Bob Iger just sent a company wide email telling all employees to print out their ten best pages of scripts and bring them to the 15th floor of Disney HQ by 1am for review
Dean Browning, former Lehigh County comissioner who seems to have forgotten to log into his burner account, was about 2,500 votes away from being the GOP's nominee in Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional district this year.
Biden’s cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools,have strong resumes,attend all the right conferences & will be polite & orderly caretakers of America’s decline
I support American greatness
And I have no interest in returning to the “normal” that left us dependent on China
NEWS | Mary Peltola, a Democrat, has won the House special election in Alaska to succeed the late Rep. Don Young.
She becomes the first Democrat to win a House race in Alaska in 50 years, and the first Native Alaskan to win a House seat in history.
In 1934, no Democratic senators lost re-election. But since 1934, every president, Democrat and Republican, has seen at least one senator from their party lose re-election in every single midterm cycle. Biden becomes the first president since FDR not to lose a single senator.
Was perusing Politwoops and noticed...
On Jan. 3, GOP Rep. Pete Sessions tweeted that he had a great meeting with "folks from 'Stop the Steal'" and that he "encouraged them to keep fighting."
Tweet was deleted 4 days later, on Jan. 7, after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol.
Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow's public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled.
So we’re at the “Stacey Abrams colluded with the Republican governor who beat her in 2018 and the Secretary of State she’s spent the last two years battling to rig Georgia for Joe Biden” stage? Probably a sign we should wrap things up.
The Consent Decree signed by the Georgia Secretary of State, with the approval of Governor
@BrianKempGA
, at the urging of
@staceyabrams
, makes it impossible to check & match signatures on ballots and envelopes, etc. They knew they were going to cheat. Must expose real signatures!
Always fun to remember that the people who fell hardest for Elizabeth Holmes’ con are the same people who have been in charge of shepherding American foreign policy for the past half century.
Two days ago, hours before a violent mob stormed the Capitol, newly elected GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert tweeted “Today is 1776,” invoking the American Revolution.
Today, Boebert is very mad at the Democrats for their divisive rhetoric and their lack of calls for unity.
Still can't get over Ted Cruz raising money "to save our Senate majority and keep Georgia RED" but 100% of the donations go to Ted Cruz's Senate campaign and 0% goes to Georgia.
Trump just sent out a fundraising email for Herschel Walker that says “Contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to the Official Georgia Runoff Fundraising Goal and increase your impact by 1200%” and then auto-defaults to splitting your donation 90% to Trump and 10% to Herschel Walker.
"You will never be president. You will never command the respect of this country. Ever. Ever. And you should resign," says AOC to Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.
"He went up and asked... he presented his ID, and when they said he couldn't vote he said 'okay' and he went to school."
Youngkin conveniently leaves out that half an hour after his son was told he couldn't vote, he came back and tried to vote again.
**Republican** Governor of West Virginia
@WVGovernor
to me on Stimulus: “Trying to be per se fiscally responsible at this point in time with what we’ve got going on in the country, if we actually throw away some money right now, so what?” Has he talked to
@Sen_JoeManchin
? I ask.
A lot of very confident takes last week about how Afghanistan was going to affect Biden and the Democrats' political futures, far fewer takes today about how the largest GOP-run state and GOP-run Supreme Court tossing Roe will affect the GOP's...
The man in the Q sweatshirt who was on the front line of the rioters and who was seen menacing the solitary Black Capitol Police Officer trying to hold off the breach in harrowing video shot by
@igorbobic
has been arrested by the FBI in Des Moines.
Tennessee passed a law designed to allow adoption agencies to turn away same-sex couples on the basis of "written religious or moral convictions or policies."
Now a publicly funded adoption agency is declining to work with Jews too.
Desperately need a DC beat reporter to dig into the trivia cheating scandal currently rocking Red Bear Brewing — where it was heavily implied that reigning champions (who have won four straight weeks) were caught cheating, including by using a Shazam-enabled Apple Watch.
It is, quite frankly, mind boggling that we are seriously contemplating scenarios in which Democrats maintain control of the House and also Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis are winning by 17 and 20-point margins in Florida.
