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Among Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania swing voters: Medicare for All polls at 62% against
https://www.kff.org/other/report/blue-wall-voices-project/

Ukrainian President Was Booked to Announce Biden Investigation on CNN
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukrainian-president-was-booked-to-announce-biden-investigation-on-cnn-says-report

Virginia governor says he will reintroduce gun control measures after Dems take over state government
https://keyt.com/news/politics/2019/11/06/virginia-governor-says-he-will-reintroduce-gun-control-measures-after-dems-take-over-state-government/

YEP: Lots of people celebrating @AndyBeshearKY’s victory (rightfully!), but not actually listening to him. This morning he said: “The way a Democrat wins in a red state and the way a Republican wins in a blue state is by taking a moderate message to swing voters.” #KYGov
https://twitter.com/reilyseanconn/status/1192213083818729472?s=21

YEP: "The smarter approach is to build on what we have; a public option is something I've been in favor of for a very long time. I don't believe we should be in the midst of a big disruption while we are trying to get to 100% coverage and deal with costs." |     The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate added that while she doesn't think it would pass, it was the "right goal" and the current health care debate among Democrats is healthy. |    "The Affordable Care Act took us to 90% of coverage — the highest we had ever gotten in our country after many, many efforts including one I was involved in more than 25 years ago," Clinton said. |     "We have a 10% gap to fill and we have a lot of learning to do about the best way not only to fill the gap, but then to drive down costs as much as it is possible without undermining quality advancements."
https://www.axios.com/hillary-clinton-elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all-f0a75343-3fd8-42a3-acec-244bc40c2ac5.html

A heavily-promoted contest to win breakfast with President Trump in New York City on September 26 was a fraud. The "winner" of the contest did not have breakfast in Trump. Instead, she was invited to a breakfast that Trump did not attend
https://popular.info/p/update-trump-campaign-contest-to

YEP: Nonvoters do not seem poised to save the Democrats in the six key battleground states, based on an analysis of more than 600 nonvoters in our Times/Siena polls.
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1192426348310147072

Nonvoters Are a Source of Hope for Democrats. But Maybe a False Hope. Demographically, they seem like people who’d want to vote out Trump. Yet at least in the battleground states, many favor Republicans. | For Democrats, nonvoters have long been a source of hope. They are disproportionately young, nonwhite and low-income, demographics that favor the party. In this year’s Democratic primary, turning nonvoters into voters would seem to offer a path to victory for candidates who might seek to win the general election without persuading the moderate swing voters coveted by their party’s establishment. There may be places in the country where this is true. But in the battleground states likeliest to decide the presidency, nonvoters aren’t overwhelmingly favorable to Democrats, according to an analysis of 623 registered voters who live in battleground states and stayed home in both 2016 and 2018. | The results suggest that higher turnout, though helpful to Democrats in their quest to defeat the president, would not necessarily assure them of victory in these states. And the president’s ability to stay close among nonvoters suggests he could remain competitive in a high-turnout election and expand his support beyond his 63 million voters in 2016. | Taken together, the figures imply that a large portion of nonvoters sit out because they do not neatly line up with either party. This fact tends to limit the opportunity available to both parties, but over all it tends to diminish the Democratic advantage that would seem to exist based on their demographics alone. | The group of voters who stayed home in 2012 and turned out for the presidential election in 2016 was fairly favorable to Republicans. Today, they back Mr. Trump by three points over Mr. Biden. The voters who stayed home in 2016, but turned out for the midterms in 2018, back Mr. Biden by 17 points in these battleground states. Today, they are just as likely to say they are “almost certain” to vote as those who turned out in 2016. So for Democrats in the primary, the question is not simply who leads among nonvoters, but what kind of candidate could excite them enough to lure them to the polls. The results do not offer particularly clear guidance here. On the issues, the nonvoting Democrats look about the same as those who vote. But the group looks relatively likely to include voters who have not been animated by the cultural fights of the last half decade, which might be something of a surprise given their relative youth. Nonvoters are the likeliest group of Democratic leaners to oppose an assault weapons ban or to support reducing legal immigration to the United States. They’re likeliest to agree that discrimination against whites is as big a problem as discrimination against minorities, even though the group is only 50 percent white. They’re also likeliest to agree that political correctness has gone too far. | Perhaps this shouldn’t be a surprise: If they did care about the same things that animated “very liberal” voters, they probably would have gone to the polls in these crucial states. Eighty-six percent of very liberal registered voters turned out in either 2016 or 2018 in these states, the highest percentage of any ideological group. That said, there are some signs that Democratic-leaning nonvoters are somewhat likelier to favor a bold candidate who offers something different. In no small part because of their relative youth, they say they would prefer a candidate who promises fundamental, systematic change to American society over one who promises to return Washington to normal. In contrast, Democratic-leaning voters who turned out in both 2016 and 2018 prefer a return to normal. Young nonvoting Democrats are slightly more likely than young voting Democrats to support fundamental, systematic change over a return to normal. But in keeping with the broader pattern, they offer more conservative answers on the issues than those who vote. The gap is particularly stark on cultural questions. Among people under 30 who lean Democratic, the nonvoters are far more likely than the voters to agree that the women who are running for president “just aren’t that likable.” The pattern also extends to issues like immigration or health care. Over all, the young Democratic nonvoters are far less likely to describe themselves as very liberal. From all this, you could stitch together a case that Democrats have struggled to appeal to less educated nonvoters, particularly among those who are young and black. These nonvoters do not like the president and they are not conservatives, but they do not appear to have been socialized into the cultural norms of the party’s liberal college-educated coastal base. As a result, they have not responded to the president’s conduct with the urgency and outrage of their peers. And some of them may even dissent from their generation’s progressive consensus on cultural issues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/upshot/nonvoters-2020-presidential-election.html

