Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:10 AM ET, September 12, 2018

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
‘Shipwreck’: GOP grows fearful about losing Senate as candidates struggle, Trump support tumbles  —  Republicans have grown increasingly worried about losing control of the Senate, as President Trump's approval rating tumbles and Democrats gain steam in key battleground races.
RELATED:
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell screws Dems ahead of election with October session  —  The majority leader wants to deprive Democrats up for reelection the chance to campaign.  —  Traditionally the Senate hits the road for October of an election year.  But the Senate is throwing tradition out the window this year.
Discussion: The Hill
Thomas Graham / Crosswind Media and Public Relations:   Texas poll shows Beto O'Rourke gaining ground as Ted Cruz hangs on to a slim 3% lead
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Man With Switchblade Ranting About Trump Attempts to Stab GOP Candidate Running Against Rep. Swalwell  —  Over the weekend a man, ranting about President Donald Trump and Republicans at Castro Valley Fall Festival in Alameda County, California, pulled out a switchblade and tried …
RELATED:
George Kelly / Mercury News:
Man arrested after attempted switchblade attack on East Bay political candidate
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Manafort in talks with prosecutors about possible plea, according to people familiar with the discussions  —  Days before in-person jury selection is set to begin in his second trial, President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is in talks with the special counsel's office …
Axios:
Trump eyes life under subpoena  —  President Trump, who rarely focuses beyond the moment before him, is starting to acknowledge the growing chance Democrats could very well win in November — and very well try to impeach him.  —  The big picture: A few months ago, he was scoffing at midterm consequences for him.
Discussion: Raw Story
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Exclusive: Three-quarters of the secret money in recent elections came from 15 groups  —  WASHINGTON - Just 15 groups account for three-quarters of the anonymous cash flowing into federal elections since the Supreme Court paved the way for corporate and union money in candidate races eight years ago …
Washington Post:
Another hurricane is about to batter our coast.  Trump is complicit.  —  YET AGAIN, a massive hurricane feeding off unusually warm ocean water has the potential to stall over heavily populated areas, menacing millions of people.  Last year Hurricane Harvey battered Houston.
RELATED:
Nidhi Prakash / BuzzFeed News:
More Than 2,000 Puerto Ricans Applied For Funeral Assistance After Hurricane Maria.  FEMA Approved Just 75.
New York Post:
Email from Cuomo aide casts doubt on claims over anti-Semitic mailer  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was blindsided by an “inappropriate” political mailer tying Cynthia Nixon to anti-Semitism — but just a day before the inflammatory literature surfaced, one of his top campaign aides pitched …
Garance Franke Ruta / New York Magazine:
This Week in Julia Salazar She had a trust fund, her ancestors were Catholic elites, and she has a new version of her conversion story.  —  A state senate race that was once hailed as a test of the rising strength and power of insurgent socialists has devolved into a full-fledged New York City tabloid circus …
RELATED:
CNN:
CNN Poll: More approve of Mueller than of Trump  —  (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's approval rating for handling the Russia investigation stands at 50% in a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.  That outpaces President Donald Trump's approval rating on the matter by 20 points.  —  CNN'S SEPTEMBER POLL
Discussion: Political Wire
Bloomberg:
There's Never Been a President This Unpopular With an Economy This Good  — Trump's unpopularity poses problems for Republican candidates  —  President Donald Trump's unpopularity is unprecedented given the strength of the economy.  —  That's according to a Bloomberg analysis of polling data.
Discussion: BloombergQuint
Washington Post:
Government borrowing soars despite robust economy  —  The U.S. budget deficit is reaching levels that are abnormally high for a robust economy, and lawmakers from both parties are proposing ideas that would make the deficit swell even further.  —  The government spent $895 billion …
RELATED:
Emily Bohatch / The State:
SC officials won't evacuate prison despite mandatory order ahead of hurricane  —  As nearly a million people hit the road before Hurricane Florence nears the coast, 934 inmates and as many as 119 prison staff will be staying behind despite a mandatory evacuation.
RELATED:
NHC Webmaster / NHC Atlantic Wallet 1:
Summary for Hurricane Florence (AT1/AL062018)
Discussion: Newsweek and The Daily Beast
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Sheldon Whitehouse Asks Brett Kavanaugh If He Has A Gambling Problem  —  No senator has asked the Supreme Court nominee about his debts until now.  —  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wants to know if Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, has a gambling problem.
Aaron David Miller / USA Today:
25 years ago this week, Mideast peace seemed inevitable.  Now it's further away than ever.  —  I thought the 1993 Oslo Accords would put the Middle East on an irreversible path to peace.  Not only was I wrong, Trump is making it harder than ever.  —  CONNECT
Discussion: Washington Post
Jai Bednall / NEWS.com.au:
Newspaper doubles down with front page response to Serena Williams cartoon critics  —  THE paper behind the controversial Serena Williams cartoon has published an extraordinary front page response to its critics.  —  Serena Williams fined for US Open outburst1:28
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Laura Ingraham's Brother Goes to War Against Her  —  Curtis Ingraham wants people to know that his sister, the right-wing Fox News host Laura Ingraham, is the ultimate ‘hypocrite.’  —  Curtis Ingraham uses Twitter to vent his political frustrations—like many left-leaning users in the Trump era.
