17) How much legal jeopardy is #DonaldTrump in?
The classified documents case will make use of a recording which indicates that #Trump had a highly sensitive document which he knew was NOT declassified.
The chain of evidence looks strong and while there is much news media spinning, a court of law is more rigorous environment where focus on fact is primary
#Election2024 #USPolitics #Politics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/us/politics/trump-documents-tape-audio.html
18) Much of #JoeBiden’s reelection efforts for #Election2024 will hinge on his ability to pass legislation which stimulates the economy in the rust belt.
Will investments such as the new Micron plant in Syracuse, New York courtesy of the CHIPS act improve his electoral chances?
19) How does the public feel about #DonaldTrump’s indictment on classified documents mishandling?
Navigator Research has the numbers and they’re not good if you’re a #Trump supporter
Notably Trump’s numbers are poor with Independent voters, the group which will decide #Election2024
https://navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Navigator-Update-06.27.2023.pdf
20) As the #DeSantis campaign continues to flail and gain traction against #DonaldTrump, the Florida governor leans into a deeper hostility directed at the #LGBT community
There are no solutions being offered here, merely rage directed at a minority group. Just the #facist playbook being dusted off again
#Politics #USPolitics #Election2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/politics/desantis-video-lgbtq-trump.html
21) While the #GOP is busy stoking conspiracy theories and rage, the #Biden administration is delivering meaningful change.
Invest in broadband access will better enable all Americans to start their own businesses and remote work opportunities regardless of location
The White House on Monday divvied up $42 billion among the nation's 50 states and U.S. territories to make access to high-speed broadband universal by 2030, as it launched a new publicity campaign for President Joe Biden's economic policies.
22) How should journalists cover a candidate like #RFkJR?
Have you heard of the Gish Gallop?
On the Media has some interesting thoughts on the matter and what to do when a candidate spouts a flood of conspiracy theories
#USPolitics #Politics #Election2024
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-cover-candidate-rfk-jr-on-the-media
23) #PeteButtigieg shows the way for #Election2024. Americans have to decide whether they want government that gets things done or #CultureWars and the attendant hatred directed at the #LGBTQ or other minority communities.
24) From the guy that thought #ElonMusk would be a good leader for #Twitter, an endorsement for a candidate who has descended into the swirling conspiracism
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared to endorse anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Democratic presidential nomination over the weekend. Dorsey retweeted a video of Kennedy saying he could beat former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who announced his bid for the White House on Twitter last month. Dorsey captioned…
25) Good piece from David French at the #NYT on not just the rage, but also the joy of being a #MAGA fan.
The joy of belonging to a group of like minded people who are facing down an imagined set of awful lefties determined to destroy America
It is a cultish mindset. Can it be cracked? Should an effort be made to deprogram Trumpists? Should the movement be left to fade into irrelevancy assuming #Election2024 is lost?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/maga-america-trump.html
26) The #GOP in Congress are doing their bit to move #ReproductiveRights and #LGBTQ issues up the national agenda for #Election2024.
The #HardRight look to start #CultureWars on major legislation wherever possible. Clearly an indication that they want a national #abortion ban and to ostracize the #queer community
A more than questionable winning strategy
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/us/politics/defense-bill-house-ndaa.html
Republicans loaded the measure with a raft of social policy provisions — including limits on abortions, gender transition procedures and diversity training — that have little chance of surviving in the Senate.
27) Good piece from #NPR on young #RuralVoters which will be an important constituency for #JoeBiden in #Election2024 particular in #Georgia and #NorthCarolina and other purple states.
There are of course rural voters in every state and so the #Biden campaign has to hone its message to bleed away some of these votes which have trended #GOP
28) #DonaldTrump is attempting to delay legal proceedings against him, a practice consistent with his past, when he sought to exhaust the financial and emotional resources of those that instituted proceedings against him
American voters now have a candidate for #Election2024 who looks to his election for relief from his legal woes
29) #DonaldTrump’s minions have crafted a disturbing plan to centralize more authority under the presidency.
Should such a plan be implemented, independent federal agencies will be purged for those deemed insufficient loyal to the president.
