As the electoral world closes in on donald trump, he is in full panic mode as evidenced by his attacks on EVERYONE....... from the world's top infectious disease expert Dr. ANTHONY FAUCI........... to all of the "idiot" doctors dealing with the pandemic..........to JOE BIDEN because biden says he will listen to the medical people on how to handle the virus..........to the REPUBLICAN senator from nebraska, BEN SASSE, who openly criticized trump for turning his back on the medical advice to fight the pandemic and accused trump of "kissing the butts" of the world's dictators......and he finished up by walking out on an interview with LESLIE STAHL of 60 minutes, saying that she had asked him harder questions than she did joe biden. wow. I wonder if he held his breath and stomped his feet.
Trump's attack on fauci has drawn condemnation from both sides of the aisle and his response to sasse was so juvenile that it made me laugh out loud. "He's stupid & obnoxious and needs to be replaced. He's the weakest of all of our senators." FYI--sasse is currently ahead in his re-election race 66%-33%. Doesn't look weak to me.
November 3rd can't get here fast enough.
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Mayor LORI LIGHTFOOT is in a no-win situation with her budget shortfalls caused by the pandemic. The city is chasing 1.2 BILLION in lost revenue so......
1) the gas tax is going up 3 cents a gallon
2) increasing property taxes by $94 million (if you own a 250,000 house, you would pay $56 dollars extra a year)
3) Eliminating 450 police jobs that are currently vacant due to retirements
4) Eliminating 550 city jobs that are currently vacant
5) Laying off 500 active city employees
6) Requiring all non-union employees to take 5 unpaid days off
7) A hiring freeze
On top of this, lightfoot has to find a way to come to an agreement with the police department on a new contract because the boys in blue have been working without a contract for over 3 years. Every city department has a new contract except the police and her recent, very generous agreement with the fire department raised eyebrows at the FOP. The new budget year is not going to be pretty.
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Democratic state's attorney KIM FOXX, who lost favor with law enforcement when she let actorJESSE SMOLLETT walk away without a conviction is facing a stiff campaign challenge from Republican PAT O'BRIEN, a former judge and prosecutor who has twice as much money to spend on his campaign. Can he win? probably not but he's cut the polling margin down to 6% with 9% still undecided. Foxx makes my skin crawl.
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Back to little donnie for a moment. Former New York Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG has donated $100 MILLION DOLLARS into the Florida democratic coffers which has forced trump to re-direct money from other states in order to offset the media blitz caused by bloomberg's contribution. trump absolutely needs florida if he has any chance at re-election so he was basically forced to abandon his media budget in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota because his campaign is running low on cash, which is real bad news for him with just two weeks until election day.
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Here's your scoop on the election. The democrats are going to retain every state they won in 2016 so they need to find 43 electoral votes in the SIX battleground states that trump won in the last election, winning 304-227.
MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN, ARIZONA, NORTH CAROLINA, PENNSYLVANIA & FLORIDA. As of today, JOE BIDEN has comfortable leads in michigan (16) & wisconsin (10) which gets him to 253 of the 270 needed and reduces trump to 278.
Biden has a 6% lead in pennsylvania (20) and that would seal the deal at 273 for biden and drop trump down to a non-winnable 258. Remember that these are all states that trump won in 2016 so every loss subtracts from his 304 winning total, which is exactly why trump is pouring money into florida because he needs that state if he is to have any chance and polls indicate that he is also in a real dog fight in Arizona, Iowa and Ohio, three states he won handily in 2016.
And a little treat....if biden wins wisconsin, michigan, north carolina and arizona, then little donnie can have florida AND pennsylvania and biden would still have 279 to win the election. sweet.
AND DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME !!
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Remember to vote responsibly on November 3rd. Just take a minute and think about everything that's gone on during the last 4 years and i think your decision will be pretty easy. STAY SAFE and i'll see you next time
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