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Bloomberg Already Has One of the Biggest Campaigns

December 8, 2019 at 9:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “After two weeks in the presidential race, Mike Bloomberg now employs one of the largest campaign staff rosters, has spent more money on ads than all the top-polling Democrats combined and is simultaneously building out ground operations in 27 states.”

“Everything he is doing is so unlike what has been done for decades that it is difficult to decipher how voters will react.”

Trump Says Giuliani Wants to Testify

December 8, 2019 at 9:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump said his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani wants to testify before congressional impeachment investigators about his most recent trip to Ukraine, Politico reports.

Said Trump: “He has not told me what he found, but I think he wants to go before Congress. I hear he has found plenty.”

Trump added that Giuliani will “make a report” of his findings to submit to Attorney General William Barr and Congress.

Flashback Quote of the Day

December 8, 2019 at 9:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Go after your enemies. I mean, they’re after you. Go after your enemies. I think that Clinton probably is too nice a guy in a certain respect. I don’t think he’s going after people the way he should and I really believe his thing is to be liked and I don’t think that’s a very good position to be in right now.”

— Donald Trump, on Hardball in September 1998, advising President Bill Clinton on how to fight impeachment.


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Dixville Notch May See Its Midnight Tradition Disappear

December 8, 2019 at 9:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Boston Globe: “For six decades, Americans have woken up on the morning of the New Hampshire presidential primary, turned on the news, and heard about Dixville Notch, the tiny hamlet where perhaps a dozen voters had cast paper ballots into a wooden box right at midnight, with the pomp of a long ago era.”

“Now, with the 2020 New Hampshire presidential primary less than 10 weeks away, it is increasingly likely that the Dixville Notch tradition is dead, victim of a shrinking population too small to meet the legal threshold of five residents to be a polling place.”

North Korea Carries Out ‘Very Important Test’

December 8, 2019 at 9:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

North Korea says it has carried out a “very important test” at a satellite-launching site, the BBC reports.

“Analysts believe it could be a ground-based test of an engine to power a satellite launcher or an intercontinental ballistic missile.”

“It comes after Pyongyang appeared to shut the door on further US talks.”

Republicans Mount Ad Blitz on Impeachment

December 8, 2019 at 8:20 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Republicans are dramatically outspending Democrats on impeachment-related ads on Facebook and television, illustrating how fully the GOP has embraced the issue as a political winner as public opinion remains split on the House effort to remove the president,” the Washington Post reports.

“The ad blitz has worried some Democrats in swing districts who are being painted as do-nothing, pro-impeachment radicals. The Democrats have been urging party leaders for weeks to strike back with their own countermessage, to no avail.”

Trump Says Jews Have ‘No Choice’ But to Vote for Him

December 7, 2019 at 11:22 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump told a conference of American Jews Saturday night that he did not have to worry about getting their votes, because they would cast ballots with business interests in mind,” the Times of Israel reports.

“The comments, made during a speech to the Israeli American council, were quickly derided as anti-Semitic.”

Said Trump: “You have to vote for me, you have no choice. You’re not going to vote for Pocahontas, I can tell you that.”

He added: “You’re not going to vote for the wealth tax. Let’s take 100 percent of your wealth away. No, no. Even if you don’t like me — and some of you don’t, some of you I don’t like at all actually — and you’re going to be my biggest supporters because you’ll be out of business in about 15 minutes.”

Is This the Fall of the American Empire?

December 7, 2019 at 1:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Michael Lewis interviewed by The Guardian:

“It could be that. But my gut says don’t bet against the country. It has this incredible capacity for self-reinvention. If it was Britain and this was happening I would say yes, it might be a one-way ticket to decline. But in the States I think something will come along that will finally induce the requisite state of terror – and it will regenerate the place.”

The Next 100 Days Are Critical for Trump

December 7, 2019 at 12:03 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Harry Enten: “The next 100 days will be critical to understanding whether President Donald Trump will win a second term in office. His approval rating has been consistently low during his first term. Yet his supporters could always point out that approval ratings before an election year have not historically been correlated with reelection success.”

“But by mid-March of an election year, approval ratings, though, become more predictive. Presidents with low approval ratings in mid-March of an election year tend to lose, while those with strong approval ratings tend to win in blowouts and those with middling approval ratings usually win by small margins.”

Will Impeachment Be Forgotten By the Election?

December 7, 2019 at 11:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Dan Balz: “People can look back to the two previous impeachment proceedings of modern times — those involving Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton — and attempt to speculate about the possible political impacts. Those limited data points point in contradictory directions.”

