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Harris to Support Down-Ballot Races with $25 Million Cash Transfer

September 3, 2024September 3, 2024 Buck Banks

$25 million

“Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee plan to transfer nearly $25 million to support down-ballot Democratic candidates in state and federal races this year, a significant boost to those efforts following record fundraising for her campaign this summer,” the Washington Post reports.

Trump Media Stock Continues to Lose Value

September 3, 2024 Buck Banks

~$20

“Trump Media, the company majority-owned by former President Donald Trump, fell below $20 per share for the first time since the Truth Social maker started publicly trading,” CNBC reports. “Trump’s stake of DJT stock is still worth more than $2.2 billion — more than half of his on-paper net worth, according to Forbes.”

Harris Wants Live Mics at Debate, Mocks Trump

September 3, 2024 Buck Banks

“Donald Trump is surrendering to his advisors who won’t allow him to debate with a live microphone. If his own team doesn’t have confidence in him, the American people definitely can’t. We are running for President of the United States. Let’s debate in a transparent way—with the microphones on the whole time.”

— Kamala Harris taunted Donald Trump for insisting on muted microphones at their debate.

Harris Says She Wants a Republican in Her Cabinet

August 30, 2024 Buck Banks

“It’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences. And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”

— Kamala Harris told CNN that she would want a Republican in her Cabinet.

A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally among likely voters, 48% to 43%. “The findings reflect an eight-point turnaround in the presidential race from late June, when Trump had led President Joe Biden in the survey by nearly four points.”

U.S. Economic Growth Up Last Month

August 30, 2024 Buck Banks

3%

“The U.S. economy grew last quarter at a healthy 3% annual pace, fueled by strong consumer spending and business investment, the government said Thursday in an upgrade of its initial assessment,” the AP reports.

The Trump campaign got hacked in a weird plot twist,
So, the media said, “No news here,” and whiffed.
But the Iranian hackers
Knew who they were attackin’ —
And Roger Stone is just another senior sucker who got phished.

The Grifter-In-Chief Now Hawking NFTs, Slices of Debate Suit

August 29, 2024 Pensito Editors

The guys from the Bulwark deconstruct Donald Trump’s latest foray into selling worthless crap in this low-energy infomercial. Notice in the Trump commercial how his hair is purposefully blurred — weird.

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Carville on Turning the Page in American Politics

August 29, 2024 Buck Banks

“The most thunderous sound in all of American politics is the sound of a turning page.”

— James Carville, in an interview with the New Republic.

Latinas’ GDP Economic Impact Rivals Florida’s

August 29, 2024 Buck Banks

$1.3 trillion

Latinas contributed $1.3 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product in 2021, up from $661 billion in 2010 and at a growth rate nearly triple that of non-Latinos during the same time period, according to a new report funded by Bank of America and conducted by professors at California Lutheran University and UCLA.

$25 million

~$20

— Kamala Harris taunted Donald Trump for insisting on muted microphones at their debate.

“It’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences. And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”

— Kamala Harris told CNN that she would want a Republican in her Cabinet.

48% to 43%

A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally among likely voters, 48% to 43%. “The findings reflect an eight-point turnaround in the presidential race from late June, when Trump had led President Joe Biden in the survey by nearly four points.”

3%

“The U.S. economy grew last quarter at a healthy 3% annual pace, fueled by strong consumer spending and business investment, the government said Thursday in an upgrade of its initial assessment,” the AP reports.

“The most thunderous sound in all of American politics is the sound of a turning page.”

— James Carville, in an interview with the New Republic.

$1.3 trillion

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“The man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the people understand and know what he’s doing. He’s trying to stifle the ability of journalists to let the people of America know what’s really going on with their government.”

— “Kamala Harris called President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House ‘absolutely abhorrent,’” The Wrap reports.

“Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We’re led by grifters and fools.”

— Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, on X, on President Trump’s 35-person cabinet.

“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far… The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”

— Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), breaking with President Trump in a direct-to-camera video.

Numerati

1,000

10%

“The unprecedented spate of mid-decade redistricting for the U.S. House has changed the congressional districts for one-tenth of Americans and significantly altered the makeup of at least one-fifth of districts, according to a new study,” the Associated Press reports.

71%

$9.5 billion

“The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog,” CNN reports.

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.