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Trump has pulled out of the 30 year old Open Skies treaty.

So Russia is still allowed to fly over US bases in Europe, but the US cannot fly over any Russian bases any longer.

I wonder who benefits more ...
 
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Another one Trump will be working hard at silencing.

Michael Cohen released from New York prison due to pandemic

Cohen: 'There is so much I want to say and intend to say'

Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, indicated he would soon speak publicly after being released from prison to home confinement.
“I am so glad to be home and back with my family,” Cohen said in a tweet shortly after arriving back at his New York apartment. “There is so much I want to say and intend to say. But now is not the right time. Soon.”

Cohen pleaded guilty to bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance law violations in 2018 in connection to a hush-money scheme during the 2016 election, which was meant to silence women who said they had had extramarital affairs with Trump.

In his explosive 2019 appearance before Congress, Cohen said Trump had directed him to lie about a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels and predicted the president would not allow for a peaceful transition of power if he lost his bid for reelection.
 
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greg0205 said:
Right, more hot garbage for Trumpists to defend in servitude of their god-emperor...

Karl Rove.

www.businessinsider.com

The mastermind of George W. Bush's White House victories is advising Trump's 2020 campaign, focusing on swing-state battlegrounds and Republican voter outreach

Karl Rove is helping Trump's 2020 bid, focusing on voter outreach and swing-state strategy, four GOP operatives familiar with the effort told Insider.
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Have at it boys and girls, have at it.
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Its paywalled, but my view is with Karl Rove, means the Republicans are very worried that Trump will loose and have asked him to come on board.

Smart cookie, knows how to win elections. He turned Texas red back in the 80's and got an absolute idiot to win 2 presidential elections.

And explains why Trump is so against mail in ballots.
 
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Its paywalled, but my view is with Karl Rove, means the Republicans are very worried that Trump will loose and have asked him to come on board.

Smart cookie, knows how to win elections. He turned Texas red back in the 80's and got an absolute idiot to win 2 peesidential elections.
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The Republican political guru Karl Rove is helping President Donald Trump's reelection bid, focusing on voter-outreach efforts and swing-state strategies, four GOP operatives familiar with the effort told Insider.

Rove has been informally advising both Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale and the president's son-in-law and uber White House adviser Jared Kushner, the Republicans said.

The longtime GOP operative known as "Bush's brain" isn't being paid by the Trump campaign, one Republican familiar with the arrangement said, adding that Rove has an incentive to work for the current commander in chief because it provides an opportunity to keep his name in the mix as the next GOP candidates start looking to staff up their campaigns for 2024.

"Rove is looking at the bigger picture, and there is life after Trump," the Republican said.

Even for Trump's orbit, Rove's decision to help Trump is an odd pairing and one many Republicans around Washington either didn't know or want to talk about. Trump hasn't hidden his disdain for his two most recent GOP presidential predecessors, neither of whom voted for him in 2016.

During his last campaign, Trump famously savaged the Bush family to the point where he didn't attend the 2018 funeral of its matriarch, former first lady Barbara Bush, and was only reluctantly invited to former President George H.W. Bush's funeral a few months later. Trump earlier this month responded to a video from former President George W. Bush calling for unity in the country amid the coronavirus pandemic by chiding him for not speaking up on his behalf during his impeachment.

Republicans familiar with the Rove-Trump alliance said it's as much about political convenience as it is party loyalty. While many establishment members of the GOP dislike Trump's demeanor and affinity for scandals, Rove and others view the president in the same light as they did in 2016 as a far better alternative to a Democrat in the White House. For the Trump campaign, Rove's informal role adds decades of institutional knowledge about winning national elections and an inherent entry point for otherwise skeptical party stalwarts.

Rove did not comment for this story.

The Trump campaign did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday.

Rove has been a mainstay in GOP politics for four decades, most famously through his connections to the Bush family. George W. Bush, who endearingly nicknamed Rove "Turd Blossom," leaned on him during an unsuccessful congressional bid in 1978 and later used him as a key adviser during winning runs for governor of Texas and then president.

Since he left the Bush White House in summer 2007, Rove has been an outspoken conservative commentator and a key behind-the-scenes figure in helping the GOP build out a data-heavy operation to find, persuade, and turn out voters. He appears regularly on Fox News as a contributor to the conservative network, often making headlines defending Trump and slamming Democrats. On Monday, he criticized a virtual commencement speech by former President Barack Obama, calling it a "political drive-by shooting."

Rove's role helping the Trump campaign has been largely kept under wraps. Last weekend, The New York Times reported that Rove attended a meeting with Trump and other political advisers where he told the president he'd fallen behind on messaging critical of the presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden.

His efforts come as Trump campaign advisers are concerned about a new round of polling due out from the president's 2020 pollster Tony Fabrizio, which is expected to show that Trump is continuing to have problems in the critical battlegrounds of Pennsylvania and Michigan, two longtime Democratic-leaning states he won in the last election en route to an upset for Hillary Clinton.

