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[UNICEF @UNICEF]

“Vulnerable newborns and sick and wounded children in need of intensive care are being killed in tents, in incubators and in the arms of their parents.”

Full statement from @UNICEFmena's @AdeleKhodr on the decimation of newborn care in the Gaza Strip: https://t.co/daVlBt5NJm

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

Democrats didn’t run on this

Republicans ran AGAINST Democrats on this

Important distinction

[KerrBear 🪷 @MPLSKerrBear]

People can analyze, hypothesize, blame Dems till they are blue in the face. None of it matters.

This is the game right here.

Misinformation works. Those that believed misinformation voted Trump. Those that believed the truth voted Harris.

There is NO candidate that can change this.

Republicans have a well oiled propaganda machine that spans all media platforms and we do not.

Period.

[Scott Satchfield @Satchfield]

.@astead sums it up perfectly in 1 minute.

[Waleed Shahid 🪬 @_waleedshahid]

I'm thinking a lot about what @AOC warned her fellow Democrats in December 2020: "If these people’s lives don’t actually feel different...we’re done. You know how many Trumps there are in waiting?”

[depreshmode @nexthursday]

@meowtower_dev the Hallowe’en cat!! oh em gee!! 🥰👻

[Seth Moulton @sethmoulton]

The President has earned an amazing legacy. Now he can be remembered not just for leading serving as commander-in-chief, but also for giving it up.

My new piece in @GlobeOpinion:

https://t.co/lj24hKkUIE

[Crooked Media @CrookedMedia]

“The only chance we have is a change at the top of the ticket.”
-Rep. @sethmoulton

Watch more Pod Save the World on YouTube!
#PodSavetheWorld #CrookedMedia #PresidentBiden

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

The same YouGov Senate polls:

Arizona -🔵Gallego +8
Michigan -🔵Slotkin +9
Nevada -🔵Rosen +7
Pennsylvania -🔵Casey +12
Wisconsin -🔵Baldwin +7

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Insanity. Change the candidate. Change it now.

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

There have always been two Joe Bidens. The empathetic, decent, big-hearted leader, forged in loss and grief, finding the good in his friends and opponents, in love with America, arms wide and open with space for everyone. And there’s the blowhard with a chip on his shoulder, stubborn, something to prove, his fellow senators rolling their eyes as the finger wags harder and the stories get longer. Statesman and politician, hero and fool.

Joe Biden ran for president for 50 years. He finally won because he ran as that hero at a time when the country was desperate for empathy and normalcy and wisdom and grace. It was still too close. But even when he was doubted by insiders and pundits (hi!), he persevered; he knew Democrats, he knew America, and he was right.

And then! To his great and everlasting credit, Joe Biden governed as that statesman too. He built a coalition wide enough to hold Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders. He defied Washington’s stodgy consensus when necessary, a consensus he spent a lifetime living inside. He adapted, he governed with humility and purpose, whether on how to revive the economy, or take on monopolies, or address student loans, or press for the largest investment in clean energy by any country anywhere on earth. And even as he showed the capacity to listen to the rising progressive voices inside the Democratic party, at the very same time he achieved bipartisan legislative successes in defiance of every political trend of the last thirty years. Joe Biden has been an extraordinary president! Statesman. Hero.

But it’s hard to deny that in the two weeks since the debate, it’s the arrogant and small Joe Biden we’ve seen most - hanging on, bragging, defensive, angry, weak. Who else but him? he wonders aloud. Only God could change his mind, he tells us. The stakes for the country are all that matter. The stakes for Joe Biden are beside the point. But it’s worth saying just the same: Joe Biden can leave office as one of the greatest presidents in our lifetimes, who defeated Trump and put his country first at every turn; or he can leave a stubborn old man who allowed hubris and insecurity to destroy his legacy and perhaps our democracy with it.

We all have our best and worst selves, scrambling over each other, battling it out in the moments that define us. Where is the Joe Biden we elected? Where is the statesman? I hope that version of him shows up soon. And I hope the people around him know where to look.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

If you want to hear a blood boiling perspective on the hypocrisy and cynicism of Democratic elites in the face of the looming Trump threat from someone who speaks in soothing dulcet tones…do I have the podcast for you.

Today’s guest: @ezraklein https://t.co/s5Q5njAbXp

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

How many children’s hospitals must I accidentally bomb before you realise it’s deliberate?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Twin horrors: 1) Russia bombing a major children's hospital as part of its daily terror and murder campaign against Ukraine. 2) The free world having the power to stop it and refusing to.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Replace Biden as nominee:

64% all voters
55% Black voters
66% Hispanic voters
48% Biden (!) voters

Biden is too old to be an effective president:

69% all voters
62% Black voters
68% Hispanic voters
55% Biden voters

This is from the NYT PRE-debate poll, Trump 48-Biden 42, which was taken:

- After weeks of wall-to-wall coverage of Trump's criminal conviction

- Months after Biden campaigned intensely and spend tens of millions on swing state ads

- At a time when 80% of voters said they were paying attention to the race

Almost every other pre-debate poll found similar results.

This is not an elite thing. This is not a media thing. This is not a one-bad-debate-freakout thing.

The voters have been voicing these concerns for months now. Denying them or dismissing them is not the way to overcome them.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Because Russia bombed the kids with cancer.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

People realize Macron's coalition lost 100 seats, right? He called elections early, lost 100 seats, but the far-left and the center wisely came together to encourage candidates to strategically drop out of races to defeat the far-right...

[BTS_official @bts_bighit]

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