February 21-22, 2020

Feb 21 01:41 Sen. Klobuchar writing off Nevada
Feb 21 10:46 Larry Jacobs' prove it point

Feb 22 00:07 The Democrats' Trump problem
Feb 22 01:15 House Democrats' credibility crisis
Feb 22 11:52 Radically transforming America vs. Making America Great Again
Feb 22 14:16 Deep State, NY Times vs. Rick Grenell, Devin Nunes
Feb 22 20:32 Bernie trounces Biden, Klobuchar finishes better than expected

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Sen. Klobuchar writing off Nevada


If this article sends any message, it's that Sen. Klobuchar has written off Nevada's caucuses. This isn't surprising, considering the fact that she turned in her worst debate performance at the worst possible time. Getting into a food fight with Pete Buttigieg made both look petulant.

The fact that Sen. Klobuchar is campaigning in Colorado, a Super Tuesday state, 2 days before the Nevada Caucuses isn't a sign of strength. It's proof that she's giving up on Nevada. Caucuses take organization, something that Sen. Klobuchar doesn't have. In New Hampshire, she had a great debate. That catapulted her to a strong third place finish. Her fundraising picked up after that debate, too.

According to RealClearPolitics averages, Sen. Klobuchar hasn't shown any Klomentum :


The truth is that Sen. Klobuchar's campaign is essentially dead. After Nevada's caucuses is South Carolina's first-in-the-South Primary. She isn't doing well there, either:


I suspect that South Carolina will be the end of the road for Sen. Klobuchar. Based on this polling from California, I'm betting that Sen. Klobuchar's fundraising will dry up totally before California:


California is an expensive media state so she wouldn't be competitive there. If she's a team player, she'll drop out after South Carolina. In this video, Klobuchar and Buttigieg both flame out:
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Both candidates came across poorly, though I thought Buttigieg came across as a snot-nosed little punk. I thought Klobuchar lost her composure but Buttigieg came across as thoroughly unlikable.

Posted Friday, February 21, 2020 1:41 AM

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Larry Jacobs' prove it point


Larry Jacobs thinks that Amy Klobuchar has reached her prove it point in the race . After a strong debate performance in New Hampshire, she translated that into a mini-fundraising windfall. Then she finished a strong third place there.

I wrote here that Klomentum has disappeared. She had a disappointing debate performance Wednesday. The RCP average of polls shows her in sixth place for the Democrat presidential nomination. There's no momentum and she's campaigning in Colorado 2 days before the Nevada Caucuses. Those aren't the signs of a confident candidate.

At this point, St. Amy's campaign is just about finished. Prof. Jacobs, political science professor and department head at the University of Minnesota, notes "This is a state where the DFL, the base of the DFL, are probably more progressive than Amy Klobuchar. So I think there's a real risk that she'll lose Minnesota. Amy Klobuchar cannot be everywhere at the same time." About Super Tuesday, Jacobs said "She's going to need a good showing. We're getting very close to the 'prove it' point."

I question whether Sen. Klobuchar will still be in the race by Super Tuesday. She's in 6th place in Nevada the day before that state's caucuses:


She's in 6th place in South Carolina, too:


After that campaigning gets expensive in California, Texas, North Carolina, etc. People are hinting that, at this point, she's really running for VP but I question that. How appealing is she to Bernie or Bloomberg, the 2 likely 'finalists' for the Democrat presidential nomination?

Posted Friday, February 21, 2020 10:46 AM

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The Democrats' Trump problem


With the Democrats' nomination process underway, pundits across the nation have handicapped the state of the race ad nauseum. According to the experts, there are multiple lanes in the Democratic Party. Initially, there was a socialist wing, a moderate wing and a Joe Biden wing. Initially, it was thought that Bernie would share the socialist wing with Elizabeth Warren. That changed when Bernie suffered a heart attack in early October. Shortly thereafter, it was thought that he'd end his campaign.

When Bernie returned, he quickly regained momentum. That eventually pushed Elizabeth Warren into a different lane, sometimes known as the Uniter lane. Under this theory, Sen. Warren would unite the Bernie wing and the moderate wing. It didn't make sense but that's the Warren campaign's spin. When Bloomberg and Steyer jumped into the race, that created a 'Billionaires Lane.'

Ultimately, though, the only lane that matters is the Republican lane. President Trump fills that lane by himself. President Trump's personality wipes out the sun. This afternoon, when President Trump held a rally in Las Vegas, he brought up the 1980 US Olympic Hockey team to honor them because Saturday is the 40th anniversary of the day the US defeated the then-Soviet Union hockey team:
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The Democrats' biggest problem is that President Trump is the guy who sucks all the media oxygen out of the room. His policies are working fantastically. Illegal immigration is getting more under control with each month. The economy is the best it's been in terms of wage growth and unemployment rate since Clinton. In terms of GDP growth, the only presidents who've done better recently are Clinton and Reagan. The Democrats' presidential candidates are mediocre at best. It's irrelevant whether Democrats run Bernie or Bloomberg.

