MUST WATCH! Bernie and Liz Cheney DROP Unexpected BOMBSHELL On Trump

 

BERNIE SANDERS MAKES IT CLEAR! 

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A Growing Coalition of Americans

Dick and Liz Cheney's endorsement of Kamala Harris is a welcome sign that more and more Americans are recognizing what's at stake in this election

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This Week co-anchor Jonathan Karl addressing the new Harris endorsements. (Video screenshot)

There’s something happening in America. Yes, the polls show a tight race, far too tight for comfort. It remains disconcerting to realize there are many tens of millions of Americans who witnessed the violent Jan. 6 insurrection and have since heard the GOP nominee and convicted felon plot to be a dictator on day one, threaten to terminate the Constitution, tell Christian supporters that this will be the last election requiring their vote, degrade women who make up half of the voting public—and still respond with an enthusiastic commitment to returning him to power.

But in a remarkable moment for our country, we are witnessing an emerging coalition of Americans—including a growing number of Republicans—who recognize the danger that Donald Trump represents and are not just voicing their criticism but endorsing the Democratic nominee. In what world would I have expected to praise former Vice President Dick Cheney and his decision to put country over party and publicly support a progressive Democrat?

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Dick Cheney said in a statement Friday. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.”

Cheney then added, “As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.”

This followed the decision of his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, who also endorsed Harris last week. (In case you missed it, over 200 other prominent Republicans have done so in the last two weeks.)

“As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris,” she said last Wednesday, adding, “I don’t believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names, particularly in swing states.”

Add to this the particularly strong words of Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Republican, at the Democratic National Convention several weeks ago: “These days our party acts more like a cult, a cult worshiping a felonious thug…Let me be clear to my Republican friends at home,” Duncan said, staring straight into the television camera. “If you vote for Kamala Harris in 2024, you’re not a Democrat, you’re a patriot.”

From Kamala Harris’ views on abortion and women’s reproductive rights to her overall rejection of a conservative Supreme Court supermajority’s activist agenda—to name just two—it’s obvious that the Cheneys and many other Republicans possess vastly different policy positions involving the role of government and the range of democratic freedoms. But in this extraordinary moment, they understand that the survival of democracy, the Constitution and the rule of law requires them to stand up against the threat that is Trump.

Inevitably and understandably, some Democratic critics of Dick Cheney say there’s no room for someone like him in this overwhelmingly Democratic coalition. But I think they’re sorely missing the point.

You don’t have to like him. You don’t have to agree with him. You don’t have to abandon your belief that he is a war criminal who trashed the Geneva Convention, backed torture and lied to justify the murderous war in Iraq. What we all should do is think pragmatically about how Democrats can leverage a platform like his to expand the coalition.

This is a time to welcome any and all Americans, especially influential ones, no matter how strange or controversial bedfellows they may be, to ensure that Trump never sets foot in our White House again. As VP Harris told reporters over the weekend in Pittsburgh, “It’s time to turn the page on the divisiveness. It’s time to bring our country together, chart a new way forward.”

While it remains to be seen how many Republicans or Republican-leaning Independents can be swayed, count me among those who particularly appreciate Liz Cheney’s criticism of many Republicans who say they won’t vote for Trump, but are refusing thus far to support Harris. “That’s not enough,” she told This Week co-anchor Jonathan Karl yesterday, describing the possible election of Trump as an “unrecoverable catastrophe.” She insisted that “we have to do everything possible to ensure that he's not reelected.”

Over these next two months, I cannot predict who else will join this historic coalition. We do know that former President George W. Bush is not one of them. His office told NBC News on Saturday that he would not be making any endorsement, adding weakly, “President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago."

This is no time for neutrality, indifference or business as usual in politics. George Bush dishonors the office by refusing to speak out and stand up for the one candidate who is committed to the peaceful transfer of power and the survival of democracy. History will not forget the names of all those who are choosing to aid and abet a campaign that can lead to “unrecoverable catastrophe” and who clearly understand that there are higher purposes in American politics than partisanship.

Perhaps a successful performance by Harris in Tuesday night’s debate that vividly exposes the danger of electing Trump will move other Republicans to speak up. But many everyday Americans—not absorbed by politics—will miss this showdown.

It remains the duty of each of us to ask anyone and everyone that we meet between now and Nov. 5 who they plan to vote for. You just might find that you can sway the decision of someone who, remarkably, is just gaining awareness of who’s running and what kind of future each candidate is promising.

