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BREAKING: The abortion rights amendment will be on the ballot in Michigan in November after the MI Supreme Court directed the Board of State Canvassers to certify the petition.
Strong words from
@MittRomney
today: "President Trump has disrespected the American voters, has dishonored the election system and has disgraced the office of the presidency.”
On the $$$:
@JoeBiden
raised $118 million in six days including $70 million over four days of the convention and $48 million in 48 hours after announcing
@KamalaHarris
as his vp pick.
That’s nearly double the $60 million Biden raised across all 2019 since launching his bid.
Rep. Cheney: “Tonight I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day where Trump is gone. But your dishonor will remain.”
The latest NYT/Siena poll released this morning has VP Kamala Harris leading former Pres. Donald Trump in three crucial battleground states among likely voters:
.
@BernieSanders
campaign announces its Q3 💰:
•Raised $25.3 million in the third quarter of 2019
•from 1.4 million donations
•September haul set their campaign record for total amount raised and number of individual contributions in a single month
BIG $$$:
@JoeBiden
campaign says it raised $26 million in the 24 hours after announcing
@KamalaHarris
as his running mate. That includes 150,000 1st time donors to the campaign.
The crowd is going wild for Hillary Clinton tonight. She is wearing a white pantsuit and talking about the 19th Amendment, Shirley Chisholm, Geraldine Ferraro and her own historic acceptance of the nomination.
“Well my friends, the future is here.”
The president today voted early in person in Florida calling it “much more secure” than mailing a ballot. At the same time, his campaign has spent millions on ads encouraging voters to request absentee ballots to “vote like Trump” as he voted by mail in the primary...
“I voted for a guy named Trump,” said the Pres after casting his ballot in early voting in Florida, his official state of residence. He called it “an honor to be voting,” and said it was much more secure than voting by mail.
BREAKING: Senate confirms
@JanetYellen
as
@USTreasury
Secretary with bipartisan support: 84 to 15
Yellen is the first woman to serve as Treasury Secretary. She previously was the first woman to serve as Federal Reserve Chair.
It’s telling when some ppl here in DC are more upset about the Senate dress code than say the threat of a govt shutdown or child poverty more than doubling in the US with the end of CTC payments…
Stopped to chat with some folks in line. Three out of the first four people I spoke to are Republicans who plan on voting for Fetterman in November.
I even found a Trump 2020-Fetterman voter…
Despite the
#coronavirus
pandemic, Texas Democrats saw their highest turnout in TX Dem runoff history.
According to
@texasdemocrats
, at least 955,735 Texans voted in yesterday’s runoff
1994 runoff: 746,641
2018 gubernatorial runoff: 432,180
Harris campaign responds after Donald Trump was on a radio program with a host who called
@KamalaHarris
’ husband Doug Emhoff a ‘crappy’ & ‘horrible’ Jew. Trump could be heard responding ‘Yeah.’
Harris campaign said Trump is ‘hateful, despicable, and should not be our president.’
Hello from Erie, PA where
@JohnFetterman
returns to the campaign trail tonight for the first time in person since he suffered a stroke in May.
It’s a packed room tonight. Lines were all the way to the main road ahead of the event
#PASen
#Elections2022
#Decision2022
NEWS:
@JoeBiden
lead in Nevada just expanded to more than 12K with another round of counted ballots added to the tolals.
Biden: 597,353
Trump: 585,311
@CBSNews
#Election2020
Where things stand right now with ballot counting ongoing
GEORGIA
Biden leads by 1,096 votes
NEVADA
Biden leads by 11,438 votes
PENNSYLVANIA
Trump leads by 18,229 votes
ARIZONA
Biden leads by 47,052 votes
NORTH CAROLINA
Trump leads by 76,737 votes
@CBSNews
#Election2020
On $$$: Since Mitch McConnell released his statement on holding a vote on President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, ActBlue used for Democrats' online fundraising has brought in more than $30 million in about 12 hours overnight.
📍 There’s a line of folks waiting to get into the Trump event today in the Bronx after a torrential downpour this morning. The chant ‘Fuck Joe Biden’ has come up a few times from the crowd
Tonight
@CBSNews
estimates
@JoeBiden
has surpassed the 1991 delegetaes needed to clinch the Democratic Pres nomination.
This is based on estimates from additional reported vote that has continued to come in from primaries Tuesday.
Debate Cash Bumps:
@BernieSanders
campaign announces it raised more than $1 million on debate day -- it's best single debate day for the campaign all year.
@amyklobuchar
's campaign also raised $500,000 online in about 12 hours -- claiming also their best debate night so far.
Here's the first
@AndrewYang
TV ad; it was put together by firm Devine Mulvey Longabaugh (Bernie alum).
The campaign says it's spending more than $1 MILLION in Iowa with this one.
#YangGang
Voters have now chosen to protect abortion rights with every state abortion ballot measure since Roe fell
OH joins KS, KY, MT, MI, CA & VT where pro-abortion rights efforts succeeded
Abortion measures could be on additional ballots next year including in some battlegrounds
Ohio voters have approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to an abortion and other forms of reproductive health care. The outcome adds to a string of wins for abortion rights advocates in numerous states since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Meanwhile, the President’s Georgia race lead has dipped below 14K votes.
Trump: 2,436,007
Biden: 2,422,467
And a judge today dismissed a Trump campaign lawsuit there.
@CBSNews
#Election2020
Mitt Romney on losing an election: “I’ve had that experience myself. It’s no fun!"
