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Simplistic 'Reagan' offers a take on the president as rosy as Dennis Quaid's cheeks
The Gipper does little wrong in a fawning biopic light on subtlety.
By Richard Roeper Aug 29, 2024, 6:00am CDT
https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2024/08/29/reagan-review-dennis-quaid-movie-ronald-jon-voight
President Ronald Reagan (Dennis Quaid) delivers his historic 1987 “tear down this wall” speech at Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin in a scene from “Reagan.”Rawhide Films
If you knew little or nothing about Ronald Reagan and you were to form your opinion of our 40th president on the content of the hagiographic “Reagan,” you would come away believing he single-handedly saved the Screen Actors Guild from being overrun by communists, was the most loving husband this side of George Bailey, was always the most charming man in any room, and sailed through eight majestic years in office with only a whiff of scandal or setback.
Not to say there isn’t a measure of validity in at least some of those assessments, but the truth is more subtle and debatable than what director Sean McNamara puts forth in “Reagan,” which was adapted by Howard Klausner from Paul Kengor’s book “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.” This is a competently made film with decent cinematography and production design, and the casting is never less than ... interesting, but it favors a simplistic approach and a narrative that verges on adoration. I mean, we actually see Ronald Reagan riding off into the sunset in this movie.
A lacquer-haired, rosy-cheeked Dennis Quaid looks and sounds like Dennis Quaid impersonating Ronald Reagan in the title role, as “Reagan” opens in March of 1981 with a re-creation of the assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.
'Reagan'
Simplistic 'Reagan' offers a take on the president as rosy as Dennis Quaid's cheeks
The Gipper does little wrong in a fawning biopic light on subtlety.
By Richard Roeper Aug 29, 2024, 6:00am CDT
https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2024/08/29/reagan-review-dennis-quaid-movie-ronald-jon-voight
President Ronald Reagan (Dennis Quaid) delivers his historic 1987 “tear down this wall” speech at Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin in a scene from “Reagan.”Rawhide Films
If you knew little or nothing about Ronald Reagan and you were to form your opinion of our 40th president on the content of the hagiographic “Reagan,” you would come away believing he single-handedly saved the Screen Actors Guild from being overrun by communists, was the most loving husband this side of George Bailey, was always the most charming man in any room, and sailed through eight majestic years in office with only a whiff of scandal or setback.
Not to say there isn’t a measure of validity in at least some of those assessments, but the truth is more subtle and debatable than what director Sean McNamara puts forth in “Reagan,” which was adapted by Howard Klausner from Paul Kengor’s book “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.” This is a competently made film with decent cinematography and production design, and the casting is never less than ... interesting, but it favors a simplistic approach and a narrative that verges on adoration. I mean, we actually see Ronald Reagan riding off into the sunset in this movie.
A lacquer-haired, rosy-cheeked Dennis Quaid looks and sounds like Dennis Quaid impersonating Ronald Reagan in the title role, as “Reagan” opens in March of 1981 with a re-creation of the assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.
'Reagan'
Simplistic 'Reagan' offers a take on the president as rosy as Dennis Quaid's cheeks
The Gipper does little wrong in a fawning biopic light on subtlety.
By Richard Roeper Aug 29, 2024, 6:00am CDT
https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2024/08/29/reagan-review-dennis-quaid-movie-ronald-jon-voight
President Ronald Reagan (Dennis Quaid) delivers his historic 1987 “tear down this wall” speech at Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin in a scene from “Reagan.”Rawhide Films
If you knew little or nothing about Ronald Reagan and you were to form your opinion of our 40th president on the content of the hagiographic “Reagan,” you would come away believing he single-handedly saved the Screen Actors Guild from being overrun by communists, was the most loving husband this side of George Bailey, was always the most charming man in any room, and sailed through eight majestic years in office with only a whiff of scandal or setback.
Not to say there isn’t a measure of validity in at least some of those assessments, but the truth is more subtle and debatable than what director Sean McNamara puts forth in “Reagan,” which was adapted by Howard Klausner from Paul Kengor’s book “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.” This is a competently made film with decent cinematography and production design, and the casting is never less than ... interesting, but it favors a simplistic approach and a narrative that verges on adoration. I mean, we actually see Ronald Reagan riding off into the sunset in this movie.
