Andrew McCarthy, Former Gov. Scott Walker & Eric Shiraev on The Larry O’Connor Show 08.20.2020


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 Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon charged in border wall scheme (AP)

President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and three associates were arrested Thursday on charges they ripped off donors to an online fundraising effort to build a privately funded southern border wall, making him the latest in a long list of Trump allies to be charged with a crime. [Read More]

Press release: Is 2020 that bad? A historical look at character assassination and the US presidency (Washington Examiner)

Join the Washington Examiner and the Character Assassination and Reputation Politics (CARP) Research Lab for a new webinar series.

This first episode will be part of a three-part webinar series on character assassination and the US Presidency, leading up to a discussion of the 2020 election. [Read More]

Pelosi tells fellow Democrats ‘it’s all riding on Wisconsin’ (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Attorney General Eric Holder delivered a stark reminder to Wisconsin Democrats on Thursday about the importance the battleground state plays in the presidential election less than 11 weeks away.

“No pressure, it’s all riding on Wisconsin,” Pelosi told more than 100 Democrats during a virtual meeting tied to the final day of the Democratic National Convention. “No pressure.” [Read More]

Chris Wallace: Obama delivered ‘really curious speech,’ didn’t ‘talk about Joe Biden’ for 5 of 15 minutes (The Hill)

Fox News’s Chris Wallace called former President Obama’s remarks at the Democratic National Convention “a really curious speech” on Wednesday night, highlighting that he didn’t “talk about Joe Biden for five of those 15 minutes” during his address.

“I thought it was a really curious speech,” the “Fox News Sunday” host said. “He talked for 15 minutes, [but] I bet he didn’t talk about Joe Biden for five of those 15 minutes. He basically said, ‘He was my brother in the White House, he made me a better president, he will make it a better country.'” [Read More]

Trump and Biden tied in Minnesota: poll (The Hill)

President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are statistically tied in Minnesota, according to a new poll.

The latest survey from the Trafalgar Group finds Biden at 46.9 percent and Trump at 46.5 percent. Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen gets 3.7 percent support, while 1.7 percent are undecided and 1.2 percent said they’d support someone else.

The Trafalgar Group’s surveys have been showing a tighter race in the battlegrounds than other pollsters have found. [Read More]

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