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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was quick to go after Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) once Trump announced Friday morning that Pence would be his running mate, TPM’s Esme Cribb reported. After a week of false starts and speculation regarding Trump’s pick, it only took fifteen minutes for the Clinton campaign to tweet a video scrutinizing the governor’s record. “Think Donald is divisive? Meet his running mate,” the video begins, going on to detail Pence’s political history, from the anti-LGBT “religious liberty” bill that Pence signed last year to his push to defund Planned Parenthood.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “Trump simply isn’t doing what he needs to do with any key constituency to win the race. Indeed, he appears to be doing the same or worse and in some cases much worse than Romney in almost every key group. As you can see this amounts to looking at the building blocks rather than the full building as I did in point one. They line up pretty well, as they should. These are the numbers and the way of looking at polls that people who run campaigns tend to focus on. What all of this tells me is that there appears to be a deep underlying stability in the race, one that persists in the face of a wide variety of news events, polling methodologies, pratfalls by the candidates and different modes of analysis that can be used to scrutinize the polls.”
Say What?!
“What we get are things that have nothing to do with doing our jobs.”
– A Republican senator doesn’t think that confirming judicial nominees is part of the Senate’s job description.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I don’t see any virtue in matching, and against a nothingburger, to boot. I was not at first but am now hoping for Warren. It would drive the opposition over the edge. Warren is a great campaigner, and would be a great spokesperson domestically and to the world. If one woman is a problem, two won’t make it worse. But if Hillary being a woman is a selling point, two is even better. I like the debate optics — Clinton standing calm and collected against the bluster, Warren bulldozing the stiff. Double-teaming Trump with two scary-smart women will drive him to erratic responses that should discourage voters who are not committed.”
Related: Trump said that Pence was “entitled to make a mistake every once in a while” regarding the governor’s past support for the Iraq War. Clinton, however, was “not.”
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What We’re Reading
Every hip-hop reference to Trump and Clinton since 1989. (FiveThirtyEight)
Obama is the first sitting president to publish an academic paper. (Mic)
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