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Democrats Win Control of Virginia Legislature

November 5, 2019 at 8:25 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Democrats gained control of both houses of the Virginia General Assembly Tuesday, with election results suggesting that the party had completed a historic sweep of the state’s government,” the Washington Post reports.

“After polls closed on the most expensive and most-watched Virginia legislative races in years, incomplete tallies showed Democrats picked up at least two seats in the state Senate and four in the House of Delegates to take narrow majorities.”

Election Night Results

November 5, 2019 at 6:45 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Kentucky and Mississippi will elect governors. Some polls close in Kentucky at 6 p.m., while others at 7 p.m. Polls in Mississippi close at 8 p.m.

In Virginia, voters will decide control of the state legislature. Polls close at 7 p.m.

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Flashback Quote of the Day

November 5, 2019 at 6:03 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“If you’re looking for a circumstance where the president of the United States was threatening the Ukraine with cutting off aid unless they investigated his political opponent, you’d be very disappointed. That does not exist.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), quoted by The Hill on September 25.


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Democrats Need a Dual Strategy to Beat Trump

November 5, 2019 at 5:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

John Cassidy: “At least mathematically, the elements of a successful battleground-state strategy are clear. The Democratic candidate needs to excite voters in the Democratic base, particularly minorities and highly educated whites, while also trying to appeal to as many people as possible in Trump’s core demographic, which consists of whites who don’t have a four-year college degree. Contrary to some analyses, both of these things are necessary: it isn’t an either-or choice. The Democrats need a dual strategy.”

“A new study by Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin, two Democratic-leaning political scientists who have been tracking demographic and voting trends for decades, shows why. According to the study, roughly twenty-nine per cent of eligible voters next year will be nonwhite, about thirty per cent will be whites with college degrees, and slightly less than forty-two per cent will be whites without college degrees. On this basis alone, it seems likely that the Democrats could put together an electoral victory simply by turning out their base. But that is misleading, because none of the three major groups vote monolithically.”

Sherrod Brown Says GOP Senators Admit Trump Is a Racist

November 5, 2019 at 5:33 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) told the Late Show with Stephen Colbert that his Republican colleagues in the Senate privately admit that President Trump is “racist” and “misogynist.”

Said Brown: “Most Republican senators, when you talk to them individually, quietly, will acknowledge that Trump is a racist. They’ll acknowledge that Trump is a misogynist, they’ll acknowledge he has trouble telling the truth.”

He added: “It’s pretty clear that Republican senators, I mean they’re not going to go down as profiles in courage. It’s pretty clear that they like the tax cuts that Trump gave them. They like the attacks on the environment and on labor rights, and they like the young right-wing judges. And they’re all scared of their base. They’re all scared of a Republican primary from a Trump supporter that could take them out.”

Jamie Dimon Says Warren ‘Vilifies’ Successful People

November 5, 2019 at 5:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon told CNBC that Sen. Elizabeth Warren “vilifies” successful people.

“She uses some pretty harsh words, you know, some would say vilifies successful people. I don’t like vilifying anybody. I think we should applaud successful people.”

McConnell Predicts Senate Won’t Convict Trump

November 5, 2019 at 4:43 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the Senate would acquit President Trump if an impeachment trial were held today, Politico reports.

Said McConnell: “I will say I’m pretty sure how it’s likely to end. If it were today I don’t think there’s any question — it would not lead to a removal. So the question is how long does the Senate want to take? How long do the presidential candidates want to be here on the floor of the Senate instead of in Iowa and New Hampshire?”

House GOP Mulls Committee Shakeup Before Hearings

November 5, 2019 at 4:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee and a veteran combatant in highly charged Capitol Hill investigations, has taken the leading role in closed-door depositions of key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. But he is not a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which Democrats last week voted to give the sole power to conduct public hearings.”

“According to three Republicans familiar with the talks but not authorized to comment publicly, McCarthy (R-CA) is considering placing Jordan on the panel, as well as others — such as Reps. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who have been involved in the depositions but do not sit on the Intelligence Committee.”

Trump Properties Show Signs of Decline

November 5, 2019 at 4:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “As Trump concludes the tumultuous third year of his presidency, it is becoming clear that the political environment he helped create is having consequences for the real estate empire he and his family built.”

