Fuck Mitch so hard man, of course she would do it, I don’t think a Supreme Court justice is going to need the ACA bro
“Families like hers.” LOL. Yeah, that’s exactly who is dependent on the ACA.
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All 3 judges were appointed by Republicans, one by Trump.
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I posted this in the debate thread but it’s probably better here as a post-debate reaction.
I’m not an average person or undecided voter. I despise Trump and will vote Biden, but I also supported Bernie and think Biden sucks. This debate was an absolute loss for Biden in my eyes because what I wanted to see was a coherent individual and he didn’t live up to that. I’ll still vote for him, and I’m glad to see that the general public seems to think this was bad for Trump, but this debate drastically reduced my hope for our current best-case-scenario and I can’t imagine that being a good thing. We’re so fucked.
You all are welcome to celebrate this, and I truly wish I had your optimism, but I don’t. Joe Biden publicly disowned (no surprises here, we already knew this) defunding the police, a green new deal, and protests in the event of election shenanigans. He said ACB was a fine person. He reiterated that he opposes universal Healthcare. He also came off as a half-dementiaed senile old man who just happened to be nicer than the complete piece of shit on the other side of the stage. That’s our great hope right now. We’re so fucked.
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the second part of the first paragraph is just you wanting to see someone else. Those are his opinions and he never said anything else during the primary. He’s what a decent right wing candidate should look like.
This is absolutely an incorrect observation. Stop buying into the narrative.
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I assumed at first the quote was about Trump.
Man, the debate thread is too nuts to get involved in, but what a wild read with my coffee as I woke up a couple of hours after it ended. Essentially the whole forum, after months and months of reckoning with the fact that Biden is a slow-talking senior who sometimes loses his footing while speaking, and after years of enduring Trump’s incessant rantings, spent the first hour losing their shit when exactly those two people showed up on stage. I’m not dissing anyone; I’d have been literally crying, probably.
But props to the couple of voices of reason who popped in from time to time to say that people were trippin’.
Anyway, I’m doing my normal first blush perusal of the sites this AM and when FoxNews has this as their leading opinion, I think it was probaby OK. “The biggest takeaway is that there were no surprises, and nothing happened that will change any attitudes” (Don’t click, fox link).
Sounds like this may be the last debate, though? lol
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Team Biden says he’s in for the last two. The next one is a town hall which probably bodes a lot better for Biden than this. He needs to insist on moderators muting mics.
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I agree Town Hall favors Biden and if anything, it’s stable genius who is going to cry it’s rigged and not debate. But the pro move is have the Town Hall debate and then cancel the 3rd shit show unless you’re really really confident you’ll have better moderation.
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And to be honest, the reason I don’t want a third debate is not because I want Biden to sit on his lead. It’s because I don’t want stable genius giving marching orders to his gangs one extra time that close to the election.
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Yeah he should demand the moderator be able to mute the mic for the third debate or else walk and do a solo town hall in PA instead.
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My favorite headline of the morning (no idea how bad the source is).
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I was like “is that good” given NH is one of the Northeastern blue states in my mind, but Hillary only won it by 0.3% (or ~2700 votes) in 2016. Damn.
NH is one of Trump’s “reach” states.
Looks like it’s out of reach.
it’s a surprisingly important 4 points if shit hits the fan in PA/FL.
https://twitter.com/AmyEGardner/status/1311079897494966274?s=20
Even more alarming to some Republicans, Democrats are also returning their ballots at higher rates than GOP voters in two of those states where that information is available: Florida and North Carolina.
“It’s astronomical,” said one Republican strategist involved in Senate races who said he was “horrified” by the discrepancy and, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal concerns. “You see these numbers in a state like North Carolina, and how can you not be concerned?”
The issue is of such concern that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has twice met with Trump to urge him to stop talking about mail balloting “imprecisely,” a strategist said. McConnell has told others he is concerned that the president’s rhetoric could discourage Republicans from voting by mail. And former RNC chairman and former Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus has repeatedly told others that the mail-voting gap could be the GOP’s biggest challenge this fall.
In North Carolina and Georgia, for instance, 1 in 5 voters who have cast ballots didn’t even vote in 2016, McDonald said. Requests for mail ballot are up astronomically in dozens of states; the figure is 350 percent in Michigan, for instance, when compared with 2016.
Republicans once carried an advantage in voting by mail. Ayres, the Republican pollster and a vocal critic of the president, said Trump’s rhetoric on mail voting has undermined decades of GOP work in the area.
“That’s what we do!” Ayres said with audible frustration. “We have made an art of tracking down people who would otherwise be reluctant to vote in person and getting them to use absentee ballots. It’s part of what we’ve done well in the past.”
I thought this market was pretty much NH…
https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/6724/Will-Donald-Trump-win-any-state-he-lost-in-2016
talk me off hammering NO this market…
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