President Trump thanked the four “vicious young Socialist congresswomen” he targeted in racist tweets after a new Rasmussen poll showed his approval rating up four points to 50%.
House Republicans Adopt Trump’s Playbook
“The NRCC, with the blessing of House Republican leaders, has adopted a no-holds-barred strategy to win back the House majority next year, borrowing heavily from President Trump’s playbook in deploying such taunts and name-calling,” the New York Times reports.
“The offensive hinges largely on the relatively facile notion that by tagging all House Democrats as socialists, anti-Semites or far-left extremists, they will be able to alienate swing-state voters. On Tuesday night, after the House voted to condemn as racist President Trump’s attacks on four congresswoman, the campaign arm’s communications team deluged reporters’ inboxes with message after message calling vulnerable Democratic lawmakers ‘deranged.'”
“Their tactics have discomforted some Republicans and highlighted the struggle in the party over how much to lean into the tenor of politics forged by their leader.”
Sanders Will Reject Donations from Health Care Industry
“Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to challenge his Democratic presidential rivals Wednesday to refuse campaign donations from executives and lobbyists of health insurance and pharmaceutical companies, escalating a growing conflict over health care with Joe Biden and among Democrats more broadly,” the Washington Post reports.
CNN: “Sanders’ speech caps off a contentious week that saw Joe Biden unveil his own health care proposal, which would add muscle to Obamacare and create a public insurance option. During the rollout, Biden has leveled attacks — some of them misleading — against Medicare for All and what a transition to a single-payer program would mean for people covered under the existing system.”
Remember 1972
Charlie Sykes: “To all Democrats… I’m guessing you’re feeling pretty good right now. As a result of his racist tweet storms, President Trump has managed to simultaneously unite fractious Democrats while further alienating moderate voters. He richly earned an historic vote of condemnation from the House of Representatives.”
“Even before that meltdown, the latest NBC/WSJ poll showed three Democratic candidates – Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders – all leading the president in general election matchups. He remains historically unpopular and there’s no reason to think that will change anytime soon.”
“Given all that good news, I understand why you really aren’t in the mood for more concern trolling from Never Trumpers, because you got this, right?”
“So, let’s talk about the 1972 election.”
GOP Senator Slams ‘Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse’
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) slammed the minority Democratic congresswomen targeted by President Trump’s racist tweets as the “four horsewomen of the Apocalypse” in a Fox News interview.
Said Kennedy: “The simple fact of the matter is, the four congresswomen think that America was wicked in its origins. They think that America and its people are even more wicked now, that we are all racist and misogynistic and evil.”
He added: “They’re entitled to their opinion. They’re Americans. But I’m entitled to my opinion, and I just think they’re left-wing cracks, and they’re the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle. I think we should ignore them.”
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Eric Trump Claims His Father Has 95% Support
Eric Trump called his father “the greatest fighter in the world,” and claimed that “95 percent” of people in the country support his political message, Politico reports.
Said the younger Trump: “He is willing to fight, and I’ve said this time and time again, but America didn’t have a fighter for administrations — by the way, both on the Republican and Democratic side. We haven’t had somebody in there fighting,”
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Unauthorized Immigrants Face Public Backlash In Mexico
A new Washington Post/Reforma poll finds Mexicans are deeply frustrated with immigrants after a year of heightened migration from Central America through the country.
More than 6 in 10 Mexicans say migrants are a burden on their country because they take jobs and benefits that should belong to Mexicans. A 55% majority supports deporting migrants who travel through Mexico to reach the United States.
Kamala Harris Grabs Lead In California
A new Quinnipiac poll in California finds Kamala Harris leading the Democratic presidential field with 23%, followed by Joe Biden at 21%, Bernie Sanders at 18% and Elizabeth Warren at 16%.
Trailing far behind are Pete Buttigieg at 3% and Andrew Yang at 2%. There are four Democratic contenders with 1% and 15 candidates scoring less than 1%.
Also interesting: 45% say that Biden has the best chance of beating President Trump, with 12% for Sanders, 11% for Harris and 8% for Warren.