“While his properties have benefited from his repeated visits and business from conservative customers, there are signs that at least parts of the company are struggling, beset by financial setbacks, regulatory and legal battles, and a tarnished brand name.”

“From the outside, it is not possible to gauge how serious those problems are for the company as a whole, and the Trump Organization declined to comment for this article. But, in recent days, the company has announced two other moves that seem sharply out of character.”

You Don’t See What You See

November 5, 2019 at 3:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

From a new White House statement on the House impeachment inquiry:

“Both transcripts released today show there is even less evidence for this illegitimate impeachment sham than previously thought.”

The ‘Get Over It’ Defense

November 5, 2019 at 3:34 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Gordon Sondland now admits in revised testimony that he told a top Ukrainian official that military aid to the beleaguered U.S. ally would “likely” be held up unless the country’s government announced investigations into Joe Biden and his son. It was an explosive reversal from his closed-door testimony.

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Roger Stone Leaves Jury Selection Due to ‘Food Poisoning’

November 5, 2019 at 3:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

NBC News: “Jury selection in the trial of Roger Stone, the longtime confidant and adviser to President Trump, got off to a bizarre start on Tuesday as Stone left the proceedings due to what he said was food poisoning.”

Exchange of the Day

November 5, 2019 at 2:52 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

An excerpt of testimony Ambassador Gordon Sondland gave to the House impeachment inquiry:

Q: Did you ever discuss Rudy Giuliani with Secretary Pompeo?

A: Only in general terms.

Q: And what did you discuss?

A: That he’s involved in affairs. And Pompeo rolled his eyes and said: Yes, it’s something we have to deal with.

Sondland Updates Impeachment Testimony

November 5, 2019 at 2:29 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A critical witness in the impeachment inquiry offered Congress substantial new testimony this week, revealing that he told a top Ukrainian official that the country likely would not receive American military aid unless it publicly committed to investigations President Trump wanted,” the New York Times reports.

“The disclosure from Gordon Sondland, the United States ambassador to the European Union, in four new pages of sworn testimony released on Tuesday, confirmed his involvement in essentially laying out a quid pro quo to Ukraine that he had previously not acknowledged.”

Politico: “The acknowledgment of a potential quid pro quo is an explosive shift that threatens to upend claims by Trump allies that military aid was not used as a bludgeon to advance Trump’s domestic political interests.”

RNC Paid to Tie Up Phones of Democratic Lawmakers

November 5, 2019 at 2:22 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The RNC paid to generate thousands of calls to the congressional offices of nearly three dozen House Democrats in recent weeks, an effort that was aimed at both shaping opinion around the impeachment inquiry and tying up the phone lines of the elected officials, the New York Times reports.

Elections In Four States Offer Test of Voter Enthusiasm

November 5, 2019 at 1:33 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Associated Press: “Results in Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia won’t necessarily predict whether Trump will be reelected or which party will control Congress after the general election next fall. But partisans of all stripes invariably will use these odd-year elections for clues about how voters are reacting to the impeachment saga and whether the Republican president is losing ground among suburban voters who rewarded Democrats in the 2018 midterms and will prove critical again next November.”

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Can Make a Big Difference

November 5, 2019 at 1:22 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Individuals are facing more societal pressure to take action on climate change as inaction on the matter persists among governments,” Axios reports.

“Rare, a nonprofit focused on conservation and behavioral change, recently sought to quantify the aggregate impact voluntary, individual steps to cut emissions could have. The group concluded that if approximately 10% of the U.S. population adopted seven behavioral changes — including reducing air travel and purchasing an electric car — it could cut total domestic emissions by 8% within the next six years.”

Green That Life: What are carbon offsets? How to tell which to buy.

Too Much Democracy Is Bad for Democracy

November 5, 2019 at 1:01 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jonathan Rauch and Ray La Raja: “Americans rarely pause to consider just how bizarre the presidential nominating process has become. No other major democracy routinely uses primaries to choose its political candidates, nor did the Founders of this country intend for primaries to play a role in the republican system they devised.”

“Abraham Lincoln did not win his party’s nomination because he ran a good ground game in New Hampshire; rather, Republican elders saw in him a candidate who could unite rival factions within the party and defeat the Democratic nominee in the general election. Today’s system amounts to a radical experiment in direct democracy, one without precedent even in America’s own political history.”

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