Very interesting: Buttigieg uses his Fox News town hall to call out Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham - by name - for comments they have made.
"There is a reason why anyone has to swallow hard and think twice" before going on Fox, he says.
A Trump supporting soybean farmer whose farm has lost ≈ $250k in value due to tariffs: “This isn't just numbers on a sheet or percentage of trade or dollar value. This is multi-generational American families, your base, that you are now squarely putting into financial peril."
Kellyanne Conway to
@abbydphillip
a week ago: “I’m asking why you and the polling questions, respectfully, are still saying ‘wall’ when the president said you can call it whatever you want.”
Buttigieg on abortion in Fox News town hall: "I believe that the right of a woman to make her own decisions about her own reproductive health and her own body is a national right, I believe it is an American freedom."
ABC announces they will host a town hall with Joe Biden on October 15, which was supposed to be the night of the second presidential debate before Donald Trump said he would not show up for a virtual contest.
JUST IN:
@ABC
News will host a town hall with
@JoeBiden
moderated by
@GStephanopoulos
on October 15th. The primetime event will take place in Philadelphia where the former vice president will answer questions from voters.
Wow:
@harrisonjaime
’s SC Senate campaign announces they have raised $57 million in Q3, calling it “the highest quarterly amount raised by a US Senate candidate in American history.”
It’s hard to imagine Harrison being able to spend that much money between now and Election Day.
Andrew Cuomo has turned his blunt, slideshow-aided daily press conferences on the Coronavirus into must watch TV for people far beyond New York. And, in doing so, the governor has set up a powerful contrast with Donald Trump.
More here w/
@GregJKrieg
:
Elizabeth Warren joins the cold open of SNL. Asked about who she will endorse: “It’s tough. Maybe I’ll just pull a New York Times and endorse them both.”
Joe Biden will nominate Pete Buttigieg to be his transportation secretary, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, elevating the former mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to a top post in the federal government.
Our story:
Harris came to her final decision to endorse Biden on Saturday, a source tells CNN.
Harris officially decided to move forward w/ backing Biden after Warren dropped out, the source said, adding Harris didn't want to go against Warren or Klobuchar, two fellow women senators.
When a local reporter asked him about using that line in a more conservative state where many view marriage being between a man and woman, Buttigieg said his marriage has brought him closer to God because it has made him a better person.
Pete Buttigieg has talked at length about his marriage in South Carolina, saying one of the reasons he is running is that his marriage “exists as a matter of law by the grace of a single vote on the Supreme Court.”
The line consistently draws some of the biggest applause.
I asked Yang about this tweet.
“If you're standing next to that person for debate after debate and then the person disappears, then you're sad,” Yang said. “I was just sad and so I took a moment to say I miss Beto because I genuinely missed him.”
.
@GOPChairwoman
on the Texas bus incident this AM: “Certainly you don't want harm. And we shouldn't be hurting other people. The president would not endorse that."
The president this evening:
In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong. Instead, the FBI & Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat run cities and hurting our people!
This man’s wife - Jo Cox - is the British MP who was murdered last year by a man who reportedly shouted “Britain First" as he attacked her. Trump just retweeted the deputy leader of Britain First.
Trump has legitimised the far right in his own country, now he’s trying to do it in ours. Spreading hatred has consequences & the President should be ashamed of himself.
Hillary Clinton appears to suggest Russians are 'grooming' Tulsi Gabbard for third-party run.
Clinton spox
@NickMerrill
, when asked if HRC was referring to Gabbard: “If the nesting doll fits.”
More here:
Pete Buttigieg has talked at length about his marriage in South Carolina, saying one of the reasons he is running is that his marriage “exists as a matter of law by the grace of a single vote on the Supreme Court.”
The line consistently draws some of the biggest applause.
Lincoln Project announces they will be involved in the Ohio Senate race, saying it is one of the “top races critical to American democracy’s survival."
Tim Ryan's spokesperson: "pls no"
This is a pretty good insight into how many Dems see the Lincoln Project’s work.