Racism Is Central to Trump’s Re-Election Strategy
“It might seem like improvisational madness when President Trump tells American citizens in Congress to ‘go back’ where they came from, but those close to Trump say there’s a lot of calculation behind his race-baiting,” Axios reports.
“It’s central to his 2020 strategy, they say. Trump’s associates predict more, not less, of the race-baiting madness.”
The math: “Trump knows that in 2016, he won the white vote by 20+ points. He hopes he can crank their turnout even higher, especially among older, white evangelicals. He knows most of those voters are unlikely to ditch him, no matter how offensive his comments.”
Also important: “He watches Fox News and knows AOC, in particular, is catnip to old, white voters, especially men. She is young, Hispanic, female and a democratic socialist — a 4-for-4 grievance magnet.”
3-Year Old Asked to Pick Parent In Family Separation
NPR: “At a Border Patrol holding facility in El Paso, Texas, an agent told a Honduran family that one parent would be sent to Mexico while the other parent and their three children could stay in the United States… The agent turned to the couple’s youngest daughter — 3-year-old Sofia, whom they call Sofi — and asked her to make a choice.”
Slim Majority Supports Deportation Raids
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds a slim majority of voters supports the mass deportation raids previewed by President Trump last week, 51% to 35%.
Trump Campaign Defends His 2016 Electoral Map
“President Trump’s campaign has boasted about efforts to expand the 2020 electoral map and compete in far-flung Democratic territory from Oregon to New Mexico while along the way winning over some of the voters who have been turned off by aspects of his presidency,” the Washington Post reports.
“But the president has held all of his campaign rallies this year in states he won in 2016 — including Florida and Pennsylvania, with another set for North Carolina on Wednesday night. And he has shown no interest in toning down the incendiary rhetoric that has made him unpopular among black, Hispanic and female voters.”
“Facing stubbornly low poll numbers, an energized Democratic opposition and the prospect of record-high voter turnout, the campaign is mounting an all-out defensive effort to protect the states Trump won in 2016, while also trying to expand the map.”
Video Shows Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at Party
A 1992 video from NBC News shows Donald Trump and Jefferey Epstein “laughing and pointing as they appear to discuss young and beautiful women dancing at a party.”
Epstein is currently “in federal lockup awaiting a bail decision as he fights sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.”
Republicans Downplay Trump Immigration Plan
Washington Post: “As the uproar over President Trump’s racist remarks demanding four minority Democratic lawmakers ‘go back [to countries] from which they came’ continued to flare Tuesday, the White House prepared to roll out a plan that would detail the type of immigrants the administration wants to admit to the United States.”
“Senior Republicans in the Senate on Tuesday immediately began downplaying the prospects of the White House’s proposal — an effort led primarily by senior adviser Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law — even before they had been briefed on its details.”
Said Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-SD): “To get it to the floor, you have to have some bipartisan buy-in. There would have to be a lot of work that would get done, and I don’t sense that they’re anywhere close to having done that work with Republicans, let alone with Democrats.”
Trump Sets the Tone for 2020
New York Times: “With three days of attacks on four liberal, minority freshman congresswomen, President Trump and the Republicans have sent the clearest signal yet that their approach to 2020 will be a racially divisive reprise of the strategy that helped Mr. Trump narrowly capture the White House in 2016.”
“It is the kind of fight that the president relishes. He has told aides, in fact, that he is pleased with the Democratic reaction to his attacks, boasting that he is ‘marrying’ the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party to the four congresswomen known as ‘the Squad.’”
Nuclear Commission Considers Fewer Inspections
“Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is recommending that the agency cut back on inspections at the country’s nuclear reactors, a cost-cutting move promoted by the nuclear power industry but denounced by opponents as a threat to public safety,” the AP reports.
“The recommendations, made public Tuesday, include reducing the time and scope of some annual inspections at the nation’s 90-plus nuclear power plants. Some other inspections would be cut from every two years to every three years.”
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