Trump Campaign Touted New Poll, But It Backfired Badly

Brad Parscale, President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, had an ominous warning for Democrats on Thursday.

“Nancy Pelosi is marching members of her caucus off the plank and into the abyss,” he said in a tweet. “Impeachment is killing her freshman members and polling proves it.”

He added: “Say goodbye to your majority, Nancy!”

But even with a cursory inspection, observers quickly pointed out that his scary poll numbers were nothing of the sort for Democrats.

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Trump’s 2020 campaign spending: Rented chandeliers and fast food fare

Lawyers, cell phone pouches, and enemies of the people.

President Donald Trump’s re-election effort has been pulling in massive amounts of campaign cash — and making some interesting decisions about how to spend it.

A wide array of expenditures — from chandelier rentals, to payments to Trump companies, to campaign leak prevention devices, even a subscription to a newspaper Trump has denounced as an enemy of the American people — tell the story of where Trump’s donor money is going.

The president’s 2020 campaign filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission late Monday, disclosing what it and the Trump Victory Committee — a joint-fundraising effort with the Republican National Committee (RNC) — raised and spent in the second quarter of 2019.

View the complete July 17 article by Ryan Koronowski and Josh Israel on the ThinkProgress website here.

The Memo: Toxic 2020 is unavoidable conclusion from Trump tweets

The Hill logoThe 2020 election will likely be the most toxic in living memory.

That’s the unavoidable conclusion after President Trump on Monday defended his tweets the previous day in which he urged four nonwhite congresswomen to “go back” to where they came from.

All four are American citizens, and all bar one was born in the United States.

Some Republicans backed away from Trump in the resulting firestorm, but most stood by him.

View the complete July 16 article by Niall Stanage on The Hill website here.