Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: On shutdowns, caving and presidential candidates
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The story isn’t whether Trump is unhappy or whether he’ll sign the spending deal. It’s that he was defeated. The NY Times with a nicer view of the Trump cave than I have: Five Key Takeaways From the Tentative Deal on Border Security Republicans arAbbreviated Pundit Round-up: On shutdowns, caving and presidential candidates
The story isn’t whether Trump is unhappy or whether he’ll sign the spending deal. It’s that he was defeated. The NY Times with a nicer view of the Trump cave than I have: Five Key Takeaways From the Tentative Deal on Border Security Republicans are sending the president a message Trump has a messaging challenge The president still has a card in his pocket: a national emergency Congress showed it could function normally ‘In principle’ does not mean the deal is final Aaron Blake/WaPo: Trump’s failed shutdown strategy produced an even worse deal than he started with The fact that Republicans signed off shows how little leverage they have. But it’s all rather transparently geared toward saving face at this point, rather than winning the debate. Assuming Republicans can’t get anything more out of this deal than they have right now, it will be quite the capitulation. Trump could have taken $1.6 billion and/or declared a national emergency last year, before all this went down; he will have gotten basically nothing for shutting down the government for 35 days. And he might just have to take it. xNet favorability rating among Dems/Share of Dems with an opinion of each candidate, per new CNN/SRRS:Harris +48, 60%Warren +46, 64%Castro +20, 36%Gillibrand +18, 34%Buttigieg +6, 18%Gabbard +2, 16%Schultz -17, 37%https://t.co/0Z1LR5Loiv— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) February 12, 2019 Read more