The Lincoln Project has a new video suggesting Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is getting rich off of the president’s campaign.
Their message: “Don, you got conned… by your IT guy.”
The Lincoln Project has a new video suggesting Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is getting rich off of the president’s campaign.
Their message: “Don, you got conned… by your IT guy.”
Oregon Republicans nominated Jo Rae Perkins (R) for the U.S. Senate race, a candidate who believes in QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that has taken root among some far-right supporters of President Trump, the Washington Post reports.
In a video posted on Twitter Tuesday night, Perkins declared that she supports the conspiracy theory: “Where we go one, we go all. I stand with President Trump. I stand with Q and the team. Thank you Anons, and thank you patriots. And together, we can save our republic.”
In a forthcoming documentary, Norma McCorvey — known as Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade — admits that she was paid to make anti-abortion comments “in the mid ’90s when the pro-choice advocate and activist appeared to become a born-again ex-gay Christian with the help of leaders of the evangelical Christian right,” the Daily Beast reports.
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The Senate Homeland Security committee moved on a party line vote to subpoena documents related to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, in an escalation of GOP congressional scrutiny into Biden’s time as vice president, the Washington Post reports.
“The now-fired State Department inspector general had recently wrapped up an investigation into another top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, determining that she had likely failed to report allegations of workplace violence,” Politico reports.
“Pompeo’s role in the ouster has come under growing scrutiny, with a slew of sudden reports about ways in which the inspector general was looking into his actions, those of his wife, Susan, as well as some of his aides.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended his push to have his department’s inspector general fired, saying he “should have done it some time ago,” but refused to explain his reasoning for recommending President Trump remove Steve Linick from his job, CNN reports.
Pompeo refused to elaborate, saying only that he would “share with the appropriate people” and that claims that the recommendation was in retaliation for Linick’s probes are “patently false.”
A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally, 48% to 43% with 8% still undecided.
Coming later this year: The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage by Sasha Issenberg.
Issenberg writes on Facebook: “I wanted to write the definitive account of what seemed to me to be the biggest shift the country had experienced on a domestic social issue in my lifetime. I’ve covered politics for much of the time that gay marriage emerged as a major part of the national debate, and it was a mystery how that happened, and how we got from there to where we are now.”
President Trump said he may again host the G7 summit in or near Washington, after earlier canceling the in-person meeting amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Tweeted Trump: “I am considering rescheduling the G7, on the same or similar date, in Washington, D.C., at the legendary Camp David. The other members are also beginning their COMEBACK. It would be a great sign to all – normalization!”
Jonathan Bernstein: “The oddest thing in electoral politics over the past few weeks is what appears to be absolute, and unfounded, confidence among some Republican strategists that there’s a trade-off between public health and the economy, and that what matters for President Trump’s re-election is the economy…”
“Almost every relevant expert who has commented publicly has said that the economy can’t be repaired until the virus is at least somewhat under control… Open too fast and you could risk outbreaks that force a second round of shutdowns; open too slowly and you might test people’s patience with distancing measures.”
“But while tough choices remain about managing the pandemic over time, these aren’t really choices between the economy and public health. And more to the point, the whole electoral conversation is wrong: There’s no reason to think that reviving the economy by tolerating more lives lost — even if it were possible — would be the right electoral choice for the Trump campaign.”
“Almost immediately after special counsel Robert Mueller closed his investigation last year, Attorney General William Barr was huddling with the prosecutor he assigned to re-examine the Russia probe — in a series of meetings that haven’t been previously known and appear to highlight Barr’s drive to rewrite the legacy of the Mueller investigation,” CNN reports.
Ford Motor Co. is backpedaling from a policy that every visitor to its factories wear masks ahead of President Trump’s tour of a components plant that it’s converted to a ventilator-making facility, Bloomberg reports.
First Read: “Maybe Joe Biden isn’t leading President Trump by 7 points in Arizona, as one poll showed yesterday. But Biden has been ahead of Trump in every Arizona poll released this year. And that Arizona advantage opens up more paths to 270 electoral votes for Biden — especially those that don’t require him to win Wisconsin.”
“Just take a look at these scenarios, assuming a battleground map with the toss-up states being Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (and giving Trump the single electoral votes in Maine’s second district and Nebraska’s second district):
Test the various paths on our interactive electoral map.
Earlier for members: Biden’s Best Path to 270 Doesn’t Include Wisconsin
“Republican congressional candidate Ted Howze said earlier this month he had nothing to do with social media posts from his personal accounts that demeaned Muslims, accused prominent Democrats of murder and mocked a survivor of the Parkland school shooting,” Politico reports.
“In the weeks since his denial, new questions have emerged about that explanation.”
“At least a dozen additional posts from Howze’s account over a two-year period espouse conspiracy theories, suggest Hillary Clinton and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) are responsible for murder, or denigrate Dreamers, Islam and the Black Lives Matter movement. As of Tuesday afternoon, they were accessible on his personal Facebook account.”
“Churches in states at the forefront of reopening efforts are closing their doors for a second time,” the Washington Post reports.
“Catoosa Baptist Tabernacle in Ringgold, Ga., less than 20 miles away from Chattanooga, Tenn., and Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Houston have indefinitely suspended services after members and leaders tested positive for the coronavirus shortly after reopening.”
President Trump threatened to “hold up” federal funding to Michigan after reports the state would send absentee ballot applications to 7.7 million voters.
Tweeted Trump: “This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!”
A construction company that has been repeatedly lauded by President Trump has secured a $1.3 billion deal to build over 40 miles of border fencing through south Arizona, the Washington Post reports.
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.
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