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Biden’s space policy: One giant leap for climate change Biden’s pledge to rededicate the U.S. to combating climate change would mean a greater role for NASA’s Earth science research. ..........  the “sheer amount of experience, background, and temperament that Joe Biden possesses in dealing with international coalition and partnership arrangements.”  

Biden makes late push to flip the Senate The Democratic nominee is hitting Georgia and Iowa this week, while Jill Biden campaigned with the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine. ......... “If we win both of these Senate seats in Georgia, it's almost mathematically impossible for Mitch McConnell to remain majority leader.”  


Poll: Donald Trump set to win US presidency by electoral college landslide DONALD TRUMP is on course to win four more years in the White House with a one point lead in the popular win, the final Democracy Institute poll for the Sunday Express has found. ..........  The Democracy Institute/Sunday Express poll has throughout the campaign been one of the few to predict a Trump victory since March. This is because unlike other polls it only looks at people identifying as likely voters instead of just registered to vote and it has tried to identify the shy Trump vote. According to this latest poll almost eight in ten (79 percent) of Trump supporters would not admit it to friends and family compared to 21 percent of Biden supporters.


In the wilds of Arizona, a hunt for bipartisanship While their parties stage an epic clash, these Republicans and Democrats are joining together to promote deal-making through bonhomie. .........  in all spending nearly a full day getting to know each other out of sight of the cameras and the raucous debates back in Phoenix. .......... Democrats have a shot at taking control of the statehouse for the first time in more than half a century while sending two U.S. senators to Washington for the first time since the 1950s. ........... Arizona is on a path toward becoming another Colorado, which went from solidly red to solidly blue in a few election cycles. .........  "We don't have time to be ideological." ........ There is more goodwill in the hearts of individual politicians than in the collective atmosphere in which they operate. ..........  “As the inner suburbs turn purple and newer families are moving in, families who are more conservative are relocating out to the farther suburbs,” Archer explained. “Those areas are swiftly becoming more Republican.”  ........... “Sometimes it means a change in tone and a change in the way that you address an issue with the same principles. Some folks are here for show. You can sit here for a day or two and you can pick out who's trying to get recorded, or get their viral video, so they can make that a plank of their next campaign.” ..........  The challenge now, he said, is to find new ways to join forces with Democrats to overcome the extreme elements in both parties.  .........  Chávez credited bipartisanship with birthing some of the most far-reaching policies to benefit his constituents. He said Democrats and Republican worked together on the legislation that transformed his own life — the federal Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. It was passed by a Democratic House and signed by Republican President Ronald Reagan. It gave his family a path to citizenship. .............  As for George Floyd, who died in police custody and set off nationwide protests, he said, “No one should die that way." “But we are sending a message to young black kids that that is a hero?" he asked. "It is not a hero. He had at least seven drug offenses. He held a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach. George Floyd died a long time ago because the system killed him. A lot of that was the community. A lot of that was his own decisions that he made. How about if we would have taken care of George Floyd when he started in the criminal justice system, making sure that he had the drug treatment?” ............. Alma, who at 14 was brutally attacked by police officers, worked with Ducey, the Republican governor, to secure $1 million for training police officers in deescalation tactics. .............  We've got 10 percent fringe right, we’ve got 10 percent fringe left. The 80 percent in the middle probably aren't that far apart on 90 percent of the things we are trying to solve.  


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‘You can certainly see how he could win’: Why Trump isn’t done yet Retain the Sun Belt and hold Pennsylvania: That, in a nutshell, is Trump's narrow path to four more years. ....... Trump himself has predicted that the election ultimately “will end up in the Supreme Court.”  ......  "Even though the national numbers are much worse than where we were against Hillary at this point, the battleground numbers are virtually the same," a Trump campaign adviser said.



‘She Kind of Reminds You of Margaret Thatcher’: Liz Cheney Prepares To Make Her Move Could the daughter of one of the more reviled leaders in recent GOP history become the face of the party as soon as next year?   

Warren will make case to be Biden's Treasury secretary Warren's move could set up a marquee fight over what will be one of the most consequential Cabinet roles in a Biden administration. .............  the job is appealing because it is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to enact some of the “big structural change” she talked about during the presidential primary, rather than just pressuring Cabinet officials from her Senate perch. Much of her life’s work has revolved around the intricate rules and levers of power in the executive branch. ............ if Warren does not get the Treasury spot, she would likely want to stay in the Senate and push for a seat on the chamber’s influential Finance Committee, which oversees the agency. ........... “I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody,” James Carville said during Bill Clinton’s presidency.  

Biden is already forming a government. Here's what his Cabinet could look like. An array of officials, from progressives like Elizabeth Warren to establishment types like Susan Rice, are seen as likely for key posts...........  he has pledged would be “the most progressive administration since FDR.” ............  Think Susan Rice, but also Elizabeth Warren. Pete Buttigieg, but also Karen Bass. ........... It did not go unnoticed when Biden in April called corporate America “greedy as hell.” He has also proposed raising the corporate tax rate. ......... It’s totally about what do you do with the incredible hollowing out that Trump has done ... so many of the agencies just are empty, the career people have left. ........... One name often mentioned as a potential secretary of State is Rice, who was Obama’s national security adviser .............  “When [Biden] shows up on the first day, he’s not going to need to be told where the Situation Room is. He’s been in the Situation Room for hundreds of hours. So he’s going to come in as … the most experienced and qualified person in terms of federal experience of anybody in the history of the country.” ............ The prospects of Biden’s legislative agenda would rest heavily on whether Democrats win the Senate. ...........  Biden signaled an openness to ending the 60-vote filibuster rule, a practice President Barack Obama recently called a “Jim Crow relic.” “The filibuster is gone,” said Harry Reid, the influential former Senate majority leader and a friend of Biden. “It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when it’s going to go … Next year at this time, it will be gone.” ...........  it is not Biden "moving to the left," but "Biden, and all of us around him, recognizing this is going to be a very consequential presidency." ................ Roosevelt initially “was certainly not thought of as somebody on the left.” At first, he placed trust in the nation’s financial institutions, pursuing a working relationship with both populists and business interests early in his administration. It was only after businesses balked and the relationship deteriorated that Roosevelt changed course. Then and now, Reich sad, “America was ready and willing and eager to try almost anything.” 





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