The ability to resist Caligula-like commands will be rescinded. Unchecked partisan power will become the norm
#USPolitics #Politics #Election2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html
30) In an unsurprising development, we can expect #DonaldTrump to be indicted yet again. This time for his involvement in the #Jan6 plot to overturn the 2016 #election
This has been a long time coming. We recently learned of the #FBI’s sluggish effort to investigate #Trump’s involvement in the coup. Many low level supporters are now serving time while Trump remained untouched. That changes now
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/18/trump-jan6-target-letter/
31) #ReproductiveRights and #abortion were major factors during the midterm elections in 2022. #Election2023 will be no different, if anything the issue will likely be more potent with the recent conviction of a 19 year old #Nebraska women subsequent to a medically induced abortion which violated Nebraska’s then 20 week gestation limit. Nebraska has since lowered the limit to 12 weeks
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/us/celeste-burgess-abortion-pill-nebraska.html
33) The perpetration of #bigotry and #racism is an increasing feature of many current #GOP politicians.
#RonDeSantis leads the pack in his overt willingness to delegitimize the horrors faced by black Americans during enslavement.
For what? To appeal to the basest instincts of a certain section of GOP voters still invested in the superiority of “white culture” and to deny the attendant racism that still haunts American society
🔑 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/us/desantis-florida-black-history-standards.html
34) The war on #Libraries by “conservatives” is just another front stoked up against the #LGBTQ community at the behest of those exploiting #CultureWars for political gain.
In truth the #GOP which has been fully co-opted by #Trumpism has nothing to offer on making lives better for #Americans beyond cultivating rage and fear directed at smaller less powerful groups. It is classic #RightWing behavior from the 1930s
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/pride-books-library-protest.html
35) #DonaldTrump claims to be the best bet against #JoeBidden in #Election2024.
In my view, he’s going to be extremely hard to beat for the #GOP nomination. That said, primary voters are hard core political types and there views tend to be more extreme than most American voters.
Come the general election #Trump, is likely the least electible Republican
37) Increasingly #Election2024 is shaping up as a #JoeBiden vs #DonaldTrump rematch
The #NYT has new polling information on #Biden which shows his numbers improving from tepid levels last year
If #Bidenomics continues to yield improved economic data, he is going to be a hard man to beat despite dissatisfaction and ambivalence over his age
The election will be decided my independents who are increasingly disaffected by #Trump and his legal woes
🔑 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/politics/biden-trump-poll.html
37) The indictment of #DonaldTrump on charges related to #Jan6, is unsurprising and his been telegraphed for months
What is interesting, is that the charges do not include allegations specific to the organization of violence on Jan 6. That doesn’t mean more charges aren’t forthcoming. I wonder if that case and establishing the chain of evidence is to difficult to make or is simply not there?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/01/trump-indictment-takeaways-00109309
38) While much of the focus of #Election2024 is focused on #Trump’s legal woes or #Biden’s age, the Us economy has been improving steadily on the back of legislation signed into law during the first two years of #JoeBiden’s administration.
Biden’s polling numbers aren’t great now, but continued economic improvement will yield good results come election time.
39) Things are not going well in the #RonDeSantis campaign.
One wonders whether his call for "throat slitting" directed at members of the Federal Government and invocations of the mystical and mythical Deep State were designed to make seem tougher than #Trump ?
General reaction across the #NewsMedia seems to be one of disgust. There doesn't seem to be major fist bumping going on within the #DeSantis faithful
#Election2023 #RighWing #HardRight
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4135422-desantis-vows-to-start-slitting-throats-on-day-one
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that Scott Brown is a former senator from Massachusetts. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Sunday said he would “start slitting throats on day one” when it comes to taking on the “deep state.” DeSantis made the remarks at a barbecue campaign event in Rye, N.H.,…
40) Excellent report from #PBSNewsHour on #GOP candidates who have little to say on the extreme heat experienced by many Americans in the South, a geographical base of party support.
While GOP candidates acknowledge that #ClimateChange is real, they’re unwilling to acknowledge the impact of #FossilFuels
Will this be an #Election2024 campaign issue?
The 2024 Republican presidential campaign season is in full swing and candidates are stumping on a host of key issues. But one topic that’s missing from their agenda is climate change. Despite a summer of record-setting heat, new polling shows that Republican voters still don't see a warming planet as a concern. As William Brangham reports, neither do the GOP candidates who want to lead them.
41) Tomorrow is a big day in #Ohio as a special election has been called to decide if amendments to the states constitution require more than a 50% majority vote.
The special election was likely triggered to thwart a Nov election ballot measure which would enshrine #AbortionRights measures in the Ohio constitution. That ballot measure is likely to pass the current 50% threshold
Ohio voters will go to the polls Tuesday to vote on a ballot measure that could raise the threshold for changing the state constitution — and in the process have a direct impact on abortion rights in the battleground state. The measure, known as Issue 1, would raise the threshold for amending the state constitution from…
42) #Ohio voted NO to a #GOP sponsored ballot which would have made it more difficult to amend the state constitution
While Ohio was considered a swing state in the past, it has increasingly been dominated by the GOP who have supermajority control of the state legislature and have passed highly restrictive #abortion legislation
43) I need to start this post by first leading with: #Abortion rights are #HumanRights.
