Biden, who will take any opportunity to prove his vitality and the presence of a pulse, disagreed with Pelosi’s take, saying he plans to participate in all of the debates and said he’d be “a fact-checker on the floor” during the debates. While Biden purports to be as healthy as a man his age can be, the act of fact-checking Donald Trump during a debate is enough to bring anyone closer to the sweet embrace of death. Still, one has to wonder if Pelosi isn’t being a brain ninja and just goading these men into fighting each other to the literal death—or, more likely, trying to ensure that Trump is baited enough not to bail on a debate, were he considering doing that.
Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Secretary of State, claimed in a
tweet on Thursday that her office had received a recording of a robocall going out to residents in Detroit discouraging them from voting by mail. The recording, which can be heard in full
here, told potential voters that the information submitted to vote by mail would be used to track down personal information like outstanding warrants and unpaid debts. The claims being made in the calls are false and likely being weaponized as scare tactics in an effort to suppress voters in Detroit.
Sam Levine, a voting rights reporter with the Guardian, claimed on Twitter that the source of these calls is still unknown, despite the fact they were originally attributed to conspiracy theorists/right-wing trolls Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman—who claimed in an interview with Levine that they are working to stop the calls. Whatever you say, fellas.
- The red shirts are coming! Several ex-staffers of the late John McCain are endorsing Joe Biden for president in an effort to follow McCain’s “country first” credo. Just don’t tell his daughter. [The New York Times]
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will receive the National Consitution Center’s Liberty Medal. No word yet on whether she received all those livers we mailed to her. [The Hill]
- Kamala speaks. [ABC News]
- Nancy Pelosi will work to release Trump’s long-awaited tax returns if Joe Biden becomes president. [Politico]
- Lezmond Mitchell, a member of the Navajo Nation, has been executed by the state of Arizona without the consent of his tribe, who opposed Mitchell’s sentence for over a decade. [Vice]
- Jared Kushner is jealous the NBA took a day off to protest police violence. [CNBC]
- Melania Trump’s former BFF is spilling the tea on the First Lady, and the cup is full of emojis. [Politico]
- Some of the new Americans who became naturalized on-air during the RNC didn’t know the event was part of the broadcast. [Wall Street Journal]
