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From The Reporter’s Notebook
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will appear on the campaign trail with Donald Trump for the first time at the “1st Congressional District Republican Party of Wisconsin Fall Fest” on Saturday in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, TPM’s Esme Cribb reported. Ryan has a notoriously rocky relationship with the GOP nominee, and a release from Ryan’s team noted that “all questions related to Mr. Trump should be directed to the Trump campaign.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “It’s been a rough year for Chris Christie. Knocked out of the presidential race, Christie passed over the Trump Dignity Loss Event Horizon from which no one can ever return and became a mere husk of his former self. Christie became the first and canonical Trump Dignity Wraith. No more the bullyish, swaggering New Jersey tough guy or the poster boy for the male GOP id, Christie was reduced to being Donald Trump’s footman, carrying bags, tossing out ‘You got it’s when ordered back home, taking taunts about scarfing Oreos, making burger runs at Donald’s request, literally begging to be chosen for veep before being tossed on the Trump bone heap in favor of Mike Pence.”
Say What?!
“He raped and pillaged Atlantic City.”
– Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had some choice words for Trump in a Thursday conference call with reporters.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Putting things in perspective, the feeling that government was a positive actor in most people’s lives probably dates from the response to the Depression and the Dust Bowl, coupled with winning WWII. Prior to that, only folks who were waiting for an appropriation bill were expecting much. But the economic recovery efforts, the scientific work and experiments for agriculture, the technological advances that were mainly government-sponsored, that came about in the first half of the 20th century won’t occur again without an equivalent need, I would think.”
Related: Bruce Springsteen had some pointed words for Trump’s candidacy: “The republic is under siege by a moron, basically.”
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