May 7, 2016 - Pensito

His Vision’s 2020

May 7, 2016 Buck Banks

Donald Trump was nominated, it came to pass,
And many a Republican lamented, “Alas!”
But come November,
Whoever’s the winner,
Speaker Ryan will have covered his political ass.

Warren Says She’ll ‘Fight My Heart Out’ to Defeat Trump

May 7, 2016 Buck Banks

What happens next will test the character for all of us – Republican, Democrat, and Independent. It will determine whether we move forward as one nation or splinter at the hands of one man’s narcissism and divisiveness. I know which side I’m on, and I’m going to fight my heart out to make sure Donald Trump’s toxic stew of hatred and insecurity never reaches the White House.

— Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Facebook

Dem PAC Set to Flood TV with Anti-Trump Messages

May 7, 2016 Buck Banks

$91 million

Amount that Priorities USA, “the lead super PAC backing Hillary Clinton, has already reserved in television advertising that will start next month and continue through Election Day. In addition, Clinton’s campaign and Priorities USA have both debuted online videos that cast Trump in a negative light — a preview of what voters will see on TV over the next six months,” reports the Associated Press.

Ryan Says He’s ‘Not Ready’ to Back Trump

May 7, 2016 Buck Banks

I think conservatives want to know: Does he share our values and our principles? There’s a lot of questions conservatives are going to want answers to.

— Speaker Paul Ryan, the nation’s highest-ranking elected Republican, telling CNN that he was “not ready” to endorse Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.

Trump Candidacy Bodes Well for Clinton

May 7, 2016 Buck Banks

This has been an exceedingly unpredictable year. Although we remain convinced that Hillary Clinton is very vulnerable and would probably lose to most other Republicans, Donald Trump’s historic unpopularity with wide swaths of the electorate – women, millennials, independents and Latinos – make him the initial November underdog.

Day: May 7, 2016

His Vision’s 2020

Warren Says She’ll ‘Fight My Heart Out’ to Defeat Trump

— Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Facebook

Dem PAC Set to Flood TV with Anti-Trump Messages

$91 million

Ryan Says He’s ‘Not Ready’ to Back Trump

I think conservatives want to know: Does he share our values and our principles? There’s a lot of questions conservatives are going to want answers to.

— Speaker Paul Ryan, the nation’s highest-ranking elected Republican, telling CNN that he was “not ready” to endorse Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.

Trump Candidacy Bodes Well for Clinton

— Cook Political Report

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%