.
@jaketapper
: Have you ever seen anything like this from a President?
Ben Ginsberg, national counsel to Bush-Cheney during the 2000 recount in Florida: “No, not even close.”
Rep. James Clyburn tells reporters that Amy Klobuchar's chances of becoming Biden's running mate have been damaged by the unrest in Minnesota: “We are all victims sometimes of timing... This is very tough timing for Amy Klobuchar."
Big moment: Joe Biden is now ahead in Pennsylvania, surging ahead of Donald Trump by 5,587 votes.
The former vice president now has leads in Georgia, Nevada, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Students turn their backs on the White House for a 17-minute moment of silence in honor of those killed in the Parkland, Florida school shooting. They walked out of 28 local high schools today to urge lawmakers to take action on gun violence.
Fetterman Plans to Give Back Menendez Donation, Preferably In Cash-Filled Envelopes (Exclusive)
"We are in process of returning the money,” said
@the_vello
, a Fetterman spokesman, “in envelopes stuffed with $100 bills.”
Our story:
Andrew Yang may have been born online. But his presidential candidacy is coming of age in real life.
My look at Yang’s garage band like rise and possible next steps:
New: Andrew Yang's new non-profit will spend more than $1 million helping working families impacted by the spread of the coronavirus in the NY area & across the country, he announced Friday.
This is Humanity Forward’s first major project.
Our story:
"I'm not going to lose my son in 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021," impeachment manager
@RepRaskin
tells
@jaketapper
in a very powerful interview on
@CNNSotu
.
Pete Buttigieg called VP Mike Pence, the “cheerleader for the porn star presidency” on Sunday, lambasting he former gov of his home state of Indiana for defending Trump & questioning whether he stopped “believing in scripture when he started believing Donald Trump.”
#CNNTownHall
Amy Klobuchar, asked at UFCW whether she plays golf, says no, but then says the one time she played she hit a shot so poorly that it hit a nearby duck in the head.
"It appeared to perish," she said... of the duck.
Cory Booker wasn't on the debate stage in California last week, but he did have a friend there: Andrew Yang.
How the two have become “genuinely friends” during the 2020 primary w/
@RebeccaBuck
A remarkable photo of a sickening moment: Crow was a Captain in the United States Army and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, earning a Bronze Star for his actions during the Battle of Samawah in 2003.
Howard Schultz's first book tour event was interrupted by a protestor who yelled, "Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole. Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the billionaire elites..." (h/t CNN's
@alisonkmain
)
End of the line for me at CNN. But certainly not the finish line.
It’s been a great 12-year run - thanks primarily to some outstanding colleagues - and I’m looking forward to what is next.
But for now, I’m going to reflect on how this year taught me what truly matters in life.
New: Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams was informed today that she is not Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
Pete Buttigieg after being asked directly about the failure of body cameras: "If anybody is trying to figure out who to hold responsible, the administration bought the technology, hired the officer and wrote the policy. So at the end of the day, I'm responsible."
Hillary Clinton about Bernie Sanders in a new doc per
@THR
: “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”
News: Andrew Yang raised $10 million in the third quarter of 2019, his campaign tells CNN, a substantial haul that dwarfs the $2.8 million the businessman-turned-politician raised in the second quarter of this year
Obama in memoir: "It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic... which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States."
More here:
New: Barack Obama's new memoir confronts the role his historic election played in changing the Republican Party and the rise of Donald Trump, according to a copy of the book obtained by CNN.
w/
@Kevinliptakcnn
,
@jeffzeleny
,
@DavidWright_7
&
@RebeccaBuck
:
Oh boy.
Question from voter in Vegas: "What does it say about Washington experience that a sitting US Senator could not name Mexico's president?"
Buttigieg: “I guess what it says is that there is more to being prepared than how many years you spent in Washington.”
Hillary Clinton on Matt Lauer's performance during the Commander-in-Chief forum in 2016: "Trump should have reported his performance as an in-kind contribution.... I can't say I didn't fantasize about shaking some sense into Lauer while I was out there."
