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Billionaires Cause Their Parties Headaches

September 11, 2018 at 10:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

McClatchy: “Republican Richard Uihlein and Democrat Tom Steyer have poured tens of millions of dollars into the 2018 campaign. And their political parties are irritated about it. The two billionaires have backed candidates and causes that Republican and Democratic leaders believe are detrimental to their chances in November.”

“Uihlein, the founder of a Wisconsin-based shipping supplies company, has boosted insurgent conservative candidates over the GOP’s choices in several races… He hasn’t picked many winners… Steyer, a San Francisco hedge fund manager, has poured cash into a campaign to impeach Trump, an effort many Democrats view as counterproductive at best.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign

Senate Forecast Moves Towards Democrats

September 11, 2018 at 9:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Weekly Standard’s forecast shows Democrats now have a 41% chance to take control of the Senate in this year’s midterm elections.

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign

Trump Makes It Easier to Release Methane Into Air

September 11, 2018 at 9:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration, taking its third major step this year to roll back federal efforts to fight climate change, is preparing to make it significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere,” the New York Times reports.

“Methane, which is among the most powerful greenhouse gases, routinely leaks from oil and gas wells, and energy companies have long said that the rules requiring them to test for emissions were costly and burdensome.”

Filed Under: Environment


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Trump’s Praise for Woodward Is Part of Marketing Effort

September 11, 2018 at 9:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The press release for Bob Woodward’s new book has a long list of endorsements and ends with a quote from President Trump from the phone call the two had last month.

Said Trump: “I think you’ve always been fair.”

Of course, Trump now calls the book “a scam” and claims it was “made up.”

Filed Under: Political Books

Republicans Lack Will (and Votes) to End Obamacare

September 11, 2018 at 8:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Arizona’s new senator says he’d vote to repeal the nation’s health care law. That’s one additional Republican ready to obliterate the statute because his predecessor, the late Sen. John McCain, helped derail the party’s drive with his fabled thumbs-down vote last year,” the AP reports.

“It could well be too little, too late.”

“After years of trying to demolish former President Barack Obama’s prized law, GOP leaders still lack the votes to succeed. Along with the law’s growing popularity and easing premium increases, that’s left top Republicans showing no appetite to quickly refight the repeal battle.”

First Read: “Another political cycle, another fight over health care — but this time with a twist. Unlike in 2010, 2014 and even in 2016, Democrats are no longer playing defense on the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, with less than two months before Election Day.”

Filed Under: Health Care

Americans Shift Their Identity to Match Their Politics

September 11, 2018 at 8:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Perry Bacon: “We generally think of a person’s race or religion as being fixed — and that those parts of identity (being black, say, or evangelical Christian) drive political views. Most African-Americans vote Democratic. Most evangelical Christians vote Republican.”

“But New York University political scientist Patrick Egan has written a new paper showing evidence that identity and politics operate in the opposite direction too — people shift the non-political parts of their identity, including ethnicity and religion, to align better with being a Democrat or a Republican.”

Filed Under: Trends

Woodward’s Week

September 11, 2018 at 8:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Bob Woodward has scheduled 23 interviews this week about his newly-released book, Fear: Trump in the White House., according to Axios.

Filed Under: Political Books

Pence Steers Clear of Trump

September 11, 2018 at 8:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Bob Woodward writes in his new book that Vice President Mike Pence’s “default mode is to not do anything that would prompt Trump to tweet about him or call him an idiot,” USA Today reports.

“Pence appears to have done his best to stay out of Woodward’s book. Pence was also largely absent from Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.

Said Woodward: “Little leaked out of the Pence side of the White House.”

Filed Under: Political Books Tagged With: Mike Pence

Zephyr Teachout Gets an Ultrasound in New Ad

September 11, 2018 at 7:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Zephyr Teachout (D), who is running in the Democratic primary for Attorney General, released a new ad featuring an ultrasound of her unborn baby.

Jezebel: “This may be the first use of an ultrasound in a political ad that isn’t about stripping people of their basic reproductive rights.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign, Political Advertising Tagged With: Zephyr Teachout

Whitmer Holds Double-Digit Lead In Michigan

September 11, 2018 at 7:18 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Detroit News poll finds Gretchen Whitmer (D) with a comfortable lead over Bill Schuette (R) in the Michigan governor’s race, 50% to 36%.

