🚨 Florida Governor’s race for the FIRST TIME is heading to a recount
DeSantis 49.62%
Gillum: 49.15%
Margin: 0.47%
That’s below the 0.5% trigger for a recount
My daughter has a middle school government test today. So I figured the best way to help her study was to weave the material into our convo when she complained this am
For all of the talk about Mueller’s halting performance, this exchange is why his testimony could have an effect: at just over a minute long, it’s almost made for TV and is ideal for social-media shares
The return of
@AndrewGillum
: he’s launching a mammoth voter registration campaign in Florida after losing the race for governor by less than half a point
Bernie Sanders couldve trafficked in conspiracy theories in his Caucus Night speech. He couldve said how suspicious it was for the vote tallies to not be posted. He could've said the spiking of the Iowa Poll was unfair to him.
But he didn't. And that's to his credit.
In Broward County, Miramar Elementary School teacher Lakeisha Sorey came across a box labeled “Provisional ballots” left behind at the school from Election Day & she’s concerned it might have votes. She didn’t look in the box because she didn’t want to tamper with it
NEWS: Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams says he can’t pull off security at the Republican convention because the plans aren’t clear, funding is a challenge, time is running short & he can’t get enough officers to help out.
🚨If you live in Florida & believe your absentee ballot has been lost in the mail or it seems late arriving, YOU CAN STILL VOTE IN PERSON
1) at an early vote station this weekend
2) on Election Day
Your AB will be auto-canceled if it arrives after you vote in person
Reporting in with my friend
@mingtsai
as we prepare to go to Freeport to see our
@WCKitchen
team there...while the second helicopter delivers hot meals to our team on Abaco! Thank you everyone for all the support, we can’t do this work without you 🙏
#ChefsForBahamas
Often, I make fun of conspiracy theories. Here, if the Jeffrey
#EpsteinSuicide
really happened in a lockup WHILE HE WAS ON SUICIDE WATCH, it’s 100 percent reasonable to be deeply suspicious of the death. Heads should roll
Our justice system is rotten
NEWS: Rep. Matt Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend gave testimony Wednesday to a federal grand jury investigating him for sex crimes, a major development that suggests the Department of Justice may be moving closer to indicting him.
In four years, the GOP has lost the presidency, the House and the Senate under Trump, culminating with the spectacular double-header loss Tuesday in Georgia.
Reminder
✔️A Royal Saudi Air Force pilot murdered 3 in a terrorist attack on a FL military base in December
✔️Saudi’s govt murdered a US columnist
✔️15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia
✔️Bin Laden was Saudi
Would these new restrictions apply to Saudi Arabia?
NEW: The White House is considering expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration issues by President Donald Trump.
Gov. Rick Scott, in his role as Senate candidate, last night asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate local election offices. FDLE said it would. On Friday, though, it found no allegations of voter fraud. There is no investigation
With
@staceyabrams
presiding, Electoral College in Georgia just officially voted for Joe Biden for president.
"I am pleased to announce that Joseph R. Biden has received 16 Electoral votes for president of the United States," Abrams just said.
It's over. Again.
A senior Trump adviser just confirmed Tues announcement & said “The media, the corporate elites, and political establishment has all moved in unison against Donald Trump at their own peril. It’s like they want to recreate 2015-2016. Let them. We are doing it again. Buckle up”
“You’re a damn liar” Biden tells a New Hampton Iowan at a town hall who said Biden “sent” his son to work in Ukraine at Burisma.
Biden then angrily told him to get his facts right and, because the man said he was too old, challenged him to a push-up contest or an IQ test
Remember when President Trump claimed there was widespread election fraud in Florida’s 2018 elections?
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement just wrapped up the investigation and found 0 evidence of it.
So
@JaredEMoskowitz
made such a ballsy mockery of the House GOP’s Biden impeachment inquiry that he got
@Jim_Jordan
to laugh at the brinksmanship when the Democrat made a motion to impeach POTUS but couldn’t get a Republican second
Lanny Davis said he was a source who lied to CNN. That’s on him.