Sofia, a seven-year old from Broken Bow, Oklahoma, asked Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke for autographs at Whataburger on Monday night. They both wrote her notes.
Biden: “You are a lovely, bright young lady.”
O’Rourke: “I am expecting great things from you.”
How bad was tonight for Pete Buttigieg?
He went to Allendale County in December.
"I know that as somebody who’s new on the scene, I’ve got to earn that trust and we’ve got to have those conversations," he told Dems there.
Nine people in the county voted for him tonight.
Pete Buttigieg was scheduled, after headlining an event in SC in the AM, to fly to Florida on Wednesday for three fundraisers and a round table.
The campaign just announced that the entire trip to Florida has been cancelled.
Whoa: Eugene Goodman ran into Mitt Romney in the hallway and told him to turn around and get to safety, as the mob entered the building, in new footage.
Romney was going to run DIRECTLY into the rioters
Just ran into Andrew Yang as he left his caucus night party.
I asked him how he was feeling.
He looked at me and
@ericbradner
, threw his hands in the air and yelled, "Victory!"
Joe Biden told CNN on Thursday that President Donald Trump and his allies are "rooting for violence" in American streets because it allows them to drive fear for political gain.
Our story:
Joe Biden told
@jaketapper
on Thursday that he has asked Dr. Anthony Fauci to be one of his chief medical advisers and be part of his Covid-19 response team when his administration begins next year.
Our story:
Pete Buttigieg calls for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to resign or be impeached: “Kavanaugh should resign and if he doesn’t, the House should impeach him.”
Full statement:
NEW: Perez took the step of calling for a recanvass specifically because of issues around how the Iowa Dem Party was allocating state delegate equivalents from satellite caucus sites, two sources tell CNN.
One source said the DNC wanted to get ahead of candidate recount calls.
Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez called for a recanvass of all results in Iowa on Thursday, as the state's Democratic Party continues to struggle to verify the data from Monday night's caucuses.
w/
@jeffzeleny
:
Harsh new statement from a group of women misidentified in the Heitkamp ad: "Heidi Heitkamp's political agenda has interfered with, or downright ruined, our lives."
The women threatened legal action and said they have begun to "search for a lawyer."
CNN Projection: Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper wins the state's Democratic Senate nomination.
He will now face off with Republican Cory Gardner in what is expected to be one of the most hotly contested Senate races in the country.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to reporters on Friday: “Right now clearly ISIS is getting broken. ... The fight is not over with them, don’t believe someone who says that ISIS is completely down.” (h/t
@rabrowne75
)
Harris says Trump is to blame for the massive unemployment right now - noting the months of employment gains as Obama-Biden left office.
“Like everything else he inherited," Harris says, "he ran it straight into the ground.”
Pete Buttigieg said in an interview released Tuesday that people should "stop seeing religion as a kind of cudgel as if God belonged to a political party."
Immediately after, he said he "can't imagine" God would be a Republican.
Pete Buttigieg tells union members in Cedar Rapids that he genuinely believed President Trump, when he got into office, would pass an infrastructure bill that he promised and is surprised that he hasn’t yet.
President Trump has not talked to Barack and Michelle Obama or Bill and Hillary Clinton since his 2017 inauguration.
The Obamas greeted Trump when he just took his seat in the National Cathedral. The Clintons - who were sitting on the other side of the Obamas - did not.
New: The Commission on Presidential Debates will meet Monday afternoon to discuss potential rule changes to the final contest between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, two members of the commission tell CNN.
Our story:
Biden on Harris today in Iowa: "We lost a really good one, the senator from California. ... She's capable of being president, or vice president or on the Supreme Court or attorney general, her, her capacity is unlimited, Just absolutely unlimited."
Kristin Urquiza, whose Trump-supporting father died of Covid-19, delivers what has so far been the toughest line of the night: "My dad was a healthy 65-year-old. His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that, he paid with his life."
#DemConvention