When I say "MSNBC," I don't mean Chris Hayes and Ali Velshi. I mean talking empty heads, like the blond lady, in the video above. They asked Jonathan Swan what the biggest story of the day is and he started answering that it was a story about "Bernie Sanders' sweeping vision to transform nearly every aspect of American life" in a way that hasn't been done since FDR.
I had dinner with a member of Pelosi's leadership team this week to talk about 2020 House candidates. Who was the first candidate the Member wanted to talk about? Audrey Denney. So I had a real shock ready. Chico, up in Butte County, isn't exactly a bustling metropolis. The population is about 94,776, not exactly the kind of place presidential candidates are flocking to. But it's the biggest city in CA-01, the predominantly rural northeast California congressional district where Denney is running to replace Trump enabler Doug LaMalfa.
Democratic primary voters, if you love your country, do NOT do it to us againYou know, it doesn't really matter-- in terms of electability-- that Status Quo Joe is popular in South Carolina or Mississippi or any other red hell-hole where the electorate is so conservative that Democrats have ZERO chance in 2020.
The Chosen One by Nancy OhanianIf he ever really was, Trump isn't popular in the Midwest ant longer. According to Morning Consult's state approval stats, the bulk of the region's electoral votes are likely to flow to his Democratic opponent. He's underwater in all of the big states but deep red Indiana and Missouri.
G. Elliott Morris, a data journalist for The Economist who covers their polls, wrote that the new national polling of the Democrats' primary elections in 2020 from YouGov shows some significant movement in the last month-- primarily away from Biden and towards Bernie. In parentheses are the changes among Democratic primary voters from last month:
Seth Moulton represents Massachusetts' comfortably blue 6th district in the northeast corner of the state. Even as weak a candidate as Hillary was able to beat Trump there 56.1% to 38.2%. The district starts in the suburbs north of Boston-- Saugus and Lynn-- goes as far west as Billerica and Tewksbury and north through Salem, Ipswich and Newbury to the border with New Hampshire.
Bipartisanship by Nancy OhanianThe poll NBC and the Wall Street Journal released yesterday measured "feelings" towards several politicians. One thing that is super-clear is that Trump's in big trouble. The American voting public doesn't think, at this moment at least, that he deserves a second term.
Saturday night, Status Quo Joe was doing the kind of campaigning he does, talking to well-off people at a fundraiser. This was was on Cape Cod. "There’s an awful lot of really good Republicans out there," he told his base. "I get in trouble for saying that with Democrats, but... every time we ever got in trouble with our administration, remember who got sent up to Capitol Hill to fix it? Me.
When Glenn Thrush reported that Obama tried talking an increasingly less alert Biden out of jumping into the race for the Democratic nomination fearing his former VP could "damage his legacy," I wondered whose legacy that "his" referred to, Biden's or Obama's. "You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t," Obama told him.
