🚨 Had to do a slight redesign of the cover for my upcoming book on
@thestonepony
because...
Bruce
@Springsteen
penned the foreward!
Pre-order "I Don't Want to Go Home" here:
Yang with direct criticism to the whole primary debate complex:
"We’re up here with makeup on our faces, and our rehearsed attack lines, playing roles in this reality TV show. It’s one reason we elected a reality TV star as our president."
Just in: Texas Supreme Court denies a Republican-backed petition seeking to toss out more than 100,000 votes in Harris County cast in drive-thru lanes. Opinion, without comment, is here:
I share this picture every year: this was our high school, 20 years ago today, where the glass windows to the admin offices were our only way to know whose parents were safe, whose had called in, and the agonizing absence of those who hadn't yet been heard from:
Trump, on Hannity to talk Harris, is talking windmills: "If you see a windmill and you hear a windmill, your home goes down by half, or less than half. It kills all the birds."
New: The swift embrace of false allegations of cheating in the California recall reflects a growing instinct on the right to argue that any lost election, or any ongoing race that might result in defeat, must be marred by fraud.
BREAKING: Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio announces that voting be extended until June 2nd, that no in-person voting occur tomorrow.
"It is clear that tomorrows in person voting does not conform and cannot conform with these CDC guidelines. We cannot conduct this election tomorrow."
A woman named Esther just donated a bunch of pizza for voters waiting in line outside Riverside in Milwaukee. Called in a delivery order from Ian’s Pizza, and they boxed out slices.
Video sent to me from someone at Riverside —>
As Pennsylvania counties continue to count mail-in ballots, we have been monitoring the returns. Based on the reported remaining ballots, we maintain the belief that Joe Biden is on track to win Pennsylvania and the presidency.
I just spoke to a healthcare worker from Milwaukee, 34, who is 17 weeks pregnant, and has coronavirus.
She requested an absentee ballot a week ago. It never came.
She can't go out in public without putting others in danger. Now, she can't vote.
It is now official: There is just one Republican - Chris Smith - representing New Jersey in Congress.
It is the lowest Republican representation from NJ in more than a century.
Just In:
@amyklobuchar
pulls out of VP contention, calls on Biden to name a woman of color as running mate:
“I truly believe, as I actually told the Vice President last night when I called him that I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket.”
Everyone applauding Louis CK "owning up" in apology: he did it because NYT report and women going on the record forced him to.
Here he is, just two months ago: “They’re rumors, that’s all that is.”
Zuckerberg announces that Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts will be blocked "indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete."
Among the supporters tonight
@SenatorMenendez
’s HQ is Evelyn Arroyo-Maultsby, a juror on his federal corruption trial. She achieved some fame when she left the jury last year during deliberations to go on vacation. She would’ve voted for acquittal.
@northjersey
Inbox: Republican candidate for Governor, Doug Mastriano, today announced the appointment of former Trump lawyer, Jenna Ellis, as senior legal adviser to his 2022 gubernatorial campaign.
Philadelphia
@DA_LarryKrasner
with a stark statement to
@realDonaldTrump
:
"Keep your Proud Boys, goon squads, and uncertified ‘poll watchers’ out of our city, Mr. President. Break the law here, and I’ve got something for you.”
Shapiro statement on Mastriano goes right at his campaign focus on "freedom."
"Mastriano wants to dictate how Pennsylvanians live their lives – that’s not freedom."
After a generation under unified Republican control, Texas is a battleground at every level of government this year.
Read
@mannyNYT
@reidepstein
from the Fort Worth burbs:
.
@TheAmandaGorman
to the
@nytimes
, in 2017:
“This is a long, long, faraway goal, but 2036 I am running for office to be president of the United States,” she said matter-of-factly. “So you can put that in your iCloud calendar.”
Inbox: NAACP Offers to Cover Bail Costs For Texas Lawmakers Facing Arrest
“War has been declared on democracy, and we will support anyone who stands up to defend it," said President Johnson. "We are fully invested in good trouble.”
BREAKING:
@CoryBooker
will endorse
@JoeBiden
today.
Booker will hit the campaign trail with Biden in Flint and at a separate fundraiser. Will also be at rally in Detroit with Biden and
@KamalaHarris
tonight:
“If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’” she said about signing the letter, “I’d get my house bombed tonight.”
How the PA GOP state leaders feel about going against Trump, via
@tripgabriel
The
@nytimes
analyzed Georgia's 98-page voting law and identified 16 key provisions that will limit ballot access, potentially confuse voters and give more power to Republican lawmakers.
Read more w/
@reidepstein
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Cynthia Nixon, introducing
@BernieSanders
tonight in Durham, talks 2016 and her support of Hillary Clinton.
Loud boos start to rain down.
Nixon stops them: “oh no, oh no, we’re not going to do that here.”
OH at an Italian deli in NJ:
*taking order over phone* “Great sweetie, and what’s the name? Dominick? Okay, what’s the last name? We’ve got about 18 Dominick’s so far and it’s getting confusing.”
