1/ The story of these gloves will tell you the kind of man Fritz Mondale was and why he meant so much to me. Please take the time to read this thread - and wait for it. Its worth it.
“no person shall be a member of Congress or hold civil office if they had engaged in insurrection or rebellion after having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress”
.
@JoeBiden
will get the 270 he needs. But the "socialist" attacks worked - while we rolled our eyes. A rejection of elites. And as someone who's read polls for 40 years - its all broken. People don't want to hear it - but we have to come out of our silos and talk to GOP voters
Here’s an idea. Why not hold House hearings on what every American should watch for and be on guard against in terms of how Russia or any other foreign actor tries to influence our election? Or maybe a network do a one hour special? No one knows what meddling means.
The largest mobilization of troops in Europe since WWII. The President of the United States is working for a diplomatic end to the crisis and avert war. At this moment this is an official statement of the Republican Party. Talk about unfit.
“For all you knuckleheads on Fox who say that Biden can’t put two sentences together, here’s a news flash: He just put NATO together, Europe together and the whole Western alliance together — stretching from Canada up to Finland and all the way to Japan”
So here is why I think Trump is weaker than most think. Its Iowa. He has taken total control of the party. He is unstoppable and everyone there knows he will be nominee. But 49% went with someone else. DeSantis is dead but still circling the drain. This is the worst out
I have spent a ton of time over 4 decades on the campaign trail in Iowa. I know it well and keep hearing Grassley is in real trouble. So headed back to Iowa today to talk with voters and people on the ground. This
@FrankenforIowa
is for real. Help if you can.
Amazing on a night like tonight. Nothing but crickets. No one screaming “it was rigged!” or “votes we’re stolen! No angry loser spreading lies about a well run vote count across several states. Thank you all working this election night for democracy. Let’s keep it. If we can.
23/ Years later when my father passed away I gently tucked one of the gloves with him to rest with him.
This one remains with me as homage to a man that touched my life like few others.
RIP Fritz
So I am not a lawyer, but it does not seem to me that it matters if Trump believed the election was stolen or not.
Follow me.
You receive a statement from your back that says your account is overdrawn.
You know this can’t be true. You call the bank and accuse them of stealing
In 2017
@DougJones
won his shocking upset in Red state Alabama - the first Dem to win a Senate seat in 25 years & provided hope that helped energize Dems and proved victories were possible in 2018 midterms. Kansas this Tuesday was that same force. Get energized. Do the work.
This is what democracy looks like. People with different views, believing deeply, arguing their case, debating and fighting hard & passing bills that are a compromise when enough from each side can agree to vote yes. Authoritarianism is everyone bowing & doing what 1 guy wants.
I have seen every major speech
@JoeBiden
has given - dating back to the 1988 campaign. He has always been a better speaker than the expectations and tonight was the best he’s ever been. And once again virtual made it stronger than with a cheering crowd.
BREAKING: Former CNN political analyst and anchor
@JohnAvlon
has officially announced that he’s running for Congress as a Democrat in MY congressional district,
#NY01
.
My GOP rep is a MAGA extremist. Trust me — I’m going to work my ass off to help John win!
#VoteBlue2024
💙
For the record Biden is going to defeat Trump by bigger margin than in 2020. Everybody is so sold on his invincible hold on the nomination (and yes he will still most likely be the nominee) that they are completely missing his weakness in Iowa and New Hampshire. Trump is going
“There’s substantial disappointment, even disbelief, that this is going to be the choice,” says Amy Walter, editor of nonpartisan Cook Political Report. “Swing voters would rather eat a bowl of glass than have to choose between Trump and Biden again.”
NEW: It was just confirmed that Dauphin County, PA, home to Harrisburg , flipped to Democratic control in last week's elections. For the first time in 100+ years.
GOP incumbent conceded this am, h/t
@pennslinger
.
One reason this matters? Ballot access. See next tweet.
Full quote: “Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the
If you support
@realDonaldTrump
read his Thanksgiving message and then look in the mirror and ask yourself if this is really who you are? And seriously if your answer is an excited “yes!’ Please get some help.
Senator Tommy Tuberville just said that the reason he continues to block military promotions is because women in the military may try to get “abortions after birth.”
Yes, he said that. 🤦♂️
We’re electing idiots.
Steve Bannon is fuming about a criminal indictment of Trump: “I dare Merrick Garland to take that crap last night and try to indict Donald Trump! Because we’re gonna win in Nov and we’re gonna impeach you and everybody around you! F*ck - screw the WH - we’re gonna impeach you!”
Ingraham: When Republicans get back into power, Apple and Disney have to understand one thing: Everything will be on the table, your copyright/trademark protection, your special status in certain states, and even your corporate structure itself…
LePen wanted France to see it as a referendum on Macron and his low approval numbers. Instead the country saw it for what it was - a choice. And the choice she offered got it’s ass kicked. Can happen here too.
Standing in Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square in Kyiv the love of freedom was clear to me. This is what Putin is so afraid of and what he is trying to destroy.
#StandWithUkraine
“If there’s anything that needs replacing in this country — and in the Republican party — it’s the hateful rhetoric that Ms. Stefanik and far too many of her colleagues so shamelessly spew.”
In January 6, 2021 Jim Jordan led 139 GOP House members in voting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. If he receives more votes than that for Speaker you know how far gone his party is as he leads their continued assault on our Republic into 2024.
🧵: If election denying insurrectionist Jim Jordan wins Speakership, it'll be bc the
#Biden18
didn't stand up. They have a responsibility to support the institution by finding other choices for Speaker. It’s time for them to put country over party & finally say enough is enough.
