In This Episode
With six days to go before Election Day, Trump floats repealing the 14th amendment via executive order, the most racist member of the Republican caucus, Steve King, faces a backlash, and we enter the home stretch with a huge number of districts in play. Plus, one of Trump’s dumbest supporters attempts to frame Robert Mueller, which goes poorly for him. And Kentucky congressional candidate and former fighter pilot Amy McGrath joins to talk about her experience and her race for the House.
Show Notes:
Closing the race with racism
- Axios: Exclusive: Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order
- Washington Post: Trump eyeing executive order to end birthright citizenship, a move most legal experts and top House Republican say runs afoul of the Constitution
- Washington Post: Trump’s proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional
- Vox: Can Trump end birthright citizenship? I asked 11 legal experts
- New York Times: President Wants to Use Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship
- Washington Post: Trump eyeing executive order to end birthright citizenship, a move most legal experts and top House Republican say runs afoul of the Constitution
- Politico: How Trump’s ‘birthright’ idea went from the fringe to the Oval Office
- Vox: Birthright citizenship, explained
- Washington Post: Don’t fall for Trump’s desperate, race-baiting birthright citizenship stunt
- PBS Newshour: What the data says about birthright citizenship
- Washington Post: Trump’s call to end birthright citizenship is a play to his base’s vision of who gets to be an American
- Washington Post: Trump’s call to end birthright citizenship is a play to his base’s vision of who gets to be an American
- Huffington Post: Trump Says He’ll Put Any Asylum Seeker From Migrant Caravan In ‘Tent Cities’
- Think Progress: Trump sends troops to border in ‘misuse of active duty military’ to escalate caravan fear-mongering
- New York Times: How Trump-Fed Conspiracy Theories About Migrant Caravan Intersect With Deadly Hatred
- Esquire: The Troops Don’t Deserve This
- The Atlantic: Trump’s Caravan Hysteria Led to This
- New Yorker: Trump, Birthright Citizenship, and the Politics of Fear and Rage
How should Democrats push back?
- New York Times: Trump Sending 5,200 Troops to the Border in an Election-Season Response to Migrants
- New York Times: They’re Trained for War. Now American Troops Are Headed to the U.S. Border
- Washington Post: Let’s not assume Trump’s divisive immigration strategy is secret political genius
Steve King
- CNN: House GOP campaign chief blasts Iowa Rep. Steve King’s ‘white supremacy and hate’
- Politico: Stivers ‘could not stay silent’ on Steve King
- Des Moines Register: Land O’Lakes ag co-op, facing boycott threats, pulls support for U.S. Rep. Steve King
- The Hill: New poll shows anti-immigration firebrand Steve King up by just one point
- Washington Post: In the wake of the Pittsburgh attack, Rep. Steve King’s Iowa supporters brush aside concern about his white nationalist views
- Sioux City Journal: OUR OPINION: Scholten represents best choice in 4th
- The Hill: Iowa newspaper breaks its tradition, endorses Steve King’s Dem opponent
- The Guardian: ‘He’s so openly racist’: why does Iowa keep electing Steve King to Congress?
- The Nation: J.D. Scholten Bets the Farm on Beating Steve King
- Vanity Fair: Steve King’s White Nationalism may finally cost him
Broader state of play
- Bloomberg: Trump to Skip House Races to Focus on Senate in Final Election Push
- FiveThirtyEight: Senate Update: Is Trump Holding His Final Pre-Election Rallies In The Right States?
- FiveThirtyEight: The Battleground In The House Is Really Big — And That Makes Life Hard For Republicans
- Politico: Democrats bank on female voter surge to flip the House
- Politico: Dems regain momentum in final days of battle for House
- Washington Post: Trump’s closing television ad for midterms doesn’t include Trump
- Politico: Trump launches early blame game on markets and the economy
- Washington Post: GOP scrambles to save suddenly vulnerable House candidates in Trump districts
- CNN: It’s not a blue wave. It’s a realignment of American politics
- New York Times: Parts of America Are Still Struggling Economically. They Don’t Matter Much in the Midterms.
- New Yorker: Are the Midterms the Tea Party’s Death Knell?
- The Atlantic: The Biggest Story of the Midterms Is One the Democrats Aren’t Telling
Wohl-mania
- Vox: The incredibly shoddy plot to smear Robert Mueller, explained
- Daily Beast: Inside the Crazy Cabal Trying to Smear Robert Mueller
- BuzzFeed: Robert Mueller’s Office Has Asked The FBI To Investigate Allegations That A Woman Was Offered Money To Accuse Him Of Sexual Harassment
- GQ: MAGA Trolls’ Efforts to Take Down Robert Mueller Flame Out in Hilarious and Spectacular Fashion
- Politico: Mueller asks FBI to probe scheme seeking sexual assault dirt on him
Amy McGrath
- WKYT: Former VP Joe Biden campaigns for Amy McGrath
- New York Times: Amy McGrath Is Avoiding Attack Ads. Can a Congressional Candidate Win Without Them?
- CBC: The US congressional race that could signal a national shift
- Lexington Herald: This week make it clear: Here’s how the 6th District race is really all about Trump
- Roll Call: Amy McGrath announces $3.65 Million Quarterly Haul in Kentucky