But CNN in the story in question wrote “one of Cohen's attorneys, Lanny Davis, declined to comment.”
That means CNN might have misled readers about talking to Davis. Thats a bigger problem than a source-burn
Under the 1st Amendment, you have the right to stand on a sidewalk in a public place
Under the 1st Amendment, you have the right to shoot video of a candidate and ask questions in that public place.
Under the 1st Amendment, you have the right to say “fuck this” to a cop
Biden says his campaign has 600 election protection lawyers & 10k volunteers to fight Trump’s “chicanery,“ per pool report from his fundraiser
Tweet 1 of 2
“This is a place you can come enjoy a drink or two — and talk to cats.
“It’s a cat bar.
“I mean, I don't know how much more clear I can be about the objective of this place”
John Mayer to CNN live on New Years night from a Tokyo cat bar
Legend
Backstory of this clip making the rounds today: Biden met with the families of the 17 murder victims in Parkland. This child is the son of Chris Hixon, 49, who raced to the scene of the shooting to try to help students
He died a hero
May his memory be a blessing
I had never seen this clip before today, and now I’m sitting here wiping tears from my face. Joe Biden is a good man, and he is our only hope to heal and restore the soul of our nation.
A senior Trump campaign advisor used her Twitter account Saturday to amplify an encouraging tweet of a video of a Texas man yelling about “fucking n———“ as he wielded a chainsaw to chase away anti-racism demonstrators
For those of us gauging how much appeal Ron DeSantis might have among Republicans, it’s interesting how many KC fans in KC (at the Jags game) appear to know who he is; one guy encourages him to run for president
The Villages, Florida's huge Republican-rich retirement community, is experiencing community spread of coronavirus more than a week after Gov. Ron DeSantis was criticized for his slow and cautious response
Trump advisor
@KellyannePolls
said in March that 'Kung Flu' is offensive & called out
@weijia
for saying a WH official used the term with her: "you can’t just say that and not name them. Tell us who it was. Come up here and tell us who it was”
Trump now👇
Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, a taxpayer-financed system that’s the largest in the state, won’t publicly disclose the number of coronavirus and suspected coronavirus cases it has, saying the mere disclosure of the number somehow compromises patient privacy
Andrew Gillum, the once-rising Florida Democratic star who narrowly lost his 2018 gubernatorial race against Ron DeSantis, has told associates that he expects to be indicted in federal court as early as today for alleged fraud tied to his campaign, NBC News has learned.
Story tk
Update: a source tells me that 300 Americans have been flown out of Tel Aviv on “DeSantis Airlines” and they’re scheduled to arrive tonight at Tampa International Airport, where the governor & FL First Lady will meet them as they step off the plane.
Floridians trapped in Israel are about to arrive home on ‘DeSantis Airlines’
After DeSantis announced the flights, critics said they weren’t needed or he had no authority
Some distant echoes of the “Air DeSantis” Martha’s Vineyard flights here
👇
As we recognize that covid-19 is not a deadly or even severe disease for the vast majority of responsible Americans, we can stop agonizing over “cases” and focus on those who are hospitalized or at risk of dying.
‘Manipulative, deceitful, user’: Biden accuser Tara Reade left a trail of aggrieved acquaintances who say she took advantage of them over the years as her stories and her names changed
Laura Loomer files to run against Rep. Lois Frankel. Running Loomer’s campaign: Trump’s 2016 Florida state director, Karen Giorno
FL-21 is a blue district, based in Palm Beach County, home to Trump’s winter getaway club, Mar-a-Lago
Kanye West went from endorsing Trump to claiming he’d run against him —an announcement that benefits the president to the degree it spotlights Biden’s need for black voters & his potential weakness with young voters
Something very strange happened in Broward County.
I've never seen a top-of-the-ticket U.S. Senate race get fewer votes than EVERY OTHER statewide election.