A lacquer-haired, rosy-cheeked Dennis Quaid looks and sounds like Dennis Quaid impersonating Ronald Reagan in the title role, as “Reagan” opens in March of 1981 with a re-creation of the assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.
'Reagan'
Which polls would those be, shittypants?
polls are starting to shift for Trump she hardly got a bump from convention.
The bump leading UP to the convention HAS held and continues.
National Poll: Harris by 7.2%
Big Village (8/28/24): Recognized Poll on 538
Likely Voters: Head-to-Head
Harris 50.4%
Trump 43.2%
https://survey.mrxsurveys.com/orc/pollingresults/Big-Village-Political-Poll-08.28.24.pdf
So, reasonable, accommodative, flip flops VS the indefensible, morally imbecilic, kind?
There are few candidates at the national level who do NOT move towards where they view the broader electorate already is.
Flipping is a pejorative for that process. That said, see Trump and Vance flip flopping around on abortion, national ban/no ban, because they see an electorate that is 60-40 in favor of 'mind you own damn business'? I do.
And Trump's less than credible denials about knowing/supporting Project 2025 because even he recognizes the dangers of even MORE, still more batshit positions than he already espouses?
It's hard for the GOP to disguise its hypocrisy and the daily stepping on rakes by its deeply flawed ticket of authoritarian ass-hats.
You already know. It's the same feeling of annoyance, perplexity, tiredness and malaise that accompanies reading, repeatedly, the ill-informed posts of Gumpian level IQ trolls that often elicit an audible 'WTF?!'
I don't need to find out what west nile virus feels like.
It has a better, much better, chance of f'cking working than Biden would have in a 2nd debate.
No, the argument was to protect each other from unknown, undiagnosed, infection. commonsense public health.
And JD stepped in it, stepped on a rake, again with an old video of him claiming teachers needed to have children otherwise they're brainwashing your kids.
The polls revealed how badly damaged he was.
No I won't be calling Biden a criminal and I don't need to convince myself.
If Biden was still in the race what do you think the polls would show right now?
WOULD you be looking forward to a 2nd debate without trepidation?
As opposed to the hard core REAL coup attempt on 1/6.
Read the article in your link, figured there was more to it than your biased take. I was right.
The Dems did what they needed to do to avert the bad faith efforts of the GOP to disrupt the process so no, I'm not the least bit upset that the Dems were smart enough to avert whatever the GOP was cooking up. Seems to me the Dems are checkmating the GOP at every turn. Not that difficult, apparently.
“Republicans will do what they do, sue,” Moore said during Wednesday’s meeting, specifically mentioning House Speaker Mike Johnson and the Heritage Foundation as likely litigators.
In a statement laying out the committee’s decision, Democratic National Convention Committee chair Minyon Moore lauded the steps the members had decided on and expressed hope they would defeat any possible litigation.
“We are confident that the process we’ve laid out is secure, democratic and critical to our defense against bad-faith litigation coming from Republicans and dark money groups as they once again put partisan games about the will of American voters,” Moore said.
He warned that without due caution, the party could face a repeat of the 2020 election, where Republicans and Trump filed a wave of frivolous lawsuits challenging the results claiming election fraud.
“Trump and Republicans will challenge the results, if we aren’t careful before the election we could face lawsuits post-election,” Moore said. “Our mission is too important.”
internal dialog implies that they have to listen as well as speak so yeah, non-starter just like here.
And 'defective narrative' is too kind a description of conspiracy theories, false equivalencies and batshit.
Two British dudes try ribs for the first time and their reactions are priceless.
Two British dudes try ribs for the first time and their reactions are priceless. 😂 pic.twitter.com/YOIsYD8OG7
— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) August 28, 2024
Two British dudes try ribs for the first time and their reactions are priceless.
Two British dudes try ribs for the first time and their reactions are priceless. 😂 pic.twitter.com/YOIsYD8OG7
— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) August 28, 2024
You can say it until the cows come home. As long as you hammer the DEMs with unfounded allegations and remain silent about the real threat to democracy that Trump represents, you support him by default.
Limited resources, unwillingness to fund what is necessary.
Load of crap and surmise you have no evidence for. You Trumpanzee assholes lost the opponent you reviled for his senility and now you're left with a far worse version as your candidate, rambling, riffing, insulting, cognitively failing, LOSING, dumb ass Cheeto Mussolini.