Trump SNAPS In MELTDOWN Over Dick Cheney Endorsing Kamala

 

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Poorly educated Americans linked to their disinformation, much of which was clearly propaganda. There are too many who benefit from promoting LIES & HATE as the consequences of ISLAMOPHOBIA prove: Refusing to call out Islamophobia has emboldened the Far Right – and Britain’s current Violence is the Result https://www.juancole.com/2024/08/refusing-islamophobia-emboldened.html

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Convicted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stayed up tonight to throw an unhinged hissy fit over former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris over him earlier today. Clearly, Cheney got under his skin…

 

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Just a quick note from me tonight—I’ve been in Austin for the amazing Texas Tribune Festival, a celebration of non-profit journalism where thousands of people get together for three days of fascinating panels. You may have heard a little bit about it—Liz Cheney announced her Dad was voting for Kamala Harris here earlier this week!

I had the great good fortune to be here with this amazing crew of friends for a panel called Donald Trump versus the Department of Justice, with my friends Katie Phang from MSNBC, Katie Benner from the New York Times, Hugo Lowell from the Guardian, and former FBI Agent Frank Figliuzzi. And Preet Bharara and I taped an episode of our Insider podcast with the Atlantic’s Editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, which was fun, but also frightening. Talk about what a Trump 2.0 administration would look like is a stark reminder of the gravity of the moment we are living in.

See you tomorrow night with The Week Ahead edition of Civil Discourse.

We’re in this together,

Joyce

Cheney’s Vote & Russia’s MAGA Ring

 

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Trump Hates Being Called Weird, Dick Cheney Voting for Kamala & Are We Better Off Than 4 Years Ago?

 

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POLITICO Nightly: Where MAGA and Kamala-nomics converge

 

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Former President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign event at Alro Steel in Potterville, Mich. on Aug. 29. | Paul Sancya/AP

