Remarkable. Ex-President Trump appears to have had a tantrum and shut down his blog. This appears to come after news reports that it was receiving only a tiny amount of traffic. It ran for about 30 days. Sad.
RNC Threatens Debate Boycott If Trump’s Grievances With Format Aren’t Addressed
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel renewed former President Donald Trump’s grievances about the Commission on Presidential Debates, threatening in a letter to the commission Tuesday to discourage future Republican nominees against participating in presidential debates unless significant changes are made to the commission.
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Dems Retain Haaland’s House Seat With Stansbury Win In New Mexico
Democratic state Rep. Melanie Stansbury won the New Mexico House special election on Tuesday, securing the seat left vacant when Interior Secretary Deb Haaland joined the Biden administration this year.
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Jan 6th Continues
According to Maggie Haberman and Byron York, ex-President Trump is telling associates he expects to be reinstalled in the White House in a coup some time this summer. This is best seen as an open invitation and encouragement of more January 6th style political violence focused on the late summer of 2021.
Thunder in the Distance
With Texas Democrats refusing to attend a state legislative session in an effort to block the state’s election crackdown law it reminded TPM Reader MR of a similar instance 18 years ago. It was a story I covered closely at TPM, and MR dropped me a note this morning reminding me. It’s more than just a trip down memory lane. What happened in 2003 in Texas was a preview, prologue to almost everything that would happen over the subsequent two decades. It presaged the debt ceiling hostage taking; it presaged Merrick Garland; and it presaged Donald Trump.
As we know from looking forward to the 2022 midterm, once a decade there’s a federal Census, a reapportionment of congressional seats and redistricting in every state that has more than one representative. It happened in 2010, setting the ground work for Republicans storming back into the majority in the House. Democrats rightly fear something similar will happen next year.
Biden Jabs Manchin And Sinema While Pushing For Voting Rights Reforms
President Biden on Tuesday appeared to take aim at Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) for their vehement refusal to eliminate or reform the filibuster amid Democrats’ push for voting rights reforms during a speech marking the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Continue reading “Biden Jabs Manchin And Sinema While Pushing For Voting Rights Reforms”
We Talk Biden, Infrastructure, Inflation and Larry Summers with Paul Krugman
We had an Inside Briefing this afternoon with Paul Krugman where we talked about Biden’s agenda, inflation, under-investment, deficits, infrastructure, the fed and a lot more. I was really looking forward to this discussion because … well, we’re on totally different policy and economic terrain than we were two years ago. And I’ve been trying to get my head around new debates about inflation, distinguishing between nonsense and scare talk on the one hand and concerns which may be overblown but are also reasonable. We also talked about Paul’s concern that Biden’s medium to long term spending policies may not be aggressive enough.
Anyway, fascinating conversation, I think. If you’re a member, we’ll be posting it tomorrow here in the Editor’s Blog.
Also, for podcast listeners, this week’s episode will be dropping Thursday rather than Wednesday this week.
FEC Fines National Enquirer Publisher For Role In 2016 Trump Hush Money Scheme
The Federal Election Commission slapped the National Enquirer’s parent company with a $187,500 fine for its role in 2016 in silencing a Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald Trump.
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Shots Fired: WV Now Offering Hunting Rifles And Shotguns As Part Of Vaccine Lottery
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) announced on Tuesday that he had beefed up his COVID-19 vaccine lottery program on Tuesday with some very American prizes.
100 Democracy Experts Issue Dire Warning About The American Experiment
More than 100 democracy scholars called on Congress to pass national level voting rights legislation as an increasing number of GOP-led state legislatures work to implement restrictive laws at the state level in a statement issued Tuesday. Continue reading “100 Democracy Experts Issue Dire Warning About The American Experiment”