White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has told allies that he expects Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to be approved by the Senate before Nov. 1.
While there is always a chance of “extraordinary efforts” by Democrats to gum up the works, allies said of his message, he doesn’t see a way for the liberals to postpone the debate and vote past the last week of October. …
- Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Republican congressman from Florida’s panhandle, believes that Joe Biden is losing Hispanic voters. “Watch Miami-Dade County. Joe Biden is going to substantially underperform” with them there, he told us. “He is hemorrhaging Hispanic votes. Working-class Hispanics are not here for ‘woketopia’ that Joe Biden would usher in. And we are going to benefit from that in Arizona, in Texas, in Florida.” …
- Our friends over at Newsmax, which is building out its conservative TV channel, hit a new record viewership of 9.6 million in August. That was more than the NFL Network’s 9.3 million and ahead of Bloomberg TV, RFD-TV, and Discovery Life. …
There’s nothing better than BBQ—except for winning this Senate seat, of course. pic.twitter.com/oEsDXIZ5O2
— Cal Cunningham (@CalforNC) September 28, 2020
- North Carolina is an unforgiving state when it comes to confusing barbecuing with grilling. Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham found out when he tweeted, “There’s nothing better than BBQ — except for winning this Senate seat, of course,” while grilling hot dogs. He said he knows the difference and was only showing off his nifty BBQ apron, but local media and the GOP came down hard. The Raleigh News & Observer scolded, “Grilling is not barbecue.”