#ReproductiveRights also fall into the same category and will be a major issue in #Election2024.
The #GOP now realize there is no escape from the political trap created by the #SupremeCourt with the #Dobbs decision which overturned #RoeVsWade
The issue will drive #WomenVoters for the foreseeable future. Good article on the issue from @tpm_rss_bot
Republicans are reeling this week, days after Ohio voters handily defeated a ballot initiative widely understood to be a proxy fight for a coming proposal to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution.
@tpm_rss_bot
43) it seems likely that the District Attorney of Fulton County, Fani Willis, will bring charges this week against #DonaldTrump and his associates for the pressure campaign and fake electoral scheme used in an attempt to subvert the 2020 #Georgia presidential results
If so, former President #Trump will be facing 4 criminal indictments as he attempts to reclaim the presidency on #Election2024
The #NYT details the sprawling scheme in Georgia 👇
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/us/trump-georgia-election-results.html
44) The quartet of #Trump indictments are now complete. In addition to the former President, 18 additional defendants, many high level former administration officials, are named in the charge.
Finding space in Trump’s 2024 trial calendar will be challenging without regard for his #Election2024 ambitions which represent on off ramp for the candidate should his campaign meet with success
Donald Trump and 18 allies have been indicted in Georgia over efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. The criminal case announced Monday night is the fourth brought against the ex-president and the second this month to allege that he tried to subvert the results of the vote. The indictment details dozens of acts by Trump and his allies to undo his defeat in the battleground state. Other defendants include former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and a Trump administration Justice Department official, Jeffrey Clark, who advanced the then-president’s efforts to undo his election loss in Georgia.
45) How will #Election2024 be affected by the #TrumpIndictments?
Politico has published a poll indicating that Americans want a speedy trial, that a slim majority think #Trump is guilty, and that a conviction would damage Trump’s election possibilities
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/25/ipsos-poll-trump-indictment-00112755
46) Today Enrique Tario of the #ProudBoys was sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy for his roll in the attempted #Jan6 coup.
The leadership of both the Proud Boys and the #OathKeepers are now serving significant sentences. Their activities on Jan 6th were triggered by #DoanldTrump.
Will #Trump also be called to account? He is after all the man that lit the fuse? What are the implications for American #Democracy should he too end up with a stiff sentence?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/sentencing-enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-00114095
47) When #DonaldTrump overtly courted the #ProudBoys during the 2016 Presidential Debates
48) Tom Nichols at #TheAtlantic does an excellent job in detailing what is at stake in #Election2024, quite simply #democracy will be on the ballot.
#TheHeritageFoundation has provided a blueprint for another #Trump presidency which is a model for strongman despotism. Should that plan be implemented, there will be no easy recovery in reestablishing the rule of law.
49) Excellent piece on the heavy lift faced by #JoeBiden on switching #Ohio back to the #DemocraticParty column
#Biden identifies as an old style #Democrat who represents the interest of the #WorkingClass. Post #NAFTA, many Ohioans felt abandoned by the Democratic Party and became more receptive to the #GOP. Reversing Ohio voters perception of the Democratic Party as solely interested in the issues of the coastal elites, will be challenging.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/10/ohio-democrats-biden-working-class
50) To the absolute non surprise of anyone following #USPolitics, #KevinMcCarthy gave the green light to an #impeachment inquiry directed against #JoeBiden
In times past, presidential impeachment was reserved for overt misdeeds, think Nixon and the #Watergate break in. Now #GOP politics has degenerated to the point where political payback and #Trump fealty outweighs facts and evidence gathering
#Politics #Biden #HunterBiden #HardRight #FreedomCaucus #RightWing
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198922531/mccarthy-biden-impeachment-inquiry
51) A great piece on #MittRomney from in #TheAtlantic.
What is most disturbing is the profound isolation of Romney from his senatorial colleagues many who agree with him have opted to place their position and attendant reelection prospects above any sense of fidelity to the US Constitution
There is no honor left in the #GOP. The last honorable man in that caucus, that believed his oath, is walking away from the crumbling remains of the #RepublicanParty
52) #Wisconsin will be one of the battleground statres of #Election2024. The state will also be host to the #GOP convention.
The GOP dominates the state legislature and is attempting to remove a recently elected liberal justice from the state supreme court. Why?
