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Trump Tells McCarthy He Wants a ‘Big Deal’

October 8, 2020 at 5:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Within a day of tweeting that he was calling off bipartisan talks for a coronavirus stimulus deal, President Trump phoned House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and indicated he was worried by the stock market reaction and wanted a “big deal” with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Axios reports.

CNN reports “it’s unclear what, exactly, Trump’s vision of a comprehensive deal would entail and there remains significant hurdles — and skepticism — when it comes to reaching an agreement through talks that have been largely stuck in the same place for several months.”

Biden Pulls In Another $12 Million

October 8, 2020 at 5:49 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Joe Biden’s campaign hauled in more than $12 million on Wednesday around the vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence, marking another watershed cash day for the already flush Democratic presidential ticket,” Politico reports.

“Earlier this month, Biden brought in nearly $10 million in three hours around the first presidential debate against President Donald Trump alone, breaking the campaign’s single-hour fundraising record.”

Pence Suddenly Cancels Campaign Events

October 8, 2020 at 4:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Vice President Mike Pence, currently in Arizona, has cancelled campaign events in Indiana tomorrow and will be returning to Washington, D.C. instead, the AP reports.

His spokesman tells CBS News that “nobody’s sick” and “there’s no positive tests.”


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White House Again Refuses to Disclose Trump Test

October 8, 2020 at 4:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

White House communications director Alyssa Farah declined to tell reporters when President Trump last tested negative for COVID-19, saying that “the doctors would like to keep it private,” Axios reports.

It marks at least the eighth time since Trump tested positive for the virus one week ago that White House officials have refused to disclose the information.

Fox News Will No Longer Book Trump Adviser

October 8, 2020 at 4:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Trump campaign adviser Harlan Hill will no longer be allowed on Fox News after tweeting during the vice presidential debate Wednesday night that Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) is an “insufferable lying bitch,” Mediaite reports.

When asked for comment, Hill responded: “I stand by the statement that she’s an insufferable power-hungry smug bitch.”

The Man Who Pretended Not to Notice

October 8, 2020 at 3:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

David Frum: “We saw a weird moment when a fly landed on Pence’s snow-white hair—and the vice president did not react at all. No doubt, it’s a conundrum, what to do in such a situation. If Pence had shooed the fly and the fly had refused to shoo, that would have been bad. So he did nothing. And that doing nothing somehow in one powerful visual moment concentrated everything.”

“It symbolized the whole Pence vice presidency, the determined, willful refusal to acknowledge the most blaring and glaring negative realities. Through all of the scandals and the crimes and the disasters of the past four years, Mike Pence was the man who pretended not to notice. And now there was a fly on his head, and he pretended not to notice that too.”

Biden Agrees to Town Hall Event

October 8, 2020 at 3:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

ABC News will host a town hall with Joe Biden in Philadelphia and moderated by George Stephanopoulos on October 15th, which was to be the night of the second presidential debate.

It’s Going to Get Uglier for Republicans

October 8, 2020 at 3:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Stuart Stevens: “About a year ago, I finished a pretty bleak book about the GOP, but it turns out I was too optimistic. Even after the party’s turn away from time-honored Republican principles, I couldn’t have imagined a party that would abandon any pretense of standing for conservative values, decency or common sense. Having spent four years defending their guy at every turn, they’re stuck. In for a penny, in for a pound: Republicans can’t tell the truth about Trump anymore. Even if they wanted to.”

“Many GOP candidates know they face near-impossible odds this year. Across the nation, every morning there are campaign team calls on which political professionals try to think of ways their bosses might escape impending electoral doom. I’ve been on calls like this more times than I’d care to remember, and I know they will take on an increasingly desperate tone as reality sinks in. In a week or two, it’ll be all gallows humor from here on out as they mask the pain.”

GOP Lawmaker Urged 5-Year Old Son to Smoke Cigar

October 8, 2020 at 2:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Pennsylvania state Rep. Aaron Bernstine (R) shared video clips this summer on his now-deleted Snapchat account in which he encourages his 5-year-old son to puff on a cigar and use profane language, USA Today reports.

When the young boy takes a puff, Bernstine tells him to “hit it harder” and “breathe in,” followed by a woman’s voice saying, “No.”

A second video has Bernstine again off camera asking his son, “What are we going to chase in Nashville?” The boy replies in a whisper, “Cadillac pussy,” using a vulgar term for vagina.

Feds Charge GOP Fundraiser In Covert Lobbying Effort

October 8, 2020 at 2:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for President Trump and the Republican Party, has been charged in an illicit lobbying campaign aimed at getting the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, the AP reports.

Debate Watchers More Impressed with Harris Than Pence

October 8, 2020 at 2:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll finds vice presidential debate watchers were more impressed with Kamala Harris’s performance than Mike Pence’s, with 69% saying her performance was “very good” or “somewhat good,” compared to 60% who said the same for him.

McConnell Avoided White House Over Virus Protocols

October 8, 2020 at 2:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that he hasn’t been to the White House since August 6 due to their handling of the coronavirus, The Hill reports.

Said McConnell: “My impression was their approach to how to handle this was different from mine and what I insisted we do in the Senate, which was to wear a mask and practice social distancing.”

He added: “Now, you’ve heard of other places that have had a different view, and they are, you know, paying the price for it.”

House Republicans Stare at a Cliff

October 8, 2020 at 2:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Republican strategists tell National Journal that their private polls are even worse for President Trump and Republican candidates after the first presidential debate than what’s available publicly.

Biden Tests Negative Again

October 8, 2020 at 1:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Joe Biden’s campaign announced that he once again tested negative for the novel coronavirus.

Pelosi Says Democrats Are Talking About 25th Amendment

October 8, 2020 at 1:57 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats will hold an event on Friday to discuss the 25th Amendment amid concerns over President Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis, The Hill reports.

Said Pelosi: “Tomorrow, by the way, tomorrow, come here tomorrow. We’re going to be talking about the 25th Amendment. But not to take attention away from the subject we have now.”

Trump Tells Seniors That He Too Is a Senior

October 8, 2020 at 1:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump posted a new video from the White House, which begins with him addressing seniors and explaining that he is a senior.

Said Trump: “I know you don’t know that, nobody knows that.”

He added: “You’re not vulnerable, but they like to say the vulnerable, but you’re the least vulnerable, but for this one thing you are vulnerable and so am I.”

Parscale Cried During Arrest

October 8, 2020 at 1:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Brad Parscale reportedly broke down in tears while in police custody last month — admitting to an officer that his wife was not being intimate with him,” the New York Post reports.

Said Parscale: “I just couldn’t accept she isn’t having sex with me I just couldn’t accept it. Not in months. I couldn’t accept it. I just kept asking her.”

The Daily Mail has video of the arrest from a police body cam.

Michigan Militia Plotted to Kidnap Gretchen Whitmer

October 8, 2020 at 12:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Six men were arrested and accused of plotting with a militia group to kidnap Michgian Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), the New York Times reports.

“The men, some of whom the FBI said had discussed overthrowing the government, had been discussing taking Ms. Whitmer hostage since at least the summer… Several of the men had talked about creating a society in which they could be ‘self-sufficient; and one said he wanted 200 men to storm the Statehouse in Lansing, Mich.”

“The men gathered over the summer for firearms training, combat drills and tried to make explosives.”

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