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Rep. Dean Phillips (CD3) Update: How to Vote During the Coronavirus
Hi Neighbors,
The right to vote is fundamental, and no American should be forced to choose between their health and their right to vote. As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, I want to ensure you know how to safely vote on August 11th and November 3rd.
In our nation’s history, we have never failed to hold regularly scheduled elections – even in times of war, natural disaster, and economic crisis. This year will be no different. Minnesota is doing everything possible to ensure our elections are safe, secure, accessible, and fair. This includes offering multiple accommodations to ensure that every Minnesotan can participate in our democracy: Continue reading “Rep. Dean Phillips (CD3) Update: How to Vote During the Coronavirus”
Trump just shook up his campaign. But the GOP can’t shake up what it really needs to: Trump.
Republicans have spent three-plus years accommodating his impulses, which now makes a true course-correction extremely difficult.
President Trump on Wednesday night offered perhaps his first concrete acknowledgment of the trouble his 2020 reelection campaign faces, demoting campaign manager Brad Parscale and replacing him with Bill Stepien.
But when it comes to what ails the Trump campaign — and the Trump presidency — the answers are hardly so simple. And Republicans who might take heart in this personnel change have plenty of reason for continued pessimism, in light of recent events.
The 2020 election is nigh, and virtually all signs are bad for the GOP. Trump trailsboth nationally and in every closely decided 2016 swing state. The continued coronavirus pandemic, largely quashed in many Western European countries, is resurgent here in ways that both reflect poorly on Trump’s handling of it and rob him of his supposed electoral silver bullet: the economy. And polls and GOP strategists suggest Trump is not just struggling but also dragging down GOP congressional candidates across the country. Continue reading.
Mary Trump says the U.S. has devolved into a version of her ‘incredibly dysfunctional family’
Mary L. Trump, President’s Trump’s niece, said that watching the country’s leadership devolve into “a macro version of my incredibly dysfunctional family” was one of the factors that compelled her to write her book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”
In an interview Wednesday with The Washington Post, Mary Trump said she blames “almost 100 percent” her grandfather, Fred Trump — the family patriarch whom she describes as a “sociopath” in her 214-page memoir of sorts — for creating the conditions that led to Donald Trump’s rise and, ultimately, what she views as his dangerous presidency.
Much like in her extended family, Mary Trump said, a similar dynamic is now playing out on the national stage, with President Trump simultaneously possessing “an unerring instinct for finding people who are weaker than he is,” while also being “eminently usable by people who are stronger and savvier than he is” and eager to exploit him. Continue reading.
Trump’s move on key environment law feeds Democrats’ strategy
With an eye on the November elections, top Democrats are ramping up criticism of President Donald Trump’s deregulatory environmental agenda, including his move Wednesday to weaken a bedrock environmental law from the 1970s.
At a UPS warehouse in Atlanta, the president trumpeted changes to the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires that federal agencies analyze the environmental impact of major projects, such as chemical plants, pipelines, mines, highways and dredging. It also established the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality, which released the new NEPA rule.
“Today’s action is part of my administration’s fierce commitment to slashing the web of needless bureaucracy that was holding back our citizens,” Trump said, telling the audience the rule would make it easier to build and use highways. “I’ve been wanting to do this since day one.” Continue reading.
Trump announces new campaign manager
President Trump announced on Wednesday that Bill Stepien will take over as his new 2020 campaign manager.
Why it matters: The elevation of Stepien is a demotion for Brad Parscale, Trump’s existing campaign manager. Parscale was hand-picked by Jared Kushner, the president’s adviser and son-in-law. He had been in the role longer than any of Trump’s previous campaign managers.
- The shake-up comes as Trump’s status as the incumbent weakens in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times writes. Continue reading.
Mary Trump has a message for the president: ‘Resign’
The president’s niece claimed in an ABC News interview that her uncle is “utterly incapable of leading this country, and it’s dangerous to allow him to do so.”
WASHINGTON — Mary Trump says that if she were in the Oval Office today, she would call on President Donald Trump, her uncle, to resign from office.
That’s a much different message than the one she relayed to him in April 2017 when she visited the White House.
In an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos to promote her new tell-all book about Trump, Mary Trump said that when she was in the Oval Office four months into her uncle’s presidency, she told him, “Don’t let them get you down.” Continue reading.
Two in three Americans want to see Trump’s tax returns, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two out of three Americans want to see President Donald Trump’s income taxes, and about half believe he has been withholding them for reasons that could hurt him politically, according to a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll.
The July 13-14 poll shows many Americans remain concerned about Trump’s finances and potential conflicts of interest with his family business. The survey was conducted after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling over Trump’s financial records last week likely postponed their release to New York City prosecutors until after the Nov. 3 election.
Trump has refused to show the public his personal tax returns for years, bucking a decades-old tradition of financial transparency among presidential contenders. The businessman-turned-politician has routinely questioned the public’s interest in his taxes and said he would not release them because they are under audit. Continue reading.
Trump team launches a sweeping loyalty test to shore up its defenses
Political appointees across the Trump administration are being subjected to unusual interviews to gauge their support for the president.
In the middle of a devastating pandemic and a searing economic crisis, the White House has an urgent question for its colleagues across the administration: Are you loyal enough to President Donald Trump?
The White House’s presidential personnel office is conducting one-on-one interviews with health officials and hundreds of other political appointees across federal agencies, an exercise some of the subjects have called “loyalty tests” to root out threats of leaks and other potentially subversive acts just months before the presidential election, according to interviews with 15 current and former senior administration officials.
The interviews are being arranged with officials across a wide range of departments including Health and Human Services, Defense, Treasury, Labor and Commerce and include the top tier of Trump aides: Senate-confirmed appointees. Officials are expected to detail their career goals and thoughts on current policies, said more than a dozen people across the administration with knowledge of the meetings. Continue reading.
Trump campaign staffer went on a QAnon program to recruit volunteers: report
Although President Donald Trump and members of his reelection campaign have avoided mentioning the far-right QAnon cult by name, that doesn’t mean they don’t welcome the support of QAnon devotees — and Trump campaign spokesperson Erin Perrine, according to Media Matters’ Eric Hananoki, was clearly trolling for QAnon votes when she appeared on the QAnon program “The Common Sense Show.” That appearance, Hananoki notes, was “previously unreported.”
Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory are extreme even by Trumpian standards and believe that Trump was sent to the White House to combat an international child sex ring — and that a mysterious figure named “Q” is giving them periodic updates about their battle.
Media Matters, Hananoki reports, has learned that Perrine went on “The Common Sense Show” — which is part of QAnon’s Patriot Soapbox network — on October 24, 2019, and encouraged the audience to “sign up and attend a Trump Victory Leadership Initiative training” and “talk to their local GOP party, their state party.” Hananoki notes that Perrine was the Trump campaign’s deputy communications director at the time but has since been promoted to director of press communications for the campaign. Continue reading.