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260 Dems Get Obama’s Support In 2nd Wave Of Midterms Endorsements

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is ramping up his involvement in politics ahead of November’s elections. On Monday, he endorsed more than 200 Democrats running for offices ranging from local to national.

The endorsements include close races where his political cachet could make a difference, veterans of his campaign and White House, and younger more diverse candidates. Last month, Obama endorsed 81 Democrats running in the 2018 elections. In a statement, Obama describes the candidates as “Americans who aren’t just running against something, but for something.”

Obama’s moves come as he and former first lady Michelle Obama re-engage in public life. The former president has campaigned on behalf of several Democratic candidates, while Michelle Obama has been working to help lead a working group to help register new voters.
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/polls-dems-hold-narrow-leads-in-key-missouri-nevada-senate-races

Polls: Dems Hold Narrow Leads In Key Missouri, Nevada Senate Races

Senate Democrats got a bit more good polling news on Monday: CNN’s latest surveys have them with narrow leads in Missouri and Nevada, two key Senate races.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) leads Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (R) by 47 percent to 44 percent, and Rep. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) leads Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) by 47 percent to 43 percent in the pair of new live-caller polls, conducted by SSRS.

That’s especially good news for McCaskill, who has been neck-and-neck with Hawley in most recent public and private polls. After Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), she’s the incumbent Democrats are most worried about protecting this fall. And if she can hang on, Democrats have a real path to the Senate majority.

Nevada is notoriously hard to poll, so don’t put too much stock in any one public survey there. But generally when better-known incumbents trail it’s very hard to come back in a race, and this is the third public poll in a row that’s shown him slightly behind Rosen. This is a must-win for Democrats — if they’re losing in Nevada that says Hispanic voters aren’t turning out very well for them this fall, and besides being a crucial Senate seat that spells bigger trouble across the map for the party.

If Democrats win both seats and lose just North Dakota, they’d just have to win Arizona and Tennessee to pull off what was once a fantasy and win the Senate majority. They’ve held narrow leads in most recent public and private polls in both states as well.
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https://www.mediaite.com/online/don-jr-i-worry-more-for-my-sons-than-daughters-in-metoo-era/

Don Jr: I Worry More For My Sons Than Daughters in #MeToo Era

While campaigning for Republicans in Montana, Donald Trump Jr. and his former Fox News host girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle appeared in a joint interview with the DailyMailTV, in which the first son said he fears more for his sons than his daughters in the #MeToo era.

“I’ve got boys and I’ve got girls and when I see what’s going on now, it’s scary for all things,” Trump Jr. said, while discussing the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against his father’s Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

After a reporter asked if he is more concerned about his sons or daughters during the nation’s national reckoning with male sexual misconduct, Trump Jr. said, “Right now, I’d say my sons.”

The 40-year-old father has three sons and two daughters.

“The other problem is that for the people who are real victims of these things, when it is so obviously political in cases like this, it really diminishes the real claims,” he added.

As for Guilfoyle, she did note that “it’s important in terms of doing an investigation to get the facts out there” when discussing the Kavanaugh allegations and the FBI’s probe into the credibility of the claims.

“It’s very tough 35 years later but it doesn’t mean it should be ignored,” Guilfoyle added. “But people need to be careful to understand the politics involved, as well, and what motivations people may have.”
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kavanaugh-wont-teach-harvard-class

Kavanaugh ‘Can No Longer Commit’ To Teaching Harvard Law Class in 2019

Brett Kavanaugh will no longer teach a class at Harvard Law School in January, school administrators told students in an email obtained by The Harvard Crimson Monday evening.

“Today, Judge Kavanaugh indicated that he can no longer commit to teaching his course in January Term 2019, so the course will not be offered,” Associate Dean and Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs Catherine Claypoole told students in the email, according to the Crimson. A Kavanaugh spokesperson confirmed to the Crimson that Kavanaugh would not teach the three week class, which was going to be called “The Supreme Court Since 2005.”

Students, staff and alum from Harvard and Yale University, Kavanaugh’s alma mater, have protested Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court for the past several weeks, while allegations of sexual assault have been raised publicly against the federal judge. Harvard law students had called on the faculty to drop Kavanaugh’s teaching appointment over the the allegations.
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Appears WH Scrubbed Trump Insult Of Female Reporter From Official Transcript


The White House seems to have changed the word “thinking” to “thanking” in an official transcript of President Donald Trump’s freewheeling Monday press conference, blunting the insult the President aimed at ABC’s Cecilia Vega.

According to the Daily Beast, the recorded moment where he says: “I know you’re not thinking. You never do” is changed to “I know you’re not thanking. You never do.”

When Trump first called on her, he joked: “She’s shocked that I picked her, she’s in a state of shock.”

As she got her bearings with her notes she responded: “I’m not — thank you, Mr. President” which he apparently mistook as “I’m not thinking, Mr. President,” prompting the insult.

At the moment, his comment visibly took Vega by surprise before she asked “excuse me?” and he brushed her off and brusquely told her to continue. He then declined to answer her question.

Trump was notably terse and ill-tempered with female reporters at the press conference, even after the exchange with Vega.
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/swetnick-elaborates-on-kavanaugh-allegations

Third Kavanaugh Accuser Julie Swetnick Elaborates On Allegations

Julie Swetnick, the third accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, elaborated Monday night on her allegations stemming from high school parties she attended with him.

“He was a very aggressive, very sloppy, mean drunk,” Swetnick said in an interview with NBC News. “I saw him go up to girls and paw on them, try to, you know, get a little too handsy, touching them in private parts. I saw him try to shift clothing.

“I saw him push girls up against walls,” she continued. “He would pretend to stumble into them. He would push his body against them, grope them.”

She said that he never saw him or his accused accomplice in a separate alleged sexual assault, Mark Judge, actively spiking drinks or participating in gang rapes — two actions she said occurred at the parties and she believes they took part in — but says she saw Kavanaugh give women many cups of the punch and saw Kavanaugh and Judge congregated outside rooms, where she believes they took turns violating incapacitated women.

In her original statement, she said both that she “became aware” that Judge and Kavanaugh were spiking the drinks and also that she “witnessed efforts” by the two to render women at the parties inebriated.

During the NBC interview, Swetnick says that she herself was a victim of drugging and a subsequent gang rape at one of those parties. She can’t guarantee that Kavanaugh was one of her alleged assailants, but says she saw him and Judge hanging out and laughing with other boys in the room when she began to feel disoriented.

Swetnick claims that after the attack, she told her mother and the Montgomery County police. NBC has reportedly requested police records.
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