You don't like that the script has flipped and that Trump is folding faster than Superman on laundry day. Tough shit.
It was self-interest. The self-interest of Biden and the Dem party to not continue with a badly damaged candidate.
The GOP was relatively quiet about it because they knew it was in THEIR self-interest to keep Biden in the race.
So, Dem self-interest trump's GOP self-interest, to the continued consternation and growing desperation of the MAGA Party.
Now why don't you drop your pretense of caring about democracy while supporting a Party that forsook democracy on 1/6, and everyday after through their support of a wannabe dictator and convicted felon?
Nothing the Dems did, are doing, falls to the level of the moral imbecility and hypocrisy of the GOP.
I think that security IS the main issue.
The response of the flummoxed.
There were no antidemocratic actions. There was a damaged Dem candidacy that was likely to result in the loss of the WH to a convicted felon. Biden was persuaded of that and there have been no recriminations among Biden supporters as they in particular saw the problem.
You support a candidate who is the antithesis of democracy. If he did nothing OTHER than cry foul about the election and then invite his followers to DC to attempt to reverse that election it was more than enough.
He threat of retribution and his non-credible denial of the 2025 Plan, which is filled with authoritarian wet dreams, are further indications of the anti-democracy bent of the MAGA GOP.
That you don't LIKE that Harris has the campaign momentum is all that going on with your crocodile tears and fatuous claims that democracy has suffered with Harris's nomination. Trump's chances are all that have been damaged.
Give it a rest.
How in the holy f'k did you infer that? Because I mentioned that JD is alienating more women voters?
You're just too f'ing dense to deal with.
This part of history will repeat because the GOP is not a learning organization.
https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/07/politics/why-romney-lost/index.html
Democrats’ strong ground game
Romney may never have been the GOP’s dream candidate, but even if he were, Republicans would still have been forced to confront another troubling structural problem on Election Day.
Democrats showed decisively that their ground game – the combined effort to find, persuade and turn out voters – is devastatingly better than anything their rivals have to offer.
In 2004, Republicans tapped the science of microtargeting to redefine campaigns. That is now ancient history.
“When it comes to the use of voter data and analytics, the two sides appear to be as unmatched as they have ever been on a specific electioneering tactic in the modern campaign era,” Sasha Issenberg, a journalist and an expert in the science of campaigning, wrote just days before the election proved him right. “No party ever has ever had such a durable structural advantage over the other on polling, making television ads, or fundraising, for example.”
The Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee entered Election Day boasting about the millions of voter contacts – door knocks and phone calls – they had made in all the key states.
Volunteers were making the calls using an automated VOIP-system, allowing them to dial registered voters at a rapid clip and punch in basic data about them on each phone’s keypad, feeding basic information into the campaign’s voter file.
But volunteer callers were met with angry hang-ups and answering machines just as much as actual voters on the other end of the line. It was a voter contact system that favored quantity over quality.
At the same time, the campaign’s door-to-door canvassing effort was heavily reliant on fired-up but untrained volunteers.
Obama organizers, meanwhile, had been deeply embedded in small towns and big cities for years, focusing their persuasion efforts on person-to-person contact.
The more nuanced data they collected, often with handwritten notes attached, were synced nightly with their prized voter database in Chicago.
After the dust had cleared, the GOP field operation, which had derided the Obama operation and gambled on organic Republican enthusiasm to push them over the top, seemed built on a house of cards.
“Their deal was much more real than I expected,” one top Republican with close ties to the Romney campaign said of the Obama field team.
Sources involved in the GOP turnout effort admitted they were badly outmatched in the field by an Obama get-out-the-vote operation that lived up to their immense hype – except, perhaps, in North Carolina, where Romney was able to pull out a win and Republicans swept to power across the state.
Multiple Romney advisers were left agog at the turnout ninjutsu performed by the Obama campaign, both in early voting and on Election Day.
Not only did Obama field marshals get their targeted supporters to the polls, they found new voters and even outperformed their watershed 2008 showings in some decisive counties, a remarkable feat in a race that was supposed to see dampened Democratic turnout.
