Terry McAuliffe (D) told CNN that “fatigue and exhaustion from Trump” has clearly been an issue for Democrats in the Virginia governor’s race.
He added he does wish “from a political perspective” that Trump still had access to his Twitter account.
Terry McAuliffe (D) told CNN that “fatigue and exhaustion from Trump” has clearly been an issue for Democrats in the Virginia governor’s race.
He added he does wish “from a political perspective” that Trump still had access to his Twitter account.
“Early voting hit a record high in Virginia’s dead heat governor’s race between former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin,” CNBC reports.
“At least 1,137,656 voters submitted early ballots… That makes up roughly one fifth of the state’s 5.9 million electorate.”
“The estranged wife of Sean Parnell (R) — the candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania — testified under oath Monday that he tried to choke her until she bit him to escape, that he hit their children and verbally lashed out at her with obscenities,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
“In tears, Laurie Parnell said that her husband would call her a ‘whore’ and a ‘piece of shit.’ She also testified that he once put her out of the car and left her by the road after they argued when he told her she had to get an abortion.”
Said Mrs. Parnell: “He was strangling me.”
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“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has been reprimanded by the House sergeant-at-arms at least 20 times this year for refusing to wear a mask in the chamber, which has added up to $48,000 worth of associated fines,” The Hill reports.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) — who is often mentioned as a presidential candidate in 2024 — said that he would “of course” support former President Donald Trump if he ran for president again, the Charleston Post and Courier reports.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) signaled that Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) comments earlier will not impact what House progressives do this week, CNN reports.
She said they will vote for both the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $1.75 trillion budget reconciliation bill — without knowing what Manchin will ultimately do.
Said Jayapal: “The president says he can get 51 votes for the bill, we are going to trust him… We’re tired of continuing to wait for one or two people.”
Molly Ball has a must-read piece that looks at how a group of top CEOs came together to help thwart Donald Trump’s post-election attack on democracy.
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball just changed its rating for Virginia’s race for governor from Leans Democrat to Leans Republican.
As she nears the end of her city council term, Sara Goddard reflects on how to best lobby for change: 7 Effective Ways To Make Your Legislators Take Notice.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that it is “time to vote” on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and that “holding this bill hostage is not going to work in getting my support for the reconciliation bill.”
He added that he won’t support a reconciliation bill without greater clarity: “Simply put, I will not support a bill that is this consequential without thoroughly understanding the impact that it will have on our national debt, our economy, and most importantly, all of our American people.”
“After almost three hours of lively arguments, a majority of the justices seemed inclined to allow abortion providers — but perhaps not the Biden administration — to pursue a challenge to a Texas law that has sharply curtailed abortions in the state,” the New York Times reports.
Vox: An unusual alliance appears likely to fracture Texas’s abortion ban.
When asked which party is the biggest threat to democracy, a new NPR/PBS/Marist poll finds 42% said Democrats and 41% said Republicans, while just 8% blamed both parties.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) “decried what he characterized as Democrats’ prolonged attack on traditional masculinity, using it to make an argument for restructuring the economy in a way that would help men thrive,” the Kansas City Star reports.
Said Hawley: “The Left want to define traditional masculinity as toxic. They want to define the traditional masculine virtues — things like courage, and independence, and assertiveness — as a danger to society.”
The Atlantic: “Analysts and officials in Washington are fretting over worsening tensions between the United States and China and the risks to the world of two superpowers once again clashing rather than cooperating. President Joe Biden has said that America ‘is not seeking a new cold war.’ But that is the wrong way to look at U.S.-China relations. A cold war with Beijing is already under way. The right question, instead, is whether America can deter China from initiating a hot one.”
“Beijing is a remarkably ambitious revanchist power, one determined to make China whole again by ‘reuniting’ Taiwan with the mainland, turning the East and South China Seas into Chinese lakes, and grabbing regional primacy as a stepping-stone to global power. It is also increasingly encircled, and faces growing resistance on many fronts—just the sort of scenario that has led it to lash out in the past.”
Wall Street Journal: “Shanghai Disneyland was required to test almost 34,000 people Sunday before visitors could leave the resort, after a woman who had attended the park a day earlier was found to be infected with Covid-19. Sunday’s visitors all tested negative but were ordered to self-isolate for another 24 hours before a second test.”
“I guess I shouldn’t apologize, but I do apologize for the fact that the United States — the last administration — pulled out of the Paris Accords and put us sort of behind the eight ball.”
— President Biden, quoted by The Hill.
A new PRRI poll found that 31% of Americans believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, including two-thirds of all Republican voters and 82% of those who trust Fox News as a news source.
Among those who trust One America News Network and Newsmax, 97% say they believe the election was stolen.
Most troubling: 30% of Republicans agree that violence might be warranted.
Said pollster Robert Jones: “I’m not an alarmist by nature, but I’m deeply disturbed by these numbers. I think that we really have to take them seriously as a threat to democracy.”
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.
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