Trump plans to offer Dems a new deal and not declare emergency in Saturday speech: CNN report
President Donald Trump plans to offer Democrats in the House of Representatives a new deal in the shutdown standoff, not declare a national emergency in an effort to build his wall unilaterally, CNN reports.
Trump tweeted to declare that he would make a “big announcement” from the White House on Saturday afternoon at 3 pm, leading many to suspect he’d declare an emergency.
However, according to a senior administration official who spoke to CNN, Trump will make “his third offer to end the shutdown.”
“The official told CNN that Trump’s idea is to put something on the table to get Democrats to engage with negotiations,” the report said. “Trump is not expected to back down from his demand for a border wall, but the plan will seek to entice Democrats by offering other concessions.”
Read the report here.
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Louie Gohmert’s daughter begs him to heed medical advice and not to follow Trump to ‘an early grave’
In a statement posted to Twitter this Friday, the daughter of Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert said that her father contracted the coronavirus because he chose to ignore medical expertise.
Gohmert’s daughter Caroline, who is also a recording artist known as BELLSAINT, said that “wearing a mask is a non-partisan issue.”
“The advice of medical experts shouldn’t be politicized,” her statement read. “My father ignored medical expertise and now he has COVID.”
“It’s not worth following a president who has no remorse for leading his followers to an early grave,” she added.
There is a fear among many that the so-called "October Surprise" won't be another international scandal at the White House, but President Donald Trump announcing a vaccine, whether there is one or not.
Washington Post political columnist Greg Sargent explained in his Monday column that scientists are issuing a warning in a series of New York Times interviews. Either Trump will like and announce a vaccine that isn't ready or he'll rush the process to ensure a vaccine is ready, whether it is or not. Some of the scientists even work for the American government and have updated information on the status of a vaccine.
2020 Election
GOP strategists fear a Kris Kobach nomination could cost Republicans greatly: ‘The Senate majority runs through Kansas’
In Kansas’ Republican senatorial primary, voters will choose between former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Rep. Roger Marshall — who some GOP strategists believe is by far the more electable of the two. And according to Politico’s James Arkin, one of the prominent Republicans who is sounding the alarm is Kevin McLaughlin, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Although Kobach and Marshall are both hard-right politically, Kobach is more extreme — so extreme that even in deep red Kansas, he lost a gubernatorial race to a centrist Democrat in the 2018 midterms. That Democrat, Laura Kelly, is now governor of Kansas, where Kobach was a leading promoter of the racist “birther” conspiracy theory during the 2010s.
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Donald Trump is doomed — and he knows it
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Boaters with Trump flag accused of ‘endangering’ SpaceX astronauts after splashdown
Louie Gohmert’s daughter begs him to heed medical advice and not to follow Trump to ‘an early grave’
Doctors fear Trump will lie about a vaccine to win the election
GOP strategists fear a Kris Kobach nomination could cost Republicans greatly: ‘The Senate majority runs through Kansas’
Trump infuriates business owners in two key states over GOP convention debacle
‘It’s not a both sides thing’: CNN host battles Trump aide over hydroxychloroquine misinformation
‘It’s not a both sides thing’: CNN host battles Trump aide over hydroxychloroquine misinformation
Oklahoma teacher threatened by COVID-19 regrets vote for Trump — and blasts his ‘failure of leadership’
Morning show gives airtime to panel of white ‘Karens’ who blame Black Lives Matter for making name a slur
Russian dissident Gary Kasparov lays out ‘doomsday scenario’ for American democracy — and it’s closer than you think
