In a statement to the Washington Post, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said: “On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them. Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect.”
Archives for July 2016
Walker and Cotton Kick Off 2020 Campaign
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) “will be the potential 2020 presidential contenders jockeying most openly and aggressively at the Republican National Convention next week in Cleveland, as both Republicans have lined up visits with the influential early-state delegations of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina,” Politico reports.
“Those three states have kicked off the GOP nominating process for decades and are expected to do so again in 2020. Walker and Cotton are the only national politicians currently scheduled to speak with all three delegations, according to officials familiar with the delegation schedules in the three states.”
‘Even My Jews Would say Merry Christmas’
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told a conservative radio host that Donald Trump “gets and understands religious liberty,” the Huffington Post reports.
Bachmann shared an anecdote: “He even said, ‘I don’t understand, when I was growing up, everybody said Merry Christmas. Even my Jews would say Merry Christmas.’ New York City, there are a lot of Jews, and they would even say Merry Christmas. Why can’t we even say Merry Christmas anymore?’”
Bachmann added that Trump had “1950s sensibilities” and “1950s common sense,” and warned that Hillary Clinton would bring “certain destruction” and “catastrophic decline” and a “godless United States that will walk into certain catastrophe.”
Sanders Has a Book Coming
Out just after the election: Our Revolution: A Future To Believe In by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The AP reports that the book “will be an inside account of this extraordinary campaign, and will also provide a blueprint for future political action. Its message: The fight has just begun.”
Trump VP Search Down to Two Candidates?
First Read: “It increasingly appears as if the VP race is coming down between Gingrich and Pence — a conventional Republican pick (Pence) vs. a disrupter (Gingrich); someone with a political future (Pence) vs. someone with nothing left to lose (Gingrich).”
Rick Klein: “Does Trump go Trump, or the opposite of Trump? If Newt Gingrich’s play-by-play of the veepstakes is accurate, and Donald Trump flew across the country Wednesday juggling ‘Gingrich, Pence, Pence, Gingrich’ in his head, the two paths could not be more clear. In Gingrich, Trump gets a version of himself with insider experience: Another thrice-married, dynamic 70-something with a proven history of tangling with the Clintons. ‘Do you really want a two-pirate ticket?’ Gingrich asked Wednesday night on Fox. (Yes, he really said this.) Pence isn’t talking openly about what he represents, thought that’s part of his appeal. He represents quiet stability, strong conservative values, and a voting and governing record – in other words, what Trump isn’t. In choosing a partner, Trump either doubles down or hedges his bet.”
Trump Closes the Gap But Still Trails
First Read: “Yesterday brought us a whopping 10 battleground state polls… The good news for Donald Trump? He’s narrowed the gap: Ohio is tied; Florida is no longer trending in Hillary Clinton’s direction; and this all makes it much harder for rebellious GOP delegates to dump Trump at the convention. But here’s the bad news for him: These polls — which mostly show Clinton either ahead or tied in these battlegrounds — were all taken during or after Clinton’s roughest week of the general election, with FBI Director James Comey’s rebuke over her emails. So you could view these battleground numbers as a floor for Clinton, while Trump is still unable to break 40% in many of these states. (Indeed, look at the high undecided numbers; voters moved away from Clinton, but they didn’t move toward Trump.) And what should ring alarm bells for the GOP is the polling in Colorado and Virginia, where Clinton is up in high single digits/double digits.”
“On the other hand, these polls also come as Team Clinton has been outspending Team Trump over the battleground airwaves by a 40-to-1 margin. So it’s possible that Trump could improve his numbers if/when he starts airing TV ads. But here’s the bottom line: The email story alone isn’t going to win the presidential race for Trump. He’s got to deliver on his VP pick and convention to overtake Clinton.”
Trump Reached Out Again to Condi Rice
CNN: “Marking the unpredictability of the state of affairs, Trump was still making calls to people in recent days.”
“Trump even reached out again to Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state under former President George W. Bush, after a donor encouraged him to make the call over the weekend. Rice, though, doesn’t want the job, according to a separate source familiar with the process.”
GOP Senators Lead In Three Key Battlegrounds
Three new Quinnipiac polls show good news for Republicans trying to hang on to control of the U.S. Senate:
- Florida: Sen. Marco Rubio (R) 50%, Rep. Patrick Murphy (D) 37%
- Ohio: Sen. Rob Portman (R) 47%, Gov. Ted Strickland (D) 40%
- Pennsylvania: Sen. Pat Toomey (R) 49%, Katie McGinty (D) 39%
Quote of the Day
“Look, in many ways Donald Trump is like a pirate. He’s outside the normal system, he gets things done, he’s bold, he’s actually like a figure out of a movie. In a lot of ways, my entire career has been a little bit like a pirate.”
