In This Episode
With 15 days to go, Jon and Dan give a midterm update, Trump uses caravans and voter fraud to scare people, Democrats try to flip state legislatures, and the Trump Administration wants to define transgender Americans out of existence. Then Democratic Congressional candidate Aftab Pureval talks to Jon about his race to flip the Ohio 1st, and why we need a new generation of leaders in Washington.
Show Notes:
Polls
- NBC News: NBC/WSJ Poll: Democrats hold 9-point advantage for midterm elections
- Wall Street Journal: Interest in Midterms Surges, Along With Trump Approval Rating
- New York Times: For a Change, Democrats Seem Set to Equal or Exceed Republicans in Turnout
- FiveThirtyEight: Election Update: Republicans’ Overall Senate Chances Are Holding Steady
- FiveThirtyEight: Election Update: What The Polls Say In Four Republican-Leaning Battleground Districts
- FiveThirtyEight: Election Update: Democrats’ Unprecedented Fundraising Edge Is Scary For Republicans … And Our Model
- CNN: The Forecast: Republicans could keep the House. Here’s how
- Politico: How Republicans could (barely) hang on to the House
- NBC News: Nine kinds of races that will decide the fate of the House
- Washington Post: House Democrats’ hope for wave election diminishes as Republicans rebound
- Washington Post: Talkin’ about massive turnover no matter who wins the House
- New York Times: G.O.P. Candidates Struggling in Key Battlegrounds, With House at Stake
Pivoting to Medicare
- Politico: ‘Campaign gold’: McConnell delivers election gift to Manchin and red-state Dems
- Wall Street Journal: Republican Candidates Play Defense Over Health Care
- New York Times: Stacey Abrams Hopes Medicaid Expansion Can Be a Winning Issue in Rural Georgia
- New York Times: Republican Candidates Soften Tone on Health Care as Their Leaders Dig In
- Washington Post: The Health 202: It’s triple trouble for Republicans on health care
- Atlanta Journal Constitution: In campaign twist, Democrats embrace health care in 2018
- ABC News: Republicans trumpet pre-existing condition protections despite votes to repeal Obamacare
- Vox: How Republicans are misleading voters about preexisting conditions
Trump on voter fraud
- New Yorker: Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Trump ratchets up support for ‘great governor’ Kemp ahead of midterm
- New York Times: Georgia Voting Begins Amid Accusations of Voter Suppression
- Washington Post: In Georgia, governor’s race evokes old tensions over voting and race
- New York Times: The Issues That Russian Operatives Used to Divide Americans, in Their Own Words
- Kansas City Star: Missouri GOP sends 10,000 voters wrong ballot information
There’s a lot at stake in state legislative races
- Washington Post: Which state legislatures might go blue this fall?
- Vox: The 9 most important state legislature elections in 2018, explained
- Time: Never Mind Congress. These Democrats Want to Win State Legislatures
Khashoggi
- Washington Post: Trump doubts Saudi account of journalist’s death: ‘There’s been deception, and there’s been lies’
- New York Times: Trump Wagers That Voters Will Shrug at a Saudi Storm
- New York Times: Turkey’s President Vows to Detail Khashoggi Death ‘in Full Nakedness’
- New York Times: Saudis’ Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider
- Vox: NYTimes report shows how Twitter, McKinsey were complicit in helping Saudi Arabia silence critics
- Washington Post: Khashoggi’s death was a ‘rogue operation’ that the crown prince was not aware of, Saudi foreign minister says
- Washington Post: Bipartisan calls for Saudi Arabia to face repercussions mount in wake of Khashoggi killing
- New York Times: Bipartisan Chorus Calls for Punishing Saudis as Trump Accuses Them of ‘Deception’
- New Yorker: For Jamal Khashoggi, There Is No Robert Mueller
- Washington Post: Trump prizes strength, but the world may see weakness in reluctance to confront Saudis
- The Atlantic: What’s Missing From the Saudis’ Khashoggi Story
Trump thinking about “defining transgender out of existence”
- New York Times: ‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration
- Vox: The Trump administration reportedly wants the government to revoke civil rights protections from transgender people
- Human Rights Campaign: Trump-Pence Admin Reportedly Planning to Erase Non-Discrimination Protections for LGBTQ People
Aftab Pureval
- Campaign website
- New York Times: We polled voters in Ohio’s 1st Congressional District (This poll was conducted from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1.) – Chabot 50, Pureval 41, Undecided 9
- ABC News: Republicans trumpet pre-existing condition protections despite votes to repeal Obamacare
- Washington Post: House candidates campaign on their agendas, but voters vote on Trump
- Cincinnati Enquirer: Steve Chabot vs. Aftab Pureval: Republicans outpacing Democrats in early voting/absentee ballots
- Washington Post: One-third of non-incumbent House Democratic candidates don’t support Nancy Pelosi
- Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio Congressional debate: Aftab Pureval, Steve Chabot attack each other when asked why they attack each other
- Associated Press: House Race in Southwest Ohio Heats Up in Fiery Forum
- New York Times: Attack Ads Against Some Democrats Try to Portray Them as Terrorists
- Cincinnati Enquirer: The penalty for blacking out memo lines on Aftab Pureval’s campaign checks? Loss of two weeks’ vacation
- Cincinnati Enquirer: Aftab Pureval on controversial poll: I’ll ‘remedy any issues.’
- Washington Post: Raw tensions over race and gender shape midterms, reflecting schism in Trump era
- CNN: What’s in a name? This Indian-Tibetan Democrat wants to find out
- Associated Press: Pureval says he won’t back Nancy Pelosi
- Axios: Ohio Democrat sets fundraising record against Rep. Steve Chabot
