Wednesday was a horrible day in the history of the pandemic. The U.S. reported 51,097 confirmed new COVID cases. Then Thursday was even worse-- 57,236 new cases. 131,544 Americans have died and of the current cases, 15,907 are serious or critical enough to know that the death rate is likely to go way up.
Two COVID records for one-day case increases were broken Wednesday: the U.S. hit its highest number ever-- 51,097, it's first day over 50,000 (although yesterday that mark was topped again, this time with 57,236 new cases)-- and Texas increased by 8,240 cases, more than any country in the world other than the U.S., Brazil or India. Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and Lt. Gov.
The picture John Harwood painted of the incompetent, traitorous boob in the Oval Office for CNN over the weekend wasn't attractive: impulsive, self-destructive and self-defeating. These traits help explain how he's driven U.S. pandemic response into a ditch where thousands of Americans will needlessly die. As of Sunday, the U.S.
Tuesday evening, J.D. Scholten was the first guest on Marianne's week long down-ballot progressive summit. (Tonight, Hector Oseguera will be on with Marianne; here's the schedule.) Tuesday, while J.D. and Marianne were chatting, Iowans were voting in their primaries. J.D. wasn't challenged so, no drama there. But his opponent, GOP neo-fascist and arch-racist-- largely disowned by the DC Republican establishment-- Steve King had 4 primary opponents.
Harry Enten, writing for CNN, has been widely quoted over the weekend saying that a new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows "Biden clearly ahead" of the Orange Menace-- double digits, 53% to 43% among registered voters.
Yesterday, The Nation published a piece by Jeet Heer, Mitch McConnell Is Even Worse Than Trump, which notes that both are now basically AWOL is the pandemic crisis. While Trump spends his days "stirring up culture-war controversies with the media and Democrats as a way to move the discussion beyond the pandemic and the economic crisis. A distraction strategy makes sense because Trump has effectively given up on crafting any serious policy response to the pandemic.
What Campaign? by Nancy OhanianThis morning, Washington Post reporters Meg Kelly and Elyse Samuels, did a blockbuster report about how, Trump is creating an alternative reality online about coronavirus.
-by Harvey WassermanVote by Mail will decide the 2020 election. Trump and 50,000 of his armed backers will try to say otherwise.But VBM could turn us forever from hackable touch screens to paper ballots.
One of the Trumpanzee orders last week that caused a stir was his transparent ploy to kiss up to his increasingly shaky evangelic base. But even religious leaders have told him to slow down.
