Daniel Dale

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Trump mentions Betsy Ross, then "Douglass - you know, Frederick Douglass - the great Frederick Douglass." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump applauds the sit-in at the Woolworth lunch counter during the civil rights movement and gives a shout-out to participant Clarence Henderson (who now supports Trump). — PolitiTweet.org

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If it's not clear from my excerpts, this is one of the small percentage of Trump speech in which he adopts a Presidential persona and does not audible to tangents. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump promises that "someday soon, we will plant the American flag on Mars." He touts American cultural and technological innovations, such as "the Super Bowl, the skyscraper, the suspension bridge." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says that the United States's "quest for greatness" led to Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone. Canadians will angrily fact-check this. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump gets in his first at-least-semi-boast: "Our nation is stronger today than it ever was before. It is its strongest now." There is a U-S-A chant. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, on script, is speaking in lofty tones about America's founding. "The faraway king would soon learn a timeless lesson about the people of this majestic land: Americans love our freedom, and no one will ever take it away from us." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Hello America. Hello," Trump begins. He pronounces this 4th of July "truly historic," mentions Melania, Pence, the Cabinet and leaders of existing military entities. He adds, "...and very soon: the Space Force." — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s Trump’s public schedule for tomorrow. (Public schedules don’t include all of a president’s activities.) https://t.co/mjwfuAKikl — PolitiTweet.org

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@drewharwell let us in — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricColumbus OK maybe 24 with Messam! I will reserve the right not to count Gravel if he is not traveling to primary states. — PolitiTweet.org

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@richarddeitsch Oh for sure. Helps calm me down after Woj notifications about Jake Layman — PolitiTweet.org

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@mitchusmaximus @TheFrankIsola !!!!!!! MOST IMPORTANT NUMBERS — PolitiTweet.org

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The Democrats aren't always accurate or honest, but it's an unavoidable fact of 2020 fact-checking that it's been harder to find significant errors from the 23-person field combined than it is from Trump himself. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fact-checked some of the Democratic candidates' recent tweets. All of these numbers are correct: https://t.co/DZwlPbp6pA — PolitiTweet.org

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This speech is likely to be much shorter than an hour. https://t.co/e7oJ4KSKwQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's Trump's public schedule for today. (Public schedules don't include all of a president's activities.) https://t.co/2ZElKczsfi — PolitiTweet.org

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Friend @kdaubs is one of my favourite writers, especially of quirky history, and her book sounds very good. https://t.co/88zzal0qvP. https://t.co/DyfBKlpWEx — PolitiTweet.org

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@froomkin I hear you. Thanks Dan. — PolitiTweet.org

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@froomkin And no, I wasn't assigned this item! I saw the claim in the ABC interview transcript and wondered what the data showed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@froomkin When he suggests private insurance itself is unpopular, I think it's worth laying out the data that shows that a strong majority of people who have it say they like it/are satisfied - as well as laying out the data that show people indeed dislike the insurers and costs. — PolitiTweet.org

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@froomkin Dan, I understand your point. I said in the piece that he's 100% correct that people do not like insurance companies or costs. But he told ABC that private insurance itself is not particularly popular. The data shows that private insurance is popular with people who have it. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Fuel" isn't the only cost, and the military planes are coming from places that are far from "right next door." Colleagues @sarahcwestwood and @rabrowne75 fact-check the president's inaccurate tweet about his July 4th event: https://t.co/6eYT6rrVFk — PolitiTweet.org

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To repeat what I said in the piece, this is not a case where Sanders is making something up or being objectively inaccurate. It’s a case where there is information that cuts against his point, and it’s worth laying it out. — PolitiTweet.org

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No: in many of the surveys, people are simply asked to rate the quality of care they get from their plans. Medicare consistently does extremely well. Employer-based insurance consistently does slightly less well than Medicare but still very well. https://t.co/fGJfkdpoPp — PolitiTweet.org

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A Sanders aide who insisted on anonymity made a valid point: surveys that ask people about happiness with their own private insurance do not count the opinions on private insurance of people who can't afford private insurance. Anyway, see the numbers for yourself. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Particularly popular" is subjective, and there's some data that lends support to Sanders's claim about private insurance, so I'm not saying this is "false." But years of data shows, at least, that there's more to the popularity story than Sanders suggested to Stephanopoulos. — PolitiTweet.org

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Bernie Sanders said in debate that people don't like health insurance companies. Correct. He said on ABC, though, that private insurance itself isn't "particularly popular." The numbers show it's very popular with people who have it. My look at the data: https://t.co/BLzN4r9hbC — PolitiTweet.org

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The Kawhi era has been an absolute comedy gold mine and it needs to continue — PolitiTweet.org

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@bruce_arthur My favourite CP24 memory https://t.co/oOgHRPVRGV — PolitiTweet.org