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: MI-Gov

Voter Backlash Puts North Carolina Legislature In Play

September 11, 2018 at 7:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “An unusual political battle is raging across North Carolina, where national and state Democrats have recruited an army of candidates and are pouring millions of dollars into a campaign to loosen a years-long Republican grip on a state legislature that has turned an otherwise evenly split state into a bastion for some of the country’s most conservative laws. Among them: a limit on transgender access to bathrooms that was ultimately repealed under pressure from business leaders, congressional district maps that courts have ruled were designed to curtail the voting power of African Americans and education spending levels that have sparked mass protests at the state Capitol.”

“The campaign reflects an often-overlooked subplot of the Democratic Party’s broader push to engineer a ‘blue wave’ across the country in the November midterms — tapping into voter anger over President Trump as well as Republican policies on school funding, taxes and health care to chip away at GOP dominance in state capitals.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign

GOP Lawmaker Is Leader of Anti-Immigrant Hate Group

September 11, 2018 at 7:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Oregon state Rep. Mike Nearman (R) is the vice president of an anti-immigrant hate group with ties to eugenicist John Tanton, who has pushed white nationalist politics through a series of anti-immigrant organizations, the group told the Daily Beast.

Nearman denied having a leadership role when Oregon alt-weekly Corvallis Advocate revealed his ties to the group last week.

Filed Under: Immigration Tagged With: Mike Nearman

Trump Jr. Says Father Only Trusts ‘Smaller’ Group of Aides

September 11, 2018 at 6:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Amid explosive allegations that some White House officials are actively working against President Trump’s agenda, Donald Trump Jr. told ABC News the number of people in the White House that his father can trust is smaller than he’d like.”

Said Trump Jr.: “I think there are people in there that he can trust, it’s just — it’s a much smaller group than I would like it to be.”

He added: “It would be easier to get things done if you’re able to fully trust everyone around you. I think that’s a shame.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Donald Trump Jr.

Rick Scott Keeps Distance from Trump

September 11, 2018 at 6:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Florida Republican Rick Scott is as close as any governor with Donald Trump. Yet it’s former President George W. Bush, no friend to Trump, who will join Scott at two fundraisers for a super PAC backing Scott’s Senate campaign Friday. It’s the latest instance of the Florida governor visibly tying his political fortunes to a prominent Republican other than the current president,” Politico reports.

“Scott — who was frequently by Trump’s side at the White House and at his resorts in Palm Beach and Bedminster, New Jersey, in 2017 — began putting more distance between himself and the unpopular president this year as he geared up for a Senate run that Trump himself had repeatedly urged him to make. Scott also chaired the super PAC backing Trump’s 2016 presidential bid. Now Scott seldom mentions the president and won’t commit to having an event with him specifically.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: FL-Sen

White Men Are In Minority of Democratic House Candidates

September 11, 2018 at 6:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A flood of women, minorities and first-time candidates is poised to radically alter the composition of Congress next year after winning Democratic primaries in record numbers in 2018,” Politico reports.

“White men are in the minority in the House Democratic candidate pool… Democrats have nominated a whopping 180 female candidates in House primaries — shattering the party’s previous record of 120, according to Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics. Heading into the final primaries of 2018 this week, Democrats have also nominated at least 133 people of color and 158 first-time candidates to run for the House.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign

U.S. Suspects Russia Behind Attacks on Diplomats

September 11, 2018 at 6:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Intelligence agencies investigating mysterious ‘attacks’ that led to brain injuries in U.S. personnel in Cuba and China consider Russia to be the main suspect,” NBC News reports.

“The suspicion that Russia is likely behind the alleged attacks is backed up by evidence from communications intercepts, known in the spy world as signals intelligence, amassed during a lengthy and ongoing investigation involving the FBI, the CIA and other U.S. agencies. The officials declined to elaborate on the nature of the intelligence.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Cuba, Russia

Stephen Miller Condemned by Childhood Rabbi

September 10, 2018 at 10:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The childhood rabbi to Stephen Miller, special adviser to Donald Trump and a key architect of his “zero-tolerance” immigration policies, criticized his former charge as a purveyor of “negativity, violence, malice and brutality” who had learned nothing from his Jewish spiritual education, The Guardian reports.

Filed Under: Immigration, Religion Tagged With: Stephen Miller

Hollywood Gets Active In the Midterm Elections

September 10, 2018 at 10:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “Hollywood’s fervor for this year’s midterm elections rivals that of recent presidential campaigns, according to Democratic donors and strategists in the Los Angeles area who say the energy is driven by a belief that a Democratic-controlled House can serve as a powerful check on President Trump.”

”People who work in the television, movie and music industry in the Los Angeles metro area have given $2.4 million to House candidate committees so far this election, with the vast majority going to support Democrats… That is the largest sum from these donors to House Democratic campaigns since at least 2008, and it’s nearly $1 million more than they gave for the 2016 elections.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign, Celebrities

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