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The delay in Trumps response to protests is because he was plotting a new plan with his advisers. Took a few days.

Quite obvious Trump is trying to incite riots to deflect his handling the Coronavirus onto others, people he already plans to oppress. covid19 2nd wave will be huge, and he will blame the protesters when US healthcare systems are overwhelmed again. Similar to how Hitler projecting Germanys ills onto Jewish people and other minorites, Trumps scapegoats will be minorities and 'antifa socialists'. Yesterdays bizarre declaration of war and 2nd amendment and bible holding dog whistle to his base was the first step.

How American's respond to Trump's plan will determine its future. The only point I'd add is he won't have to cosy up to or dog whistle to his base if he wins a 2nd term presidency. We know Trump is a manic narcissist without ideological ties to the Republican doctrine. He wont care at all that he may not be succeeded by another Republican, so will have carte blanche with zero accountability to shape USA in any way HE see's fit.

This message really needs to be made in run up to 2020 election: if you vote Trump, he will immediately ditch you after he win.
 
Beachryan said:
Again, wish the election were tomorrow. That's the first time I can recall seeing trump sub 40%.

He can't win if that's remotely right.
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The sad reality is that what has gone on in the past couple of days will be forgotten by November.
 
Raoul said:
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Wow! There have been a lot of false downs in recent years, but it is looking good. Dems winning the Senate and seeing that fecker McConnell losing his power would be a sight to behold. Actually screw that, would be even more awesome if he loses his seat.
 
So long, Steve King: 9-term white supremacist GOP congressman from Iowa loses primary

U.S. Congressman Steve King, a nine-term Republican of Iowa, has just lost his primary to a GOP challenger. It’s a huge fall from grace: In 2014 The Des Moines Register labeled the former earth-moving company founder a “presidential kingmaker.”

But his racist, white nationalist, white supremacist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, homophobic, transphobic, biphobic remarks and disturbing ties to far right radical European politicians – including one he endorsed who has ties to a neo-Nazi, finally caught up with him.
Iowa Republican Randy Feenstr, a state lawmaker, beat King Tuesday night.

Feenstr handily won because he offered voters a far right Christian conservative platform without the messy extremism, and because King was effectively useless after being stripped of his committee assignments after being condemned for making white supremacist remarks.

The New York Times calls King’s defeat “most likely the final political blow to one of the nation’s most divisive elected officials, whose insults of undocumented immigrants foretold the messaging of President Trump, and whose flirtations with extremism led him far from rural Iowa, to meetings with anti-Muslim crusaders in Europe and an endorsement of a Toronto mayoral candidate with neo-Nazi ties.”

Feenstr faces retired professional baseball player J. D. Scholten, a Democrat, in November.

King was infamous for his offensive comments.

In early January of 2019, King stepped too far over the line, even for the GOP.

“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” he asked in a New York Times interview, ending any question of where he stands, and branding him a white supremacist.

Until that point, King had perhaps been best-known for accusing undocumented immigrants of having “calves the size of cantaloupes” from “running drugs across the Mexican border.”

In 2018 King met with representatives of a far-right party in Austria — and used the financial backing of a Holocaust memorial group to do so.

The following year, in August, King asked, if not for rape and incest, “would there be any population left?”

He has compared transgender service members to eunuchs, predicted a race war between “hispanics and the Blacks,” and insisted that throughout history no other “subgroup of people” have contributed “more to civilization” than whites.
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How he got 9 terms says everything about Iowa.
 
Drifter said:
So long, Steve King: 9-term white supremacist GOP congressman from Iowa loses primary



How he got 9 terms says everything about Iowa.
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When you look at some of the shite this country sends to DC, both parties but especially Republican states. These people don't give a toss about the future of their kids or grandkids. Mitch McConnell has done more damage to his state than any dem president could ever manage yet here we are.
 
https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...o-register-to-vote-in-florida-with-washington

Trump initially tried to register to vote in Florida with Washington, DC address: Report
BY ZACK BUDRYK - 06/03/20 02:06 PM EDT


Florida elections records show President Trump first tried to register to vote in Florida while claiming Washington, D.C., as his legal residence, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

The first application, submitted in September 2019, listed the White House as his legal residence despite a Florida law requiring voters to legally reside in the state, the Post reported. The president resubmitted his application with a Florida address the next month and voted by mail in the Sunshine State’s Republican primary in March.

The original application listing the Washington address is dated Sept. 27, the same day the president publicly announced he would change his legal residence from Manhattan to his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump, on two separate forms, listed both the White House as his legal residence and said that he was a “bona fide resident” of Palm Beach.

