The Presidential Conventions / Debates

When Will Joe Biden and Donald Trump's First Debate Take Place?
BY EMMA DIBDIN, JUL 28, 2020

The 2020 election will be unlike any other in history. With social distancing protocols now in effect across most of the country, likely to remain in place for weeks or even months, there's uncertainty surrounding every key element of the election process, from the conventions to voting processes to, of course, the debates.

There's a lot that's still unclear, but here's what we do know so far about Donald Trump and Joe Biden's first presidential debate.

The first debate will take place in September.

The Commission on Presidential Debates will host three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate later this year. As is tradition, the debates to be held at universities.

The first presidential debate, when the incumbent President Trump will face off against Joe Biden for the first time, was to be held on Tuesday, September 29 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. In late July, the institution withdrew from hosting due to concerns about the pandemic.

"I am grateful to the many members of the University community who have devoted countless hours planning this event, and to the Commission on Presidential Debates leadership for their professionalism and understanding," said Rev. John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, in a statement, per CNN. "But in the end, the constraints the coronavirus pandemic put on the event -- as understandable and necessary as they are -- have led us to withdraw."

The first debate will now be held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Similarly, the second presidential debate was expected to take place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday, October 15, but in June, they too withdrew from hosting the event due to health concerns amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

“It is with great disappointment that I must ask for the University of Michigan to be released from its agreement with the Commission on Presidential Debates to host the Presidential Debate on Oct. 15, 2020,” Michigan’s president, Mark Schlissel, said in a statement.

“In consideration of the public health guidelines in our state as well as advice from our own experts — we feel it is not feasible for us to safely host the presidential debate as planned.’’

The replacement location for the second debate is Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. The final debate is still set for Thursday, October 22 at Belmont University in Nashville.

Despite the changes in location, all three debates are expected to begin at 9 p.m. ET, and will run for 90 minutes without any commercial breaks. No moderators have been announced as yet.

The vice presidential debate will take place in October.

The first and only debate between VP Mike Pence and Biden's as-yet-unidentified running mate is set for Wednesday, October 7 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

The debates may look very different from the norm.

The final Democratic primary debate, which was held March 15 in the shadow of the snowballing pandemic, offered a preview of what we can likely expect from the presidential debate. The face-off between Biden and Sanders was held without a live audience, began with an elbow bump in lieu of a handshake, and saw the candidates' podiums carefully positioned six feet apart.

There is no way to know exactly how things will look by September–much depends on how the disease continues to unfold across the US, and how long social distancing measures are kept in place. Experts have already warned that the fall could bring a resurgence of the disease following a reduction of cases through the summer, which means September could be precisely the time more strict measures are required again.

Between the logistical challenges and the sheer political upheaval that several more months of COVID-19 will have caused, it's safe to assume this will be a presidential debate unlike any other.

Trump has sent mixed messages on the subject of whether he will debate Biden.

The New York Times reported late last year that Trump had raised doubts around the debate, stating that he did not trust the Commission on Presidential Debates–a nonpartisan entity. He later wrote on Twitter that though he wanted to debate the Democratic nominee, he was concerned that the Commission was "biased" against him. "I will make a decision at an appropriate time but in the meantime, the Commission on Presidential Debates is NOT authorized to speak for me."

More recently, though, Trump has indicated that he will debate his opponent. "Yeah, sure. I look forward to it, actually," he told reporters in February, when asked.

And in June, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale and Rudy Giuliana requested a fourth debate between Biden and Trump, which, if granted, would add one more to the schedule.

That said, given the President's history of inconsistent and self-contradictory messaging, there's no real way to know what he'll decide by the fall.

Kanye West Kicked Off Illinois Presidential Ballot After Submitting Invalid Signatures
Katrina Nattress, SPIN, August 8, 2020

Kanye West’s presidential campaign might have just received its largest blow. As Chicago Tribune reports, the rapper’s name may not appear on the ballot in his home state of Illinois. In order to put his hat in the ring as an Independent nominee, West needed to submit 2,500 written signatures from in-state voters by July 20. He filed 3,218; however, 1,928 were ruled invalid following a state elections board review. West also recently withdrew his petition to appear on the New Jersey ballot for similar reasons.

