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October 29, 2020

Remember, the election is a job interview. #WouldYouHireTrump



Remember, the election is a job interview.

#WouldYouHireTrump #Vote
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https://twitter.com/JuddApatow/status/1321657526811721728?s=20
October 29, 2020

"It's 2020. Lassie is not coming to save us and June Cleaver is not waiting at home with meatloaf."




“It’s 2020. Lassie is not coming to save us and June Cleaver is not waiting at home with meatloaf."


https://twitter.com/HuffPostPol/status/1321890289703882759?s=20


10/29/2020 04:15 am ET Updated 5 hours ago
CNN’s Brianna Keilar Delivers 7-Minute Takedown Of Donald Trump’s 1950s Worldview
“It’s 2020. Lassie is not coming to save us and June Cleaver is not waiting at home with meatloaf.”

By Lee Moran

CNN host Brianna Keilar on Wednesday put Donald Trump’s sexist and dated view of the world under the spotlight.

Keilar on “Newsroom” called out the president’s pleas to suburban women this week when he asked for their vote because he was putting their “husbands back to work.”

“He seems to miss that, decades ago, women joined the workforce en masse,” said Keilar.

The anchor aired footage of Trump in 1994 claiming that “putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing” and recalling going “through the roof” when he’d return home to find his dinner not ready..
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https://twitter.com/rickohindy/status/1321890763576397824?s=20
October 29, 2020

America Mocks Trump After He Claims Biden Will Cancel Christmas



Trump claimed at his rally in Arizona that Joe Biden will cancel Christmas if he wins, even though Trump will still be president.

https://twitter.com/politicususa/status/1321621124258664449?s=20




Wed, Oct 28th, 2020 by Jason Easley
America Mocks Trump After He Claims Biden Will Cancel Christmas

Trump claimed at his rally in Arizona that Joe Biden will cancel Christmas if he wins, even though Trump will still be president.


https://www.politicususa.com/2020/10/28/trump-biden-cancel-christmas.html



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Trump said, “If you vote for Biden, it means your kids will not be in school, there will be no graduations, no weddings, no Thanksgiving, no Christmas, no Fourth of July together, but other than that, you’ll have a great life.”

The problem is that Joe Biden won’t be president during Thanksgiving and Christmas, so the person who will be keeping families apart due to the out of control pandemic is Donald Trump.

By the way, a president does not have the power to cancel Thanksgiving and Christmas. A president can’t order that people not celebrate Christmas. That’s not how any of this works. ...........................................




https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1321594088676761601?s=20





October 28, 2020

Biden Tells Roaring Atlanta Crowd To Turn Georgia Blue And End The Trump Nightmare

yes. end this nightmare.


Biden Tells Roaring Atlanta Crowd To Turn Georgia Blue And End The Trump Nightmare

https://politicususa.com/2020/10/27/biden-tells-roaring-atlanta-crowd-to-turn-georgia-blue-and-end-the-trump-nightmare.html
via @politicususa

https://twitter.com/Des_de_mona_/status/1321555285199212545?s=20






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Posted on Tue, Oct 27th, 2020 by Sean Colarossi
Biden Tells Roaring Atlanta Crowd To Turn Georgia Blue And End The Trump Nightmare


https://www.politicususa.com/2020/10/27/biden-tells-roaring-atlanta-crowd-to-turn-georgia-blue-and-end-the-trump-nightmare.html


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Donald Trump likes to call his opponent “Sleepy Joe,” but former Vice President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned speech to a roaring drive-in crowd in Atlanta on Tuesday, a sign that Georgia is in play for the Democrats.
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“There aren’t a lot of pundits who would have guessed four years ago that a Democratic candidate for president in 2020 would be campaigning in Georgia on the final week of the election,” Biden said, feeding off the energized crowd.

October 28, 2020

New Marquette Law Poll shows Biden maintaining his lead among likely voters in Wisconsin

Source: tmj4.com



and last updated 3:39 PM, Oct 28, 2020

WISCONSIN — A new Marquette Law Poll has been released, and it shows former Vice President Joe Biden still leading over President Donald Trump among 749 likely voters in Wisconsin.

According to the new poll, Biden is leading President Trump by five points. Biden currently has 48 percent of the likely votes, while President Trump has 43 percent, and Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen has 2 percent, with a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percent. Eight percent of likely voters said they were undecided or had no choice.

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The poll also stated that among likely voters who have already voted, 64 percent of them have voted for Biden, 25 percent for Trump and 2 percent for Jorgensen. Of those who have not voted, 35 percent said they support Biden, 56 percent support Trump and 3 percent support Jorgensen.

Read more: https://www.tmj4.com/news/election-2020/new-marquette-law-poll-shows-biden-maintaining-his-lead-in-wisconsin



The Marquette poll is considered the gold standard in WI.

Have to say--surprised to see 8 % are Undecided.


https://twitter.com/tmj4/status/1321502682717343755?s=20
October 28, 2020

Trump hangs Lindsey Graham out to dry as South Carolina Senate race tightens: report

Source: alternet




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In a likely a foreshadow of the days to come, Graham touted his relationship with President Donald Trump during a campaign rally Tuesday — even as the president was nowhere to be found.


"We got off to a rocky start. He beat me pretty badly," Graham told his crowd of supporters at a campaign rally in Greenville, South Carolina referencing his previous bid for the White House. But, now, Graham said, "we've got something in common; I like him and he likes me."

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"Trump himself has not visited South Carolina to support his erstwhile ally, and likely will not before the Nov. 3 election, when Graham faces Democrat Jaime Harrison," they reported. "A former chair of the state's Democratic Party, Harrison entered the race a long shot but has turned the Senate contest into a toss-up race, after raising a record $100 million sum for his campaign from a national liberal base that detests Graham."