So more voters wanted to weigh in on governor AND attorney general AND state CFO AND agriculture commissioner?
Remember when
@GovRonDeSantis
spokeswoman
@helenaguirrefer
in May blasted
@orlandosentinel
for an “alarmist headline” on an article that said models showed 3,971 Florida deaths by Aug 4?
It’s July 15
FL: death toll is 4,521 —12.16% more than modeled
Not so “alarmist”
Lou Dobbs: "The idea of early voting ... sounds like, and looks like, and feels like a recipe for immense fraud .... what's the rationale for this? This makes no sense"
Judging by audience response, Warren is the debate's clear winner and Bloomberg is the loser.
She came to hunt him. And she got her pelt.
Now that's only one hour in. But she's going to make the highlight reel & his answer on NDAs w/women is a lowlight for him
Biden on Bloomberg
“The truth is he’s basically been a Republican his whole life. The fact of the matter is he didn’t endorse Barack or me when we ran. This is a guy using Barack’s pictures like, you know, they’re good buddies. I’m going to talk about his record”
The plot thickens
Remember when Matt Gaetz alleged someone tried to shake down his dad for $25m, promising lenient federal treatment in the sex-crimes investigation of the Rep?
A man named Stephen Alford just got indicted for it
w/
@joshgerstein
Asked if this is true,
@jdbalart
said: “Of course not. He was asked to answer questions from Telemundo viewers —they were on a monitor. He would answer the monitor. In one moment the monitor went to black — he said ‘I lost the lady’I told him he could answer looking at me“
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Florida pol (Okeechobee Co. Commish Bryant Culpepper) said blowing a hairdryer up your nose can help fight coronavirus
Health officials say that’s false
He said he learned this from One American News, “the new Fox News if you want to know the truth.”
Sorey: “I wasn’t touching it. I don’t want anybody to say I tampered with anything. But I want to make sure that if there are votes in there that they’re counted”
“It makes me question everything that’s going on—just the fact that I want every1’s vote 2B counted”
Lost Cause meet Crazy Cause: using Juneteenth to tear down of the San Fran. statue of Ulysses S. Grant —who won the Civil War that led to emancipation, long before had freed the 1 slave he had been given & who was later eulogized by Frederick Douglass
For the first time on its website since Election Day, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office is now reporting that Joe Biden leads Donald Trump, by 1,096 votes in the 2020 race for president
Judge: If Trump shot someone on 5th Ave., "local authorities couldn’t investigate? They couldn’t do anything about it? ...”
Trump lawyer: "No."
Judge: "Nothing could be done?...”
Trump lawyer: “That is correct. That is correct.”
One of those rare swing state polls with a competitive senate race shows Hickenlooper beating incumbent GOP Sen Gardner 53-42%, which resembles support for impeachment (54-43%), with unaffiliated voters backing it 61-34%.
Trump’s fav/unfav: 38-60%
The armed school resource officer at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School responded to the shooting BUT NEVER WENT IN for “upward or 4 minutes” while the gunmen killed people, said Sheriff Scott Israel.
NBC's town hall with Joe Biden & "undecided voters" in Miami didn't seem to have undecided voters. Nor was it much of a Miami town hall, which would have way more yelling & pointed questions. It was a TV show that doubled as a Biden infomercial. Can't blame him for doing it
THREE separate newspapers in THREE separate communities have rightly won Pulitzers for THREE separate incidents concerning the same topic: mass shootings.
Ileana Bowen, 24, is the type of woman I would trust with my kids. She baby sat them just a few years ago
She’s black
She’s a Democrat
She lives in white, GOP-heavy Volusia County
She said she was disenfranchised by
@volusiavotes
poll workers. I believe her. I’m angry
Shot this last night in downtown Manchester, one of 2 of these set up in anticipation of Trump’s rally today. No current Democratic prez candidate can match this monetizable enthusiasm with their base
Sheriff Scott Israel said Officer Scott Peterson failed by waiting outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS building for about 4 of 6 minutes while Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people
What should Peterson have done
Israel: “Went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer”
TRUMP: "A person was on a plane, said there were about 6 people like that person, more or less, and what happened is the entire plane filled up with the looters, the anarchists, rioters, people looking for trouble. The person felt very uncomfortable on the plane."
