Campaign Action So far, neither ad has been publicly released. However, the FEC filings show that about half of the new buy is devoted to pro-Cisneros spots while the rest is going to anti-Cuellar commercials. Cuellar’s team responded to the news in true form by issuing a release that called his opponent “Miss Cisneros” (totally…
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Senate Republicans plan to wrap up their cover-up Friday, whatever it takes
All this is how it’s supposed to go. In theory there’s a chance that some Republican or other could have a sudden attack of caring about something other than Republican power and vote for a fair trial, but … in theory there’s also a chance that pigs could someday fly. As of this writing, Sen. Lisa Murkowski…
Republicans agree Trump is guilty as charged, but they don’t care and will vote to cover it up
Throughout the evening, the House managers continued to make a plea for some form, any form, of sanity. As the night went on, Rep. Adam Schiff outlined a plan in which the House would agree to limit witness depositions to a single week. It would let Chief Justice John Roberts have first say over the…
Morning Digest: Dems need four seats to flip Michigan’s House. Our new data shows the top targets
Campaign Action However, because Republicans heavily gerrymandered the map to benefit themselves, the Democrats’ presidential nominee will need to decisively defeat Donald Trump in the Wolverine State to give their party a chance. Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s successful re-election campaign illustrates this hurdle: Even though she beat Republican John James 52-46 statewide, she only took…
Trump’s defense: If he did it that’s okay, the other guy had it coming, and also you can’t prove it
As Trump’s team finished out its case on Tuesday afternoon, Jay Sekulow’s hour-plus ramble through the sad underdog life of Donald Trump was surely the attention-grabber. In an address that went everywhere but to Trump’s actions in Ukraine, Sekulow was ludicrously over-the-top in painting a picture of a Trump who couldn’t take a step without an…
New phase in impeachment trial to kick off with questions from senators
Daily Kos Staff Wednesday January 29, 2020 · 5:54 AM PST 2020/01/29 · 05:54 John Roberts John Roberts The impeachment trial of Donald Trump enters a new phase Wednesday. With opening arguments complete, senators will have the chance to ask questions—submitted in writing and read out by Chief Justice John Roberts—for 16 hours over two…
Morning Digest: Ardent Trump ally will reportedly challenge GOP senator in Georgia special election
Campaign Action If Collins goes ahead with his bid, that would almost certainly crush GOP hopes of winning outright in November, at least under the state’s current election law. That’s because all candidates from all parties will run together on a single ballot, and if no one takes a majority, a runoff between the top…
This one on John Bolton was a big, stupid lie even by Trump standards
The House Intelligence Committee scheduled a deposition with Bolton in early November, then waited to see if he’d show up. Bolton instead said he would go to court to get a ruling on whether the White House could block him from testifying. “We would welcome John Bolton’s deposition and he did not appear as he was requested today,” the…
Senate Republicans fear that if Bolton testifies, ‘the floodgates are open’
Trump’s defenders have insisted again and again that the many witnesses to his pressure campaign against Ukraine didn’t count because none of them had heard directly from him that nearly $400 million in military aid was held up specifically to demand investigations into Trump’s political opponents. That’s exactly what Bolton’s book reportedly does say: that Trump…
Morning Digest: Former GOP congressman runs bigoted ad highlighting that his top GOP rival is gay
Campaign Action The spot then highlights a large headline from the Los Angeles Blade that reads “Carl DeMaio: California’s gay GOP kingmaker” and a considerably smaller excerpt from the article quoting DeMaio saying, “My job isn’t to support Donald Trump.” The image then switches to an article from The Hill titled “Gay GOP Candidate: Party…