DL Open Thread: Monday, July 6, 2020

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Border Wall To Keep Americans From Infecting Mexicans?  Finally, a justification for Mexico paying for that wall.  To keep Americans out.

The Toxic Swamp Comprised Of Lobbyists And Trump Administration Officials.  Great reporting from the NYTimes.

Trump’s Race-Baiting Strategy: Changing The Subject On Steroids.  Having completely defaulted on fighting the coronavirus,  Trump has landed on a message he is most comfortable with. A racist always returns to his racist roots.

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Will Not Be Built!  Read the poor beleaguered utility cry crocodile tears in this press release.

Keep Track Of The Trump Golf Count!  More accurate than the Johns Hopkins Covid Charts!  At least 258 individual rounds, $136 million cost to the taxpayers!  And counting!

Swing States Trending Blue.  It was one thing when Trump refused to help blue states during the pandemic, but his abject surrender on the virus have put red states in play.

GOP Senate Hopes Slide.  The trend is our friend. 

What do you want to talk about?

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  1. jason330 says:
    July 6, 2020 at 8:24 am

    “Recent polls have shown Trump trailing Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in battleground states like Florida and Arizona. A set of Fox News polls taken late last month also found Trump and Biden virtually tied in Texas and Georgia,”

    As someone who doesn’t “live in the moment” very well, this story has be bracing for a flood of “comeback kid” stories about Trump “finding his voice” and “making it a race”. It is predictable because we’ve been through it so many times with our lazy media.

  2. Alby says:
    July 6, 2020 at 10:09 am

    From WaPo, on the White House approach to dealing (or not) with COVID-19:

    Trump’s advisers, by contrast, are seeking ways to reframe his response to the coronavirus — even as the president himself largely seeks to avoid the topic because he views it as a political loser. They are sending health officials to swing states, putting doctors on TV in regional markets where the virus is surging, crafting messages on an economic recovery and writing talking points for allies to deliver to potential voters.

    The goal is to convince Americans that they can live with the virus — that schools should reopen, professional sports should return, a vaccine is likely to arrive by the end of the year and the economy will continue to improve.

    White House officials also hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day, according to three people familiar with the White House’s thinking, who requested anonymity to reveal internal deliberations. Americans will “live with the virus being a threat,” in the words of one of those people, a senior administration official.

  3. bamboozer says:
    July 6, 2020 at 12:38 pm

    Good luck convincing people “we can live with the virus”, especially old farts like me. Expected the bars and restaurants to be packed, limited openings or not, they are anything but. People remain scared and rightly so. Keeping mask on and keeping my distance. Did work a gig on the fourth but it was outside.

  4. jason330 says:
    July 6, 2020 at 1:35 pm

    I hate to rain on someone’s Senate parade, but we’d need to beat Martha McSally (AZ) Cory Gardner (CO), Susan Collins (ME) and Thom Tillis (NC) just to get to 50/50 split. I mean, it is nice that all of those seats are in play, but winning all four is the longest of long shots.

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