This touches on one of my favorite debates:
Find me a state with a better Mount Rushmore of musicians than New Jersey. You can't.
Bruce Springsteen
Frank Sinatra
Whitney Houston
Jon Bon Jovi
Thrilled to welcome the
@MTV
@VMAs
to New Jersey this year.
From Frank Sinatra to Whitney Houston, many of the most influential entertainers of all time have hailed from the Garden State. Looking forward to August 26th at
@PruCenter
.
Just in: A Texas senate aide tells me that a number of Texas Democratic senators have also left for Washington, but not enough to break a quorum in the senate.
A Republican Texas senate aide says that a quorum is expected and that they will likely take up SB1 today.
Klobuchar on
@nytmike
@maggieNYT
scoop: "It says it right there in his book. So I don’t know how my Republican colleagues cannot call for witnesses. Senator Romney has called for witnesses, they should all be calling for witnesses."
"The two men had never met, but for a week they have been bound by the unspeakable grief of two unconscionable desecrations."
The pastor from Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston and the rabbi from Tree of Life in Pittsburgh.
Read this. Twice.
States are amping up pressure on
@GSAEmily
.
Letter today from
@GovMurphy
states refusal to help with transition "puts the public health at risk in New Jersey and across the nation. We urge you to act immediately."
The Wayne County board of canvass drama continues: the two Republican members now looking "rescind" their votes.
But Jonathan Kinloch, the vice-chair of the board and a Democrat, says "That vote was final." and "That vote was binding."
The scene at the William Rowan School polling location in Northwest Philly: lines are long but moving, a lot of voters showed up 30-40 minutes before polls opened
FLASHBACK: In 2018, President Trump attacked Carrots the turkey for refusing to concede he had lost the vote on the White House turkey pardon contest.
"This was a fair election... unfortunately, Carrots refused to concede and demanded a recount."
Just In: A Pennsylvania senate subcommittee has voted to approve 17 subpoenas for personal information on every voter in PA, including partial social security numbers and drivers license numbers, as part of their investigation of the 2020 election.
Twitter added a fact-check to Trumps unsubstantiated and unfounded claims about voter fraud.
The link brings users to a "Moments" page with a link to a Politico article and a Twitter written summary of the fact check:
This jet pack is giving super-human power to paramedics making rescues in the mountains of the U.K. A climb that usually takes 25 minutes on foot now takes 90 seconds with the flying suit – potentially saving lives.
Just spoke to Sean Bagniewski, chair of the Polk County dems, the biggest county in Iowa.
Said the state did not hold app-only tests and training with his 177 precinct chairs, and as of Thursday they had decided to just call in results. (1/x)
Ex-MLB star Lenny Dykstra spent 9 hours dumpster diving outside a Jersey Mike’s with his friend, a tag-team wrestler who goes by Sprinkles the Clown
He had accidentally thrown out his dentures, specially made with bone marrow and valued at $80,000.
For years, a dropped bucket of fries would turn the Ocean City boardwalk into a Hitchcockian dystopia of divebombing birds.
So the city called in seven winged bouncers - falcons, hawks and an owl - to get the unruly seagulls in line.
And it’s working.
On Fox tonight,
@GovChristie
with a warning on the continued election challenges, including ones Brooks is planning in Congress: "I think this is a very, very dangerous thing that we're engaging in right now."
Former Fox News commentator quits with lengthy missive denouncing the network:
"To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit."
Booker: "I'm here, to ask for your support."
Woman in crowd: "Youve got it!"
Booker: "Let me be more blunt, i'm asking you when your caller ID shows some pollster is calling you, pick up the phone and answer, please. Choose me. Choose us. Choose virtue and values. Choose love."
They did not expect the phone hold times, and were anxious to get their results in. So his county executive director took pictures of their results pages on her phone and drove them over to the Iowa Democratic Party headquarters.
But when she got there, she was turned away.
Inbox: PA sec of state
@KathyBoockvar
"has determined that she will not be ordering a recount and recanvass of the election returns in the counties, as no statewide candidate was defeated by one-half of one percent or less of the votes cast."
In November, the Trump campaign had an internal memo prepared that found allegations against Dominion were untrue days before Powell, Giuliani and others held a widely watched press conference at the RNC in Nov.
Read new story from
@alanfeuer
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Now that his victory is official, Andy Kim is the first Korean-American elected to congress in nearly 20 years. (Young Kim, leading in CA39 but not yet called by AP, could be 2nd).
New: President Trump’s campaign has been videotaping voters at ballot drop boxes in Philadelphia, a tactic that could amount to illegal voter intimidation, Pennsylvania’s attorney general says.
w/
@dannyhakim
Just in: Pennsylvania Democrats file lawsuit to block Republican efforts to gain access to voters personal information, including drivers license numbers and partial SSNs.
Update: spoke to PA AG
@JoshShapiroPA
who pledged to fight the subpoenas from PA Republicans for voter information.
"My office will not allow that to happen," he said, and promised to take "whatever legal action necessary."