Discussion: Raw Story
Christal Hayes / USA Today:
Trump administration took nearly $10 million from FEMA's budget to support ICE, documents show  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration took nearly $10 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's budget this summer to help boost U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to budget documents shared with USA TODAY.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Scott jets around on secrecy-heavy ‘bus tour’  —  Gov. Rick Scott used his private jet Tuesday to commute to a Senate campaign stop for his “bus tour,” marking his second stumble since announcing he was traveling the Florida highways this week to “Make Washington Work.”
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Education Dept. Reopens Rutgers Case Charging Discrimination Against Jewish Students  —  The new head of civil rights at the Education Department has reopened a seven-year-old case brought by a Zionist group against Rutgers University, saying the Obama administration, in closing the case …
Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Congress forces a reckoning on U.S. role in Yemen  —  The Trump administration faces a stark choice this week over the war in Yemen in what could be a defining moment for the president's foreign policy and U.S. ties with Middle Eastern allies.  —  Under a new law linking the actions …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Scarborough: Trump A ‘Far Graver Threat to the Idea of America’ Than 9/11 Attack  —  9/11 is always a somber day for reflection, especially for those in New York on that fateful day, and on this tough day Joe Scarborough penned a column for the Washington Post in which the former GOP congressman …
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
BREAKING: Page and Strzok Texts Reveal They Discussed Writing a “Folksy” Op-ed on Russia  —  Strzok and Page discussed writing an oped on Russia about two months before the 2016 presidential election  —  The pair also discuss how a September 2016 article on Russian election meddling was “100 percent authorized” and “well sourced”
Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Chris Pappas wins New Hampshire Democratic primary  —  Chris Pappas, a member of the New Hampshire Executive Council, won the state's Democratic primary Tuesday night for the 1st Congressional District to replace retiring Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D), reports the AP.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Politico and Bustle
New York Times:
Stay Out of Venezuela, Mr. Trump  —  President Maduro needs to go, but an American-backed coup is not the answer.  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.  —  America shouldn't be in the coup business.
Matthew Desmond / New York Times:
Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty.  They're Not.  —  U.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled.  But for people without much education, the real question is, Do those jobs pay enough to live on?  —  Vanessa Solivan and her three children fled …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Activists raised $1 million to defeat Susan Collins if she votes for Kavanaugh.  She says it's bribery.  —  In the closely divided senate, Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hinges in part on the votes of two moderate Republican senators: Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine.
Bloomberg:
Putin Says U.K. Hit Suspects Aren't Agents, Should Go Public  — Russian leader rejects British charge men are Kremlin agents  — Kremlin defiant amid allegations by U.K. and its allies  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected British allegations that the Russians suspected …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
Politico:
What is Article 7, the EU's ‘nuclear option’?  —  The European Parliament votes Wednesday on whether to trigger the EU's so-called Article 7 procedure against Hungary, used when a country is considered at risk of breaching the bloc's core values.  —  The procedure is sometimes called the EU's …
Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Trump doesn't drink booze.  D.C. weighs whether to let him serve it.  —  A group of residents complained that the owner of the Trump International Hotel fails the “good character” test required of anyone who wants to sell wine, beer or spirits in the city.  —  Donald Trump is president, but is he fit to run a bar?
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Wire
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
What a baby  —  Only a man who is deeply worried about his own strength would talk as much as Donald Trump does about the danger of appearing weak.  —  That's my biggest takeaway from reading “Fear,” Bob Woodward's new book about the Trump presidency.  The scoops were mostly revealed last week.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:10 AM ET, September 12, 2018.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Kavitha Surana / ProPublica:
Authorities Can Now Deny Visa and Green Card Applications Without Giving Applicants a Chance to Fix Errors
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Nassar raped, impregnated athlete and Michigan State covered it up: lawsuit
Discussion: Lansing State Journal, Bustle and AOL
Tyler O'Neil / PJ Media Home:
‘Threats of Rape and Strangling’ Force D.C. McAllister Into Hiding After Anti-Abortion Tweet
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
A Trail of ‘Bread Crumbs,’ Leading Conspiracy Theorists Into the Wilderness
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump administration to triple size of Texas tent camp for migrant children
Discussion: Dallas Morning News
News 12 Long Island:
Assembly candidate says anonymous mailers are ‘dirty politics’
KASW-TV:
Taco Bell voted best Mexican restaurant in the country
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Limits of Obama's Legacy
Discussion: American Greatness
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Obama was harsh against leakers
Washington Post:
Cardinal Donald Wuerl says he will go to the pope soon to discuss his potential resignation
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
George W. Bush to fundraise for GOP candidates
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and HuffPost
Washington Post:
Bezos, Amazon board visiting Washington, but no headquarters announcement planned
Discussion: BGR
Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Kansas GOP lawmakers' silence on whether they support Kobach angers some within party
Hayley Peterson / Business Insider:
Missing wages, grueling shifts, and bottles of urine: The disturbing accounts of Amazon delivery …