What a moment that tells you where Ron DeSantis' priorities are.
CRIST: Ron, will you serve a full 4-year term? Yes or no?
DESANTIS: *awkwardly stands there*
Wow. Former advisor for Paul Ryan and John Boehner lays out the electoral case against Republicans.
“We are not a party fit for governing. We are more fit for being a party in the minority.”
WATCH >> Another UAW worker on the picket line:
“Very historic. I don't remember any president coming to a picket line…He’s consistent. We have a lot of consistent folk at pointing out problems, he fixes them. I was very pleased to see him coming down the road.”
Despite Bobulinski’s claim that he is not political, he’s been in the Trump orbit since at least 2020, attending a presidential debate as Trump’s guest and participating in a press conference set up by Trump’s campaign manager.
Something really beautiful about a bunch of union workers booing Rick Scott as President Biden reads directly from Scott's plan to sunset Social Security and Medicare.
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House Republicans are openly admitting that, despite all the bluster and lies, there is NO evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden.
“They can’t impeach without that evidence. And I don’t think the evidence exists.”
NEWS: McCarthy, under pressure from the right, has told Republicans he’s serious about a Biden impeachment inquiry & wants to start in September.
But they don’t have the votes — or evidence — yet, which is why there’s talk of skipping an inquiry vote.
They made Ken Buck fly back from Colorado.
They made Wesley Hunt leave his new born baby and wife who had complications.
They made Kevin Hern miss his mom’s funeral.
To be humiliated. AGAIN.
No one is going to remember a single thing Biden says tonight. Everyone is going to remember how weirdly amped up he is and how bizarrely fast he’s speaking.
Kari Lake on Arizona's abortion ruling: "I oppose today's ruling, and I am calling on Katie Hobbs and the State Legislature to come up with an immediate common sense solution that Arizonans can support."
Trump ranted on Truth Social that Republicans should impeach President Biden.
He dined with Marjorie Taylor Greene THIS week to push impeachment.
He speaks weekly with Stefanik to get updates on impeachment.
But WaPo says he’s keeping his distance?
What are we doing here?
Here's a really telling exchange from Ron DeSantis.
When he's pressed for details on how he'd handle Ukraine, he completely shuts down and demands the reporter ask him something else.
SPOTTED ON MICHIGAN TV >> “The major difference between these two is President Biden visited with UAW members, union members, where President Trump is visiting here…these are nonunion workers.”
Spot on from
@donnabrazile
:
"I'm old enough to to remember that Ronald Reagan was trailing in 1980s for his election. I'm old enough to remember when Bill Clinton was trailing and Barack Obama was 'toast' right before the 2012 re-election. Don't count out Joe Biden."
FLASHBACK to May 4th>>
@KamalaHarris
pressed Bill Barr on whether anyone at the White House has asked him to open an investigation into anyone.
He refused to answer.
NEW from
@JoeBiden
on Trump's abortion comments >>
“Trump is scrambling. He's worried that since he's the one responsible for overturning Roe the voters will hold him accountable in 2024. Well, I have news for Donald. They will.
WATCH >> Ron DeSantis defends new curriculum that will teach children how slaves *benefited* from slavery.
"They're probably going to show some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into, into doing things later in life."
Wow indeed!
Fitch directly cited Donald Trump’s record and agenda as the reason for this downgrade.
Calling for a default, ballooning the deficit, and tax cuts for the wealthy is reckless.
Thankfully we have
@JoeBiden
in charge to reverse the damage Trump did.
NEW from Biden-Harris campaign on Trump's latest comments >>
"On a weekend when most Americans were honoring our nation’s heroes, Donald Trump parroted the autocratic language of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini – two dictators many U.S. veterans gave their lives fighting...
🚨🚨🚨NEWS >> At President Biden’s direction, the DNC is investing $1.5 MILLION into 2023 Virginia legislative races.
It’s not just about electing Democrats to the federal level, it’s about electing Dems up and down the ticket.
A LOT of new reporting here about the dire straits the Trump campaign is in.
-Less than FIVE staffers in each battleground state
-They can't afford to hire staff until the SUMMER
-GOP staffers TRASHING the 2024 campaign
NEW from
@JoeBiden
on Trump's comments from last night >>
“Serving as Commander-in-Chief is the ultimate responsibility and one that should weigh heavily on the individuals that hold this office.
Um what?
Donald Trump's New Hampshire campaign chair threatened to kill his colleagues in a shooting spree, murder the department chief and rape the chief’s wife.
The Trump campaign's response?
"[His] future with the campaign has not been determined."
Statement from the Biden-Harris campaign:
“As Donald Trump ramped up his demands for a baseless impeachment inquiry, Kevin McCarthy cemented his role as the Trump campaign’s super-surrogate by turning the House of Representatives into an arm of his presidential campaign.
.
@ZerlinaMaxwell
>> “Kamala was the first elected official to endorse Obama for Senate, and then for President. She’s from Oakland, CA. She put on her winter coat & boots to knock doors for him before it was cool. She was out front for her support, even before most Black people.”
My moneys on the guy that can finish a complete sentance and walk down the street unaided …but you want a fight ? Oh we can fight ….
1 big thing: Biden wants to go for Trump's jugular
#axiosam
"Best debate I've heard Kamala Harris had"-
@JoyAnnReid
"I agree."-
@clairecmc
"A lot of women were watching her tonight and saying , "you know what? She gets me."-
@JoyAnnReid
"She's relatable."-
@clairecmc
.