Yes. Roy Moore hid his last week, was accused of being a pedophile, demonized gays, talked about the sin of America, identified with Putin, and spoke fondly of an era when there was slavery. But still. He lost. In Alabama. Wow
Biden advisor
@RonaldKlain
on MSNBC calls Trump’s lawsuits/threats “baseless and stupid ... one of the states where Trump is suing to stop the vote count is Michigan —where he is behind. So if the vote count stops, we win.”
Rudy Giuliani is lying: “they held the vote back in Palm Beach County & Broward County in order to see if they could steal that election for the Senate & Governor, and then caught manufacturing ballots.”
This didn’t happen.
FL is Trump's must-win state and he's basically tied with Biden
So Bloomberg announced a $100m push to stop Trump
It's not too little but is it too late? Overseas absentee ballots go out in 6 days, domestics the 24th. In-person early vote starts Oct. 19
After 4 years of being bashed as a racist, Trump improved his margins in 78 of the nation’s 100 majority-Hispanic counties & boosted his standing w/Latinos in exit polls of 10 battleground states
It ain’t just FL & TX
Why?
Check the culture wars
“It’s going to be very, very, very difficult. The fact is that this
is a fella who is literally trying to take away the funding for the post office so they can’t deliver the ballots. Not a joke,” Biden said
2/2
Biden on Harris: “We lost a really good one, the senator from California. She is capable of being president or vice president or on the Supreme Court or attorney general. Her capacity is unlimited.”
Georgia’s GOP is tearing itself apart in a civil war. It lost 2 Senate seats & the presidential race before that. And the once-Republican suburbs in metro Atlanta bolted toward the Democrats
Now add “QAnon Congresswoman” Margorie Taylor Greene to the mix
Federal authorities have hit Tallahassee City Commissioner Scott Maddox and his long-time political ally Paige Carter-Smith with a 44-count indictment that involves racketeering, bank fraud, bribery
The House approved President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic rescue plan in a 219 to 212 vote early Saturday morning, sending the measure to the Senate as Democrats race to pass it into law before boosted unemployment payments expire next month.
I'm sick to my stomach. 18-1958 murdered 17 students & staff, including my daughter Meadow. Yet in July, Broward Sheriff
@ScottJIsrael
let people into the jail to get him & other animals registered to vote.The Despicable Democrats have no shame.Can't let them steal this election.
The negative press and the predictions of widespread doom that never came to pass in Florida have made Gov Ron DeSantis a GOP heartthrob, strengthening him heading into his 2022 re-elect & increasing conservative buzz nationwide about a presidential bid
Portrait of leadership from ATL police chief: "I'm standing here because what I saw was my people face to face with this crowd and everybody's thinking, 'how can we use force & diffuse it?' And I'm not having that. You have a right to be upset,to be scared & to want to yell ..."
“The numbers suggest that using Latinx is a violation of the political Hippocratic Oath, which is to first do no electoral harm. Why are we using a word that is preferred by only 2%, but offends as many as 40% of those voters we want to win?” —
@AmandiOnAir
Florida voters aren't supposed to cast ballots by email. Some did in hurricane-wracked Bay County, where the supervisor said his goal is to get more people to vote.
Gov. Rick Scott's response? Crickets.
Democrats note its a Republican-heavy county
Unlike you, I live in Florida
Unlike you, I have kids in its public system
Unlike you, my wife is a public school teacher
Unlike you, I accurately said in 2022 the law does not ban “saying gay” in a classroom —which the settlement confirms
You were absolutely wrong and your victory lap demonstrates total ignorance about what has been happening in Florida over the last two years with the explicit and implicit encouragement of the DeSantis administration