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LOL:

The memes about Chuck and Nancy were plentiful, yes, but that didn't stop the coverage of Trump from being brutally negative. Bottom line: He failed in his last hail mary.

Toldja: This isn't going to keep the GOP in line. It wasn't good and they're already defecting. The media is mostly unimpressed. From the above: I knew he'd do this, but I didn't know he'd do it preemptively. The next 48 hour will be full of public and private disasters because this went bad. He's so predictable.

As long as she keeps learning I'll give her another chance. She did well on 60 Minutes for the most part (and won over my mother, who had her fill of the radical fringe when she was one of them in '68). Meanwhile, Bernie's ego-grabbing speech focused largely on (wait for it) economic inequality.

AOC is on MSNBC doing what she's supposed to do: Be forceful for the Democrats in front of a camera.

It was a weak nothingburger, not the swing for the fences Kushner apparently hoped for. He will blame his staff for "making him do that" and making him look bad, as he always does. Pelosi and Schumer's response is good. I kind of wish someone else was giving it, but there's only so many ways you can do that in this situation.

Predictably, a teleprompter speech is not going well for Trump. I don't know why anyone there thought this would be enough for him to turn it around.

The exasperating Brian Stelter fumbles around talking to the New Yorker about why the networks are airing Trump vs. Obama. Excuses include: "It was a big night in TV in 2014" and "I dunno, man!"

There will be an immediate Democratic response, but I don't know yet who is delivering it.

Watching Brian Stelter squirm to justify this is at least mildly entertaining. Backed into a corner on Twitter he just mumbled something about "the news climate" being different today.

Don't do it.

Cross-posted but still, wow.