Dems Have Come Out Of The Box Strong, Spanberger Up 12, Trump Disappears (Again), New Conversations W/Gavin Newsom, Rep. Adam Smith, Randi Weingarten, And More......We've had a good week. Let's make next week even better.....Morning all. This was another intense week, and I think it was a good one, an important one for us…… Leaders Schumer and Jeffries made the decision to challenge Trump on his budget, and based on what we’ve seen this week it was the right call. Polls show Dems winning the early big arguments on the shutdown and on the need to restore the cuts to health care and mitigate the damage Republicans are doing to our health care system. It is clear now that Republicans did not anticipate Dems challenging them, were not prepared for the fight we are now in, and have been all over the place this week. Trump’s public remarks and postings this week have been without question the most unhinged and untethered of his 2nd term. SPINELESS MAGA Mike Johnson has responded to the crisis they’ve created with panicky cowardice in sending his Members home (again). Senate Leader Thune is refusing to even meet with Senator Schumer for their insane (early, wobbly, unsustainable) stance is that they will not negotiate with Democrats at all. The fanatic Russell Vought impulsively, recklessly took actions that did clear damage to Republican candidates running in New Jersey and Virginia this fall. Here is what every Republican political operative in DC saw on the front page of the Washington Post yesterday……it is as ugly as it gets:
4 days into shutdown it is clear Republicans were not ready for the fight, and now have to go into a sustained battle with us with a very unpopular, unstable and ailing leader; defending an incredibly unpopular and frankly indefensible agenda; with extraordinary internal divisions in their own coalition; and an opposition that is unified with a strong narrative and galvanizing sense of purpose. It also must be noted that at moment of crisis both for the county and his own party Trump disappeared from public view these last three days, without explanation. This is now the second time this has happened in the last six weeks.
To get a sense of how ready Democrats are for this fight dive into…..
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For this morning, from where I sit, we are in fight with Trump and MAGA that all of us have wanted to have. We are coming out of the box strong, and united. Trump and the Republicans have been disorganized, unprepared, unsteady, unhinged, and have, through their spirited defense of the savaging of our health care and their imperial and authoritarian response to Democrats just wanting to sit and talk, confirmed our core narrative - that they are on the side of oligarchs, not the American people; and are betraying the American project through their escalating embrace of authoritarianism and illiberalism.
Let us close out today with these powerful words from Dr. Timothy Snyder:
This fight we are now in is a righteous one, a patriotic one, a necessary one and one we must now dedicate ourselves to winning, together……..
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