So the outcome of this election and why so many got it wrong is what happens when data misinterpreted happens because pundits rely on data without listening to people. I learned more in focus groups since 2016 than from any poll. 1/4
When
@TuckerCarlson
declares that Ukraine isn’t a democracy he is repeating Putin’s lie. President Zelensky wasn’t a politician. But got 73% of the vote to defeat the incumbent President who never claimed election fraud, didn’t incite an insurrection and left office peacefully
John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, says Robert Kennedy Jr. is an embarrassment.
He praises Biden’s accomplishments. Then he endorses President Biden.
Incredible.
In January 6, 2021 Jim Jordan led 139 GOP House members in voting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. If he receives more votes than that for Speaker you know how far gone his party is as he leads their continued assault on our Republic into 2024.
Not vermin. Not animals. “Their work was both essential and easy to overlook: a construction crew on a midnight shift making road repairs on the Francis Scott Key Bridge”
Baltimore’s
@MayorBMScott
making a city proud tonight. He’s not just a nice guy. He’s a great Mayor. Made for this moment. The old guard just wants power. He gets the heart of the city and is bringing it in this moment.
Authoritarians hate being called out. So we call them out.
Trump lives in a world of lies. So we told the truth.
Watch the ad that had
#DonCoyote
up late last night losing his mind on Truth Social.
Ok I have never agreed with Former VP Dick Cheney on anything. But we agree Trump is the greatest threat to our Republic. Time to come together and stop this shitshow
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump."
-Former VP Dick Cheney
Trump endorsed & MAGA GOP lose last night after losing Presidency in 2020, a “disappointing” Red Mirage in 2022. Losing in Kentucky, Virginia & Ohio and Tater struggled to stay over 50% in Mississippi. Think Trump isn’t a loser and weaker after last night? Think again.
We are not a perfect union, and god knows we are not United. There is much that needs to be fixed and improved to make democracy work for those it has failed. Too many believed the lie that our elections were fixed. Now they will hear that our judicial system is fixed too. But
Reality is they never needed an investigation. Just an announcement of an investigation of the Biden’s would have derailed Biden as the nominee. The fact that Ukraine never did it - despite the pressure and threat - tells you all you need to know.
It was a jury of citizens who decided Trump must pay. If we put country over party and act as citizens instead of tribes he won’t stand a chance in November.
Who will save the Union? Don’t wait for the press or Justice Dept or anyone else to wake up. It’s up to us. All who will put country over party or ideology. A pro-democracy coalition rises and grows strong enough to defeat this or the Union will be lost.
“For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party’s national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft. They have noted the points of failure and have taken concrete steps to avoid failure next time”
So
@TuckerCarlson
I am calling your bs out. I was at MSNBC when you were there and at FOXnews with you too. I actually liked you. But what you’ve become or are revealing you have always been is a disgusting piece of shit.
In February 2020, just 2 years ago, 52 of 53 Republican senators voted to allow (then) President Trump to block congressionally authorized sale of critical military supplies to the courageous President Zelensky of Ukraine, unless Ukraine manufactured anti-Democratic propaganda.
“The lawmaker said he does not want to “lie on behalf” of former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.” Another resignation or two and Jeffries could be Speaker…
Right now if Trump were still President he would be making two "perfect" phone calls -- one to Putin and one to Zelenskyy to make the best deal. For himself.
This is malpractice reporting and completely wrong. Exits showed Dems winning this age group by over 30points. That should have been in the story along with AP Votecast being an outlier.
@SimonWDC
@tbonier
@Victorshi2020
@dellavolpe
Young voters who have been critical to Democratic successes in recent elections showed signs that their enthusiasm may be waning in the midterms, a potential warning sign for a party that will need their backing heading into the 2024 presidential race.
20/ Fritz Mondale had remembered a story I had told him months and months ago — eons in the life of a Presidential campaign. He had somehow gotten someone to locate my dad and get him to Philadelphia to be there on Primary night and bring us together to reconcile...
Now more than ever, a leader like President Biden is needed. Governing for all of America and putting country first, his dignity and diplomacy are healing our nation. We know it and the numbers prove it: President Biden is good for our country.
ProPublica emailed some questions for a story to Sam Alito and instead of answering the questions or just ignoring the email, he ran to his little gremlin friends at the WSJ Opinion section and wrote a blog post about it
Nice work from the digital team
@pewresearch
captures voices of the growing segment of American electorate that are so frustrated with politics that they've chosen to disengage altogether: Tuning Out: Americans on the Edge of Politics
Here's what's going on in the Texas legislature in response to school shootings: All students in third grade and up to be trained in battlefield trauma care.
#JackPosobiec
#CPAC
"I just wanted to say welcome to the end of democracy. We're here to overthrow it completely, we didn't get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here, we'll replace it with this right here."
The X eXodus continues: Walmart joins the growing list of big companies pulling their ads from Elon Musk’s X after his endorsement of an antisemitic post
For months I said if they kept doing the crazy, and we kept doing the work this would not be a wave election. That we would hold the Senate & House would be closer than the pundits thought with a chance to hold it.
Well they kept doing the crazy, Thanks all for doing the work.
Let me rephrase an earlier tweet: I am exhausted by a Democratic Party that constantly has a need to feel "energized" in an open political struggle with an authoritarian party.
Trump’s former Sec. Def. Mark Esper: “[Trump] was suggesting that...we should bring in the troops and shoot the protesters.”
Q: “The commander-in-chief was suggesting that the U.S. military shoot protesters?”
Esper: “Yes, in the streets of our nation’s capital.”
(May 2022)
So 49% of Republicans in Iowa, 44% in NH, and about 40% in South Carolina voted against Trump who is essentially running as an incumbent.
Warning signs for Trump’s general election campaign.