Giantaxe

The NY Times has their seven-day moving average at ~6.1k versus ~9.7k at its peak. Still extremely concerning as compared to other European countries.

Steerpike

Another Republican comes out for Biden (honestly, I thought he'd already done that, but apparently not!)

Former RNC chairman Michael Steele joins The Lincoln Project

Jsmth321

The Lincoln Project should rename themselves the The Lincoln Party, and try and get the more moderate and sane republicans to join, and maybe we can hope the current republican party dies into history.

A dream I know, but does have a bit of a nice ring, The Lincoln Party.

TLP for short

Glad to see other high profile republicans not standing behind Trump.

Giantaxe

I think they are hoping that the Republican Party is salvageable from this morass.

zzrmark

It would be nice if they recognized that Trump was not the cause of their woes, merely the result. Putting the cat bag in the bag after it's had run of your house for the last thirty years is not going to be an easy task.


And shifting topic slightly. Was it my eyesight or was Nikki Haley, with the normally beautiful complexion, wearing whiteface at the DNC last night?

civilservant

Did anyone else catch any of Kimberly Guilfoyle speech last night? If was one of the oddest, most tone deaf, things I have ever heard.

Former Lancastrian

Yeah but seeing as you are not a Trump supporter/voter then she was not speaking to you so that's why it seemed odd. I expect more odd things to come out of Republicans mouths before voting day. I am waiting to see how many threaten to move to Canada and places elsewhere should he get a 2nd term.

Lion in Winter

You need earplugs for that one.

She's not alone at the convention in delivering a bizarre mixture of fanatical Trump adulation and grandiosity, and peculiar statements about Biden leading a Marxist takeover.

civilservant

Not really. I'm not saying the content was odd - it was typical red meat to the base, it was the style of delivery that was odd. Seemed like she was auditioning for a remake of Evita just without the music.

This is the only speech I have seen or intend to see from the RNC. Only sought it out because it has been pretty poorly received by the 'Fake News' and wanted to see why.

Lion in Winter

I prefer to read what they said later. Less shouty.

robin1234

Really? Folks reliably threaten that, it’s been happening for 200+ years. The vast majority don’t go.

Oakvillian

I had read some reviews and commentary, but hadn't seen video of her speech until you posted it. It looks to have been written - and delivered - as if to a room full of braying supporters, complete with overenthusiastic delivery and rather awkward pauses for the applause that isn't there. For the address to an empty hall, anybody with a half-decent speechwriter would tone down the delivery, even if the rhetoric itself is still a tub-thumper (which this really wasn't...). And it's not as if, as a Fox News pundit, she's unused to playing to the camera rather than the crowd. A very odd performance.

Former Lancastrian

Yeah I know but it is nice to see who does then backs out and the odd one get called out on it. Trouble is some of them couldn't if they wanted to.

robin1234

It’s when Britain or Canada offers them $$ or a job, that they actually leave. Like the loyalists after the “revolution,” who got a pension from the British government. And in modern times, a woman I know was able to move to Newfoundland as a teacher, under some government scheme there.

robin1234

I think the rump who are left in the Trump campaign are not the best or the brightest. Sad.