Yahoo:
Yahoo News / YouGov Poll: More than two-thirds of Americans support Biden with helping COVID – and most support the rest of his agenda
When asked about the 20 guidelines that define President Biden’s agenda, more Americans support them than all 20, according to a new poll by Yahoo News / YouGov.
The edges are crucial. The majority of Biden’s proposals received at least twice as much support as the opposition. Almost half are preferred by more than 60 percent of Americans.
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Some people are not vaccinated while having actual tracking devices in their pockets and using them to post vaccines because of a conspiracy theory that vaccines are tracking devices.
– James Hamblin (@jameshamblin) February 1, 2021
Axios:
In the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency
Byrne, who supported Flynn, told Trump that White House attorneys hadn’t bothered about him and were obstructive. “Sir, we’re both entrepreneurs and we’ve built both companies,” the former Overstock CEO told Trump. “We know there are times when you have to be creative and take different steps.”
This was a remarkable level of personal familiarity since Byrne had met the President for the first time. All stanchions and buffers between the White House and the outside world had collapsed.
Byrne continued to attack White House executives before Trump. “They have already left you,” he said aggressively to the president. Periodically during The Flynn or Byrne meeting challenged Trump’s top staff and portrayed them as disloyal: Do you think the president won or not?
At one point, when Flynn screamed, Byrne raised a hand to speak. He got up and turned to Herschmann. “You’re a quitter,” he said. “They interfered in everything. They cut us off.”
“Do you even know who the hell I am, you idiot?” Herschmann snapped back.
“Yes, you are Patrick Cipollone,” said Byrne.
“Wrong! Wrong, you idiot!”
The above is a must read.
WaPo:
Bad virus handling cost Trump his re-election, finds the campaign’s autopsy
The 27-page document shows that voters in 10 key states identified the pandemic as their top electoral problem, and President Biden received higher grades on the issue. The report also shows that Trump has lost ground among the major demographics he needed.
The internal report cuts against Trump’s claims that his election was stolen and that Biden couldn’t have beat him fairly – and reflects what many Trump campaign officials have been saying privately for months.
Analysis by Fabrizio, a Florida pollster who has worked for Trump for years, was shared among campaign advisors late last year and made available to the Washington Post on Monday evening. Politico first reported the existence of the document.
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Ruth is right and is one of the hottest people in the field. The current GOP should be seen as the equivalent of the National Front in France and other right-wing / nationalist parties in Europe that have been generally excluded from power by large parties. Oh. https://t.co/UF3UiWZ8Kg
– Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 1, 2021
HuffPost:
Most Americans Blame Trump for Violence at Capitol Riot: Poll
White evangelicals are an exception, according to a new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute.
Around 57% of US adults surveyed said that Trump bears a great deal of responsibility for the violent actions of the rioters, and another 16% say that he bears at least some responsibility. The poll released on Thursday found that around 25% said the former president was not responsible at all.
White Evangelical Protestants, who were a significant part of Trump’s grassroots, differed from other religious groups on this issue. Only 23% of white evangelicals said Trump bears a great deal of responsibility for the uprising, compared with 74% of all black Protestants who said the same thing.
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In our case, bipartisanism is impossible because one party has fallen off the rails and has become an extremist conspiracy party. Which is bad for democracy.
– Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) February 1, 2021
Jamelle Bouie / NY Times:
10 Republicans Who Compromised Precisely Backwards
They offered a meager Covid relief plan that is deeply dubious.
In other words, the Republican Plan is just the Biden Plan, except for worse – less comprehensive, less ambitious, less generous. And there’s no rhyme or reason for these cuts; It is only greed for the sake of greed.
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New research finds no evidence of an anti-conservative tendency in social media.
I don’t agree with all of the policy recommendations, but their data and analysis are solid.
The complaint was always more of a victim mentality + the work on the referees than fact-based analyzes: //t.co/bvrIG9lKGl
– Nicholas Grossman (@ NGrossman81) February 1, 2021
Max Boot / WaPo:
Rob Portman did more harm to America than Marjorie Taylor Greene
Two very different Republican Congressmen were on the news recently.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected member from rural Georgia, has been widely and rightly berated for her insane views. She liked a Facebook post that said the quickest way to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D.-Calif., Was to “put a bullet in the head.” She has suggested that the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida was a false flag operation. She has even postulated that California wildfires were caused by one Space laser controlled by rich Jews.
Rob Portman, a longtime Senator from Ohio, is Greene’s antithesis. Over many decades in Washington, he has built a reputation as a sober and serious political wonk. His decision to retire next year was greeted with predictable handshakes. A columnist for the Wall Street Journal lamented: “He is a rightly respected figure. He’s trying to push serious laws. He doesn’t talk on TV all the time. “
However, if we are to divide responsibility for the Republican Party’s decline into irrationality and authoritarianism, I would argue that Portman is far more to blame than Greene.
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Another tidbit from my conversation with John Cowan, whom Majorie Taylor Greene defeated in a GOP primary drain, is that there may still be up to eight hours of video sharing conspiracy theories and other problematic statements https: // t .co / uO989EI1Hj
– Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) February 1, 2021
Tim Miller / Bulwark:
Dare Trump to testify
He should be called as a coward if he refuses to take a stand in his own defense.
Some of them wish to raise procedural issues by using constitutional hocus-pocus evoked from the region of Jonathan Turley’s frontal cortex to keep its relevance.
Some of them want to analyze the president’s rhetoric. Was it a little too hot or too cold? Didn’t he even use the word “peaceful”? Have there been any liberal politicians in the past who have said something vaguely similar to Trump, which the Democrats now call incitement?
Some of them want to turn the process into a circus. Lindsey Graham suggested calling the QAnon shaman to the booth, and last night Fox threatened it Drag the process out for months with new witnesses to derail the Biden agenda.
This is the turf Republicans believe they will win. The pedantic. The absurd. The political art of playing.
The lawn they lose on? Donald Trumps Actions. His persistent refusal to join his Lying.
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I am often asked about different vaccines and their effectiveness
Each study tracked reports effectiveness differently
We currently have preliminary results for Novavax and J & J.
But which numbers are important? What should you watch out for?
Here is a record to keep track of. In a simple table pic.twitter.com/9m2OBgqcla
– Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) February 1, 2021
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