Current members of Congress who were in office when MLK Day was created, and how they voted:
Yes:
Hoyer (D-MD)
Durbin (D-IL)
Kaptur (D-OH)
Markey (D-MA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-NJ)
No:
Grassley (R-IA)
Rogers (R-KY)
Kyrsten Sinema: unpopular among everyone.
Sometimes it seems like she's trying to please nobody, and if so, she's succeeding. Sinema is 20 points underwater among Democrats, 10 points underwater with Independents, 18 points underwater among Republicans.
👀Joe Biden has a positive approval rating among registered voters for the first time in years, per the latest NPR/PBS/Marist Poll.
49% approve / 45% disapprove
2/13-15, 1210 RVs, mixed mode, ±3.5
Had Democrats won just 5 more seats, they would have held the House. The combined margin in the 5 closest GOP wins: 6,670 votes.
That's a vanishingly small fraction—0.006%—of the total House votes, and it underscores how narrow the new GOP majority is.
Little-known fact but when you declare your candidacy for Senate in Wisconsin, the state sends you a complimentary puffer vest in the color of your choice.
Here's an interesting tidbit:
If CCM, Kelly, and Warnock all hold on, it will be the first time in history that every single incumbent senator running for another term won their primary and their general election.
In 1914, none lost a general, but two lost renomination.
Mike Erickson, the anti-abortion candidate who in 2001 took his pregnant girlfriend to an ATM, withdrew $300 and gave it to her, drove her to an abortion clinic and told her he didn’t want to have the baby, and later claimed he had no idea what was going on.
I wonder if all the people who protested that "there's no such thing as 'the Office of the President-elect' in the Constitution" will bring that same energy to "the Office of the Former President."
Raphael Warnock’s new TV ad is just a straight clip from Trump’s 2024 launch two days ago.
The closing tagline: “Stop Donald Trump. Stop Herschel Walker.”
Been saying for weeks that Trump announcing now is bad news for Walker in a state that seems to be over Trump in a big way.
"These are blatant lies and it draws into question how your constituents and the American people can believe anything you may say on the floor of the House -- Tulsi Gabbard actually did an impressive job grilling George Santos, who was clearly flustered
Elon welcoming back Kanye with open arms after the rapper spent the last month going on antisemitic tirades and reporting came out about his years-long obsession with Hitler, and Kanye immediately getting back to antisemitic trolling. What have we learned?
CNN confirming that the bounty program intel was included in the PDB. Doesn’t mean Trump saw it, because he’s notorious for not paying attention to the PDB. But it does directly contradict the press secretary and senior intel officials.
Intelligence that assessed that there was an effort by the GRU unit to pay bounty money to kill US soldiers was included in one of President Trump’s Daily Brief (PDB).
@barbarastarrcnn
🚨NEWS | Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola (D) wins re-election after the ranked choice voting instant runoff tabulation. She defeats Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich to win a full term.
Final Round
Peltola 136,893
Palin 112,255
Again, this is the senator whose initial appointment last year was greeted with much punditry about how she'd appeal to moderate women in the Atlanta suburbs who were drifting away from the GOP and turning Georgia purple.
Now she's comparing herself favorably to Attila the Hun.
“A guy who spells his name M-E-I-J-E-R but they pronounce it MY-ER. The hell kind of a spelling is that? MY-ER. MY-GER. It’s MY-GER— but it’s actually pronounced MY-ER… how the hell do you get MY-ER out of it?”
Can’t imagine this helps in Western Mich
Hmmm... Jaime Harrison has a new ad airing in Charleston today.
"But beware, right-wing Constitution Party candidate Bill Bledsoe is also on the ballot. Bledsoe opposes all abortions and Bledsoe supported Trump from Day One...Bledsoe's too conservative for South Carolina."
So Trump finally finds a respected Florida lawyer to represent him in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation, pays him $3 million upfront, and then weeks later the lawyer is no longer on the case?
New poll of TEXAS from UT Tyler/ Dallas Morning News:
TRUMP 43
BIDEN 48
Dem Senate Primary
Hegar 35
West 22
Undecided 32
(June 29-July 7, 1,677 LVs, bilingual mixed mode, MoE 3.4%)
Largest Texas Biden lead I’ve seen so far.