Ye’s lawyers have until August 21 to defend the disputed signatures with evidence, but according to Ed Mullen, one of the lawyers challenging West’s petition, the Chicago native “is virtually certain to be kicked off the [November 3] ballot.” As Consequence of Sound points out, without Illinois it would be mathematically impossible for West to obtain the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidential election.

Though he tweeted “THE GOAL IS TO WIN” on Thursday night, West essentially admitted that his objective was to hurt presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s chances at winning during an interview with Forbes.

“I’m not denying it; I just told you,” he said when asked. Ironically, though, polls have shown West’s inclusion taking votes away from President Trump after announcing his presidential bid on July 4th

Three more Republicans join Kasich to speak at Democratic National Convention in support of Joe Biden
Nicholas Wu,USA TODAY•August 17, 2020

WASHINGTON — Several Republicans are set to speak at the Democratic National Convention Monday evening in a show of bipartisan support for former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris.

Democrats announced the GOP lineup on the first day of their virtual convention, saying three former GOP elected officials would outline their party-switching support for Biden:

Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Former Rep. Susan Molinari, R-N.Y.

Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman

Silicon Valley CEO and one-time Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is also scheduled to address convention watchers.

The four Republicans will give remarks during a segment billed as "We The People Putting Country Over Party." They have all been openly critical of Trump. Whitman gave $500,000 to the Biden Victory Fund at the end of June, campaign finance records show.

Molinari, who was a keynote speaker at the 1996 Republican National Convention and served as a member of House GOP leadership, said in January she supported Michael Bloomberg for president, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. But the former New York City Mayor's bid did not gain traction, and she's now throwing her support to Biden.

Kasich is the highest-profile Republican in the Monday's line-up. But progressive activists have criticized Kasich's previously announced addition to the program, arguing his record as governor is incompatible with progressive priorities.

Temple wrote:

The Wise And Powerful wrote:

DNC Caught Seeming To Use Fake Fans During Convention for Kamala Harris' Speech

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Biden's gaffs:

BTW, Temple:

Temple wrote:

Daniel Dale
@ddale8
Biden campaign tells @KatieLobosco he misspoke when he said
"150 million" people have been killed since a Sanders vote in "2007"
(2005) to shield gunmakers from certain liability --
the campaign says he meant to refer to
*150,000*
people killed in firearm homicides since then.

((He boo boobed lol
"150 million" to be *150,000,,
just a mistake nothing earth shaking..

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Here are the CEOs and companies that support Trump...and Biden
Andy Serwer with Max Zahn,Yahoo Finance • August 22, 2020

As we take a breather between the Democratic National Convention (this week) and the Republican National Convention (next week), I thought it would be a good time to look into big business and the candidates, which executives and companies were supporting and donating to Trump, which to Biden and why.

(Newsflash: Only 72 days to the election!)

First, when it comes to money, “Trump is outraising Biden,” says Sarah Bryner, research director at the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks and analyzes money in politics. “Primarily his lead is in getting money from small donors. [But] Biden is outraising Trump in money from the financial sector,” and collecting a great deal of money from other businesses as well.

Which is unusual, (like everything else in this election) because generally speaking CEOs and their ilk are favorably inclined to support Republican candidates, (particularly incumbent Republicans). According to a recent research paper put out by the National Bureau of Economic Research, 57.7% of large company CEOs consistently donated to Republicans, while only 18.6% donated to Democrats, with the rest leaning toward neither party.

However, Trump is no ordinary Republican, these are not ordinary times, plus Biden is hardly a Molotov-cocktail-throwing socialist.

In fact, Trump has seen his support amongst business leaders decline at least in terms of big donations. Why? It’s not so much his economic policies—deregulation, tax cuts and even bashing China—which many business leaders find most palatable—so much as it is his affinity for, or at the very least his refusal to disavow, the radical right, conspiracists and racist elements, coupled actions of his cronies and his personal style that businesspeople find off putting. Even Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, Trump’s biggest supporter on Wall Street, said according to the New York Times that Trump’s negotiating style was sometimes “quite difficult to watch.” (Privately Schwarzman is said to be a bit less complimentary.)