— Newt Gingrich, quoted by Politico.
Gingrich Still Owes $4.6 Million from Last Campaign
Daily Beast: “The biggest chunk of the debt, nearly $1 million, is owed for Gingrich’s use of private jets to fly from event to event through charter travel company Moby Dick Airways. The campaign also owes more than $400,000 for Gingrich’s personal security to the Patriot Group, and $128,000 to the Winston Group… Several other well-known names are also among Gingrich’s creditors, including former Rep. J.C. Watts and Herman Cain for ‘strategic consulting’ and travel, as well as Kellyanne Conway’s The Polling Company, which conducted polls for the Gingrich campaign and is owed more than $20,000.”
A Clue in the Convention Speakers List?
Bloomberg notes that a partial list of speakers at the Republican convention includes Newt Gingrich and Gov. Chris Christie but does not currently include Gov. Mike Pence.
Clinton Loses Her National Lead
A new New York Times/CBS News poll shows Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has evaporated and the election is now tied, 40% to 40%.
Key findings: 67 percent of voters say Clinton is not honest and trustworthy.
“Mr. Trump is also distrusted by a large number of voters — 62 percent — but that number has stayed constant despite increased scrutiny on his business record and falsehoods in his public statements and Twitter messages. But Mrs. Clinton’s shifting and inaccurate explanations of her email practices at the State Department appear to have resonated more deeply with the electorate.”
Americans Are Scared of Both Canidates
A new AP-GfK poll finds that 81% of Americans say they would feel afraid following the election of one of the two polarizing politicians: Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.
That includes a quarter who say it doesn’t matter who wins: they’re scared of both.
‘Our Children Are Watching’
A new ad from Hillary Clinton uses Donald Trump’s own words to show that he’s not a very good role model.
GOP Nomination Fight Still Possible
“Republicans are bracing for the possibility of a drawn-out fight over Donald Trump’s nomination that could stretch into the convention next week, a spectacle party leaders are desperate to avoid,” the New York Times reports.
“As the party’s governing body convened in Cleveland on Wednesday for a series of organizational meetings, the possibility that the smoldering dissent over Mr. Trump could become a full-blown eruption on the convention floor was a top concern.”
“Party officials were working in overdrive behind the scenes to beat back two challenges. One would force a vote that could theoretically open up the convention to any candidate who wants to seek the nomination. A second, organized by supporters of gay rights, would strike the entire Republican platform, which is staunchly conservative in its treatment of sexuality, gender and religion.”
Evangelical Voters Move Towards Trump
A new Pew Research survey finds that evangelical voters are rallying strongly in favor of Donald Trump, with 78% saying they’ll vote for him.
Indeed, the latest survey finds “that despite the professed wariness toward Trump among many high-profile evangelical Christian leaders, evangelicals as a whole are, if anything, even more strongly supportive of Trump than they were of Mitt Romney at a similar point in the 2012 campaign.”
GOP Convention Gets Trump Stamp
Donald Trump “has been promising a different kind of Republican National Convention, and plans obtained by the New York Times show that he is eager to put his showbiz stamp on the party’s gathering, even as he struggles to attract A-list talent.”
“The roster of speakers obtained by The Times, and confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of the convention planning, reveals a lineup lacking many of the party’s rising stars. Instead, it features some of Mr. Trump’s eclectic collection of friends, celebrities and relatives, from his Slovenian supermodel wife to professional golfer Natalie Gulbis.”
Included on the schedule is “a night highlighting the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya” and “a presentation detailing former President Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct.”
Exchange of the Day
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (D) was asked by NBC News whether he was being considered as a possible running mate for Hillary Clinton:
NBC News: So, let me ask you point blank, are you being vetted right now by the campaign.
Vilsack: Listen, those questions should obviously be directed to the campaign. What’s interesting about this to me is the speculation on the Democratic side has a whole host of people who could potentially do this job, and for the last several weeks it’s been a lot of folks on the Republican side who don’t want to be on the vice presidential list…
NBC News: So, to be clear, you’re not going to tell me if you are being vetted. Do you know that you’re not being vetted right now? Is there any information that we don’t know?
Vilsack: I think you just ask the campaign, and I’m sure they’ll be glad to give you all the information you need.
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