Bloomberg has been exposed as a billionaire attempting to buy the White House. He's apologized for keeping NYC streets safe. He's said exceptionally racist things. He's exposed as a sexist, too.

Bernie is a socialist millionaire who wants to confiscate successful people's wealth. He honeymooned in the Soviet Union when it was still the Soviet Union. He's said that breadlines are good:
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One's nutty (Bernie). The other's arrogant (Bloomberg). Let's see which Democrat gets to get drubbed. PS- Pass the popcorn.

Posted Saturday, February 22, 2020 12:07 AM

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House Democrats' credibility crisis


The House Democrats' credibility crisis is reaching epic proportions. Multiple DNC propagandist organizations, otherwise known as news organizations in a bygone era, are reporting that Russia is interfering in our elections with the intent on helping President Trump's re-election campaign and "to raise questions about the integrity of the elections process, the source added." Devin Nunes shot holes in that theory tonight, saying that "we can't talk about what happened in that meeting so if anything in that Washington Post story or the NYTimes story is true about either Bernie Sanders or Putin's plans and intentions or anything else, nobody that's in the committee or has seen this classified information should be talking about it. Now, it gets worse. When you have the Washington Post claim that I went to the White House to tell the President really bad things to get him to fire Maguire. Now, look, I don't know which planet the Washington Post is on but they'll have an opportunity in federal court in the next couple weeks to explain who their sources are because I'm gonna have to take them to court because I didn't go to the White House. I didn't talk to President Trump so this is the same garbage and the only way to get these guys to stop..."
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This didn't get leaked by the White House. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, aka the HPSCI, is chaired by Adam Schiff, the most notorious liar and leaker in Congress. Friday, Schiff tweeted this:


First, there's no doubt that Russia is attempting to interfere with elections. Next, Schiff has problems because CBS's Catherine Herridge tweeted this:


Allegations aren't proof. Opinions and theories aren't proof, either. Schiff's tweet isn't a lie because he said " if reports are true and the President is interfering with that, he is against jeopardizing our efforts to stop foreign meddling." At that point, Schiff is just hypothesizing. He closes, though, with a firm-sounding conclusion, saying "Exactly as we warned he would do."

The fact that the briefers didn't have phone intercepts or SIGINT to back up these claims is a major red flag. Schiff likely leaked this briefing. Shame on him for that but that won't stop him from leaking again. He's pathological. The list of his lies is lengthy and well-known. I don't need to repeat them here.

The Democrats' national security leadership team (Speaker Pelosi, Conference Chairman Jefferies, Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler and Chairman Schiff) aren't people of integrity. If you're looking for integrity from the Washington Post, CNN and the NYTimes, you haven't paid attention lately.

When it's time for this election's closing arguments, the Democrats' integrity/credibility crisis will come front and center. That's when things will get ugly fast.

Posted Saturday, February 22, 2020 1:15 AM

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Radically transforming America vs. Making America Great Again


The gulf between the Democrats and the Trump administration is wide and getting wider. In the final days of the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama said that "We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." His agenda was to become the anti-Reagan. He wanted to shift the United States from being a capitalist nation to being a socialist nation that forced people to do things they didn't want to do.

Obama's campaign slogan was "Hope & Change." His agenda wasn't popular, though he was personally popular. President Trump wasn't that popular initially, though people are warming up to him. President Trump's campaign slogan was "Make America Great Again." Along the campaign trail, his following grew while he developed other complementary slogans.

At his rally yesterday, President Trump told the crowd that he didn't think that much of the saying "Drain the Swamp." His opinion changed at the next rally, when people spontaneously started chanting "Drain the Swamp." President Trump's followers especially love him because they believe that he'll always have their back. President Trump hasn't finished building the wall but his supporters have seen that he's put in a good faith effort to build it. President Trump hasn't repealed and replaced Obamacare but that's because John McCain sabotaged that effort.

The Democrats aren't good at listening. The people didn't want to fundamentally transform the United States of America:
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They liked Reagan's shining city on a hill:
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That's been updated by making America great again:
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Newt Gingrich is right in saying this :

All the Democratic candidates represent an elite left-wing cultural view that believes America is a bad country of ignorant "deplorables." They all believe their mission is to use government to profoundly change America - even if it is against the wishes of many millions of Americans. At the same time, this radical Democratic Party proved Wednesday night that it has no coherent policy for creating jobs, solving problems or defending America.

Like Obama, this year's Democrats have launched a nationwide apology tour. Here's Bloomberg saying he wouldn't run:
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Here's what he said :

It's just not gonna happen on a national level for someone like me starting where I am (PAUSE) unless I was willing to change all my views and go on what CNN called an apology tour. Joe Biden went out and apologized for being male, over 50, white.

After saying that, he changed his core beliefs, then started apologizing. While mayor, though, he didn't regret stop, question and frisk. He appealed the judge's ruling banning that technique. Bloomberg is the personification of today's Democratic Party. It's apparent that he isn't tied to any principles. Bernie is the personification of the other part of the Democratic Party. He thinks that the USA needs to be fundamentally transformed at a time when we're prospering, wages are rising and consumer confidence is skyrocketing.