He also said the best way to show respect to upset voters is by telling them the truth.
Learning some new number ahead of Q4 close:
@AndrewYang
expects to raise $12.5M+
Has 350K donors to campaign so far
@ewarren
aims to raise $20M
@PeteButtigieg
reveals he has 700K donors, 2M donations to campaign so far
@BernieSanders
aims to hit 5M donations by end of Q4
NEWS:
@SpeakerPelosi
joining
@SenSchumer
in calling on the vice president to remove the president by immediately invoking the 25th amendment., says if they do not act, the congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment.
5 states have now delayed primaries due to
#COVID19
concerns. Latest count:
Ohio moved from March 17 to June 2
Georgia moved from March 24 to May 19
Louisiana moved from April 4 to June 20
Maryland moved from April 28 to June 2
Kentucky moved from May 19 to June 23
.
@AyannaPressley
on canceling student debt, "it's an investment in the people, particularly Black and Brown families who we know will spend that money back into their communities."
She says it will stimulate economy at a time when it's needed the most.
Some
@AndrewYang
Q4 & 2019💰 totals:
•more than $16.5M raised up from $10M in Q3
•campaign’s single highest fundraising day was Dec. 31 with $1.3M
•campaign to date has received more than 1 million contributions from 400,000 individual donors
New jobless claims dropped to 214,000. That’s down 15,000 from the previous week.
Continuing claims are just over 1.4M, the lowest since February 1970. A year ago, that number was 4M+.
NEW:
@JoeBiden
says he spoke with Jacob Blake on the phone today for about 15 minutes. "He talked about how nothing was gonna defeat him, how whether he walked again or not, he was not gonna give up," Biden says of their conversation.
INBOX: Dave Chappelle officially endorsed
@AndrewYang
for president today.
“I’m Yang Gang!” said Chappelle.
Campaign says he will be campaigning for Yang in South Carolina at the end of January.
"Last I heard getting breast cancer is not a crime, it’s a terrible tragedy you got to deal with," says
@BernieSanders
during a round table discussion in Pittsburgh after a worker tells him how she's in medical debt with the very hospital system she works for because of cancer.
Breaking Records: at least 50 women of color will serve in the new Congress, breaking previous record of 48 set in 2019 per
@CAWP_RU
.
Of the 47 women of color to serve in the House, 25 are Black women and 13 are Latinas, also surpassing previous records.
@CBSNews
#Election2020
NEW:
@BillClinton
on the rioting today, “The assault was fueled by more than four years of poison politics spreading deliberate misinformation, sowing distrust in our system, and pitting Americans against one another. The match was lit by Donald Trump...”
Full statement
.
@PeteButtigieg
is holding a Get out the Vote rally at a middle school in Las Vegas tonight. The crowd wrapped around the building here one day before
#NevadaCaucus2020
.
@AndrewYang
is back on the debate stage come February thanks to two polls this weekend. That means the following 7 candidates can participate Feb 7 in NH:
Joe Biden
Pete Buttigieg
Amy Klobuchar
Bernie Sanders
Tom Steyer
Elizabeth Warren
Andrew Yang
#DemDebate
#nhpolitics
INBOX: a statewide audit ballots upheld the results of the presidential election in Georgia,
@GaSecofState
announced.
@JoeBiden
led by 12,284 vote
Biden: 2,475,141 votes
Trump: 2,462,857 votes
@CBSNews
#Election2020
INBOX:
@AndrewYang
campaign says it raised $6.7M in January including $1.2M on Jan. 31. The average donation was $30.
Comes after the campaign raised $16.5M in Q4 of 2019 but ended the year with less than $4M cash on hand.
Yellen on examining tariff relief amid soaring inflation:
“Those things are under consideration. You know, this administration inherited a set of 301 tariffs imposed by the Trump administration that I think really weren’t designed to serve our strategic interests..."
NEWS:
@JoeBiden
wants a $1.9T American Rescue plan.
SO WHAT’S IN IT?
•$400B for covid response including nat’l vaccination program
•Direct relief including $1,400 checks + $400 a week extended UI
•Community support including $350B for state, local, territorial gov’ts
.
@AndrewYang
and his
#YangGang
show staying power in the 2020 presidential race with his Q3 💰:
• Yang raised $10M
•Way up from his $2.8M from Q2
•He raised more cash than some senators in this race
With Proposition 3, voters there will get to decide whether abortion is constitutionally protected in the state. Currently, there's a legal battle playing out over the state's 1931 law which bans abortion with out exception for rape or incest.
NEW: statement from
@JoeBiden
“We are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us. We are a nation enraged, but we cannot allow our rage to consume us. We are a nation exhausted, but we will not allow our exhaustion to defeat us.”
Full:
Pres. Trump is leading Joe Biden in Georgia by just 9,535 votes this evening as ballot counting continues
Trump: 2,439,800 votes
Biden: 2,430,265 votes
And both GA Senate races are currently in runoff territory
@CBSNews
#Election2020
At McAuliffe’s event last night, multiple voters I spoke to raised the Jan 6 attack and Pres Trump as their reason for turning up to support the Democratic candidate in an off-year election. There was real concern over what could happen in VA, the 2022 midterms and 2024.
I wrote about
@AndrewYang
's merch strategy in Nov. He's been known to raise major $$$ with his hats & other apparel. Some other limited editions have raised triple digits. Selling 10 hoodies at $1,000 shows up on FEC reports as $10,000 in political donations: