MIKE PRICKETT

[Shelbyville Golden Bears Baseball @SHSBaseballGB]

Reece Prickett leads us off in the top of the 2nd with a HOMERUN OVER THE GREEN MONSTER! Bears lead 1-0. Congrats Reece!@SHSGoldenBears

[Kevin Frey @KevinJFrey]

Fmr Staten Island Rep. Susan Molinari says her husband - fmr Rep. Bill Paxton - is also voting for @KamalaHarris. Both were Republican members of Congress.

Campaigning in NC, she says: "What we see now is not representative of the prior leaders of the Republican Party."

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

For some reason, I have been thinking about this moment a lot today.

It's from John McCain in 2008 at a town hall.

The woman begins to espouse conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's nationality.

He immediately shuts it down.

"No ma'am. He's a decent family man."

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

John McCain and I didn’t always agree, but he understood that some values transcended parties. He knew that if we got in the habit of bending the truth to suit political expediency or party orthodoxy, our democracy will not work.

John McCain had character. That’s what I think about so much these days because it’s so different from what we see out of the Republican nominee.

[MIKE PRICKETT @emjay_22]

What does that tell you?!?

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Former President Trump had 44 cabinet secretaries. 40 of them don’t support his 2024 campaign.

Neither does his Vice President nor any of his former chiefs of staff.

[Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera]

Sore Loser
With three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald J. Trump stands a reasonable chance of becoming the 47th President of the United States. Despite assassination attempts, impeachments, special counsels, felony convictions and hundreds of millions in civil penalties, most polls show his race against V.P. Kamala Harris is too close to call.
The first time he ran for president in 2016, he was coming off the last season of Celebrity Apprentice. I had a front row seat as a finalist on that final season and marveled at his audacity with his checkered past to seek the highest office in the land. Then, in the blink of an eye, he went from novice to formidable challenger to victorious over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
As President he was a loyal friend, who allowed regular access. My resulting coverage gave him the benefit of most doubts. His presidency was underrated. Throughout his first big scandal in office, the 2017-2019 Mueller Investigation into allegations Trump conspired with Russia to undermine our political process, I stuck with him, deeply suspicious of constant efforts to undermine his Administration.
The last time President Trump and I spoke was Friday, November 13, 2020, when he called me at home. It was ten days after his narrow lost to Joe Biden. He was calling to get my take on the controversies surrounding the election, which appeared to have been decided by a handful of votes in several states. I asked him what he would do if the vote count remained against him. As I reported on Fox News that same morning, Friday the 13th, he told me he was a reasonable man and would do the right thing if that time came.
It never did. Instead, President Trump embarked on an increasingly menacing campaign to discredit the 2020 election. With a motley supporting cast of increasingly fringe characters, he careened from one bizarre theory to the next, offering no meaningful proof, that he had been robbed by the Democrats.
None exists. If you are a Republican, Donald Trump has made a liar of you. He has coaxed and intimidated tens of millions into pretending he was reelected in 2020, and that the election was stolen.
In furtherance of that Big Lie, on January 6, 2021, Trump incited and unleashed the violent attack on the center of democracy, the U.S. Capitol for which he was Impeached. As his followers trashed that sacred space, he was on the phone urging Vice President Mike Pence essentially to overturn the will of the American people. Pence refused to put Trump ahead of the Constitution. Trump stabbed the Constitution in the back.
Maybe you are inclined to vote for the former president anyway, because he says he will cut your taxes or build the border wall or pull out of NATO or put tariffs on China. However, you justify voting for Trump, adopting his big lie about the stolen election makes you a liar.
Better to admit he lost last time but that you don’t care because a Harris presidency would be a disaster, or you admire his defiance in the face of an assassin’s bullet. Just don’t pretend that he got robbed in 2020. That is a lie. Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution. That is why I am voting for Kamala Harris to be our 47th President.

[MIKE PRICKETT @emjay_22]

Take the 4 minutes & listen. SPOT ON!!

[CndC Berps @CndcBerps]

Damn. I'm not an Obama fan, but dude is one hell of a speaker. This will resonate with normies. He's not wrong here. Huge crowd in Pittsburgh.

Good thing Trump is hitting up Coachella. 🤡

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Former Trump WH Press Secretary @OMGrisham at the DNC:

“Behind closed doors, Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them 'basement dwellers’…Here I am behind a podium advocating for a Democrat, and that’s because I love my country more than my party”
#RepublicansForHarris

[MIKE PRICKETT @emjay_22]

@simonateba @MittRomney It’s so fun to read all of these Mitt hating comments. You all are in a cult & don’t realize it! You really think Trump is the savior! Damn it is sad!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

George W. Bush
Sen. Mitt Romney
Paul Ryan
Mike Pence
John Kelly
John Bolton
Mark Esper
Sen. Todd Young
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Liz Cheney
Adam Kinzinger
Anthony Scaramucci

These conservative Republicans refuse to support Trump because they believe he’s utterly unfit for office. Country over party. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“This is a very special Bible and it can be yours for the high high price of $60 but I’m not doing this for the money. I’m doing this for the glory of God and for pandering and mostly for money.” 🤣🤣

[MIKE PRICKETT @emjay_22]

@BigOrangePunch Read the rule book dumb ass!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Former Trump AG Bill Barr warns about the danger of a second Trump term:

"He's already saying it's going to be about retribution, and he's a very petty man, and it's all about him. He has a very fragile ego. Something happened to him as a kid...Things would start moving toward chaos"

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

We have a voice memo from Devon Achane...

#PMSLive

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“We should be concerned about this as Republicans. I’m having more ‘rational Republicans’ coming up to me and saying, ‘I just don’t know how long I can stay in this party.
Now our party is becoming known as a group of kind of extremist, populist over-the-top [people] where no one is taking us seriously anymore.”
-GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski

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Charles Barkley, everybody!

[MIKE PRICKETT @emjay_22]

@TateMartz1 @JimIrsay @INDYACS That will buy some new TQ tires!!