Democrats

The Washington Post reports: Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg plans to spend at least $100 million in Florida to help elect Democrat Joe Biden, a massive late-stage infusion of cash that could reshape the presidential contest in a costly toss-up state central to President Trump’s reelection hopes. Bloomberg made the decision to focus his final election spending on Florida …

The New York Times reports: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is leading President Trump in three states Trump’s campaign has identified as top flip opportunities, according to a New York Times/Sienna College poll released Saturday. The new survey showed Biden leading by a 50-41 margin among likely voters in Minnesota, possibly the Trump campaign’s top flip target, 46-42 in Nevada …

Politico reports: Democrats are amassing an enormous lead in early voting, alarming Republicans who worry they’ll need to orchestrate a huge Election Day turnout during a deadly coronavirus outbreak to answer the surge. The Democratic dominance spreads across an array of battleground states, according to absentee ballot request data compiled by state election authorities and analyzed by Democratic and Republican …

NBC News reports: Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., made a bullish prediction Thursday that his party will flip six or seven Republican-held seats in the 2020 election and seize the majority. “I think we’re going to retake the Senate,” the Nevada Democrat told NBC News. “I think we’re going to win in Colorado, Montana, Maine, North Carolina, (Sen. …

From Joe Biden and AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka: When he isn’t calling to boycott Goodyear and its thousands of union workers for petty personal reasons, Donald Trump is actively fighting against working people. That’s because, like so many CEOs and Wall Street robber-barons, he knows that if he can diminish union power, he can run the table on every American …

The Hill reports: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden added several former Obama administration officials as well as former South Bend, Ind. mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg to his transition team. According to multiple media outlets, former National Security advisor Susan Rice and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates are joining the transition team. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham …

The Associated Press reports: Mail balloting in the presidential election is set to begin Friday as North Carolina starts sending out more than 600,000 ballots to voters — responding to a massive spike in requests that has played out across the country as voters look for a safer way to cast ballots during the pandemic. The 618,000 ballots requested in …

Via Monmouth Polling: The Monmouth University Poll finds a tight contest in the state’s U.S. Senate election. Among registered voters, Republican first-term incumbent Thom Tillis has 45% support and his Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham, an attorney and former state legislator, has 46% support. Other voter support goes to Libertarian Shannon Bray (2%) and Kevin Hayes of the Constitution Party (1%), …

Politico reports: With concerns about an Election Day debacle rising in this critical swing state, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf privately convened a group of Philadelphia Democrats recently to underscore the consequences of another vote-counting fiasco like the one that took place in the June primary. The city took more than two weeks to count all of its votes due to …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to apologize Wednesday for her controversial visit to a San Francisco hair salon, calling it “a set up” and suggesting that she had been tricked by the business owner. Pelosi said she took responsibility for falling for the “set up” to have her hair done inside at a San Francisco …

The Washington Post reports: Biden and his wife, Jill, will travel Thursday to Kenosha, Wis., which has been the site of both peaceful mass demonstrations and damaging riots in which businesses have been looted and burned following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. The former vice president “will hold a community meeting in Kenosha to bring together Americans to heal …

South Bend’s ABC News affiliate reports: Former South Bend Mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is launching a podcast, he announced on Wednesday. The new podcast will be called “The Deciding Decade” and will be released by iHeartMedia. “We know that this, the first year of the 2020s, has been one of chaos and anguish,” Buttigieg said in the announcement …

Yahoo News reports: Rep. Joe Kennedy III fell short in his bid to unseat incumbent Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey on Tuesday, ending a fractious Democratic primary by becoming the first member of the Kennedy family to lose an election in the state. Kennedy, 39, attempted to portray himself as the change candidate against the 74-year-old Markey, who has only held …

This will make ratings-obsessed Glorious Leader very angry: Fox News’ coverage on the Republican National Conventions’s third night netted them another win over their cable news and broadcast competitors, though the overall audience across the major networks combined dipped sharply from night three of the DNC. While Fox News has ruled the roost in the ratings department over the first …

The New York Times reports: Taking on one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday used her political action committee to endorse Alex Morse, the small-city mayor who is challenging Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The endorsement from Courage to Change, announced by Mr. …

The New York Times reports: Shortly after the start of the Republican National Convention on Monday, President Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale complained that Fox News had repeatedly cut away. “Can’t believe I have to watch the convention on @CNN,” Mr. Parscale carped on Twitter. “Unbelievable.” Plenty of viewers ignored his advice. A significant portion of the convention’s TV …

The Washington Post reports: Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.), will now be regularly tested for the novel coronavirus, in a shift from earlier protocol, his campaign said Monday afternoon. Both candidates will be tested “on a regular basis,” along with any staff who interact with them. A campaign official also said that …

The far-right Washington Times reports: Seven candidates won at least one pledged delegate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. Six gave speeches at the virtual convention this week; the seventh was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii. Ms. Gabbard said Thursday evening that the convention snubbed her, contrary to the longstanding custom for unsuccessful presidential contenders. “You’re correct – I was …

Axios reports: Historian Jon Meacham invoked the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, saying that “bending the arc of the moral universe” toward justice “requires all of us” — and a “president of the United States with empathy, grace, a big heart and an open mind.” Meacham’s task during his address was to …

Time Magazine reports: On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, former mayor of New York City and Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg spoke took aim at Republican President Donald Trump’s business failures, before and during his presidency. “Would you rehire or work for someone who ran your business into the ground?” Bloomberg asked. “Who always does what’s best …