ME-02 was just a small example. The ME-02 I believe was on the presidential race (Maine like Nebraska splits their electoral votes). The link was about the congressional race. To be fair, I mostly just remember it because they ran an ad that accidentally stated with “Dear Virginia” in Maine. Trump has also been relying more on PACs for his campaign to be fair as he’s been outsourcing a lot more. Regardless, they’ve also done things like as another example pull money out of New Hampshire which they thought they, while probably not winning, could at least narrow margins on earlier with Biden in

Normally, I’d agree with that about debating. However, even other republicans were earlier urging trump to debate again and he still declined

Oh oops, didn’t see the date was a bit ago. I saw it linked elsewhere online first and didn’t catch that it was from june when reading the article

That is missing my point about their spending changes. Districts and states are hardly isolated from each other. The movments within one tends to correlate well with others. If there’s slipage for republicans in fairly red ME-2, it bodes well for other states

Republicans are more resource limited right now compared to dems. If think they need to allocate money away from those swing states into ME-2 (which running up the score in doesn’t particularly matter), what does that say about how they view the race?

Not to say they couldn’t be just allocating poorly and making poor choices, but in that case then this whole discussion is moot about reading into their decisions as to not to debate

That doesn’t line up as how the Republican campaign has been acting. For instance, they’ve started spending in areas like ME-2 which has been pretty strongly Republican for a while

Down ballot they’re republicans are uping spending in places that should be theoretically solidly red like Nebraska (senate race) and Indiana (governor race)

How I’d read it has more to do with how Trump’s been having more obvious mental decline lately. A second debate would really show that

It’s more than a “handshake”. States are actually passing laws for this. Plus there’s nothing stopping you from going above 270 electoral votes

Once it’s been in effect for a while, it would make a formal constitutional ammendment to fully remove it a lot easier to get though

The popular vote compact is a work around that doesn’t require constitutional ammendment. It’s an agreement to put their states delegates vote toward the winner of the national popular vote. (And only goes into effect once a majority of the electoral votes have signed on to it)

So far 209 of the needed 270 electoral votes have already signed on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

Though California minimum wage is tied to inflation now (since 2023) so it’d be able to be built upon without losing ground in the meantime

Since 2023, it is tied to the CPI-W in California. Other blue states are stating to do the same

It makes pushes to raise it further like this a bit more meaningful in the long run too

He got his state on the national popular vote interstate compact as govenor. He’s talked about it before and done more than most to make the popular vote a reality

The same exact source or a different one?

And even at that, it seems more like the registration as a republican was more something she just forgot to update for a long time for her. Not like it was a recent shift in her views/voting

“I did as many people did way back… I registered in the party that my parents were when I started out,” Stelson said. She said since she was in a job that required her not to participate in partisan politics, she had not given much thought to how she was registered.

“And really, what matters to me is not how one is registered but how you vote. And I voted for Joe Biden, Josh Shapiro, John Fetterman, Hillary, Barack Obama. Bob Casey. And when I started seriously considering becoming a part of politics instead of covering it, I took care of business.”

https://penncapital-star.com/campaigns-elections/former-wgal-anchor-janelle-stelson-jumps-into-race-for-congress/

It’s u/whitehouse

I doubt the VP and President disagree all that much about “we should give hurricane victims aid”. The president can informally ask the VP to do simple tasks like “hey keep in touch with this governor and see if they need anything” when they think you’ll do what they’d do. The VP can’t act directly on things themselves

You also want to keep the person who might have to take over for the president at any moment to be in the loop at all times. You wouldn’t want them scrambling to get caught up in the off chance they had to take over for the president

Keep in mind he’s also refusing to meet with Biden

He’s also not spoken to the president either who has attempted to call as well. Biden is not even running for president anymore

We can help make that happen

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Write letters to likely dem voters in Texas to make sure they turnout!

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They’d get sued pretty immediately for that. It’s very explicitly against the law to do so. It’s illegal to remove voters from registration anything beyond 90 days out from the election. Voting rights groups and DOJ have sued Alabama for doing so 84 days out, they’d absolutely sue for after voter registration deadlines

Today is the last day to register to vote in Texas. Make sure to double check your registration because of voter purges and vote!

See how to do so below. Note that there’s only mail and in person registration and not online registration unlike most states. Registration by mail must be postmarked by today!

https://vote.gov/register/texas

She does have kids as a stepmother. They just apparently don’t count that

George Washington did not have any children by blood either, so got to be before 1789

Meanwhile Biden is considering calling a special session directly. It’s not a commonly used presidential power but it is an option