In fact, not only has the president appeared to abandon Graham, he did not even so much as tweet his support of the politically endangered senator.

Read more: https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/is-trump-distancing-from-lindsey-graham-here-are-the-clues/







https://twitter.com/RepublicanSwine/status/1321524879040995328?s=20
October 28, 2020

Bloomberg Funds Last-Minute Advertising Blitz for Biden in Texas and Ohio




Bloomberg Funds Last-Minute Advertising Blitz for Biden in Texas and Ohio

The billionaire former New York City mayor has concentrated largely on Florida in the general election. But his private polling found President Trump vulnerable in two of the country’s biggest red states.

Michael R. Bloomberg’s team is convinced that Texas and Ohio are crucial targets. The cost of the two-state campaign is expected to be around $15 million.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times


By Alexander Burns Oct. 27, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET

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The Bloomberg team conducted polling in a number of states over the weekend and came away convinced that Texas and Ohio represented its best targets — narrowly divided electoral prizes where the war for television airtime is not already cluttered with heavy advertising on either side. The team presented Mr. Bloomberg with the numbers on Monday morning and he gave the go-ahead.



“We believe that Florida will go down to the wire, and we were looking for additional opportunities to expand the map,” Mr. Wolfson said. “Texas and Ohio present the best opportunities to do that, in our view.”

Mr. Bloomberg is also planning to increase the size of his television ad buys in Florida over the next week, Mr. Wolfson said.

Should either Texas or Ohio slip into the Democratic column, it would likely indicate not only a Trump defeat, but also one by a thumping margin. The two states have 56 Electoral College votes between them, and Mr. Trump’s campaign has never devised a path to victory that does not involve carrying both.


And Mr. Biden’s campaign has not been relying on either Texas or Ohio to deliver the crucial 270 Electoral College votes needed to seal a victory:







https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1321294723676590082?s=20
October 28, 2020

It occurred to me as I looked at this tweet-America is standing in line to VOTE--not demonstate.....

The lines are the protests [hopefully Dems outnumber Repugs].

I have looked at this pics last week or so--just line after line--city after city. I do not hear about any protests. Probably are some but these pics are kicking them to the edge of the media radar.



America has awoke. Hopefully a blue wave.





https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1320794655110373377?s=20



#BidenHarrisToSaveAmerica

October 28, 2020

This chart shows why Trump is *so* dangerous to the GOP

As dumpy trumpy would say---it is what it is.



This chart shows why Trump is *so* dangerous to the GOP


https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/politics/gop-shrinking-support-trump-graph/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold


Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Updated 6:34 AM ET, Tue October 27, 2020


Harry Enten polling analysis: Trump is dragging down GOP





(CNN)Win or lose in eight days' time, President Donald Trump's lasting legacy on the Republican Party will be a shrinking base that looks less and less like the country.



https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1319333990977970176?s=20

The chart above -- from Ford Fessenden and Lazaro Gamio, two talented data journalists, for The New York Times -- makes that point in the starkest and most powerful way I have yet seen.




Trump's victory in 2016 was seen as a rebuttal to predictions of a demographic cataclysm for Republicans. Despite the growing diversity of the country and the declining share of White voters as a percentage of the overall electorate, Trump managed to win the White House on the strength of his popularity among Whites without college degrees -- particularly in the Rust Belt states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

The exit poll from that year tells the story. Trump won Whites with a college degree (or higher) by 3 points over Hillary Clinton. He won Whites without a college degree by 37 points. The former group made up 37% of the overall electorate while the latter was 34%.

The problem for Republicans is that rather than seeking to broaden the GOP coalition after a victory built on White, non-college educated voters, Trump instead seemed intent on alienating all but that hardcore base.


The effects of such a base-centric campaign was evident in the 2018 midterms where Republicans suffered widespread losses as suburban voters -- particularly women -- rebelled against the brand of conservatism Trump was selling.

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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1319334283522297858?s=20








October 28, 2020

Joe Biden quotes Pope Francis in criticizing 'phony populists' who seek to divide and prey on fear

Trump camp are soulless creepy fools


Fact check: Trump campaign deceptively snips video of Biden quoting the Pope

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1321242329936789509?s=20






Fact check: Trump campaign deceptively snips video of Biden quoting the Pope



By Daniel Dale, CNN

Updated 8:01 PM ET, Tue October 27, 2020
Daniel Dale: No evidence award Trump touts is real

Daniel Dale: No evidence award Trump touts is real 01:39

Washington (CNN)

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In a Tuesday speech in Georgia, Biden, a churchgoing Catholic, quoted from an encyclical published by Pope Francis in early October. In that text, the Pope criticized "aggressive nationalism" and anti-immigrant populism, called for a "better kind of politics" that emphasizes love and urged politicians to ask themselves certain questions he suggested would guide them toward serving the public interest rather than their own selfish motives
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The Trump campaign account created a seven-second clip that showed Biden saying only this: "Why am I doing this? Why? What is my real aim?" It tweeted the shortened clip, with a caption that consisted solely of the truncated quote, to its 960,000 followers -- creating the impression that Biden had been questioning his own candidacy.


Facts First: The Trump campaign's tweet was highly deceptive. Biden was directly quoting Pope Francis when he posed these questions -- and then the former vice president immediately answered the questions.
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The Trump campaign's deception might have been especially noteworthy because it was deception about a quote on the subject of making politics more noble. And it was also noteworthy because it was deception related to the Pope. Trump has accused Biden of being against God and religion.




Joe Biden quotes Pope Francis in criticizing ‘phony populists’ who seek to divide and prey on fear


https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1321154375411183618?s=20



https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1321159009701945346?s=20

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