Trump will be having a press conference with the Governor of Florida at 11:30 (UPDATE)

[demmiblue]

President @realDonaldTrump will be having a press conference with the Governor of Florida, @GovRonDeSantis am ET.

Link to tweet

Please, please, please air Cuomo's press briefing instead.

UPDATE:

Link to tweet

Can't get their shit together for the simplest of things.

[dalton99a]

1. Ok, thank you, Kayleigh

Now go jump off a bridge

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Governor "God's Waiting Room"?

[jimfields33]

9. Very common phrase in Florida.

May not be something in Indiana but here in Florida it’s a common phrase that people snicker at. Won’t make a raise here at all. I know some want to but it won’t work. Tons of other stuff to get the creep on though.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. I didn't know that

Seems weird but I'm from Indiana and we have our own share of weird things too,

[jimfields33]

13. My sister and husband live in Brownsburg. Great area.

Indianapolis is pretty close to them and is a pretty cool city.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. Indianapolis is where I'm at

It's a good place to be. It's a fairly progressive bastion in an otherwise pretty hardcore Republican state (our current Republican Governor, thankfully, doesn't seem like an idiot).

[jimfields33]

15. Nice to live in a blue area.

The state sure has some rightwingers but I have hope for the state due to voting for president Obama twice.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. Me too

Unfortunately, since the 1990's the Democratic Party bench and apparatus here has shrunk over the years and Republicans still dominate with super majorities. I'm not sure how we pulled off going for Obama (once in 2008) but I'm sure that the Republicans have been working hard to make sure something that like THAT never happens again. Plus, the Republicans in the Legislature love to pick on and try to control Indianapolis/Marion County since it tends to be more progressive and Democratic-controlled. We have some other progressive pockets though, like Lake County (Northern Indiana), Monroe County (Bloomington). But then we have large affluent (i.e. Republican) areas like Hamilton County (Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville) and a lot of outlaying Red rural areas.

[Chainfire]

3. Message spoiler

"We are declaring the virus over, go back to work."

[Baclava]

4. I predict all beaches will be allowed to reopen, statewide, is that a safe bet?

[jimfields33]

10. I hope they look at what happened in California and change their minds on opening the rest

of the beaches.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Two worthless people that anyone could come up with, to have a press conf.

Anybody that listens to these two idiots puts their lives at risk, especially the one idiot who described his senior citizens in FL as sitting in the waiting room (of death). Disgusting. Quite a few of my friends in FL aren't too happy with their governor describing them in this manner. I suspect that he's lost the next election already.

[malaise]

6. Will Lev and Igor be there?

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20191014/cerabino-crime-fighter-desantis-got-his-swamp-drained-by-igor-lev-and-russian-cash
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Gov. Ron DeSantis returns $50,000 in campaign cash from a pair of foreign-born South Florida businessmen who were buying pols with Russian cash

It’s good to see Florida’s self-professed swamp drainer, Gov. Ron DeSantis, has decided to give up some of that Russian “hoax” money that flowed into his campaign last year.


It was a creation of Delaware corporate paperwork magic that facilitated the transfer of money from an unnamed Russia oligarch into the coffers of Republican candidates across America, according to a federal indictment filed last week.

It was around the same time that DeSantis had sent out an election mailer promising to “drain the swamp in Tallahassee.”

Then a month later, he’s not blinking when he gets a gift of $50,000 from an imaginary company through its two principals, Lev Parnes and Igor Fruman, who appear to be sent by a casting agent looking to fill roles for Bond villains.

If this were the plot of a fictional movie, you might find it hard to believe that a former federal prosecutor who has met his fair share of white-collar scoundrels would be such an incurious pushover to Lev and Igor.

[crickets]

17. Makes you wonder just how much of that Russian money has been

thrown around [lots] and who else has some sitting in their coffers [McConnell, perhaps?].

[malaise]

18. Hence

MoscowMitch

[Sanity Claws]

7. Cuomo scheduled his for 12:15 today

Or maybe he rescheduled it to avoid Trump's attempt to pre-empt him.

[Goodheart]

8. The combined brainpower will be staggering.

[blitzen]

12. Electioneering, Trump's only "work." n/t