'Never Trump' Republicans team with progressives to convert the president's religious base
The Trump-baiting Lincoln Project will work with Vote Common Good to urge GOP faith voters to support Joe Biden.
The initiative will focus on courting white evangelicals and white Catholics — two demographics Trump won by significant margins in 2016 — who have lost patience with the president’s behavior or been disappointed with his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protest movement against racism. The efforts will be concentrated in six battleground states — North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida — where multiple polls have shown Trump trailing his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
“If there was ever a time when Republicans, especially people of faith can be moved, it’s probably now,” said Sarah Lenti, executive director at the Lincoln Project, which was co-founded by George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. “This is about doing the right thing for our country and that goes back to embracing Biblical principles, such as loving and caring for each other.”
They’re also hoping to pitch Biden as an attractive religious alternative to Trump. Biden, a Catholic, has portrayed himself as the unity candidate in an intensely fractured political landscape and rarely shies away from discussing his personal faith.
Part of VCG’s plan is to forge personal connections with religious conservatives in crucial 2020 swing states. Soon they will launch a postcard campaign sending handwritten notes to religious voters asking them to lean deep into their faith for guidance this November. Though the postcards, which Pagitt described to POLITICO, will vary in style — one will include VCG’s sogan, “Faith, not fear. Hope, not hate. Love, not lies,” the other will feature the “love is patient, love is kind” passage from 1 Corinthians 13 — each will contain a personal note from another voter.
The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn’t
A professor at Arizona State University does not exist.
“This person was a scientist who got Covid because they’d been forced to teach,” said Michael Eisen, a fly geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, who had interacted on Twitter with the professor for years. “It wasn’t the first person I knew who got Covid — but for a lot of people it was one of the first people they knew who got it.”
Then BethAnn McLaughlin, another Twitter connection, announced on July 31 that the anonymous professor had died from complications of the virus.
Just a few days later, both the account of the anonymous professor and of Ms. McLaughlin were suspended for Twitter policies that, among other things, bar the coordination of fake accounts.
The same day, Gerardo Gonzalez, a spokesman for Arizona State University, where the anonymous Twitter user was supposedly a professor, described the anonymous account as a “hoax.”
At First It Looked Like A Scientist Died From COVID. Then People Started Taking Her Story Apart.
BethAnn McLaughlin, who has previously come under fire for harassing people in her group MeTooSTEM, faked an online persona: a woman of color who she said died of COVID-19.
Whoever was tweeting from @Sciencing_Bi, she had a corner of the scientific community’s attention. She claimed to be a bisexual geologist or paleontologist of Native American descent. She frequently tweeted about sexual harassment and diversity in science, making connections online with other advocates.
FBI raids offices at downtown One Cleveland Center building tied to Ukrainian oligarch
FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said agents searched the offices of Optima Management Group in One Cleveland Center at East 9th Street and St. Clair Avenue. A spokesman for the IRS also said his agency’s investigators were present.
Optima is a conglomerate of companies across the United States that has interests in real estate in Cleveland, including One Cleveland Center, the 55 Public Square building and the Westin Cleveland Downtown. Its offices are visible from an entrance and windows on the side of One Cleveland Center, and on Tuesday multiple agents were seen carrying and moving computers, boxes and other items both inside the office and later as they loaded materials into a van.
Anderson said agents also executed search warrants at an office in Miami.
SEC investigating possible insider trading around Kodak-Trump drug production deal
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating possible insider trading at Eastman Kodak following a spike in the company’s shares around the announcement of a $765 million government loan to manufacture pharmaceutical ingredients. Sen. Elizabeth Warren had called on the SEC to investigate because shares began rising even before the official announcement of the loan.
The 2020 voter registration race
The Trump campaign and RNC have now registered 100,000 new voters in the 2020 cycle, more than doubling their numbers from 2016, according to new Trump Victory data provided exclusively to Axios.
Yes, but: Democrats are still registering new voters in key battleground states.
Between the lines: Trump won Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, Arizona and Iowa in 2016, but former Vice President Joe Biden is currently ahead in the polls in all but Iowa, according to FiveThirtyEight.
By the numbers: The Democratic advantage in Pennsylvania has been lessened by 133,000 voters since 2016, and 87,000 voters in Florida.
But among voters who have newly registered since 2016 in Pennsylvania, Democrats have a 15 point advantage, according to an analysis of a national voter file by Tom Bonier, CEO of the Democratic political data firm TargetSmart. And in Florida, they have a 2 point advantage over Republicans.
Keyser Söze is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer
Contingency Planning for Presidential Interference with the Election
How to interview a serial liar and narcissist who is unfit to be president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/04/how-interview-serial-liar-narcissist-who-is-unfit-be-president/
“These people, they listen to you,” Swan pleaded, by way of suggesting that he should use his power over his followers for good, that is, to get them to take the virus seriously for their own well-being.