“In a typical year, a CEO and senior executive might look at the corporate tax rate in 2014 compared to 2019, and say that’s important,” says Paul Thornell, former managing director for federal government affairs at Citigroup, who is now a principal at the lobbying firm Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas. “[But] Trump has been such a disaster on so many levels — international relationships, how he demeaned various races and ethnicities, how he conducts business — it affects how they manage their enterprise, people, and brand.

“The president isn’t going to get nothing,” Thornell says. But when it comes to executives, he could have had more.

Having said that, let’s take a look at some of the president’s business supporters:

Trump and the GOP are still taking in big money from the likes of Schwarzman, Timothy Mellon, heir to the Mellon banking fortune, Linda McMahon, the former pro wrestling executive, and Geoffrey Palmer, a polo-playing, Beverly Hills-based real estate magnate, as well as Marvel Entertainment’s Isaac Perlmutter and Oracle CEO Safra Catz, according to Reuters. (Catz and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison—who held a fundraiser for the president in February—are a rare island of support for Trump in Silicon Valley. The software giant has a long history of working with the U.S government.) Trump and the GOP also still have support of dozens of ultra-wealthy Americans such as Charles Schwab, Paul Singer of Elliot Management and Warren Stephens of Arkansas’ Stephens Inc., according to NPR.

Forbes reports that Trump has picked up some support from the 1% of the 1% including: Bernard Marcus (co-founder of Home Depot), Rodger Riney (founder of Scottrade), and Mississippi’s Thomas Duff (tires, diversified.) Also supporting the president this go-round are NYSE chief Jeffrey Sprecher and his wife Kelly Loeffler, who happens to be running for Senate from Georgia, as well as Robert Wood Johnson IV, of the J&J fortune and the U.S. ambassador to Britain (“Woody’ as he’s known, was recently found to have “sometimes made inappropriate or insensitive comments on topics generally considered Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)-sensitive, such as religion, sex, or color,” according to the State Department’s Office of Inspector General.)

Two Saturdays ago billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson, who made much of his fortune betting against the U.S. housing market heading into the 2008/2009 financial crisis, held a fundraiser for Trump at his swanky Southampton home. The 50 or so guests, (the list has not been reported), paid half a million bucks for the privilege.

The thinking by a New Yorker like Paulson, whose father immigrated from Ecuador and whose mother’s parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe (Paulson’s wife emigrated from Romania as well), must go something like this: ‘Hey I made $100 million from my hedge fund last year, but if Biden were president I would only make $88 million. And by the way all American businesses benefit this way.’

But maybe there’s more to it, at least in Paulson’s case. Three years ago, Paulson and his wife wrote a letter to the elite Spence school in NYC, where the couple’s daughters were enrolled to complain about what they claimed was an “alarming pattern” of “anti-white indoctrination” in its curriculum,” according to the New York Post. (Excerpts from the letter make for interesting reading.) The couple threatened to withhold funding.

All of us have our reasons for supporting one politician or the other. Billionaires too.

Still, Wall Street may be turning for Biden. “It’s a naturally Republcan-leaning industry, but this Republican party isn’t the one they grew up in,” says Karen Petrou, a managing partner at Federal Financial Analytics, which consults with bank executives on policy. “[Wall Street is] socially liberal and economically conservative and the Trump administration has been the flip side of that.”

In fact, Biden seems to be outpacing the president when it comes to wealthy business people. (Forbes reports that “Biden Pulls Away In Race For Billionaire Donors, With 131 To Trump’s 99.”) And why not? Biden is very much a known quantity, (vice president for eight years, senator for 36), who, while somewhat friendly to labor unions, hasn’t crusaded against big business and in fact has been cozy with commercial interests, in particular credit card companies in his home state of Delaware.