Posted Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:52 AM

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Deep State, NY Times vs. Rick Grenell, Devin Nunes


This NY Times article starts by saying that Rick Grenell isn't wasting time draining the Swamp. Shortly after that, the Times' bias is exposed. The Times wrote "Mr. Patel was best known as the lead author of a politically charged memo two years ago that accused F.B.I. and Justice Department leaders of abusing their surveillance powers to spy on a former Trump campaign adviser. The memo was widely criticized as misleading, though an inspector general later found other problems with aspects of the surveillance."

The Times' bias is obvious. First, they write that Kash Patel was the lead author of a document that "accused F.B.I. and Justice Department leaders of abusing their surveillance powers to spy on a former Trump campaign adviser." When the Times wrote that the "memo was widely criticized as misleading, though an inspector general later found other problems with aspects of the surveillance", it means that Adam Schiff criticized it, then the other Democrats on the Committee agreed with Schiff.

The fact that the Times article doesn't use the name of the report is proof of the Times' bias. The report is often referred to as the Horowitz Report. It's considered to be the authoritative report on the FBI's FISA warrant abuse. This should be one of the first things that Grenell looks into:

During the briefing, which was supposed to focus on coordination between government agencies to fight election interference, not the acts themselves, Republicans challenged the intelligence agencies' conclusion that the Russians continue to favor Mr. Trump. Some officials said the briefing was not meant to be controversial and that intelligence officials intended to simply reiterate what they had told the Senate Intelligence Committee weeks earlier.

There's no disputing that the Russians will attempt to interfere in our elections. What's disputed is whether the Russians are trying to help President Trump.

Since taking office, the Trump administration has levied crippling sanctions on Russia, sold lethal military aid to Ukraine, started negotiating with Europe to import LNG while cutting Europe's reliance on Russia's energy. That pipeline hurt Russia's economy bigtime. Why on God's green Earth would Putin prefer Trump over Bernie Sanders?

Bernie wants to eliminate US fossil fuel production, which helps Russia economically while strengthening its geopolitical position. Bernie thinks that the US should model itself after Cuba and Russia. Again, why would anyone think that Russia would prefer Trump over Bernie? Bernie honeymooned in Moscow when the Soviet Union still existed.

Grenell should highlight this interview to expose the Democrats' deceitfulness:
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It was Devin Nunes, the man that Adam Schiff has continually attacked, who first talked about Russian election interference in 2014 . During the interview, Nunes told Harris Faulkner that he'll soon be filing a lawsuit against the Washington Post for publishing an article that is demonstrably false.

If Grenell starts cleaning house within the ODNI, he'll quickly develop enemies. The Intel Community is as swampy as it gets. Ditto with the State Department. Adam Schiff is the personification of the Swamp, too, but that's another post for another day.

Posted Saturday, February 22, 2020 2:16 PM

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Bernie trounces Biden, Klobuchar finishes better than expected


FNC has called the Nevada Caucuses. It wasn't close. Bernie Sanders is running away with the delegates and the raw vote totals. He's almost tripling Joe Biden in both delegates to the Nevada Democrat State Convention and raw vote totals. Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the spectrum, Amy Klobuchar left Nevada and flew home to Minneapolis to speak at a rally . At the rally, Sen. "Klobuchar told her supporters at a rally in her native Minneapolis that she had once again 'exceeded expectations' in the race for the Democratic nomination as she tried to polish what entrance polling and initial results appear to indicate will be a finish outside the top tier in Nevada."

That's outright BS. Sen. Klobuchar finished in the low single digits percentage-wise, just ahead of some candidate named "undecided." At the rally, Sen. Klobuchar said "I always note that a lot of people didn't even think that I would still be standing at this point. They didn't think I'd make it through that speech in the snow. They didn't think I'd make it to the debate floor. But time and time again, because of all of you and because of the people around this country that want something different than the guy in the White House, we have won."
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Saying that finishing in the microscopic single-digits rates as exceeds expectations says that Sen. Klobuchar's expectations were virtually nonexistent. Sen. Klobuchar's schedule for tomorrow includes "rallies in North Dakota, Oklahoma, Arkansas and South Carolina." She'll be on the debate stage in South Carolina Tuesday night, then participate in South Carolina's First-in-the-South Primary on Saturday.

The latest polling there shows Sen. Klobuchar finishing sixth:


After today's finish, it's difficult picturing Sen. Klobuchar making it past South Carolina. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Bernie is looking like a juggernaut. While it's too early to say he's the nominee, it isn't too early to say that he's the prohibitive frontrunner. Bernie leads in California by double-digits and barely trails Biden in Texas. If someone doesn't win some states on Super Tuesday, then this race is essentially over. Doing well isn't enough. At this point, moral victories won't cut it. Finishing better than expectations is fine in Iowa and New Hampshire. To win the nomination, the candidate must win states, especially the biggest delegate-rich states.

That narrows things down to Bernie, perhaps Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg and Steyer. After that, it's unrealistic.

Posted Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:32 PM

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