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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalBeto is blockwalking for a special state house election
Beto is doing his best to flip the Texas state house of representatives
https://twitter.com/ElizMarkowitz/status/1206742112005492737
Former Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew endorses @JoeBiden ,
https://twitter.com/thematthill/status/1206684955599876096NEW NATIONAL POLL JUST RELEASED BY @USATODAY / @Suffolk_U ON THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY:
https://twitter.com/Elections2020_/status/1206716807886856192Luckovich-Is it common for juries to give defendants backrubs??
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1206719367125327872Democrats just broke the ban on gun violence research funding for the first time in 20 years
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1206644972016947200Congress reaches deal to fund gun violence research for first time in decades
Source: The Hill
Federal agencies will receive $25 million from Congress to study gun violence in a government spending deal reached by House and Senate negotiators a major win for Democrats who have long pushed for dedicated funding to research the issue, a source told The Hill.
"Democrats have broken the ban on funding for the first time in decades," the source said.
The deal includes $12.5 million each for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health to study gun violence and ways to prevent it.
Its the first time in more than 20 years that Congress has appropriated money for gun violence research.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/474740-25m-set-aside-for-gun-violence-research-in-spending-agreement-in-win-for
Joe is thrilled to have the endorsement of @NAGE_National -representing over 100,000 federal, state
https://twitter.com/StefFeldman/status/1206705774380093441New Morning Consult Poll
https://twitter.com/D_jeneration/status/1206714261822685190Why Trump's path to reelection is totally plausible
I strongly disagree with the concept that the Democratic Party can nominate a weak candidate and have no problem beating trump. Most POTUS are re-elected unless there is an downturn in the economy. trump can easily be re-elected
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1206590116896092162
But there is no need to look for mystical explanations. There is a path to reelection for a president who never cracks 50 percent approval in polls that is entirely plausible. It's not because the normal dynamics of politics do not apply to Trump, but because they do.....
Once again, Trumps strategy is not about breaking precedent so much as exploiting advantages that have worked often for incumbent presidents. Incumbents usually lose when the economy is weak or they face ideological opposition from within their party neither of which is true for him.
Time and money not spent fighting for the nomination is a big advantage and it may not matter much that this advantage is offset by bleak national polls. The Trump team says in background interviews that it is making targeted efforts in 17 states, but a much smaller number will get the lions share of attention....
In sum, the Trump team can give cogent answers to the question How will Trump win? and they are faking it well (as skilled operatives usually do) if they dont actually believe what they are saying. But there are too many imponderable assumptions embedded in those answers for anyone but Trump partisans to embrace them as fully credible.
Earlier, I was hopeful that trump would kill the Obama recovery but it appears that trump may have a decent economy to run on. We cannot assume that trump can be easily beaten or that the Democratic Party can nominate anyone and expect to win in 2020.
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