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"Trump, your Garden of Heroes is sleight of hand. You want to focus on monuments, but your policies have undermined voting rights, health care, immigrant justice & protections for the American people, esp poor & low wealth," William Barber, a reverend and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, said in a tweet. … [Read more...] about Historians question Trump’s ‘heroes,’ plans for national garden monument

Still, it's a fine line. Security drowns out every other issue in an Israeli election campaign. So it plays to Netanyahu's advantage. But a miscalculation and too tough a response if and when Hezbollah retaliates could create an escalatory cycle tripping into a messy war with Hezbollah that leads to significant Israeli casualties -- not a good campaign narrative on the eve of an election. … [Read more...] about Weirdly, Trump seeks peace with Iran while Netanyahu battles it

Three other people working on the Trump re-election effort privately shared their incredulity that the president’s statue fixation is likely to translate to much of a poll bump in itself but hoped it would act as a “gateway,” as one campaign official said, to Trump honing his pitch to voters in these crucial final months, following weeks of his seeming inability to find a coherent message on “law and order.” … [Read more...] about Trump Advisers Wonder: ‘Is the Statue Shit Going to Work?’

Some in the crowd began lining up days ago at the border gates surrounding the BOK Center in downtown Tulsa—all for a glimpse of Trump in his first rally since March. But the numbers of actual attendees appeared to fall far short of expectations. After hyping the likelihood of a packed arena with a massive overflow crowd that the president would address separately, the campaign had to abruptly cancel that separate speech. And footage from inside the BOK Center showed entire sections of baby blue empty seats as Trump’s surrogates tried to rev up attendees. … [Read more...] about Trump’s Big Campaign Revival Speech Turns Into a Story About a Ramp and His Fear of ‘Falling on My Ass’

“The message to Vladimir Putin is you can kill American servicemen and women with absolute impunity,” she said. “This is an extraordinary revelation. The president of the United States has demonstrated absolutely callous disregard for the safety and security of American forces in a war zone and there's no explanation for this.” … [Read more...] about Susan Rice: Trump picks Putin over troops ‘even when it comes to the blood of American service members’