Trump's son tweets name of alleged Ukraine whistleblower - Trump's son published on Wednesday the name of the alleged anonymous whistleblower whose complaint fired the impeachment inquiry against Trump, breaking strict conventions for protecting officials who reveal wrongdoing in government
https://news.yahoo.com/impeachment-trumps-son-tweets-name-alleged-whistleblower-154514305.html

Trump wanted Barr to hold news conference saying the president broke no laws in call with Ukrainian leader
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-wanted-barr-to-hold-news-conference-saying-the-president-broke-no-laws-in-call-with-ukrainian-leader/2019/11/06/16d541ec-ff55-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html

Barr Refused to Publicly State Trump Did Nothing Illegal in Ukraine: Report
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/bill-barr-wont-say-trump-did-nothing-illegal-in-ukraine.html

Boris Johnson is suspected of blocking a report on Russian interference in UK elections because of 'embarrassing' revelations about Kremlin links to Conservative donors
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-blocked-russian-interference-report-kremlin-link-conservative-donors-2019-11

A photograph of Prince Andrew with a woman abused as a teenager is definitively not fake, the woman has said, in her first comments on the row over the image - she was forced to have sex with the Prince at least three times when she was 17.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/06/epstein-accuser-virginia-roberts-giuffre-denies-prince-andrew/

As the House moves toward public hearings on impeachment, a big bloc of Americans remain undecided, new USC/LA Times poll finds. A big challenge for House Dems is that they're mostly people who aren't paying much attention.https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-11-04/usc-la-times-november-poll

US paid record $7.1 billion in tariffs in September
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/469289-us-paid-record-71-billion-in-tariffs-in-september-analysis

Federal judge rules Trump administration must provide mental health services to migrant families separated at border
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/469436-federal-judge-rules-trump-administration-must-provide-mental-health

New York court orders Trump to pay $2 million for misusing his charitable foundation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-orders-trump-to-pay-2m-for-charity-foundation-misuse/2019/11/07/fc8e9c4c-018f-11ea-8341-cc3dce52e7de_story.html

Judicial Reform Group Demands Kavanaugh Recuse Himself From LGBT Rights Cases After Posing With Anti-LGBT Group
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/judicial-reform-group-demands-kavanaugh-recuse-himself-from-lgbt-rights-cases-after-posing-with-anti-lgbt-group/

Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito urged to recuse themselves from LGBT cases
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-justices-brett-kavanaugh-samuel-alito-urged-recuse-themselves-lgbt-cases-1470290

Trump Tries Bribing The Jury … And No Republican Seems Bothered By It – Senators, Who Will Sit in Judgment if Trump Goes on Trial, Line Up for Trump's Campaign Cash
https://www.dcreport.org/2019/11/06/campaign-cash-trump-tries-bribing-the-jury/

DOJ, Apparently Unaware Of 1st Amendment, Threaten Anonymous White House Official About To Release A Book
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191104/17413543322/doj-apparently-unaware-1st-amendment-threaten-anonymous-white-house-official-about-to-release-book.shtml

Historic Alaska Ruling Could Provide Roadmap to Defeating Citizens United
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/05/historic-alaska-ruling-could-provide-roadmap-defeating-citizens-united

Tap Water at Trump National Golf Course Contaminated With Toxic 'Forever Chemicals'
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-national-golf-course-new-jersey-toxic-chemicals-tap-water-1470189

Russian state media mocked Trump by calling him 'our Donald Ivanovych,' and complained US politicians have lost their minds over attempts to impeach him
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-state-media-mocks-trump-calling-him-donald-ivanovych-2019-11

LOL.....: But federal prosecutors are arguing in hundreds of cases that inmates who have applied for this type of relief are ineligible, according to a review of court records and interviews with defense attorneys. In at least half a dozen cases, prosecutors are seeking to reincarcerate offenders who have already been released under the First Step Act.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-brags-that-his-landmark-law-freed-these-inmates-his-justice-department-wants-them-to-stay-in-prison/2019/11/07/5f075456-f5db-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

A white supremacist from Pueblo was arrested Friday when he met up with three undercover FBI agents in an attempt to bomb the Temple Emanuel synagogue in Pueblo as part of what he called a “racial holy war” and to wipe the synagogue “off the map” in what the FBI says amounts to “domestic terrorism.”
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/pueblo-white-supremacist-arrested-in-domestic-terrorism-case-after-plans-to-bomb-synagogue

