A new Morning Consult poll in Wisconsin finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 49% to 43%.
Key finding: “Trump has a 12-point advantage in the Badger State among white voters without a college degree, while Biden leads with the state’s college-educated voters by 23 points.”
“Mike Bloomberg plans to spend $60 million to strengthen the Democratic House majority in November, roughly matching the money he invested in flipping control of the House in 2018,” the Washington Post reports.
“The spending will include digital and television ads to defend some of the 20 freshman Democrats he helped win in 2018, along with spending aimed at defeating additional Republican incumbents.”
“Bernie Sanders takes on a somewhat new role in his address to the Democratic National Convention on Monday night — that of party unifier,” Bloomberg reports.
“Four years ago, delegates who supported him and his progressive movement picketed and booed at the Democratic National Convention, protesting a party and nominee they believed had rigged the presidential primary against their candidate.”
DNC Chair Tom Perez said that the handful of 2020 presidential caucuses should be the last the party ever holds, the AP reports.
“He didn’t specifically name Iowa, which for decades has led off the nominating calendar, but his position would represent a seismic shift in the party’s traditions.”
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds Joe Biden now outpaces Donald Trump nationally in the presidential race, 49% to 38%.
The self-described “senior Trump administration official,” who anonymously trashed the president’s leadership in a 2018 op-ed and a 2019 best-selling book, is calling for voters to throw the president out of office this November in a new preface for the paperback “2020 election edition” of the book, Politico reports.
“Anonymous” said last year that they would reveal their identity to Trump before the election, but the person stays nameless in the latest edition, only saying they plan to unveil themselves in “due course.”
“We built the greatest economy in the history of the world, and now I have to do it again… You know what that is? That’s right. That’s God testing me.”
— President Trump, at a mini-rally in Minnesota.
Miles Taylor, former chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, writes in the Washington Post that President Trump “dangerous” for America.
Writes Taylor: “I can attest that the country is less secure as a direct result of the president’s actions.”
CNN notes Taylor also officially endorsed Joe Biden for president in a devastating new video.
“The English colonists who settled the so-called Lost Colony before disappearing from history simply went to live with their native friends — the Croatoans of Hatteras, according to a new book,” the Virginian-Pilot reports.
Said author Scott Dawson, who researched records and dug up artifacts where the colonists lived with the Indians in the 16th century: “They were never lost. It was made up. The mystery is over.”
“Teams have found thousands of artifacts 4-6 feet below the surface that show a mix of English and Indian life. Parts of swords and guns are in the same layer of soil as Indian pottery and arrowheads.”
A spokesperson for former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) shot down rumors his boss might endorse Joe Biden: “The answer is no. I think he’d rather set himself on fire than get involved in the election. Nothing to see here.”
“At an event at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport on Monday afternoon, Trump gave a preview of the attacks he will make against Democrats during their convention this week. He ridiculed the convention organizers for pre-recording some of their programming rather than airing the entire event live,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump: “When you hear a speech is taped, it’s like there’s nothing very exciting about it, right?”
“A powerful Republican central to the president’s 2020 reelection bid was part of a more concerted effort than previously known to remove him from the ballot in 2016,” Business Insider reports.
“The maneuvers of Katie Walsh and, to a lesser degree, her husband, Mike Shields, have been discussed quietly among some of President Trump’s closest advisers for years. They have both served in powerful posts, including in the White House and the Republican National Committee. Some of those advisers have debated whether the two actually want to help the president or whether they simply want to cash in on their access to Trump.”
“Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to House Democrats’ request for him to testify next week about his controversial Postal Service changes that have raised hackles around the nation,” Politico reports.
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds 47% of voters who back Joe Biden plan to vote by mail rather than in person, compared with 11% of Donald Trump supporters.
By contrast, 66% of Trump voters say they plan to cast ballots in person on Election Day, compared with 26% of Biden supporters.
Amber Phillips: How to make sure your vote is counted.
Out next month: After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency by Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith.
A comprehensive roadmap for reform of the presidency in the post-Trump era.
“You know, I had always been hopeful, even after the convention and after the election, that perhaps we would see a change in the president, but we just never have. I happen to think it’s the soul of our country that is being damaged, and that’s what I’m concerned about.”
— Former Gov. John Kasich (R), quoted by the New York Times, on why he’s crossing party lines to vote for Joe Biden.
Several women tell World Magazine that Madison Cawthorn (R), who is running for Congress in North Carolina’s 11th congressional district, “exhibited sexually or verbally aggressive behavior toward them when they were teenagers.”
In addition to former Gov. John Kasich, three more Republicans will speak at the Democratic convention tonight: former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and former Rep. Susan Molinari.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