MORE ALIKE THAN DIFFERENT — Beneath the increasingly ugly campaign rhetoric, the two parties are converging on a critical issue — industrial policy — in a key Midwestern state. They’re all loath to admit it 60 days out from election day, but when it comes to supporting factories in Michigan, their pitches are starting to sound surprisingly similar. The Biden/Harris administration has bet that reviving American manufacturing — through hefty subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS Act — will help it rebuild the Midwestern Blue Wall that Donald Trump toppled in 2016 with his populist economic rhetoric. In Michigan, the Democratic Senate nominee, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, is making that the center of her pitch to voters, consistently repeating the line that Michigan has 44 new factories under construction today, after decades of industrial decline. Whether those overtures register with Midwestern voters — many of whom remain dubious of the law — remains to be seen. But Trump’s economic advisers have clearly taken notice. Even as they vilify other aspects of Democrats’ economic policies, some key figures are quietly considering keeping at least some of the Biden/Harris industrial policies around. ???? TRUMP spoke at the ECONOMIC FORUM & PROMISED PUNISHING TARIFFS ON IMPORTED GOODS TO FUND GOVERNMENT - CONSUMERS WOULD PAY THOSE TARIFFS.  THE IRA brought back AMERICAN MANUFACTURING TO CREATE GOOD PAYING JOBS FOR AMERICANS THAT REPUBLICANS HATE & OPPOSED THIS IS REPUBLICANS LIES & DOUBLESPEAK! AMERICA SHOULD NOT BE HELD HOSTAGE TO FOREIGN IMPORTS....REPUBLICANS DISAGREE!   Lawrence: New York's stupidest rich people clapped after Trump said 'child care is child care' On Thursday, Trump’s former trade chief Robert Lighthizer gave the latest indication, telling reporters that a second Trump administration would consider keeping “certain parts” of the IRA in place — even if the “general” position of Republicans would be to push for a repeal for most of the law. It’s something Lighthizer’s advisers and protectionist elements in the GOP have been whispering for months around Washington. And it makes sense, since the IRA has flooded red states with funding and new manufacturing projects — leading some GOP lawmakers to awkwardly attend ribbon-cuttings for projects supported by a law they voted against. Instead of attacking the law in its entirety, Republicans are taking aim at specific aspects of the Biden industrial policies: climate and China. For months, they’ve been slamming what they call Biden’s “electric vehicle mandate” — a conflation of the IRA’s hefty incentives for clean energy and electric vehicle manufacturing, and Biden’s stricter EPA regulations for tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks. REPUBLICAN LIES! TRUMP REDUCED TAILPIPE EMISSIONS...WERE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?  Slotkin’s challenger, former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers, is blanketing the state with ads vilifying the so-called mandate and slamming her over votes against GOP bills that would have gutted the EPA regulations. STOP REPUBLICAN LIES! AMERICANS NEED EPA TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT & KEEP AMERICANS HEALTHY! The attacks seem to have registered with some key voters. In Macomb County, a critical swing region of Michigan, a half-dozen voters in and around a community music concert on Wednesday evening brought up the supposed EV “mandate” when asked about Democrats’ industrial policies. And they weren’t exactly happy about it. STOP REPUBLICAN LIES! THERE IS NO MANDATE! Democrats and the auto companies “are trying to force [EVs] down the public’s throat,” said Kim Langenbach, a retired Ford engineer who was puffing on a cigar in his lawn chair at the concert on the shores of Lake St. Clair. “But the public doesn’t want them.” STOP REPUBLICAN LIES! THERE IS NO MANDATE! But here, the parties appear to be converging again. The EV mandate attacks have Democrats backtracking, trying to convince voters that despite their efforts to push customers toward electric vehicles with subsidies and regulations, they won’t actually force people out of gas-powered cars. Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who is vacating her seat at the end of the year, called the GOP charge of EV mandates “baloney” at a Thursday event in Lansing showcasing the IRA’s clean energy incentives for homeowners, and her would-be replacement went even further: ”I don’t give a crap whether you buy [an EV] or not. That’s not the issue,” Slotkin told reporters after a campaign stop in Lapeer, Mich. “There is no EV mandate.” Instead, Slotkin and Stabenow insist their support for EV manufacturing subsidies has to do more with economic and national security than climate action. If the cars of the future are going to be battery-powered, Slotkin says, she wants to ensure they are built in America — and not China. “You don’t have to drive one,” Slotkin said, “but I’m on team USA and I want them made here.” THINK ABOUT IT!  IF YOU CAN SAVE MONEY...PUT IT IN YOUR WALLET, WHO CARES? YOUR COST OF LIVING IS REDUCED, YOU CAN DO MORE WITH YOUR SALARY....IT'S LIKE HOMEOWNERS WHO HAVE HOMES THAT LEAK SO BADLY THAT THEY HAVE NO SNOW ON THEIR ROOFS IN A WINTER STORM & THEY WHINE ABOUT THE COSTS....THEY REFUSE TO INSULATE (IT'S A PERMANENT INVESTMENT, PRETTY INEXPENSIVE) WHINING SEEMS TO BE A GOP VOTER EVENT! It’s an argument designed to blunt another GOP attack — that Democrats’ industrial policies will ultimately benefit China more than the U.S. For months, Rogers and other Republicans have been battering Slotkin with that criticism, focusing many of their attacks on a battery factory under construction in mid-Michigan by the Chinese-owned company Gotion. Though the plant owners have pledged not to take IRA funding, it has received some state-level incentives, and GOP Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance attempted to link it to Harris in a campaign stop last month, saying she cast the “tie-breaking vote” on the law that he said enabled the factory, the IRA. But here again, the parties are converging. Slotkin on Thursday told POLITICO that despite her desire for more domestic EV manufacturing, she would rather the Gotion plant not be completed — a position the Rogers campaign abruptly labeled a flip-flop. “To me, until there’s a national security vetting, I don’t love the idea of moving forward on any project or any sale of farmland” to a Chinese entity, Slotkin told reporters after a campaign event in Lapeer, Michigan, a small town outside of Flint. For both parties, rhetorical commitment to industrial policy is easy. Seeing it through will be more difficult. Despite billions set aside for battery factories in Michigan, a handful of flagship factories have only produced around 200 jobs so far, a June report from local outlet Michigan Bridge found this summer. Two major battery facilities being built to supply GM and Ford have been scaled back due to soft EV demand, and a third being constructed by an energy startup is delayed indefinitely. Despite those challenges, Democrats in Michigan and elsewhere say they will stay the course — even if it means doling out billions more in the future. Democratic lawmakers would “absolutely” consider further subsidies for domestic battery production if problems for the sector continue, said House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, who appeared as a Harris surrogate at a small business event in Lansing on Thursday. The IRA and CHIPS Act, she said, are the “beginning” for “bringing manufacturing back to our shores,” and “we need to continue to build on that.” Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@politico.com . Or contact tonight’s author at gbade@politico.com or on X (formerly known as Twitter) at @GavinBade . What'd I Miss? — Iranian-linked websites set up targeting U.S. minority, veteran voters: A network of fake news websites with pro-Iranian leanings is spreading disinformation linked to the upcoming U.S. elections , targeting minority and veteran voters among other groups, according to findings from a neoconservative think tank made public today. The websites are the latest indication of Iranian-linked efforts to interfere in the U.S. election process, and the findings are likely to exacerbate concerns about how widespread Iran’s disinformation efforts are on U.S. websites. — American woman fatally shot in the West Bank, doctors say: An American woman was shot and killed in the West Bank today, two doctors told The Associated Press. Dr. Ward Basalat said that the 26-year-old woman was shot in the head and died after arriving at a hospital. Witnesses and Palestinian media reported that the woman was shot by Israeli troops while attending a pro-Palestinian demonstration against settlement expansion in the northern West Bank. The Israeli military didn’t immediately comment on the shooting. — Appeals court seems skeptical of Trump’s bid to overturn sexual abuse verdict in E. Jean Carroll case: Donald Trump came within feet of one of his most prominent accusers, the writer E. Jean Carroll, in a Manhattan courtroom today as the two attended oral arguments in the former president’s appeal of last year’s $5 million jury verdict that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. A panel of three federal judges from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of Trump’s bid to overturn the May 2023 verdict that found he sexually abused Carroll in the dressing room of luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman in the the mid-1990s and years later called her claim a “hoax.” Nightly Road to 2024 PUTTING IT OFF — Donald Trump’s sentencing for his criminal conviction in Manhattan will be delayed until after Election Day , a judge ruled today, handing the former president a significant victory that will leave voters in the dark about his possible punishment, including a potential prison sentence, as they head to the polls. The sentencing, previously scheduled for Sept. 18, is now set for Nov. 26. CASHING IN — Kamala Harris raked in $361 million last month, widening her cash advantage over Donald Trump with what the vice president’s campaign described as the best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history. Harris’ haul nearly tripled the $130 million brought in by the former president during the same period, as the campaigns have turned toward the final fall finish. Harris’ campaign and other affiliated committees have $404 million in cash on hand and a $100 million advantage over Trump’s nearly $300 million war chest, according to figures released by both campaigns this week. August marked Harris’ first full month as the Democratic Party presidential nominee and included the party’s national convention in Chicago. Her campaign said she’s raised more than $615 million since she took over the top of the ticket in late July. PLAYING THE FIELDS — Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing on a new campaign hire as part of her team’s push to clinch must-win states this fall by keeping former President Donald Trump from running up the score in rural counties. Harris is tapping Matt Hildreth of the progressive Rural Organizing group as her rural engagement director, according to four people familiar with the plans who were granted anonymity to discuss the matter. Democrats have been hemorrhaging support in rural America for years, but making even a small dent in Trump’s steep rural margins could determine the outcome in battleground states that may be decided by razor-thin margins. Hiring Hildreth, whose grassroots organization is already knocking doors for Harris and Democratic candidates across the country this fall, signals the campaign is looking to seriously expand a resource-intensive ground game to reach rural voters who could swing the election. CHENEYS FOR HARRIS — Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney made clear her war against former President Donald Trump won’t be limited to her endorsement of Kamala Harris . In an interview today at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Cheney said that she would campaign in battleground states this fall and also endorsed Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) in his Senate race against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. In remarks, Cheney also said her father and former Vice President Dick Cheney would be voting for Harris. The audience erupted in cheers after she mentioned her father’s vote. AROUND THE WORLD Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov appears at an event in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2017. | Tatan Syuflana/AP CHARGED UP — Telegram founder Pavel Durov called French charges against him “misguided,” but at the same time promised to boost efforts to fight illicit activity on the messaging app. Durov was arrested near Paris on August 24 as part of an investigation into alleged crimes involving child pornography, drug trafficking, and fraudulent activities linked to the Telegram app. French authorities indicted him in late August on six charges. He was released on €5 million bail and prohibited from leaving the country. In his first public comments since his arrest, Durov claimed that French authorities should have brought charges against the company Telegram and not him personally. “If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself,” Durov wrote in a post on Telegram. “Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach,” he said. LET’S GET TOGETHER — Hungary’s Viktor Orbán said “it’s necessary” for the leaders of Russia and Ukraine to meet in order to end the war between the two countries. Asked today if a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy were possible, the Hungarian prime minister said: “Of course. It’s necessary! ... The first question is communication. If there is no communication, the war is getting worse and worse.” Orbán was at the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, Italy, where he took part in a panel discussion. According to the program, the forum will also be attended by the Ukrainian president, with whom Orbán said he has “good relations” even after the Hungarian leader met with Putin. Nightly Number 142,000 The number of jobs the U.S. economy added in August , fewer than economists expected. It also sharply revised down the gains from the two previous months. But after a worrying jump in the unemployment rate last month, joblessness actually ticked back down to 4.2 percent in August and wage growth accelerated. RADAR SWEEP SINGING FOR SUPPER — For hundreds of years, generations of Sicilian fishermen would gather every year for something that they called a “mattanza,” literally translating to slaughter, but representing a large hunt of tuna. This practice would also include the recitation of a series of songs that the fishermen would sing in preparation for the hunt. They would only fish the tuna on their islands off of Italy for a few days a year, but the ritual, and the sustenance, was important. With changing fishing patterns and ecology, though, the “mattanza” is no more — the last one at the largest of the islands occurred in 2019. For the BBC, Alessia Franco and David Robson investigated this practice and what the dearth of it tells us about how the planet is changing. Parting Image On this date in 1990: Students from across India marched in New Delhi to protest the government’s educational policy. They also demanded jobs and more educational facilities. The march was organized by the student wing of the pro-Moscow Communist Party of India. | Ajit Kumar/AP Did someone forward this email to you?  Sign up here .   Follow us on Twitter Charlie Mahtesian @PoliticoCharlie Calder McHugh @calder_mchugh   Follow us

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