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Duane Moore

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  1. They’re not perfect, but what else do we have to give us a sense of how the election is going? Vibes? Counting lawn signs in your neighborhood?
  2. Russians have lost more men in the last two months than we did in Vietnam: It’s like the stories from WWI where they would just send waves of men at German machine gun positions getting mowed down until the machine guns became too hot to operate.
  3. Make the election about Trump, which was always the theory of the case for them. The longer we have the media focusing on this palace intrigue of whether we’re going to have the first incumbent resign since LBJ, the less time there is for them to turn their attention back to Trump and start chipping away at the independents who need to be reminded of why they didn’t vote for him in 2020. This house divided storyline is consuming all the oxygen and Biden’s still in striking distance.
  4. Marist/NPR with your morning dose of hopium: Switching Harris, Whitney, and Newsom does not improve the chances, about the same. 3rd post-debate poll this week that has the race as a toss up. Again, I know a tied NPV result favors Trump, but the point is there’s plenty of time to get those 2-3 extra points for Biden.
  5. Live Zoom call with Mark Halperin discussing the PC
  6. End it with “You come for the King, you best not miss”
  7. Nobody begrudges him the stutter or the word flubs. Even calling someone by the wrong name can be explained. It was the answers that go nowhere and trailing off that killed him at the debate, along with generally looking pale, frail, and slack jawed. Much better on all those fronts tonight.
  8. Probably doing it to stick it to that inferior Batman, George Clooney.
  9. The backup QB is always the most popular player on the team.
  10. The leaning forward and whispering is a speaking device he’s used for years and I’ve never found it very appealing even in his younger days. But he does look much healthier and more vigorous than he did two weeks ago.
  11. Gotta keep that Irish temper in check. A little bit of fire is ok, but he can’t start yelling at people.
  12. I don’t understand why he emphasizes the pre-invasion intelligence and public warnings it makes him look impotent that Russia disregarded his threats. But prepared remarks are being delivered well.
  13. Are those teleprompters I see set up next to the podium? Is that normal for a press conference?
  14. Scares you to death. You know, 50% of all candidates lose every Election Day.
  15. You may be shitfaced by the time he actually shows up
  16. They’ve also been expecting to go after Kamala because it’s clear that she would be taking over at some point in a hypothetical second Biden term. And they have enough ammunition on her to recreate the bank heist scene from Heat.
  17. I assume the appeal of Vance is to go for the kill in the rust belt states and shore up Trump’s slippage in the white working class vote that he lost there between 2016 and 2020. Also a smart guy and will likely be a competent debater. Vance apparently made the intros that got Trump in with the Silicon Valley donors for his big fundraiser there last month. Of course it could be as simple as Trump likes him because his last name is one syllable. “Trump - Vance” sounds best to him. People say Trump wouldn’t pick Haley or Rubio because they are too ambitious and might try to depose him, but I think you need to watch your back around anyone who could shift so radically between where he was on Trump circa 2015 and where he is now.
  18. I’m sure there are plenty of clips of her on the stump being more focused and prosecuting the case against Trump, but this clip from today captures the Kamala problem in a nutshell. She just sounds like a new age self help guru when she goes on these riffs. BTW, lots of chatter that Vance is the VP pick for Trump.
  19. In the spirit of wrestling analogies, I’m half expecting Trump’s RNC speech to be a version of Shawn Michaels’ “Old Yeller” promo on Ric Flair for his retirement match at Wrestlemania.
  20. My God, listen to these braying hyenas
  21. I’m just picturing comms staffers all over the Hill with pdf attachments to blast emails of their every press contact and a subject line of “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE,” fingers poised over the “Send” button ready to fire at the first mental breakdown in this presser.
  22. Who is the Tom Hagen of the Democratic Party that can go have a conversation with Joe “Frankie Five Angels” Biden about they did things in the Roman times and how they’ll take care of his family when he steps down?
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