“Nixon resigned the presidency in August 1974 and thereby escaped being impeached by the full House for abuse of power, obstruction of justice and contempt of Congress. The damage from two years of investigations and revelations, as well as multiple convictions of administration officials, spilled onto his party. Three months after Nixon left office, Republicans lost four seats in the Senate and 49 seats in the House. Two years later, Republicans lost the presidency.”

“Clinton was impeached in the House in December 1998, little more than a month after midterm elections — contests in which the Republicans, who would typically have been expected to make gains, lost ground. The aftershocks from those results proved to be chaotic for the Republicans, who were leading the push to impeach Clinton.”

GOP Governors Resist Trump

December 7, 2019 at 11:52 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“His grip on Republican senators has held in the lead-up to a historic impeachment trial. Members of the House have faced the prospect of retiring before going against him. And he frequently boasts about his strong approval ratings among Republican voters,” the New York Times reports.

“Yet for a party leader who inspires fear in Washington, President Trump has been bedeviled by governor’s races time and again, even after his aggressive campaigning has helped Republican candidates win.”

“Unable to modulate his excitement for other people’s political battles — and, according to advisers, not understanding the distinct incentives for governors who run their own states and senators who have to work with him in Washington — Mr. Trump has plunged headfirst into contests that have done little but expose his own political vulnerabilities.”

Democrats Face Possibility of Drawn Out Primary

December 7, 2019 at 8:03 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“With just under two months until the Iowa caucuses, the already-volatile Democratic presidential race has grown even more unsettled, setting the stage for a marathon nominating contest between the party’s moderate and liberal factions,” the New York Times reports.

“Pete Buttigieg’s surge, Bernie Sanders’s revival, Elizabeth Warren’s struggles and the exit of Kamala Harris have upended the primary and, along with Joe Biden’s enduring strength with nonwhite voters, increased the possibility of a split decision after the early nominating states.”

“That’s when Michael Bloomberg aims to burst into the contest — after saturating the airwaves of the Super Tuesday states with tens of millions of dollars of television ads.”

“With no true front-runner and three other candidates besides Mr. Bloomberg armed with war chests of over $20 million, Democrats are confronting the prospect of a drawn-out primary reminiscent of the epic Clinton-Obama contest in 2008.”

American Freed by Iran In Prisoner Exchange

December 7, 2019 at 8:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“An American graduate student who was held in an Iranian prison for more than three years was finally headed home Saturday after a prisoner swap between the two countries,” NBC News reports.

Trump Still Uses His Personal Cell Phone

December 6, 2019 at 9:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump has continued to use his personal cell phone to make calls, despite repeated warnings from his staff that the practice could leave him vulnerable to foreign surveillance,” multiple officials told CNN.

Schiff Says Pence Aide Provided New Evidence

December 6, 2019 at 8:46 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence submitted additional classified evidence to House impeachment investigators about a phone call between Pence and Ukraine’s president, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff revealed Friday,” Politico reports.

“In a letter to Pence, Schiff asked the vice president to declassify supplemental testimony from the aide, Jennifer Williams, about Pence’s Sept. 18 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, arguing that there is no ‘legitimate basis’ to keep it secret.”

Buttigieg Releases Timeline of McKinsey Work

December 6, 2019 at 8:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Pete Buttigieg released a timeline of his work at McKinsey & Co. on Friday amid criticism that he isn’t sharing more details about his time at the consulting firm,” Politico reports.

Said Buttigieg: “I never worked on a project inconsistent with my values, and if asked to do so, I would have left the firm rather than participate.”

He said most of his work consisted of “mathematical analysis, conducting research, and preparing presentations.”

Giuliani’s Ukraine Trip Intended to Send Signal

December 6, 2019 at 8:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Even as the House of Representatives began drafting charges against President Trump this week, his private attorney,who many believe is partly responsible for leading Trump on the path to his likely impeachment, made an audacious trip to the country at the center of the scandal,” the Washington Post reports.

“The purported purpose of the trip was to conduct interviews for a documentary on a right-wing media network. But Giuliani’s travel also appeared designed to send a broader and more brazen signal of the disregard that he and Trump have for the unfolding impeachment process.”

“Current and former officials in Washington expressed astonishment at how Giuliani — apparently on behalf of the president — seemed to be mocking impeachment investigators, if not the very idea that either he or his client should answer any articles of impeachment.”

Supreme Court Halts Subpoena for Trump Records

December 6, 2019 at 6:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Supreme Court on Friday granted President Trump’s emergency request to temporarily block a congressional subpoena for his financial records from Deutsche Bank,” The Hill reports.

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