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The next president will get slander and Trump will get all the glory.

Obama set him up to have a great economy and trump setting up the next one to fail.


Shit aint gon be right
 
The next president will get slander and Trump will get all the glory.

Obama set him up to have a great economy and trump setting up the next one to fail.


Shit aint gon be right
This is typical though. Democrats build the economy, Republicans inherit a great economy, Republicans destroy a great economy, Democrats build the economy, and so on and so on. Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump.
 

Buttigieg’s Campaign Hired Staff Privately Recommended By Mark Zuckerberg

Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign hired two staffers privately recommended by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, a campaign spokesperson confirmed to TPM on Monday.



The campaign hired Nina Wornhoff (who had previously worked for the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative) and Eric Mayefsky (who had previously worked for Facebook) in April and June, respectively, from Zuckerberg’s list of recommendations; Wornhoff now works as the campaign’s organizing data manager and Mayefsky as its senior digital analytics adviser.

However, Ben LaBolt, a spokesperson for Zuckerberg and Chan, told TPM that the couple had given the recommendations at the staffers’ request.

“Having seen Mark’s visit to South Bend in 2017 and Facebook Live with Mayor Buttigieg, colleagues later asked Mark and Priscilla to connect them with the Buttigieg campaign as they were interested in joining,” LaBolt said in an emailed statement.

“Mark and Priscilla have not decided who to support for President,” he added.

Bloomberg News first reported on Zuckerberg’s recommendations to Buttigieg. In a phone call with TPM, campaign spokesperson Chris Meagher said that Zuckerberg and Chan had recommended only Wornhoff and Mayefsky, not “numerous” recommendations as Bloomberg reported.

Critics raised alarm over the hires, suggesting they represent a degree of Facebook influence over Buttigieg’s campaign. Buttigieg’s rivals, particularly Elizabeth Warren, have pledged to break up tech giants, and Zuckerberg has vowed to “fight” her plan to do so.

Buttigieg’s stance on the issue doesn’t outright call for breaking up any of the U.S.’s tech giants, but he’s advocated for giving the Federal Trade Commission the power to “prevent, and some cases reverse, the mergers of some of these companies.”

Buttigieg campaign spokesperson Lis Smith brushed off the criticism as “a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.”

“We get recs from hundreds of people and we’ve received thousands and thousands of resumes,” she tweeted.

“We make staff decisions on how to build the best team in politics, which I’m proud to report we have!” Smith stated in another tweet, listing “former Presidents,” “civil rights leaders,” “members of Congress,” and Buttigieg’s “high school teacher” as other sources of staff recommendations.

After the latest Democratic primary debate in October, during which Buttigieg hit Warren over her Medicare for All plan, the South Bend mayor has been rising in the polls in Iowa, with a recent USA Today poll placing him within the top three highest ranking candidates in the first state to hold a caucus.
 

Most Americans Believe Trump Has ‘Encouraged’ White Supremacy; Poll

A new poll has found that most Americans believe President Donald Trump has encouraged white supremacist groups.

Data gathered by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) shows that 57% of Americans think Trump’s decisions and behavior have encouraged white supremacists, while only 6% say he has discouraged such people. While 74% of Republicans say Trump has not had any impact on white supremacists whatsoever, 59% of Independents say Trump has encouraged white supremacists, as do 86% of Democrats.

White evangelical and mainline Protestants mostly disagree with the idea that Trump has encouraged white supremacists, though most Protestants of color and non-Christian survey responders say that the opposite is true. Among White Americans, 49% say Trump has encouraged racist groups, while 77% of African Americans, 69% of Hispanic Americans, and 59% of mixed-race Americans take this position as well.

The poll also found that Trump continues to struggle with his approval ratings. Only 35% of Americans have a positive opinion about Trump, whereas 64% hold an unfavorable opinion, and 48% of respondents have a very unfavorable opinion. Trump maintains support with 82% of the Republican party, but only 32% of Independents support him along with 6% of Democrats.

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