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May 27, 2020

Trump Tweets and Tees Off, Biden Leads by Example Voters Reject Trump Allies in Massachusetts (#Trump)


This weekend, as our nation approached a somber milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths, Donald Trump was playing a round of golf and retweeting alt-right conspiracy theories. In other words, it was just another weekend for President Trump. Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden showed that he’s exactly the leader we need during times like this: one who listens to the facts, leads by example, and puts the American people first.
* This weekend, the country marked 100,000 lives lost to the coronavirus, a number that Trump said would never come, but health experts projected after Trump refused to take early action and prevent this tragedy.
+ As a result of Trump’s delayed, chaotic response and denial of basic facts, more American lives in the past few months than in the Vietnam and Korean Wars combined.
* Instead of mourning the loss of 100,000 American lives, working to get critical resources to frontline workers and small business owners, or even following basic precautions to limit more sickness and death, Trump spent the weekend on the golf-course and on Twitter, hurling insults at anyone who opposes him. ([link removed])
* In contrast, Vice President Joe Biden has been closely following the recommendations of health experts and leading by example by wearing a mask as he laid a wreath at a veterans park over the Memorial Day weekend. ([link removed])
* President’s should lead by example, and that’s what Joe Biden does. Wearing a mask protects the people around you. It shows that, unlike Donald Trump, Joe Biden's first priority isn’t his poll numbers or his bank account, it’s the health and safety of the American people.

Voters Reject Trump Allies in Massachusetts (#MassGOP)
Democrats John Velis and Susan Moran were up against two Trump loyalists in Republican held districts in last week’s special election for the Massachusetts Senate. On a historic day in an unprecedented election cycle, they both flipped their districts, and the MassGOP lost two critical seats in their 6 person caucus. The reason was clear: voters know the difference between candidates who are going to work for them on Beacon Hill, and candidates whose priority is bringing Trump’s agenda to our State House.
* We’re in the middle of a public health and economic crisis of Trump's own making, corruption runs deep in his administration, and still, the MassGOP isn’t embarrassed by their President--they’re emboldened by him.
+ Just look at the Republican candidates running in this spring’s special elections. From immigration to civil rights, they’re Trump cronies through and through.
* But last week, when voters on the Cape & South Shore and in western Massachusetts elected their new State Senators, Democrats John Velis and Susan Moran flipped two (formerly) Republican held seats. ([link removed])
* Voters made their voices heard loud and clear: they’re sick and tired of candidates that are more concerned with propping up their corrupt, self-serving president than getting things done for working families in their own district.
* The MassGOP isn’t learning from their mistakes either. Just a few days after losing two of their six seats in the State Senate, they were back to plastering “Keep America Great” all over social media, and even held a virtual fundraiser with Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
* There are two more special election races being decided NEXT WEEK. Let’s show the MassGOP that we won’t stand for Trumpian politics here in Massachusetts--help us elect two more Democrats to the legislature on June 2nd. ([link removed])

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