With the election of Justice Protasiewicz, Wisoconsin's Supreme Court now has a liberal majority. That majority will likely redraw the Gerrymandered State and Federal election districts
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM's home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Wisconsin’s April 2023 state Supreme Court election was historic.
53) The #GOP state party has a lot of variables to consider should they opt to use #impeachment in attempting to remove Justice Protasiewic. There is no guiding ethical precedent for such an action
Excellent exchange between Ben Wikler, the #Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair and Josh Marshall of @tpm_rss_bot at the video 🔽 .
The #GOP seems to have found itself under increasing national scrutiny as this drama plays out. More to come!
I would push back against that. His votes for Trump’s impeachment differ from the rest of the subservient #GOP. I don’t think that vote aligns with 100% Trump support
I differ from Mitt Romney on almost all things political, but I admire his willingness to vote in favor of impeachment
@mnutty Oh, you mean this guy?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser/
I don’t think this is a hagiographical piece. More the story of man who has become an outcast from his party on matters of principle and an understanding of the constitution
In no way does the article and my posting of it come with a stamp of approval for Romney’s politics. In almost all areas, I and many others disagree with him profoundly
That said Romney’s assessment of #Trump is congruent with mine and I admire his willingness to stick his neck out when no one else would
@mnutty Nah. He's stepping away from a turd, not because he is honorable at all.
The guy is worth $300 million.
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/republicans/mitt-romney-net-worth/
He is the 4th richest person in Congress.
He's stepping away, hopefully, to spend time with his family - and not do backdoor deals.
I do think that he was McConnell and decided he didn't want that as his legacy in Congress.
Regardless of his actions going forward, his voting record & public comments will be his legacy, and that isn't a good legacy in my book.
I will push back here. I’m no fan of most of Mitt Romney’s politics. I’m an atheist, so I don’t get the whole praying-on-it thing, I don’t like extraordinary wealth. We can argue about what constitutes extraordinary wealth because Romney’s $300 million is dwarfed by some of the Silicon Valley folks.
All that said, he bucked his party’s line when every other #GOP slavishly fell in behind #Trump during impeachment. For that he deserves more than a nod
I’m not trying to whitewash Romney. I disagree with much on him politically. That doesn’t make him dishonorable. I’m pointing to an act that was honorable and which I think we agree was the right thing to do. In general I found Romney more a man of his word than not.
You say that, and yet the freedom caucus is making a TON of noise about how McCarthy has not delivered on what they wanted.
If you’ve been following the releases from House committees over the past few months you’d see the evidence piling up and showing that this is about Biden’s own actions, not about political payback.
So they’ve released everything from bank records to sworn testimony that raise questions about Biden’s actions, and this is the next step when investigation is being resisted, as they try to follow the trail of evidence to figure out what went on.
It has nothing at all to do with #Trump. The investigation is solely about #Biden and about questionable things he got himself into even before he was elected.
If you're asking me to read #JimJordan's releases, I think I'll take a pass.
Now if you have a reputable news source that has done some analysis on "released evidence", I will be glad to take a look, other wise we're just switching opinions. I'm fairly confident mine is accurate but I'm happy to look at something meaningful
I’m not asking you to do anything.
If you’d like to be informed then you have some reading to do, but it’s up to you.
If you’re happy to go about your day without knowing what’s going on in DC I completely respect that.
Whether a person wants to be informed or not is really up to them.
Before you start swinging votes in #Ohio, there is a challange in overcoming perceptions. I'd like to wish that voters understood that their #democracy is facing an existential threat, but many have become disillusioned with representative government and what it delivers.
Breaking persuadable #Trump aligned voters away from allegiances focused on uncaring "coastal elites", is part of the process of winning #Election2024. Its arduous and frustrating but neccesary
I would add a total violation of norms in how a presidential campaign speaks to issues of concern.
Since #Trump, creatures of similar ilk feel empowered to spew vileness unchecked and of course that can trigger the unhinged.
In a leadership role, there is an obligation to speak carefully. #Desantis fails on this and many other levels to be considered a viable candidate for the presidency in #Election2024
That’s a particularly ugly and disturbing story
Likely simply not there under legal and constitutional constraints.
The charges were very weak on factual bases, and chatter says that it was the best they could do because other avenues didn’t really have legal standing in the first place.
I think a court of law will decide that.
We’ll see if #JackSmith can establish the evidence chain beyond a reasonable doubt
Courts will decide, but we will as well.
Just like anything else you are welcome to have your own opinion, and in such a politicized area, everybody naturally will.
In this case a huge factor comes down to weather or not you believe the prosecutor has been able to prove that Trump is a time traveler. Was he able to go back in time from after the election to before? Because if not, the whole case falls apart.
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