In which we discuss the current outlook for the 2020 presidential election, the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan, the Biden campaign’s unwillingness to answer a simple question, and everyone’s favorite dinner-table topic, abortion!
Here’s the latest CIB Official Election Forecast Model map:
Here’s a 60 Minutes piece on the constitutional amendment in Florida that attempted to restore the franchise to ex-felons, before the Republican legislature stepped in with a bit of the old "NOT SO FAST MY FRIEND.”
Here’s a map of Virginia’s 5th Congressional District—the fightin’ fifth!—that stretches from northwest of DC all the way down the I-64 to the North Carolina border.
WaPo on the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan. The FBI recently revealed that Virginia governor Ralph Northam recently faced a similar threat. And below is the interview with Sheriff DAR LEAF from Michigan that we got such a kick out of.
Joe Biden and his campaign have decided that there is no reason for them to answer the question about expanding the size of the Supreme Court. Here’s a particularly egregious example from this past Sunday, when Biden Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield steadfastly refused to give anything resembling an answer to Jake Tapper on CNN.
During the show, I said something like “20 percent of people or so simply will not vote for someone who is not explicitly ‘pro-life’”—turns out I was wrong, because it’s more like 30 percent.
Perhaps most revealing, a spring poll from Gallup found that about 1 in 4 Americans, particularly voters who oppose abortion rights, see abortion as a sort of personal litmus test. Fully 30% of people who consider themselves "pro-life" say they would only vote for a candidate who shares that view compared to 19% of people who consider themselves "pro-choice."
Here’s Roger Federer’s sneakily rivals-shitting-upon tweet, dressed up in all his cloying “classiness.”
We didn’t mention it in the show, because it only just happened, but Nick Saban has the ‘rona! Will there even be a Georgia/Alabama showdown for the Dawgs to choke away this weekend? Let’s hope so! Talk to you next week.