Trump's dip in the polls following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic sparked increased chatter among Republicans that Parscale could be in danger of getting pushed aside in the campaign. But Republicans close to the tight-knit group running Trump's reelection bid said the rumors were inflated and that Parscale and Kushner maintained a tight grip on their power while reporting directly to the president.

Despite the two seeming to be worlds apart, Parscale and Rove do share a connection that's been pivotal to the party's success at winning elections. Trump's campaign manager started working for the Trump family business as a web developer before transitioning during the 2016 race to take on a raft of new responsibilities connected to voter outreach, digital messaging, and advertising.

For his part, Rove won plaudits for driving voters to turn out in 2004 through the use of "microtargeting" — cross-checking consumer data against traditional voter metrics like age, sex, and party registration — a technique credited with helping Bush secure a second term. Rove later institutionalized that work at the Republican National Committee by helping create the Data Trust, a repository for information about GOP-inclined voters.

While Rove had talked occasionally with Trump during the 2016 campaign and after he became president, his coordination with Parscale started picking up after the 2018 midterm elections as the president's focus turned to the reelection campaign.

Rove's 2020 work isn't just about Trump. He's also working with the president's campaign to help push resources down the ballot to House and Senate races in play in November. That's something Trump's often criticized 2016 campaign team was unable to do in the chaos of the last presidential election cycle, a Republican familiar with the effort said.

On Thursday, Rove endorsed Georgia GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler despite Trump's previous support of Rep. Doug Collins in the November special election for the remainder of former Sen. Johnny Isakson's term.

The former Bush aide is also backing Trump from outside the campaign. The super PAC Rove helped start, American Crossroads, is taking the president's side this cycle after sitting out the 2016 race. So far, American Crossroads has spent $367,000 in the 2020 race supporting Trump, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Trump Gets Savage Reminder About ‘Lost Month’ Of Coronavirus Inaction In New Ad


Trump is shown playing golf, holding rallies and attending the Daytona 500 in the new spot released by Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s PAC.

President Donald Trump’s inaction in February as the coronavirus spread is the focus of a blistering new attack ad.
The video that Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) Remedy PAC released online Wednesday features footage of Trump minimizing the threat of the virus, playing golf, holding campaign rallies and attending the Daytona 500 ― alongside an interview with Denise Jorgensen, whose father died after contracting COVID-19.
“By February, it was clear that COVID-19 would kill many Americans. It was clear to everyone ― except Donald Trump,” reads the on-screen text.

“In November, we are literally voting for our lives,” Jorgensen concludes in the clip.


 
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rietrot said:
Lol. 2 errors.
1. You should try tell anyone that has ever worked with any kind of stats that per capita is useless. That's like saying percentages are useless.

2. We weren't trying to "track" the virus, we were just comparing how much people died and Greg failed to somehow link it to orangemanbad
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1. Not what I said. Try reading the post again.

2. No, you weren't doing that either. Greg was doing that, until you tried to move the goalposts in order to mislead.

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Senator who voted to acquit remembers November is five months away...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1263138699606458370
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Amusing how Gardner speaks as if there's no one in particular who might be able to do something about this. Just talks about "the Senate" in general, as if it's not McConnell specifically that's the problem.
 
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"The company founded by a man named Henry Ford. Good bloodlines, good bloodlines, if you believe in that stuff, you've got good blood." - Donald J Trump

Henry Ford:

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Also, y'all might wanna scroll down this wiki to see if you recognise any names:

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Spoiler Alert:

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greg0205 said:
Right, more hot garbage for Trumpists to defend in servitude of their god-emperor...

Karl Rove.

www.businessinsider.com

The mastermind of George W. Bush's White House victories is advising Trump's 2020 campaign, focusing on swing-state battlegrounds and Republican voter outreach

Karl Rove is helping Trump's 2020 bid, focusing on voter outreach and swing-state strategy, four GOP operatives familiar with the effort told Insider.
www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com

Have at it boys and girls, have at it.
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greg0205 said:
Something, something, Joe alienates young voters, something...

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poll.qu.edu

Poll Results | Quinnipiac University Poll

Quinnipiac University Poll’s list of recent and past poll results for political races, state and national elections, and issues of public concern.
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EDIT: Also, imagine the bubble you have to be in to think the US economy is in excellent shape.
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There's a lot in this poll, but this is noteworthy:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1263597459063726080

Trump fav/unfav: 43-55
Biden fav/unfav: 48-46

Biden 48, Trump 40.

Biden receives the support of 88 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of Republicans. For Trump, 84 percent of Republicans back him and 3 percent of Democrats.

Biden makes inroads with two key groups: independents prefer him by 13 points and voters ages 65+ by 17 points. In 2016, Trump won independents by 4 and seniors by 7.
 
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