Heavy rain and a heavier police presence kept people off the streets Wednesday night. [Telegraph UK]
vision 2020
What We Know About the Final Trump-Biden Debate: Time & How to Watch
THE FEED
coronavirus stimulus
6 Ways America Could Get More Stimulus
fake news
Trump Releases Footage of Yet-to-Air 60 Minutes Interview
A universe in which Trump is only up 7 in Kansas is not a universe in which he is doing well
Kansas Poll:
Trump 48%
Biden 41%
Jorgensen (L) 4%
Siena College/The New York Times Upshot (LV, 10/18-10/20)
—@PpollingNumbers
Trump 48%
Biden 41%
Jorgensen (L) 4%
Siena College/The New York Times Upshot (LV, 10/18-10/20)
vision 2020
New Poll Confirms That High Youth Turnout Would Doom Trump
Barrett’s nomination advanced out of the Judiciary Committee, setting up a Monday confirmation vote before the full Senate
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to advance President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, with majority Republicans skirting the panel’s rules to recommend her confirmation as Democrats boycotted the session in protest.
The lopsided 12-to-0 outcome set up a vote by the full Senate to confirm Judge Barrett on Monday, a month to the day after President Trump nominated her to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If all goes according to plan, Mr. Trump and his party would win a coveted achievement just eight days before the election.
“This is why we all run,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and the chairman of the committee, said. “It’s moments like this that make everything you go through matter.”
Democrats, livid over the extraordinarily speedy process, spurned the committee vote altogether and forced Republicans to break their own rules to muscle through the nomination. Without the votes to block the judge in either the committee or the full Senate, though, their action was purely symbolic.
the national interest
Biden’s Supreme Court Answer: Reform It, Don’t Pack It
If you thought the president was going to drop this, you don’t know Trump
I will soon be giving a first in television history full, unedited preview of the vicious attempted “takeout” interview of me by Lesley Stahl of @60Minutes. Watch her constant interruptions & anger. Compare my full, flowing and “magnificently brilliant” answers to their “Q’s”. https://t.co/L3szccGamP
—@realDonaldTrump
the law
Burn It All Down
i voted
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vision 2020
U.S. Intelligence Accuses Iran and Russia of Interfering in 2020 Election
vision 2020
Obama Rips Into Trump in First In-Person Campaign Event for Biden
amy coney barrett
Judiciary Committee Democrats Won’t Show Up for Final Vote on Barrett
the emperor's new props
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vision 2020
Trump’s Demonization of Mail Voting Could Be His Doom
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vision 2020
Democratic Upstart Jaime Harrison on What He Really Thinks of Lindsey Graham
Polling consistency in PA
Latest Pennsylvania polls via @CNN:
CNN/SSRS - Biden +10
Quinnipiac - Biden +8
Monmouth - Biden +12
CBS News - Biden +7
NYT/Siena - Biden +7
ABC/Post - Biden +9
Fox News - Biden +7
—@ryanstruyk
CNN/SSRS - Biden +10
Quinnipiac - Biden +8
Monmouth - Biden +12
CBS News - Biden +7
NYT/Siena - Biden +7
ABC/Post - Biden +9
Fox News - Biden +7
satire
All the Surprise Guests Trump May Bring to Thursday’s Debate
catholic church
What Does the Pope’s Support for Civil Unions Really Mean?
opioid crisis
OxyContin Maker Will Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges, Again
Surely Trump won’t go after Romney over this
Mitt Romney tells @mkraju he has already voted in this year’s election: “I did not vote for President Trump.” He wouldn’t say if he voted for Biden or wrote someone else in.
—@passantino
supreme court
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coronavirus stimulus
Will McConnell Really Blow Up a Trump-Blessed Stimulus Deal?
A dreadful poll for Trump and Ernst
🚨New Monmouth poll of IOWA (change from 9/18-22):
Trump 47 (-2)
Biden 50 (+4)
Senate
Ernst (R-inc) 47 (+1)
Greenfield (D) 49 (-)
(Oct. 15-19, High turnout LVs)https://t.co/pNpBVKsOGL
—@JacobRubashkin
Trump 47 (-2)
Biden 50 (+4)
Senate
Ernst (R-inc) 47 (+1)
Greenfield (D) 49 (-)
(Oct. 15-19, High turnout LVs)https://t.co/pNpBVKsOGL
More details in the Ghislaine Maxwell case are coming on Tuesday
Transcripts of interviews lawyers conducted with the ex-girlfriend of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein must be released by Thursday morning, a judge said Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska’s order allows the public release of transcripts of two days of depositions in 2016 of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and related documents, along with the deposition transcript of an anonymous accuser.
This is Obama’s first in-person campaign event for Biden
Former president Barack Obama is hitting the campaign trail Wednesday, with plans to appeal to Black voters in Philadelphia on behalf of Democratic nominee Joe Biden. President Trump is scheduled to return to the battleground state of North Carolina.
Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), is also campaigning in the Tar Heel State, while Vice President Pence has stops planned in New Hampshire and Ohio. Biden has advertised no events of his own as he prepares for Thursday’s final debate with Trump.
Trump’s absurd attack on Democratic officials may wind up hurting the most vulnerable
The White House is considering slashing millions of dollars for coronavirus relief, HIV treatment, screenings for newborns and other programs in Democratic-led cities that President Donald Trump has deemed “anarchist jurisdictions,” according to documents obtained by POLITICO.
New York, Portland, Ore., Washington, D.C., and Seattle could lose funding for a wide swath of programs that serve their poorest, sickest residents after the president moved last month to restrict funding, escalating his political battle against liberal cities he’s sought to use as a campaign foil.
The Department of Health and Human Services has identified federal grants covering those services, which are among the nearly 200 health programs that could be in line for cuts as part of a sweeping government-wide directive the administration is advancing during the final weeks of the presidential campaign and amid an intensifying pandemic Trump has downplayed.
… The HHS list offers the most detailed picture yet of the administration’s efforts to quickly comply with the Trump directive and the potentially large cuts facing these cities even as the pandemic strains local budgets. It isn’t immediately clear what criteria the budget office will use to evaluate the grants — or how or when cuts may be made.
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covid-19
New Studies Show Major Drop in COVID-19 Mortality Rates
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