Left-wing CEOs are a new thing

Now, let’s check out who’s supporting Joe Biden and the Democrats:

Yes there are some usual suspects like Penny Pritzker, George Soros, Thomas Steyer (former candidate himself of course) and Steven Spielberg.

But Biden has been raking it in more recently from the likes of: Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga); Barry Diller (IAC chairman); Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook co-founder); Sean Parker (early Facebook employee); Jeff Skoll (former president of eBay);  Michelle Yee, wife of Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn); Evan Williams (Twitter co-founder); Nicole Systrom, wife of Kevin Systrom (co-founder of Instagram), Gary and Laura Lauder (of the Estee Lauder family); Jim Coulter (of private equity firm TPG)  and Nicole Shanahan, wife of Sergey Brin (co-founder of Google.)

A few other interesting donors include Arthur Blank of Home Depot, (note that his co-founder Bernie Marcus supports Trump.) Also James Simons, founder of the giant hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, whose former lieutenant, Robert Mercer, famously gave large sums to Trump, backed Cambridge Analytica and partnered with the recently arrested Steve Bannon.

Rupert Murdoch’s son James also gave to the Dems and so did Jon Gray, the COO of Blackstone, countering his boss’s (Schwarzman) donations to Trump. Jacqueline Mars, heiress to Mars family fortune, historically a pretty conservative bunch, gave to the Democratic super PAC. So reportedly did Reed Hastings of Netflix, Mellody Hobson of Ariel Investments and Laurene Powell Jobs.

These businesspeople may support Biden because they truck with liberal causes, or because they don’t like Trump, or because, hey, they like Joe and Kamala Harris. But some of them may be supporting Biden for the oldest reason in the book—because they think he’s going to win.

In fact, when it comes to the recently soaring stock market, some have suggested that it isn’t a rally based on Trump’s policies so much as it is a move up based on the prospect of Biden winning. “We certainly have seen a series of polls that point toward a Biden lead,” says Ed Mills, Washington policy analyst with Raymond James. “And we have seen the market do quite well in the face of a potential Biden administration, which leads me to believe a big part of what the market is trading off of is the continuation of fiscal support, which a Biden administration, especially a Democratic sweep, is most likely to deliver.”

The Democrats need to be careful though, as big money could cut both ways. Yes, fat checks from fat cats help fund the campaign, but shhhh, don’t tell Bernie Sanders and his supporters whom Biden really needs to turn out on November 3rd. Trump too, may not want to advertise his Wall Street support in front of his base. Truth be told, it’s always been a deal with the devil for both parties when it comes to big money, especially from Wall Street.

It's worth noting that this species of left-wing CEOs is a new, new thing. Back when I was growing up in the 1960s and ‘70s, CEOs were all Republicans. A few relatively progressive ones were Rockefeller Republicans (like David Rockefeller, CEO of Chase Manhattan, himself.) There were also some fringey, to-the-right-of-Atilla-the-Hun types, (how Joe Coors was described by his brother), but mostly CEOs were moderate Business Roundtable, Taft Republicans.

What about the Democrats? How did they get their money? There was some from Hollywood and a bit of quiet dollars from Wall Street too. But the power and money for the party came mostly from organized labor like the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters and the United Mine Workers.

It was really the birth of Silicon Valley that upended the status quo. All of a sudden, an iconoclast like Steve Jobs could create a huge company and accumulate massive wealth and power for himself along the way. This startup to giant company phenomena ushered in a new wave of ‘think different,’ left-leaning CEOs, like Job’s successor, Tim Cook, who now runs the most valuable company on the planet. Leaving aside a few lefty companies like Patagonia (private) and Ben & Jerry’s (owned by Unilever), the idea that someone like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, leading a Fortune 200 company, could conceivably have a sit-down with someone like AOC and find common ground would have been unthinkable 25 years ago. (And of course employees at Silicon Valley companies firms tend to be decidedly liberal, though less so at Qualcomm and the aforementioned Oracle.)

