Day: August 24, 2020
You Don’t Need Putin When You Have Trump
“Who needs Vladimir Putin when we have Donald Trump? If you were Vladimir Putin and you wanted to disrupt this election, what would you do? You’d spread disinformation. You’d make people doubt the legitimacy of the vote. You’d peddle conspiracy theories and you might want to mess with mail-in voting. That’s all happening without him. Our president is doing that.”
— Charlie Sykes to The Guardian
Why Trump Has No Second-Term Agenda
“He has been so intensely focused on all of the implications of coronavirus and the economic problems that he frankly had not thought about it. He had a checklist and this came up in late August. You end up with only so much brain space and adrenaline and that is what happened.”
— Newt Gingrich, when asked by Politico why President Trump has not come up with a second term agenda.
Biden Has Wide Lead Among College Students
70% to 18%
A new Knight Foundation poll finds Joe Biden leads Donald Trump among college students by a stunning 52 percentage points, 70% to 18%. Despite Biden’s wide lead, just 49% of college students said they have a favorable impression of Biden, with 51% saying they had an unfavorable impression.
GOP Pollster Can’t Say What Republicans Believe
“You know I don’t have a history of dodging questions. But I don’t know how to answer that. There is no consistent philosophy, You can’t say it’s about making America great again at a time of Covid and economic distress and social unrest. It’s just not credible… That’s the best I can do.”
— GOP pollster Frank Luntz, quoted by Politico, when asked, “What do Republicans believe?”
No Post-Convention Bounce for Biden
9 points
A new Morning Consult poll finds in a post-convention poll, Joe Biden leads President Trump by 9 points among likely voters, 52% to 43%, compared with an 8-point margin earlier in the week. However, 51% of likely voters said they had a favorable view of Biden on Friday, a single-day record in the tracking poll.
27 Prominent Republicans, Including Jeff Flake, Announce They’ll Endorse Joe Biden
From Forbes: More than two dozen former Republican members of Congress officially announced on Monday, mere hours before the start of the Republican National Convention, that they are endorsing Joe Biden, who aims to build a wide-ranging coalition in hopes of defeating President Donald Trump in November.
