MORNING MESSAGE
Hillary
Clinton’s Wall Street speeches are casting a pall over her potential victory and
weakening her political capital before she even assumes office. She should make
a pledge now: to take immediate action in her first 100 days that will address
Wells Fargo’s scandals and the systemic problems behind them. We have nine
suggested actions...
SANDERS, WARREN HEAD WEST
Sanders,
Warren team up in Denver to stump to Clinton. Denver Post: “[They urged]
votes for Hillary Clinton — a first step, they said, igniting hopes for sweeping
change from Wall Street to environmental stewardship to establishing
single-payer national health care … Sanders is [also campaigning for] Colorado’s
proposed Amendment 69 to create a state-run health insurance system to replace
insurance industry health care …”
Sanders
in AZ tomorrow. The Hill: “The Vermont senator will hold rallies in Tucson
and Flagstaff on Tuesday … Trump’s campaign has not put much focus on the state
… ‘I think he’s going to lose Arizona,’ GOP state operative Matthew Benson told
NBC News.”
Battleground
map is changing, notes David Wasserman in NYT: “The parties are realigning
along an axis primarily of educational achievement, but also of race. Democrats
have been on the upswing with minorities, college-educated whites and younger
voters, while Republicans are increasingly reliant on older whites, whites
without a degree, or both … Trump is looking for breakthroughs in states where
non-college whites outnumber college-educated whites the most: Iowa (by 30
percent), Wisconsin (by 25 percent), Ohio (by 24 percent) and Nevada (by 18
percent) … Clinton maintains an edge in states where that margin is closer, like
Virginia (2 percent) and Colorado (0.1 percent), and has a strong opportunity to
win North Carolina (12 percent).”
Evangelicals
split over Trump. NYT: “While most of the religious right’s aging old guard
has chosen to stand by Mr. Trump, its judgment and authority are being
challenged by an increasingly assertive crop of younger leaders, minorities and
women … The big names who sit atop organizations that function largely as
lobbying groups and mobilization squads for the Republican Party have stuck with
Mr. Trump…”
GOP HOPES TO KEEP CONGRESS
Trump
not clearly dragging down down-ballot Republicans. W. Post: “…the so-called
generic ballot … still only favors Democrats by a small margin [which doesn’t]
suggest a a big Democratic wave ahead…”
But
Dems still eye House. Politico: “Democrats are salivating over the kind of
progressive agenda they’d pursue with a Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer of New York and President Hillary Clinton. Several Democratic sources
told POLITICO the wish list would likely include billions of dollars for
infrastructure spending, potentially an overhaul of immigration laws, and
bipartisan fixes to Obamacare.”
PROGRESSIVES MAP POLICY PATH
Jacob
Hacker offers health care advice to Clinton, in American Prospect: “…the ACA
is missing some ingredients … a broad cross-section of Americans must come to
see the law as critical to their own well-being … the public option [is] the way
to achieve these goals … strengthen and extend the ‘risk-adjustment’ and
reinsurance provisions of the law … increase the subsidies for enrollees in the
exchanges … require that individual insurance plans sold outside the exchanges
also be offered on the exchanges…”
Simon
Lazarus offers next steps after forcing out Strumpf, in American Prospect:
“To turn this teachable moment into a lever for systemic change, reformers must
help the public connect the dots that lead past Stumpf and his management cadre
to the legal environment that made them think they could get away it. A primary
architect of that permissive environment is the United States Supreme Court …
For decades, industry advocates have waged a multi-front campaign to cripple
consumer protection laws and their enforcement, in legislatures, executive
agencies, and the courts.”
NYT
edit boards highlights new research on out-of-work middle-aged men: ” As of
last month, 11.4 percent of men between the ages of 25 and 54 — or about seven
million people — were not in the labor force … 40 percent of prime working-age
men who are not in the labor force report having pain that prevents them from
taking jobs for which they are qualified … Forty-four percent said they took
painkillers daily … these drugs are far less effective and much more addictive
than previously thought.”
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