Today, there are more liberal CEOs than ever, as evidenced in a story from a few years ago by Yahoo Finance’s Rick Newman on liberal politics of CEOs. Companies are now measured or ranked by ESG (environmental social, and governance factors), and some studies show them outperforming the indexes. Social awareness by CEOs seems to be rising as well. “Business executives seem to have a heightened focus on reputation and brand management,” says Thornell of the lobbying firm Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas. “The George Floyd killing—and a lot of global unrest and protests—have magnified that.”

Still politics will always be tricky stuff for big companies. I remember Paul Allaire, former CEO of Xerox, who was known as a Democrat back in the 1990s, (which believe it or not was kind of noteworthy.) Ultimately it didn’t seem to affect the well-being of the company though, as over time Xerox failed to keep pace with technological change.

And of course some companies have a reputation as being conservative,  such as Hobby Lobby, Cabela’s and Sheetz. Exxon Mobil too, has always been known as a conservative, but same as Xerox, politics didn’t help that company either as the global oil glut has bashed the stock. And then just this week, Goodyear stepped into it, when the company was called out for making a distinction between Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter.

In the end it might not be about politics, it might be about values says Penny Pennington, the managing partner of financial services company Edward Jones Investments. Her company—which in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd committed to analyze possible pay differential along racial lines and pledged to make a “meaningful increase” in diversity among its financial advisors and senior leadership—serves 7 million American families and as such, taking political stands are difficult to execute. “I really prefer to talk about ideals, values and principles,” Pennington says. “We’re coming at it from a standpoint of ideals that for us are rooted in humanity and relationship and trust.” Makes sense.

It’s also instructive to watch Walmart, with its 1.5 million U.S. employees and more than 150 million weekly U.S. customers. CEO Doug McMillon has a tough remit here. Does a company that size lead or follow? McMillon gave his take in a recent Wall Street Journal article:

“‘There is not a part of me that says, ‘That’s political. I’d love to get involved in that,’ ” he said. But “society expects things of leading companies and sometimes we should take a stance on something.’ Some public statements are ‘easier for us,’ he added, such as supporting environmental sustainability and military veterans, but ‘on social issues it gets tougher,’ he said. ‘Ideally we wouldn’t lead on very many things.’”

But carefully, when it comes to gay rights, guns and racial equality, McMillon has distanced Walmart slightly from President Trump and his base, where before it would have at the very least been silent.

Walmart is not alone. Investingwatchdog.com provides conservatives with “the definitive list of liberal, progressive and/or anti-Trump companies that you should boycott.” (These are big companies mind you, not mom and pops.) The list now extends to scores of companies including Walmart and companies typically considered conservative like Chick-fil-A and Papa John’s. “You may find it impractical to boycott all of these companies,” the site acknowledges, “but just keep in mind that there are ways to partially boycott a company (example: Not buying food/drinks, uniforms if you attend NFL games).”

The list is getting longer. At some point www.Investingwatchdog.com may want to flip the script and start a definitive list of companies that you should not boycott. It would be shorter.

All In The Family: Half Of RNC's Planned 'Key Speakers' Are Trumps. Twitter Implodes.
Mary Papenfuss, HuffPost, August 23, 2020

Half of the 12 “key speakers” planned for the Republican National Convention will be Trumps, Fox News revealed Saturday.

Twitter critics went bonkers.



Donald Trump — along with Donald Trump Jr., and Melania, Ivanka, Eric and likely Tiffany Trump — were all listed as main speakers at the big event that begins Monday, other media reported as well — though the schedule was still being finalized over the weekend.

Adding to the family ranks will be Vice President Mike Pence, House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.

Ironically, McCarthy earlier this year blasted Joe Biden for nepotism because son Hunter Biden worked for a Ukrainian energy company when Biden was vice president. But everything he ranted about could be applied to each of Trump’s adult children.

Trump Campaign Releases List of Convention Speakers; President Scheduled to Speak Every Night
Posted at 4:00 pm on August 23, 2020 by Mike Miller

The Trump Campaign on Sunday released the list of scheduled speakers for this week’s Republican National Convention. Among those speaking on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday will be Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump.