BREAKING | Maine’s 2nd District has run the ranked choice voting instant runoff tabulation. The final results:
Golden (D-inc.) 53.05
Poliquin (R) 46.95
Democrat Jared Golden defeats Bruce Poliquin a second time, retains his seat in Congress. Final rating was Tilt D.
With 88% of the expected vote in CO-3, Democrat Adam Frisch leads Rep. Lauren Boebert by 1.2%, or 3,583 votes. Mesa has helped Boebert close the gap but there's still vote out in Pueblo for Frisch. This could be the upset of the cycle brewing....
Ah yes, that time Jon Stewart ended Tucker Carlson’s career on live TV. Now Stewart has the highest rated show on cable and Carlson’s been off the air since 2015.
"Since taking office, Senator Mike Lee has earned a reputation as a principled conservative. He believes elected officials are responsible for keeping the federal government within its constitutionally limited role," writes Sen. Mike Lee.
"What brought this on? Did this mob spring spontaneously from America? No. This mob was invited to come to Washington on this day, by the president, for one reason," says Senate Minority (soon to be Majority) Whip Dick Durbin.
Steel and 123 other House GOP members sponsor the Life at Conception Act, which would "grant equal protection" to "each and every member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization." It also mentions cloning. No carveout for IVF.
As someone who struggled to get pregnant, I believe all life is a gift. IVF allowed me, as it has so many others, to start my family. I believe there is nothing more pro-life than helping families have children, and I do not support federal restrictions on IVF.
Normally it's not important what a candidate's kids get up to, but when your primary run is all about election integrity and your general run is all about education, and then your kid tries to vote illegally and your answer is that he doesn't understand the 26th Amendment...
CNN projects Matt Cartwright wins PA-8. The Democrat holds onto the northeast PA seat that would have voted for Trump, 51-48 percent. Another toss-up comes off the board for Dems.
Here's an interesting tidbit:
If CCM, Kelly, and Warnock all hold on, it will be the first time in history that every single incumbent senator running for another term won their primary and their general election.
In 1914, none lost a general, but two lost renomination.
🚨NEWS | Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) wins re-election after the ranked choice voting instant runoff tabulation. She defeats Trump-endorsed Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka.
Final round results:
Murkowski (R-inc) 135,972
Tshibaka (R) 117,299
So this crazy plot to infiltrate the Secret Service only got blown up because someone else attacked a postman in the building they were operating out of, and the other residents told the Postal Service Inspectors, “hey, you should talk to the two DHS agents who live here!”
Some would say it would be on-brand for the Democratic Party to execute a vast ballot-stuffing conspiracy to elect Biden but make sure all the ballots also voted for the GOP House incumbents.
McCarthy on Fox: "What’s very interesting here and shows more of the fraud: Not one Republican incumbent lost...How would President Trump lose in an atmosphere like that?"
Funny clip of a Santos vs. Zimmerman debate in which the moderator asks the candidates for a fun family tradition.
Zimmerman gives an answer and then Santos gives almost the *exact* same response, down to the brand of ice cream.
Fair to say this NPR/PBS/Marist poll is the best for Biden in a long time.
Approval: 47/51 (was 39/55 in Feb.)
Economy: 45/53 (was 36/58)
Covid: 55/43 (was 47/49)
Ukraine: 52/44 (was 34/50)
70% of voters support sanctions even if energy prices go up
🚨
@InsideElections
has 19 ratings shifts in the Electoral College this morning, and they're all toward one candidate.
You can read about the shifts here (no paywall), and why Biden has expanded his advantage over the last two months:
Breaking: North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum was taken to a Milwaukee emergency room Tuesday after suffering an injury while playing a game of pick-up basketball with his staff, making it unclear whether he will be able to stand for the debate tonight, a source familiar tells me
AOC is more accutely aware of this issue than many, having worked in the office of Sen. Ted Kennedy when he died and set off the chain reaction that cost Democrats' their supermajority.
During the Obama admin, folks thought we’d have a 60 Dem majority for a while. It lasted 4 months.
Dems are burning precious time & impact negotiating w/GOP who won’t even vote for a Jan 6 commission. McConnell’s plan is to run out the clock.
It’s a hustle. We need to move now.