this election is a choice between two competing visions for america: one that says "you should drink bleach to cure viruses" and another that says "do not drink bleach"
well the debate showed off the president as a unhinged, petulant man child, raised joe biden $31.5 million online in just over 24 hours, registered 24,000 people to vote, and brought in 100,000 new campaign volunteers, and 60,000 new donors.
so I think joe biden won!
RBG health news is always wild because out of nowhere, they'll just drop a press release like "Ruth Bader Ginsberg successfully warded off legions of banshees with her aura this morning. She is working from home."
At the end of this, Joe Biden will have:
-More votes nationally than any other Presidential candidate in history
-More than 50% of the popular vote
-At *least* two 2016 flips (and more coming)
-A higher margin in WI, PA, and MI than Trump's in 2016
This moment, distilled: The President sending his chief of staff to call the coronavirus a democratic hoax at a conference where a republican senator and house member ended up being exposed to the coronavirus
Watching press write that the President breaking the law doesn't matter because voters don't know what the hatch act is is just....literally....everything about the media's fundamental failure to meet this moment wrapped up into a pathetic little ball.
"This is an absolutely new tone for Lucy," said the political press corp watching "Peanuts". "I've never seen her handle the football with such generosity before. It truly is a new era."
A former Bernie employee is using our virtual phonebank tool to call voters and tell them Joe Biden has dementia — and is live-streaming it. We’ll cut him off in a little bit but I figured it’s worth everyone seeing this stuff in action.
yeah he's spending his time building sustainable grassroots power to turn texas blue and teaching kids at a state school how to get involved in texas politics. what a loser, huh
We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security. We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores.
During convention, Team Biden-Harris-DNC-DNCC:
-Raised $70mil
-Brought in 285,000 new donors
-Added 1.1 mil people to our SMS list
-Got *128 mil* video views
-Sent 700k unique visitors to
We're just getting started. Join us!
On inaug day:
-FB is transferring
@JoeBiden
's followers over to POTUS
-Snap is handing us
@WhiteHouse
-YT is giving us all of the
@WhiteHouse
Subs
-Twitter is starting us at zero...but recommended the President of the United States tag other accounts to encourage growth
So yeah! ~~Personal news~~ etc
Joe Biden has always led by bringing people together -- and we built a digital strategy around it. Thrilled to be working with this incredible team to continue that work, and to vanquish malarkey wherever it may hide.
The move makes
@Rob_Flaherty
the director of digital strategy in the White House Office of Digital Strategy. He will be joined by a host of other names from the Biden campaign.
More here:
Staffer: Senator Ernst if you do one thing, just don't admit that the entire defense strategy is a political farce aimed at hurting Joe Biden
Ernst: The entire defense strategy is a political farce aimed at hurting Joe Biden
ERNST: "IA caucuses are this next Monday evening. And I'm really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the Iowa caucus voters, those Demcaucus goers. Will they be supporting VP Biden at this point?"
H/T
@JaxAlemany
Split screen:
Joe Biden listing off the pay-fors of his tax plan, answering a heartfelt question about why young black voters should choose him
Donald Trump saying he doesn’t know for a fact that there isn’t a satanic pedophile cult running the government
The GOP frontrunner:
-Called for a political assassination
-Called for investigations and fines for media outlets he doesn’t like
The President:
-Is three years older than him
And now for me to take a big sip of coffee and see what the press is more focused on.
For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc.
In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time.
This month...
🚀we raised $141 million
🚀 68% of our donors were new to the campaign
🚀2.6 million people joined our email list
Like Brad said: Americans are voting with their wallets. 💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸
💥💥💥
HUGE fundraising for
@realDonaldTrump
in June!
🔥Record $131M - eclipsing any single month in 2016
🔥Record $266M in Q2
🔥$295M cash on hand
🔥$947M total raised
Americans voting with their wallets, supporting the President.
donald trump: I personally dismantled roe v wade and that is a good thing
media: hard to tell what donald trump intends to do on abortion because he is using soft, ambiguous language
In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama's Twitter followers on
@POTUS
and
@WhiteHouse
-- at Team 44's urging.
In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero.
Trump’s rally last night stranded hundreds of his supporters in the cold for hours, sending seven people to the hospital for hypothermia, and leading to who knows how many COVID cases.
Donald Trump reported that his campaign has $325 million cash on hand.
Joe Biden’s cash on hand is now $466 million.
Our scrappy, grassroots army has not only closed Donald Trump’s fundraising gap — it’s exceeded it by $141 million.
A fun behind the scenes fact: Everyone thinks Joe Biden has been campaigning from *his* basement but he’s actually been campaigning from Gregg Jarrett’s basement so he could unplug Gregg’s router when needed
I find it odd, if not curious, that the moment I hit “send” on my column that’s highly critical of Joe Biden my Wi-Fi service disconnected. Inexplicably, it will be out all day. Never happened before. Probably just a coincidence. I drove to the local store and sent the column .
NEW: Joe Biden spent $4.43 million on Facebook ads from start of campaign through the eve of South Carolina.
Then, in last 7 days, he spent ~$5 million.
A look at Biden's huge ad $$$ spike that has spurred 1.2 million list sign-ups.
A few other fun stats....
-120,826 live viewers
-More than 65,000 first time donors (who can give again and again and again)
-More than 10,000 volunteer sign ups from the event
-1500 merch orders
-zero malarkey
NEWS: Today's fundraiser with
@JoeBiden
and
@BarackObama
raised over $11 million in total, making it the most successful finance event of the entire campaign. $7.6 million came from 175k grassroots donors, who continue to power this campaign every single day.
twitter: why isn't joe biden campaigning in his core states
[biden campaigns in core states]
twitter: why isn't biden trying to expand the map
[biden also campaigns to expand the map]
twitter: why isn't joe biden campaigning in his core states
So whoever owns is redirecting it to our website as a troll. What we do know was that the website was registered with a Russian registrar for a while. Odd!
The VP very obviously has/wants nothing to do with fringe groups. Wish Trump could say the same.
Biden transition says Trump admin has refused to transfer the
@POTUS
and
@WhiteHouse
Twitter accounts with followers and that Biden must start from zero — reversing goodwill gesture from Obama admin in 2016.
and you may find yourself failing to contain a pandemic
and you may find yourself destroying the economy
and you may find yourself traveling to defend traditionally red states
and you may say to yourself,
As president, I would never send an American soldier anywhere in the world without the equipment and protection they need. We should not do any less for the heroes on the front lines of the battle we’re in now.
Since you can pay Trump advisors to say anything you want them to on the internet, we asked Roger Stone give a pep talk to ol’ Joey ahead of tonight’s debate.
CNN’s
@jaketapper
to Jill Biden: “Your husband has been known to make the occasional gaffe…”
Biden: “You can’t even go there. After Donald Trump you cannot even say the word gaffe.”
#CNNSOTU