Anonymous ID: 5ac820 Aug. 4, 2018, 7:48 a.m. No.2448162   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8199

so he doesn't even go to his own party in Illinois?

 

Illinois celebrates first annual Barack Obama Day

 

Illinoisans honored former President Obama on Saturday with the first annual “Barack Obama Day.”

The Illinois legislature last year unanimously passed a measure establishing Aug. 4, the former president’s birthday, as a state holiday.

Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) signed the bill into law on Aug. 6, 2017, making this year the first that the holiday is celebrated.

A spokesperson for the former president told USA Today that Obama will have dinner with his family in Washington, D.C., to celebrate his 57th birthday.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/400374-illinois-celebrates-first-annual-barack-obama-day

Anonymous ID: 5ac820 Aug. 4, 2018, 7:55 a.m. No.2448221   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Talking points?

 

GOP strategist: As the GOP gets smaller, it’s becoming ‘crazier’

 

GOP strategist and MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt said Friday that the Republican Party is shrinking and becoming "crazier" as it does, linking the decline to the party's takeover by President Trump.

Schmidt, who ran Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign in 2008, told "Real Time with Bill Maher" that the Republican Party faces a major threat from a younger generation that largely identifies with Democrats.

"As it shrinks, it gets smaller; just like the California Republican Party has, it will become crazier," Schmidt said, after noting that the GOP had become a "third party" in the state.

Schmidt added that there were likely many other Republicans who would denounce the party and vote for Democrats under a Trump presidency, as Schmidt announced he would do in June.

"I think it's a very significant number, and I think you're going to start seeing college-educated Republican women in these swing districts deliver the blue wave for the Democrats," he said.

 

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/400371-gop-strategist-as-the-gop-gets-smaller-its-becoming-crazier