MORNING MESSAGE
Sanders
has it right: The next step is to work to ensure that Donald Trump is routed in
2016, and to use the Democratic platform as the minimum standard that all
Democratic candidates must endorse. Sanders isn’t selling out; he is staying in,
loyal to the political revolution that he has helped to build.
Sanders Takes NExt Steps
Sanders
plans to launch two or three organizations to further “revolution.” W. Post:
“One will be devoted to policy formulation. A second will focus on recruiting
and training candidates. And a third might engage in other political activity,
possibly registering as a political action committee … [Campaign manager Jeff]
Weaver said he expects the organizations to be up and running in a matter of
weeks, with the aim of fully participating in the fall elections.”
Weaver
tells Politico Sanders will stump hard: “I think the senator’s intentions is
to stump quite heavily for the secretary all across the country, obviously and
specifically in the battleground states. In addition to that, he’ll be
campaigning for down-ballot progressive Democrats in states all across the
country — whether they are battlegrounds or not in battlegrounds.”
Campaign
advisor Larry Cohen says Sanders will move to change party nomination rules, in
In These Times oped: “The Sanders delegation will now pivot from the
platform to the Democratic Party rules—issues like eliminating the nominating
power of ‘super’ delegates. The Rules Committee meets next week, and once again
the debate will be about change vs. continuity and the populist moment vs. the
party establishment.”
Warren
gets convention speaking slot. NYT: “In an apparent sign that Senator
Elizabeth Warren will not be namedHillary Clinton’s running mate, Ms. Warren was
invited by Mrs. Clinton’s campaign on Tuesday to deliver a prime-time address on
the first night of the Democratic convention this month — a marquee speaking
slot but one that is earlier than vice-presidential picks typically appear.”
Democratic
candidates rally behind Clinton-Sanders college affordability plan. NYT:
“The Progressive Change Campaign Committee says that multiple candidates in
top-tier Senate races are jointly endorsing the concept [including Iowa’s] Patty
Judge … Russ Feingold in Wisconsin; Kamala Harris in California; Gov. Maggie
Hassan of New Hampshire, who is seeking a Senate seat; and Deborah Ross in North
Carolina. Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Michael Bennet of Colorado, who are
both seeking re-election, have also lent their support.”
GOP Platform VEERS RIGHT
Final
GOP platform draft firmly on the right. NYT: “Republicans moved on Tuesday
toward adopting a staunchly conservative platform that takes a strict,
traditionalist view of the family and child rearing, bars military women from
combat, describes coal as a ‘clean’ energy source and declares pornography a
‘public health crisis.’ … [The] text [is] almost Victorian in its moralizing and
deeply critical of how the modern American family has evolved.”
Trump
turns down NAACP invite. W. Post: “Nominees from both parties usually
address the conference and the GOP’s last nominee, Mitt Romney, did so in 2012 …
Trump said in an interviews with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday night that
the term ‘Black Lives Matter’ is ‘a very divisive term.'”
RYAN PREDICTS TPP DEFEAT
Speaker
Ryan tells Politico TPP won’t pass this year: “No … I’ve got problems with
[the trade deal] as they drafted it. Obviously I’m for trade agreements, I wrote
[the fast-track trade bill] and I got it passed. But I think they made some
pretty big mistakes in how they negotiated it and they gotta fix those. And I
don’t know when that’s going to happen. … We don’t have the votes for it now,
and I believe they have to fix some of these things. And I don’t know if and
when they’re going to be able to fix those things.”
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