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October 31, 2020

Friday's record Covid numbers finished him off.

No, not the GE, that was already gone, but any hopes he may have had of avoiding a humiliating defeat and taking his Senate enablers with him.
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1322590051520466948

October 30, 2020

Once again, U.S. records new daily high, nearly 100,000, for Covid-19 cases

Source: NBC News

The United States on Friday once again saw a record number of Covid-19 cases, when more than 97,000 infections were reported, according to an NBC News tally.

It's the fifth time since Oct. 22 that a new daily case record was set.

The U.S. reported 969 deaths Friday, according to an NBC News count.

The last benchmark of 90,456 cases was hit Thursday, just hours after the U.S. logged its 9 millionth coronavirus case and shattered the previous daily record of 80,662 infections, set a day earlier.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-records-more-90-000-covid-19-cases-one-n1245450

October 30, 2020

Javanka jab: Lincoln Project trolls Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump on their home turf

Source: Florida Politics

The Lincoln Project, that group of never-Trump former Republican political consultants who have turned their skills on the President, is bringing their latest project to two of Donald Trump‘s home bases.

Billboards blasting Ivanka Trump and her spouse, Jared Kushner, are outside Mar-A-Lago and Trump Tower all weekend.

These billboards are already famous: the Lincoln Project had them in Times Square in NYC, featuring a quote from Kushner where he allegedly said “people are going to suffer and that’s their problem, about New Yorkers dealing with COVID-19.

Read more: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/378972-lincoln-project-javanka



The Mar-A-Lago installation is on a boat, outside the Trump South Florida compound through Sunday afternoon before sailing back to Miami. The so-called “Javanka” artwork from there will be on boats in the Miami area through the election.

The Mar-A-Lago boat will be out 24/7 for most of the weekend, but the Trump Tower installation will have shifts for the next four days. A digital truck was outside the building on Friday.

October 30, 2020

Off his rocker: Trump campaigns in a world of his own.

Republicans are trapped by Trump’s insane ideas about how to win this election

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... consider this moment from a rally the president held in Tampa on Thursday, at which he revealed that he’s being urged not to waste his remaining campaign time talking about Hunter Biden and the media ...

It’s crazy. It’s crazy. You know, some people said — I get a call from all the experts, right? Guys that ran for president six, seven, eight times. Never got past the first round, but they’re calling me up, “Sir, you shouldn’t be speaking about Hunter. You shouldn’t be saying bad things about Biden because nobody cares.”

I disagree. Maybe that’s why I’m here and they’re not. But they say, “Talk about your economic success. Talk about 33.1 percent, the greatest in history.” Now, look, if I do, I mean, how many times can I say it?


That was followed by a tribute to all the Fox News programs Trump enjoys, then an extended riff on Miles Taylor, the former administration official who recently revealed that he is “Anonymous,” the author of an insider tell-all on the administration. This is what he thinks will win him more votes.

Trump is certain that anyone who questions his flawless political instincts must be an idiot. But is there a sane Republican anywhere who actually believes that focusing on Hunter Biden is what will turn late-deciding independents toward Trump or motivate otherwise-indifferent Republicans to get to the polls?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/30/republicans-are-trapped-by-trumps-insane-ideas-about-how-win-this-election/
October 30, 2020

In honor of Trump cancelling his election night party

My favorite Randy Rainbow song - The Bunker Boy.

October 30, 2020

538: States with the closest races (graphic)



MI, PA, WI?
Nope. Not anymore.
October 30, 2020

Sherrod Brown: Biden will win Ohio

Molly Jong-Fast interview, The New Abnormal.

'Chill the Fuck Out. This Isn’t Another 2016, and Here’s Why'
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-daily-beast/the-new-abnormal-with-molly-jongfast-rick-wilson

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