In Florida’s Hillsborough County, home to Tampa, the Obama campaign outpaced their final 2008 tally by almost 6,000 votes. In Nevada’s vote-rich Clark County, Obama forces scrounged up almost 9,000 more votes than they did four years ago.
Tuesday’s outcome laid bare this truth: The two campaigns placed very different bets on the nature of the 2012 electorate, and the Obama campaign won decisively.
Romney officials had modeled an electorate that looked something like a mix of 2004 and 2008, only this time, Democratic turnout would be depressed, and the most motivated voters would be whites, seniors, Republicans and independents.
Heading into Election Day, the Romney campaign’s final set of internal poll numbers showed their candidate with a 6-point lead in New Hampshire, a 3-point lead in Colorado, a 2-point lead in Iowa, a 3-point lead in Florida and near ties in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Ohio was their biggest problem. According to the campaign’s internal polls obtained by CNN, Romney was trailing in the must-win state by a full 5 points on the Sunday before the election, the last day of tracking.
Officials in Boston dispatched Romney for a pair of 11th-hour campaign stops in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, a show of Election Day vitality and confidence that was, in reality, a last-ditch attempt to move the needle with just hours until the polls closed.
The Obama campaign was of a different mindset.
Late last month, a few days before Halloween, four members of Obama’s senior campaign staff – deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter, pollster Joel Benenson, battleground state director Mitch Stewart and press secretary Ben LaBolt – flew from Chicago to Washington to brief reporters on the state of the race.
With the president’s campaign on the ropes in the wake of his awful debate performance in Denver, the quartet had a straightforward, math-driven sales pitch.
The share of the national white vote would decline as it has steadily in every election since 1992. There would be modest upticks in Hispanic and African-American voter registration, shifts that would overwhelmingly favor the president. And Obama’s get-out-the-vote operation was vastly more sophisticated than the one being run by Romney and the Republican National Committee.
On Monday, the night before the election, the Obama campaign was optimistic their vision would pan out. A relaxed group of about 60 campaign staffers including campaign manager Jim Messina decamped to Houlihan’s, just up the street from their Chicago headquarters on Michigan Avenue, to drink beers and take in Obama’s final speech in Des Moines on C-SPAN.
The following morning, bagels were delivered to headquarters for breakfast. Pizza was on the menu for dinner. Some staffers in the in the campaign’s press wing turned on the Oxygen channel to watch a marathon of “America’s Next Top Model” – a “mindless escape,” in the words of one campaign operative. When the results started flowing in, each chapter appeared to unfold as planned.
The office burst into loud cheers when Pennsylvania and Wisconsin turned blue early in the evening, two very large pieces of mortar in a growing electoral roadblock for Romney.
And when Ohio was called for the president, the year-long avalanche of G-chats, e-mails and text messages between reporters and campaign sources fell silent as Obama-world closed ranks to celebrate their hard-won – and meticulously planned – victory.
The 'ground game' that the Trump campaign has thus far failed to deploy and an ad campaign that will bury the Orange Goof and his VP candidate who is alienating more and more women every day, for starters.
And now that's she's nominated and has raised a half a $B, presumably from people who ARE going to vote for her, and she's leading in more polls than Biden ever did this year, what's your point?
You don't f'ing HAVE one. So spare me your hand wringing implications that Dems feel they been denied a democratic choice. The so called aggrieved are 100% behind her; no harm no foul in the entire process.
And Trump is NOT damaged goods trying to be sold?
Have you seen Trump's?
You are one delusional, ignorant, f'k. The notion that an AG who argued cases in court can't speak off teleprompter is just plain stupid. If the debate is open mike your orange treason weasel will go down in flames from his rambling insults and off the rails riffs.
IF your delusional shit was correct the polls wouldn't show Trump behind. You're stuck with Dementia Don and JD's daily rants about who should have children. They both can kiss the women's vote and the election goodbye.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/
Who’s ahead in the national polls?
Updating average for each candidate in 2024 presidential polls, accounting for each poll's recency, sample size, methodology and house effects.
Harris 47.0% Trump 43.7%
Aug. 28, 2024 leader
Excellent. Just dropped all of the images on a righty board with 'warning, exploding Trumpanzee head zone below'.
Department of Lunatic Bullshit. Well we could use another Fed Gov alphabet agency; DLB.