Donald Trump. All four nights. Democrat heads explode in 3… 2… 1…

“You’ll have President Trump speaking at various parts for each of the nights,” Trump campaign chief spokesman Jason Miller told “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd.

While the news of Trump speaking every night will undoubtedly be well received by his supporters, the Trump Derangement Syndrome crowd will all but howl at the moon over the news — but the TDS crowd pretty much howls at the moon 24×7 over all things Trump, so there’s that.

Among the scheduled speakers:

First Lady Melania Trump, the president’s children: Ivanka, Tiffany, Donald Jr., Eric — and Eric’s wife Lara Trump, as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

On of the primary objectives of the 2020 Republican convention will be exactly the same as one of the primary objectives in 2016:

Demonstrate that Trump is not the (pick one, or more): “racist,” “Islamophobic,” “homophobic,” “xenophobic,” “misogynistic,” “megalomaniacal” “buffoon” the Democrat Party and liberal media work so hard to convince America he is — and worse.

Miller told Todd the convention will also focus on dispelling the myth created by the media of what a Trump supporter “looks like.” (See: “Hillary,” “basket of deplorables.”)

“One of the things you’re going to see this week is a complete change in the perception that I believe that the media tries to tell about what a Trump supporter looks like or who a Trump supporter is we’re going to talk about the American story.”

Miller also suggested there will be “breakout stars” who might surprise some people with their support of the president.

“We are going to see a great uplifting message from the president and from our allies, and Chuck when I tell you some of these stories that you hear they’re going to be some breakout stars, some people that you would not expect to be supporters of the President, and it’s going to tell a very beautiful story.”

While Trump will deliver his acceptance speech on Thursday from the White House South Lawn — which nearly sent Nancy Pelosi into an apoplectic fit when she found out — the final night of the convention, he is scheduled to speak each night at 10:00 EST.

Here’s a complete list of scheduled speakers:

Monday

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, R-La.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio
Former Ambassador Nikki Haley
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones
Amy Johnson Ford
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Natalie Harp
Charlie Kirk
Kim Klacik
Mark and Patricia McCloskey
Sean Parnell
Andrew Pollack
Donald Trump, Jr.
Tanya Weinreis

Tuesday

First Lady Melania Trump
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds
Florida Lieutenant Gov. Jeanette Nuñez
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi
Abby Johnson
Jason Joyce
Myron Lizer
Mary Ann Mendoza
Megan Pauley
Cris Peterson
John Peterson
Nicholas Sandmann
Eric Trump
Tiffany Trump

Wednesday

Vice President Mike Pence
Second Lady Karen Pence
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.
Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y.
Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell
Kellyanne Conway
Keith Kellogg
Jack Brewer
Sister Dede Byrne
Madison Cawthorn
Scott Dane
Clarence Henderson
Ryan Holets
Michael McHale
Burgess Owens
Lara Trump

Thursday

President Donald J. Trump
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J.
Ivanka Trump
Ja’Ron Smith
Ann Dorn
Debbie Flood
Rudy Giuliani
Franklin Graham
Alice Johnson
Wade Mayfield
Carl and Marsha Mueller
Dana White

No doubt CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, and every other liberal news outlet in the country will find something over which to rip Trump and the Republicans, every night of the convention, but as Trump reminded Time magazine’s Washington bureau chief in 2017:

“I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not.”

And that is precisely why the Democrat Party and its media sock puppets will spend the next four days ripping Trump even more than they normally do: he’s president, and they’re not.

The reality is, liberals have never been able to wrap their elitist heads around the fact that the “bloviating reality TV host” beat the “most qualified person in modern history to run for president” in 2016.

How grand would be if Trump does it to them, all over again?

They counted him out in 2016, and while they think they have him on the ropes in 2020, still — in that part of your brain you don’t like to visit in the middle of the night — they’re afraid he’s going to do it again.

BWAHAA WHAT HOLY FUK!! BWAA!
SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF A DOG..
tHE SHE BANCHIE SCREEMS..
WTF!

Temple wrote:

Convention; Quite a string of fact-checks here
WATCH..!! LIES!!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1298827779744636928

Fact checkers LOL