Macron: Trump Is Causing the ‘Brain Death’ of NATO
https://www.thedailybeast.com/emmanuel-macron-trump-is-causing-the-brain-death-of-nato

Candidate Bernie endorsed in San Francisco District Attorney Race is now losing by 2,205 votes. Two other Bernie Sanders "socialist democrats" lost in Seattle, both antisemites (Kshama Sawant and Shaun Scott)
https://www.kqed.org/news/11785144/its-between-suzy-loftus-and-chesa-boudin-for-sf-district-attorney

House to explore Pence's role in Ukraine controversy with new testimony
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/politics/mike-pence-ukraine-house-democrats-impeachment/index.html

Tom Steyer aide offered money to Iowa politicians in exchange for endorsements, report says
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/tom-steyer-aide-reportedly-offered-to-pay-iowa-politicians-for-endorsements.html

Trump administration illegally schedules lease sale for Arctic Alaska lands
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-alaska-drilling-idUSKBN1XF2P5

Trump Admits Misusing Charity Funds, Settles Lawsuit Against Trump Foundation That He Said He Wouldn’t Settle
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-admits-misusing-charity-funds-settles-lawsuit-against-trump-foundation-that-he-said-he-wouldnt-settle/

Harry Dunn parents say they rejected Trump offer of payoff - Proposal made at White House encounter when couple were urged to meet Anne Sacoolas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/07/harry-dunn-parents-say-they-rejected-offer-of-a-cheque-from-trump

NSC official who attended key Ukraine meetings to leave post | Earl Matthews attended meetings with Ukrainian officials now at the center of the congressional impeachment inquiry.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/07/earl-matthews-nsc-ukraine-067363

Kent testified that pressing Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and the DNC servers “is not anti-corruption,” and actually resembles selective prosecution. This undercuts a major defense from Trump, that he was genuinely trying to clean up Ukraine by pressing for Biden/DNC probes.
https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1192574616713285636

"Mr. Trump admits to personally misusing funds at the Trump Foundation, and agrees to restrictions on future charitable service and ongoing reporting to the Office of the Attorney General in the event he creates a new charity. The settlements also include mandatory training requirements for Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump. Finally, the settlements name the charities that will receive the remaining assets of the Trump Foundation as part of its dissolution."
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/ag-james-secures-court-order-against-donald-j-trump-trump-children-and-trump

Official testifies Trump wanted Ukraine's Zelensky to mention and "investigate" Hillary Clinton
https://www.axios.com/george-kent-ukraine-impeachment-transcript-b8a63c94-d83b-4d81-934c-394c5bce89e1.html

State Department official says Giuliani was engaged in a campaign ‘full of lies and incorrect information’ about former ambassador
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-live-updates/2019/11/07/a2fa1ad0-00e5-11ea-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html

Trump Chicago hotel profits plummet by 89%, despite infusion of campaign money | Trump's company blames drop on Chicago "violence" — but his lawyers admit his unpopularity is hurting business
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/07/trump-chicago-hotel-profits-plummet-by-89-despite-infusion-of-campaign-money/

Donald Trump Has Reportedly Discussed Making The Apprentice: White House
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/report-trump-has-discussed-the-apprentice-white-house.html

Bloomberg is actively preparing to enter the Democratic presidential primary and is expected to file paperwork this week designating himself as a candidate in at least one state.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-president-2020.html

Bloomberg really didn't want to run against Biden, and wouldn't have much of a lane if Biden ran - so his move toward running is a pretty strong indication he thinks Biden is in trouble
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1192568648952696837

Democrats are continuing to dismantle the once-solid GOP walls of support in suburbs around the country.
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/702474/democrats-rocking-the-suburbs

When they have their smartest top people go on TV and say nonsense things like this, it makes you think they might not have as strong a hand as they’re pretending. Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the President. Full stop.
https://twitter.com/RetiredOrrin/status/1192423970018152448

Me to shitstain Orrin Hatch: PRO-TRUMP CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN STATE DEPARTMENT TOP-TIER STAFF ARE TESTIFYING RIGHT NOW UNDER OATH THAT SHITSTAIN TRUMP ABUSED HIS POWER BY ORDERING UKRAINE AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO ATTACK A US AMBASSADOR FOR POLITICAL REASONS. YOUR. OWN. PRO. TRUMP. CONSERVATIVE. REPUBLICAN. SHITSTAIN. TOP. TIER. STAFFERS. AT. THE. STATE. DEPARTMENT. SAID. UNDER. OATH. EXACTLY. WHAT. ERIC. SWALWELL. SAID. YOU. RETIRED. GO. AWAY. AND. DIE. ALREADY.

They Called 911, Then N.Y.P.D. Workers Sold the Data, Officials Say | Six current and former employees are accused of steering car accident victims to specific health clinics, doctors and lawyers in exchange for kickbacks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/nyregion/nypd-911-insurance-fraud.html