Greg Sargent STILL missed the point!!!!
Colorado police apologize over viral video of officers handcuffing Black girls in a mistaken stop
Aurora’s police chief apologized on Monday night and launched an internal investigation after video of the incident quickly went viral. Police blamed a misunderstanding: The license plate number on a stolen motorcycle matched the family’s blue SUV, and that car had been reported missing earlier this year, too.
Nearly one year ago, Aurora police tackled 23-year-old Elijah McClain as he was walking down the street and placed him into a chokehold, just moments before paramedics injected the Black man with a heavy sedative. Last month, two officers were fired over photos reenacting the violent arrest near a memorial for McClain, who died days later.
Trump: Coronavirus is "under control"
This is a set of bullet points from the Jonathan Swan interview.
The 9 Wildest Answers in Trump’s Interview With Jonathan Swan
If one reporter can demolish Trump, where are the rest?
Jennifer Rubin
TV news personalities are hired in part because they are congenial, likable and watchable. They put guests and the audience at ease. They do not allow pregnant pauses. They bail out interviewees who are at a loss for words. This is the wrong skill set for interrogating a president, especially one who is a serial liar. In nearly four years, TV news outlets have not figured this out; some simply threw in the towel and declined to switch to more effective interviewers because their star anchors draw TV viewers.
Trump and his spinners are suddenly freaking out about Florida. Here’s why.
Greg Sargent
The distinction that Lara Trump and the president are making here — between systems that automatically mail out ballots, and ones that require you to request one — is central to a much larger deceptive goal.
That goal is simple: to delegitimize vote-by-mail in states where they think it will hurt Trump, while legitimizing it in places where they think it will help him — such as Florida — to ensure that as many of his voters as possible utilize it rather than staying home out of fear of the pandemic.
As of now, unlike Florida, most of the major swing states automatically mail out applications for absentee ballots. This is not the same as mailing out ballots (the sort of “Democrat-imposed” systems Lara Trump referenced). That’s only done in a handful of states, mostly ones that do all vote-by-mail elections. Nevada will now mail out ballots; hence the president’s rage.
‘Squad’ member Rashida Tlaib wins primary in Michigan
Tlaib, an unapologetic fighter and progressive with a national profile, noted that Trump signed into law a bill she sponsored to protect retirees’ pension benefits and that she has gotten amendments approved with bipartisan support. She also cited work creating neighborhood service centers to help residents throughout the district.
https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1291002112499908609 Headlines said I was the most vulnerable member of the Squad.
My community responded last night and said our Squad is big. It includes all who believe we must show up for each other and prioritize people over profits. It’s here to stay, and it’s only getting bigger.
He Predicted Trump’s Win in 2016. Now He’s Ready to Call 2020.
Most historians just study the past. But Allan Lichtman has successfully predicted the future.
Featuring Allan Lichtman
Aug. 5, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
Video by Nayeema Raza and Kristopher Knight
In the video Op-Ed above, Professor Lichtman walks us through his system, which identifies 13 “keys” to winning the White House. Each key is a binary statement: true or false. And if six or more keys are false, the party in the White House is on its way out.
Trump's campaign knocks on a million doors a week. Biden's knocks on zero.
The diverging responses to Covid-19 could be a wild card in November — especially in close races up and down the ballot.
Political scientists disagree on the extent to which organizing programs matter, but it's broadly acknowledged that they can sway a close race and that they are particularly effective in turning out base voters. Operatives say such organizing could be even more important than usual this fall because of the surge in mail-in ballots.
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1st-Known U.S. Lung Transplant For COVID-19 Patient Performed In Chicago
June 12
Lost to coronavirus: 29-year-old Florida woman dies working towards the American dream
July 17
COVID-19 took the life of 29-year-old Samantha Diaz, the granddaughter of a Mexican migrant and mother of three who worked her way through school and became a medical assistant to a cardiologist.
Florida firefighter dies after battle with COVID-19
August 5
Firefighter Anthony “Tony” Christensen fought COVID-19 for more than 30 days before he died.
Florida mom loses son, 20, to coronavirus, and then days later, her daughter
"I hold up pretty much well at the daytime, but at night, it really hits me," Monete Hicks said of the deaths of her children, Byron, 20, and Mychaela, 22, to COVID-19.
July 21
Planning their two funerals is difficult, she said.
20-year-old has to have most of her lung removed, urges youth to take COVID-19 seriously
July 30
"I never thought I'd be in this position, to be two weeks away from turning 21, and I'm basically losing a lung," said Cecilia Erker, who is hospitalized with COVID-19.
Coronavirus ravaged Florida, as Ron DeSantis sidelined scientists and followed Trump
July 25
previously blogged, but notably this is one of the most read articles on the Post site now.
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