Biden Faces Republican Claims Spending Bill Is Packed With Pork; Federal Coronavirus Spending Nears $42,000 Per Taxpayer; Treasury Yields Continue Rising

Biden faces Republican claims spending bill is packed with pork+ The White House’s planned victory lap celebrating the passage of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus pandemic spending package comes with plenty of political risks, Republicans warn. Republicans argue that Biden’s popular spending …

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Trump is the first Republican president I can think of since Reagan who has made a point of aggressively courting core Democrat voters.

WELL, GOOD: Trump, RNC Courting African-American Voters Ahead of 2020. The Republican National Committee is making a concerted effort to court African-American voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The decision reflects a growing list of accomplishments President Donald Trump can …

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Republican Party Transition

by Dave Well, this may shock you, but Tucker Carlson is actually doing a fairly decent job of this.  Not every time, and not for every show, but it is definitely a theme. Here’s a particularly good show.  He sounds …

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Ayres calls it “maybe the most Republican-leaning map of our lifetimes.”

Midterms: Senate slipping away as Democrats fight to preserve blue wave Surging Republican enthusiasm led by President Trump’s non-stop campaigning is likely to cost Democrats the Senate and may cost them the House, too.     https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/midterms-senate-slipping-away-as-democrats-fight-to-preserve-blue-wave/71-607411838   h/t Jake

First look at early voting shows Republican turnout is much better than democrats overall.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-outpacing-democrats-early-voting-key-states-nbc-news-finds-n922881 Early Voting Results Have Republicans Leading In Key States NBC News Data presents an analysis completed by TargetSmart showing key states and the registered affiliations of early voters. Within the analysis Republican voters are leading Democrats in all states …

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