Republicans. There's data to back up their suspicions. This district experienced one of the biggest collapses in support for a Republican presidential candidate last year (the biggest shift played out in Utah). While Mitt Romney bested Barack Obama by 23 points here in 2012, Trump beat Clinton by less than 2 points, according to data from the liberal Daily Kos and confirmed by representatives for both the Democratic and Republican congressional campaign committees. This suburban region is the epicenter of an evolution that played out across the Sun Belt last year but was largely overshadowed by Trump's stunning victories in traditionally Democratic strongholds in the industrial Midwest. In Georgia and Arizona, where Clinton only made a last-minute effort to compete, she came closer to beating Trump than she did in the more traditional swing states of Ohio and Iowa. Reliably red Texas was also closer than Iowa. So what does it all mean? New battlegrounds are emerging and it's hard to know how it will all shake out. "Georgia's no closer than Ohio?" Gingrich said during a recent conversation. "With everything you and I knew about politics up until Election Night 2016, we'd have thought that was impossible." Energized Democrats Democrats in Atlanta's conservative-leaning northern suburbs are feeling something they're not used to: energy. As the national party gathered in a downtown ballroom on a Saturday morning last month to elect Perez as the DNC chief, more than 300 people turned out to a Democratic breakfast in Cobb County, just northwest of the city. The standing room only crowd was a noteworthy showing in a county that drew nationwide attention during the 1990s for passing a resolution condemning homosexuality. "It's bigger than you know," Jaha Howard, a dentist who narrowly lost a surprisingly close state Senate race and is seen locally as a rising star, told me after the breakfast. "And it's a bigger tent of Democrats than we typically see." Three hours later, hundreds more showed up in Roswell, where Ossoff was holding the first of two events to kick off his campaign's door-to-door canvassing efforts. "It has very little to do with me and more to do with the timing and intensity of grassroots enthusiasm," Ossoff told me the previous night as he sipped tea alongside his longtime girlfriend, a student at the nearby Emory University medical school, at Meehan's Public House, a downtown Irish bar. "I think Atlanta can become -- and Georgia can become -- an economic powerhouse. I think that people here want access to more affordable health care choices. And I think people here are concerned that we're losing sight of those values." Democrats' hopes here ride largely on the party's appeal to a large pool of suburban women, many of whom are relying on social media to organize. Hundreds have joined the Facebook page of a group called Liberal Moms of Roswell and Cobb or "LMRC" -- a coalition of progressives in the heart of the district. Over coffee at the "Land of a Thousand Hills" in Roswell, three of the group's leaders told me the same story about discovering its existence. Their first thought: "I thought I was the only one." The group and others like it are giving liberals new opportunities to express themselves in communities where that previously didn't feel like an option. "The first time I put an Obama sign in our yard, our neighbor came over and jokingly threatened our lives," said Shari Sprigle, one of the group's members. She said she was harassed while driving once, too. "Somebody honked at me to get me to roll down my window. My kid was in the back seat. I rolled down my window and she goes, 'Are you going to vote for Obama?' I said, 'Yeah, I am' -- you know, I thought she was, like, friendly. And then she told me I was going to hell. ...That's the environment here in Cobb County." Now, she said, the group has "LMRC" car magnets -- and a game. When a member sees another member's vehicle in a parking lot, they flip those magnets upside down as a way to indicate the driver has been noticed. It's a way of sending a message: You're not alone. Two co-founders -- Jen Cox and Lesley Bauer -- recently split off to form another women's group, named PaveItBlue, with an even narrower focus: Provide the grassroots support Ossoff will need to flip the 6th district for Democrats. Their first meeting was on a recent Sunday night. Cox said members of the groups love to see -- and participate in -- "visibility efforts," which provide a psychological boost in an area where Democrats have long felt demoralized, and particularly for working mothers who don't have time to phone bank or canvass for candidates. "It energizes them like they've never felt, and it creates that feeling, like, 'Oh my gosh, I am an activist.' And that's powerful," Cox said. "Your data may not show that visibility efforts work, that having signs up here work. But we're telling you that it hits us at an emotional level -- that there's hope," she said. "You know, this is Newt Gingrich country. We've been left out for an entire generation. We don't feel left out anymore." Replacing Tom Price Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal set a special election for April 18 to replace Price. It's a "jungle" contest -- which means every candidate will be listed on the same ballot. If one of the 18 declared so far hits 50% plus one, he or she is the winner. If that doesn't happen, the top two finishers -- regardless of party -- advance to a June 20 runoff. Already, 11 Republicans have entered the race -- including former Georgia secretary of state Karen Handel, former state senator Judson Hill, and Bruce LeVell, who helmed Trump's national diversity coalition and appears to be the first Trump aide to seek office since the billionaire businessman's election. Two independents are in the running, as well. Handel leads the way among the GOP, but Republicans are sharply divided over their field of candidates. Handel faces opposition from the conservative Club for Growth, which has launched TV ads attacking her spending as secretary of state and Fulton County commissioner and labeling her a "big-spending, career politician we can't trust with our money." Dan Moody, meanwhile, got a big boost this week when Sen. David Perdue endorsed him in a 30-second TV spot, declaring the former state representative and businessman "one of us" who "cares more about getting results than getting credit." The Democratic field, though, narrowed almost instantly, with one serious contender among the five declared candidates: Ossoff, who grew up in the northeastern Atlanta suburbs. Years earlier, Ossoff caught the attention of two of Georgia's most powerful Democrats -- Reps. John Lewis and Hank Johnson. Ossoff impressed Lewis enough by writing letters to his office as a high school student that the civil rights legend offered him an internship. Then, after Johnson was elected in 2006, he hired Ossoff on Lewis's recommendation to work on his Washington staff while Ossoff was still a student at Georgetown University. Ossoff was as a staffer for Johnson for five years before going to the London School of Economics for a master's degree and then launching a documentary film company. As he considered his candidacy, Ossoff lined up meetings with Johnson and Lewis, leaving with both of their endorsements. As we sat in the Rayburn Room just outside the House chamber this month, Johnson heaped praise on Ossoff, saying it was the then-college student's use of Facebook that launched him to victory in 2006. So when Ossoff said he believed he could win, Johnson trusted his former staffer's political mind. "Between me and you -- I certainly had my negative thought about whether or not Jon could win. But there was never any hesitation in terms of whether or not I would support him," Johnson said. "The demographics of the state are changing," the six-term Democratic lawmaker said. It took "contortion" for Republicans to keep their seats safe after 2010, he said. But eventually, Johnson argued, the changing tides can't be stopped. The support of Lewis and Johnson was enough to convince the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that the party had found a strong candidate -- despite the GOP super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund's efforts to seize on Ossoff's youth with a $2.2 million ad campaign using footage of him dressed as Han Solo while in college. The DCCC quickly moved staffers into the district, making clear it was prepared to spend money in a region national Democrats have largely avoided. But it was the involvement of the liberal blog Daily Kos that really catapulted Ossoff onto the national map. The blog has been the largest driver of Ossoff's eye-popping $4 million fundraising effort to date. It bested its previous fundraising record for a single candidate -- $412,000 for Elizabeth Warren in 2012 -- in a single week. Daily Kos's pro-Ossoff fundraising efforts crossed the $1 million mark on February 28. As Daily Kos political director David Nir and I exchanged emails this month, he argued that Georgia's 6th district "very well could be a test case for the future of Democratic targeting." "It would generate even more excitement for future races. And I think it would terrify Republicans, because there are a lot of other districts like this one: traditionally GOP, but highly educated and very Trump-wary," Nir wrote. What, though, about the record-breaking sums of money? Will such donation surges simply coincide with Trump actions that outrage the left? "One thing I've experimented with is putting up blog posts asking people to contribute to Ossoff at times when people (myself included!) are really feeling angry and upset at Trump in order to give them something affirmative to do," Nir emailed. "For instance, I published this post the weekend Trump issued his travel ban. It raised almost $34,000. We then sent out an email based on that post and it raised another $118,000. We've seen similar responses in other similar situations as well." National Republicans, meanwhile, are making plans to hammer Ossoff relentlessly. They see three major points of attack against Ossoff: He's progressive enough to have become a darling of the liberal blogosphere, his filmmaking business did work for Qatar-owned Al Jazeera and the GOP believes he has inflated his resume. Central to the resume argument: Ossoff has touted his national security clearance -- but he only held that clearance for five months before departing Johnson's staff. "Over the past few decades, the voters of GA-06 have shown they are not interested in the representation of a far-left Hank Johnson-type candidate who embellishes his resume," National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Maddie Anderson said in an email. "We are looking forward to showing them that Jon Ossoff is not who he says he is in the coming days." Nir said progressives are hoping for a win. But he also compared this race to one Democrats lost in 2005. In 2005, a hard-fought campaign by progressives brought Paul Hackett just three points away from victory in an Ohio congressional district that George W. Bush had just won by 28 points. "That very tight margin in a race that should never have been competitive in the first place was a harbinger of 2006, when Democrats got extremely fired up and won a whole lot of previously red seats," he said. National Democrats are careful to downplay expectations. Some party operatives said anything closer than a 60-40 blowout could be seen as promising. And because the race is a "jungle primary," Democrats won't yet officially endorse a candidate, even though Ossoff is the party's clear preference. "There's no one here who's over-promising anything, because we recognize that this is still very challenging terrain," Perez said. "But we're working with the state party to build up our capacity and while we don't get involved in primaries, obviously, we are working and we will eventually be making an investment in this race to help another Democrat and to hold Trump accountable." Gingrich, the man who once held the seat in play, is resisting the hype. He reminded me of his skepticism in 2014 when there was talk of Michelle Nunn, a Democrat with a legendary last name in Georgia politics, would beat Perdue for a Senate seat. Perdue wound up winning by nearly 8 points. "Every election cycle, the Washington media has this idea that this is the year Georgia could be changing," the former speaker said. "And every election, it turns out not to be." Donate PAID FOR BY O'SAY CAN YOU SEE PAC NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE'S COMMITTEE 421 M St NW Washington, DC 20001Unsubscribe

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