As recently as 2019, the city manager of Deltona, Fla., agreed to pay more than $5,000 to avoid facing criminal charges after records showed she registered to vote using the address of the Deltona City Hall, according to the Post.
In 1993, a Palm Beach restaurant owner was charged with felony voter fraud for registering in the city but living in neighboring West Palm Beach. The charge was later dropped.
The president has argued since 2018 that he should be allowed to build a dock at the private club, initially saying it was necessary for enhanced security. Later he changed the request to say the club is his “personal residence” and the dock would be “for private family use only.”

However, locals opposed to the dock have pointed to an agreement he signed in the 1990s converting the facility from a single-family residence to a private club, with his attorney at the time saying he would not live at the club.

“It’s one or the other — it’s a club or it’s your home,” Reginald Stambaugh, an attorney who represents a neighbor opposed to Trump’s dock plan, told The Post in an interview last month. “You can’t have it both ways.” Trump has since withdrawn the dock request.

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.
 
In addition to a plan for economic recovery, the Dems need a coherent message on healthcare. This pandemic has brought this even sharper into focus because you have people losing their insurance and scared shitless of catching the virus.

The election will turn on those things I believe. Donnie will continue with his wartime-style fear-mongering campaign, which will mostly just play to his base.
 
Some questions for the americans posters here now that Nate Silver has decided to uncharacteristically be quiet
What is the hold up in announcing the VP candidate from Biden?
Will there be presidential debates?
Will there be a democratic convention? Or a GOP convention? Will the lack of one make a difference?
Are there appropriate infrastructure in place to allow for voting by mail in - and in all states?
 
Wolverine said:
Some questions for the americans posters here now that Nate Silver has decided to uncharacteristically be quiet
What is the hold up in announcing the VP candidate from Biden?
Will there be presidential debates?
Will there be a democratic convention? Or a GOP convention? Will the lack of one make a difference?
Are there appropriate infrastructure in place to allow for voting by mail in - and in all states?
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I'm not American but I think...
Vp... vetting usually takes a couple of months and I think they said August for an announcement
Debates... no idea... but I'm not sure trump will want to go on the fake news ... perhaps Facebook live?
Gop convention... probably at a trump resort
Democrat convention im not sure
Infrastructure for mail ballots I mean all you need is a functioning postal system as they have electoral data and people who can count votes
 
Wolverine said:
Some questions for the americans posters here now that Nate Silver has decided to uncharacteristically be quiet
What is the hold up in announcing the VP candidate from Biden? - There’s no rush to make a decision before August, and things have changed so dramatically in recent months it might change his original first choice (Kamala).
Will there be presidential debates? I think so...?
Will there be a democratic convention? Or a GOP convention? Will the lack of one make a difference? Yes, though the GOP are changing locations to a state with a Republican governor instead of NC because...GOP.
Are there appropriate infrastructure in place to allow for voting by mail in - and in all states? Red states are moving to block it or make it more difficult. Technically it should be accessible in all states but...we’ll just have to watch this space. They are doing things like requiring witnesses or a notary and a photocopy of a picture ID, which will reduce participation.
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Some answers above.
 
Wolverine said:
Some questions for the americans posters here now that Nate Silver has decided to uncharacteristically be quiet
What is the hold up in announcing the VP candidate from Biden?
Will there be presidential debates?
Will there be a democratic convention? Or a GOP convention? Will the lack of one make a difference?
Are there appropriate infrastructure in place to allow for voting by mail in - and in all states?
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On selecting a VP - everything has been pushed back a month or two due to COVID, which actually works in Biden's favor since whoever he selects in August, will not give Trump and his goons much time to attack them before the election.
 
Loved 'When Donald Trump came out of bunker' and calling him 'this coward'. Imminent tweet attacking Abraham Lincoln incoming.
 
Just watched the Cory Booker interview on The Late Show.

I thought he made a really good point at 24:05.

He contrasts Trumps insistence on claiming to know everything and be the best at everything, with Biden's willingness to admit that he is isn't perfect and doesn't have all the answers.

I think it might be good if Biden were to lean into this angle during his campaign. If he could communicate that he's going to build a competent team to help him and that he won't lie to the American people about how great everything is, it might sound like a welcome antidote to Trump.

 
Revan said:
Brilliant as always. Dems should learn from
LincolnProject.
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It’s 100% coordinated with the DNC. It’s twice as effective coming from the (establishment) Republicans. If the same videos were produced by the DNC it would be partisan and petty.
 
Pexbo said:
It’s 100% coordinated with the DNC. It’s twice as effective coming from the (establishment) Republicans. If the same videos were produced by the DNC it would be partisan and petty.
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That’s my thinking too - as long as they are aired on TV in the US it’s all good.
 
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