@JoyAnnReid
and the
@breakfastclubam
on Kamala >>
"She was a pretty progressive prosecutor."
"A few years ago, I got turned onto her because of the progressive things she was doing in criminal justice reform."
and...
"Can you imagine her debating Donald Trump?"
I can.
GUSHER🛢️📈: The United States is producing more crude oil than at any time in history: 13.2 million barrels per day.
It was 10.9 the week Biden took office.
The pre-COVID all-time high was 13.1.
It was ~5 when Obama took office.
NEW >> statement on Trump's townhall tonight from Biden-Harris Campaign Manager
@JulieR2022
“Donald Trump has been telling us exactly what he will do if he’s reelected and tonight he said he will be a dictator on day one. Americans should believe him.”
.
@KamalaHarris
calling out Republicans' cowardice on taking on gun violence and the NRA >>
"It is pathetic that people yield to a gun lobby on an issue that affects all of our children. These babies could care less who their parents voted for in the last election."
.
@NicolleDWallace
: "I love love love that she refuses to lower the bar for Donald Trump...I think all those points right there are spot on."
@K_JeanPierre
: "She had a very strong night...What we saw from her what we saw in the judiciary hearings. We saw that person."
I am tired. What are we doing here?
On one hand we have a guy whose lies about 2020 culminated in a mob attacking the Capitol, assaulting police, & trying to overthrow an election.
On the other, you have a President calling it out and highlighting the stakes.
But both sides?
GOP Rep. Brandon Williams says he’ll still take pay during a government shutdown because he’s “not independently wealthy.”
He then says that millions of furloughed federal workers who won’t get paid should not expect “a huge amount of sympathy”
Mitch McConnell last week: No one is talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare.
Nikki Haley AND Mike Pence both come out calling to end Social Security and Medicare as we know It.
25,000+ people showing up to vote for Nikki Haley in the Republican primary in Georgia, a week after she dropped out, in a state decided in 2020 by fewer than 12,000 votes
🔥🔥🔥 from
@NC_Governor
this morning as 600,000 North Carolinians get access to health care today.
“Donald Trump is really good at reading a room full of conspiracy theorists, but he’s not good at reading the room full of Americans who need health care.”
NEW Biden-Harris campaign statement >>
“Nikki Haley is no moderate – she’s an anti-abortion MAGA extremist who wants to rip away women’s freedoms just like she did when she was South Carolina governor.
BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court rules to uphold the state’s 1864 near total abortion ban, which will wipe out nearly all access in the state (currently up to 15 weeks). Voters will likely have the chance to override this ban in November via ballot initiative.
NEW >> We're up with a new ad in battleground states highlighting Donald Trump’s promise to abandon our allies and let Vladimir Putin do "whatever the hell he wants"
As President Biden said it's "dumb," "shameful," "dangerous," and "un-American."
Ah the classic "I want to be dictator for only one day" joke from a guy who publicly talks about locking up his political enemies and forcing through a really unpopular agenda.
A real kneeslapper.
"I'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes," Gov. DeSantis, who is in Japan right now, says when asked about polls that show him falling behind Trump.
Donald Trump says “no one has done more” to overturn Roe than him.
He brags about it CONSTANTLY on the campaign trail.
But here’s the New York Times’ take.
Guys. This is the same Kamala Harris she has always been.
It’s just so happens that she’s not running for president and y’all aren’t giving a platform to a bunch of “woke” bad faith actors
“I have been a frequent critic of her because of some of her past work … but she was brilliant,”
@shaunking
says to
@POLITICO
about
@KamalaHarris
, referring to a recent
@MSNBC
appearance. “It made me much more comfortable with her as a potential VP pick.”
NEW Biden-Harris statement from
@JulieR2022
in response to this gaslighting >>
“American women couldn’t care less what Donald Trump posts on Truth Social, they care that they can’t access fertility treatment because of him.
Trump comes out in support of preserving IVF in Alabama, and calls on Alabama lawmakers to find an “immediate solution”
He does not address the question of whether he views frozen embryos as children
WATCH >>
@VP
Kamala Harris tears Ron DeSantis apart for his newest political stunt:
"I'm here in Florida and I will tell you there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact: there were no redeeming qualities of slavery."
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"We have such great wealth in this country, we don't have to play around with Social Security and Medicare" -- Trump, who as president proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare
EXCLUSIVE: Speaker Mike Johnson’s spiritual journey reveals ties to Christian fundamentalists who support slavery. Johnson’s office won’t say where he stands on that issue.
The Ports to Plains highway will run from Laredo all the way up to North Dakota and into Canada.
This project will bring jobs to Texas and millions of dollars to the state.
A great bipartisan victory!
These individuals were among the group of people not allowed to attend Saturday’s event after previously disrupting and shutting down events with Democratic elected officials.
🧵 On Saturday, January 27th at the
@KamalaHarris
"Get The Vote Out" event in Las Vegas, two visible members of the Muslim community wearing hijabs were not let in by campaign officials.
The Biden/Harris campaign is clearly fanning the flames of Islamophobia.
Spot on from
@Morning_Joe
crew:
“Only one of them is encouraging Russia to invade NATO countries.“
“Or trying to turn over the 2020 election, or talks about how he wants to be a dictator”
“The stakes are so obvious. And we are seeing the Biden team going on offense
.
@KenDilanianNBC
: "The transcript shows that President Biden appeared clear headed and coherent during most of that five-hour interview. He cracked jokes, he went into great detail about matters that happened years in the past."