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From The Reporter’s Notebook
In the Senate, a fight over whether individuals on the no-fly list should be barred from buying guns is looming large, TPM’s Lauren Fox reported. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) reflected on how this is the fiercest gun debate he has seen in the Senate since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: “I don’t understand why this Senate didn’t respond in the wake of Sandy Hook. I think it’s tragic that Republicans were willing to wait three and a half years to get serious.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “So what is it about this speech? The answer is pretty obvious: Trump was using a TelePrompTer, which is to say it wasn’t him talking. In fact, pretty much all of Trumps TelePrompTer speeches have been this way. They’re kind of plodding. They’re clearly not him. But they’re also not crazy, which given who we’re talking about is not nothing. As I’ve argued, this is Trump’s singular liability in this campaign. People think he’s too erratic, crazy, belligerent, unhinged – pick your adjective – to be president. Relatedly, there are whole classes of citizens who think they’re at best second class citizens in his eyes – women, Hispanics, blacks, basically anybody who’s not a white man.”
Say What?!
“I got nothing for you today, man, nice try.”
– Paul Ryan declined to comment on Trump’s latest attack on Clinton.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “If Trump quits, or they oust him, his voters riot and/or stay at home, and they suffer massive losses. Or somehow Trump goes willingly, and then they have the same problems as if he remains. Racist/Fascist/Sexist party. Even if they got the perfect candidate on the ballot in all 50 states tomorrow, that person is going to be so far behind in building a team, hiring a staff, fundraising, they’ll be swamped. And frankly, what quality person would want that job, or being a sacrificial lamb? Nobody worth their salt.”
Related: Trump’s failure to fundraise has consequences for down-ballot Republican candidates.
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What We’re Reading
The Alabama governor, his mistress, and a state scandal. (GQ)
Inside 40 Wall Street. (Bloomberg)
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