“I can’t do it this time," one older voter who backed the president's first run in 2016 tells @NBCNews. "I’m just sick of all of his s—." https://t.co/LDPm5XrW5z
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 24, 2020
“Isolated in his shrink-wrap, Fox-speak bubble in the debate, Trump ignored the fact that he has already turned America into a sort of dystopia by bungling and dissimulating on the virus.” @maureendowd https://t.co/e2c9txigkQ
— Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, News Guild (@DanRodricks) October 24, 2020
This election isn’t about Biden. It’s about Trump: the ultimate referendum on this norm-shattering presidency, the climactic episode of our national nervous breakdown, the final reckoning https://t.co/4l70GO5HCb
— TIME (@TIME) October 24, 2020
Total collapse. https://t.co/rryPNOtHnb
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 24, 2020
Trump teases he may not have a peaceful transfer of power if he loseshttps://t.co/rRso8en7Bi
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 24, 2020
Republicans have more to gain from losing the election — and they know it: Columnisthttps://t.co/BhtesIIxby
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 24, 2020
Dueling appearances from President Trump and former President Obama kicked off statewide early voting in Florida https://t.co/PkHuQHdHTd
— POLITICO (@politico) October 24, 2020
We obtained documents that reveal more information about the extent to which White House officials and Trump administration political appointees interfered with press materials and communications at scientific agencies. https://t.co/DRzMspg3bB
— American Oversight (@weareoversight) October 24, 2020
I keep thinking about the last days of the over 220,000 people dead from Covid. Not surrounded by loved ones, but isolated, their only human contact with health workers that they can barely see, much less touch. Their last images of children, spouses, parents thru video. https://t.co/qCPlLA9Mmo
— rabia O'chaudry (@rabiasquared) October 24, 2020
Trump is not dealing with the reality of the situation. Last night in Pensacola, he said: “We're rounding the turn, with or without the vaccine. We have the vaccine. They’re going to be great. But with or without, and we're rounding the turn.” https://t.co/IyYiJ4L2kx
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 24, 2020
What do you say to someone like that? pic.twitter.com/w2Bu1z9owe
— jamie (@gnuman1979) October 24, 2020
Trump promised seniors drug discount cards. They may be illegal.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 24, 2020
"It's not going to happen before the election, and maybe not ever." https://t.co/Fb42X3wo98
At an event in Miami, former President Barack Obama scoffed at President Trump for walking out on a '60 Minutes' interview with Lesley Stahl pic.twitter.com/q07Fd4IXWA
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 24, 2020
"I will vote to confirm Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court.”
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) October 24, 2020
Sen. Lisa Murkowski flip-flopped on her pledge to oppose the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, making her installation as early as Monday even more of a sure thing.https://t.co/5OCiB1CJuc
It was bad enough when she used the woefully outdated term “sexual preference” referring to gay people, which she dialed back quickly when called out on it. But that was, it turned out, a mendacious feint: Barrett’s Rise Is a Threat to Families Like Mine https://t.co/jqYubt0bm3
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) October 24, 2020
"While it is no secret that our criminal justice system has economic implications for those who serve time, we now understand just how devastating those impacts are," writes Wes Moore https://t.co/hoIGKj0WCC
— TIME (@TIME) October 24, 2020
it's long been clear that the absolute most devastating interview of the president would be to ask him the simplest possible questions about what he thinks simple words and political terms mean https://t.co/YrPk9FS6e5
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) October 24, 2020
Prompted by @akk speech on trans-Atlantic relations, there needs to be a line in Biden inaugural address: "And to our allies and partners around the world, on behalf of the American people, I vow to you that we will never, ever again mix tequila and quaaludes, so help us God."
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 24, 2020
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BORISHAMBLES BRITAIN
So much is hanging on the US vote on 3 November.
— Julian Borger (@julianborger) October 24, 2020
For example, in the UK, Boris Johnson is widely expected to base his decision on whether to take the country into a no-deal Brexit based on Trump's fate.
By @tobyhelm and mehttps://t.co/KSlcVzGBaH
📍 The European Union never believed Boris Johnson was serious when he threatened a no-deal Brexit.
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 24, 2020
🚨 But, in a carefully choreographed to and fro, Brussels played along with the pantomime theatrics and met British conditions to restart the talks https://t.co/DqtAG2mRVO
Brexit is collapsing brick by brick!
— Brexit Bin 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🕊🇺🇦 #BrexitHasFailed (@BrexitBin) October 24, 2020
"The government has quietly reduced the £35,800 minimum salary for migrants to settle in the UK by almost 30% to £20,480."
That £1,706 per month
£426 per week
£85 per day
£10.60 per hourhttps://t.co/TgyMnCDHHz
It would be the height of folly not to be terrified of a government that shows absolutely no interest in whether or not its behaviour might affect its future electability.
— Dr Simon Ubsdell (@SimonUbsdell) October 24, 2020
First Minister Mark Drakeford @fmwales said the ban on non-essential goods at supermarkets will be reviewed after the weekend and he will make sure 'common sense is applied'.https://t.co/QXxVowHeRm pic.twitter.com/WcTruhffwy
— WalesOnline 🏴 (@WalesOnline) October 24, 2020
The Irish Sea border starts in 69 days. Already it is leading to GB items not even being sold in NI, it is likely to see prices rise, & in the worst scenario, some supermarkets could pull out. In its centennial year, NI will become more of a place apart. https://t.co/oemX61VqpR
— Sam McBride (@SJAMcBride) October 24, 2020
The creation of Northern Ireland is the result of failure, politically, socially and economically, nothing to celebrate.
— Jason R Gordon (@jasonrgordon) October 24, 2020
No need to put the clocks back. They were set permanently to 1945 in June 2016.
— Otto English (@Otto_English) October 24, 2020
The Overnight Note 