How election officials are planning to avoid a repeat of 2020’s slow vote count
Several battleground states have made changes to quicken the vote count — but some, most notably Pennsylvania, still lag behind.
Election workers sort ballots at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix.
Election officials hope that ballot counting in 2024 will go quicker than in 2020, when it took several days to declare a winner of the presidential election. | John Moore/Getty Images
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/26/2024-election-vote-count-mail-ballots-00128529
By Zach Montellaro
11/26/2023 07:00 AM EST
Election officials are preparing to count votes a lot faster in 2024, desperate to avoid a repeat of the long ballot count that left the winner of the presidential race uncertain for days in 2020.
Several battleground states have passed new laws to facilitate quicker counting and implemented more efficient processing procedures. The faster races are tabulated, the faster they’re called — and the shorter the period of uncertainty in which misinformation can spread, as when then-President Donald Trump escalated conspiracy theories about the vote count in 2020 and falsely declared himself the victor.
“We’re going to continue to be laser focused on the space and time between when the polls close and the unofficial results are announced,” said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat. “But what 2020 also showed us is that in addition to that time period, if the unofficial results are not what certain candidates had in mind or had hoped for, that we need to be prepared for them to double down on their misinformation.”
In addition to states counting votes more quickly and starting the process earlier, mail voting is expected to be down from 2020, when the pandemic led an unprecedented number of voters to avoid in-person polling places.
But issues remain. Counting procedures vary state by state, and partisan fighting has sometimes bogged down changes election workers want. And some key states — most notably Pennsylvania — still lag behind, election officials and experts warn, and in an exceptionally close presidential race it could still take days to know the winner.
The scramble comes in response to the 2020 election. That year, the combination of a surge in mail voting, outdated state laws and an elections system struggling with resources led to a presidential race not being called for days.
One of the major pain points that year was that a handful of swing states did not allow for pre-processing of mail ballots before Election Day. The work it takes to get mail ballots ready to be counted — validating voters’ identities, removing ballots from envelopes and loading them into tabulators — takes time. The earlier it’s done, the sooner ballots are counted.
When the pandemic pushed an unprecedented number of voters to vote by mail, it took some states days to do that work, dragging out after Election Day. Heading into 2024, lawmakers in several of those swing states — at the urging of election officials — are allowing for more pre-processing.
Michigan is going from an extremely limited 10-hour pre-processing window in 2020, which many election officials couldn’t take advantage of because approval came only a month before the election, to over a week in 2024. Wisconsin may soon allow for one day of preprocessing — less than many election officials had asked for, but still something they view as significantly better than nothing.
“The option for early voting in our state, and associated pre-processing and other pieces as well, will ultimately help us more smoothly and efficiently deliver unofficial election results after the polls close,” Benson said.
Election officials across the battleground states have been talking about ballot counting, she said, “as we prepare for close elections in each of our states next November and post-election challenges and misinformation to flourish as a result.”
Some states have also passed laws that would give the public a better sense of how many votes are left to be counted, removing a level of uncertainty that could aid media outlets’ decision desks as they look to declare winners.
Georgia, for example, now requires counties to report at midnight of Election Day how many votes they have left to count, as does Pennsylvania.
“I think you’re going to see like we did for the 2022 cycle, people are declared a winner by 9:30 or 10 o’clock at night,” said Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican. “The closer races went a little bit longer. But it was just the very, very close races that we just couldn’t make a determination that night.”
To the frustration of Pennsylvania election officials, state legislators haven’t allowed for pre-processing of mail ballots, leaving Pennsylvania officials unable to touch them before the polls open. The issue has repeatedly fallen victim to partisan fighting in Pennsylvania’s state government.
“It is certainly disappointing that the legislature was not able to come together and provide at least a few days of pre-processing,” said Seth Bluestein, a Republican Philadelphia election official. That hasn’t mattered in recent low-turnout municipal elections. But, he said, “when we go into next year with a higher turnout, and potentially a close margin at the statewide level, it is certainly going to be a challenge to count all the ballots quickly.”
Pennsylvania, however, is a significant outlier.
Rachel Orey, senior associate director at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s elections project, noted that 40 states and D.C. allow for some level of mail ballot preprocessing before Election Day — up from just 27 states in 2020.
Election officials have long grumbled that election results have never been official on the night of an election. No state has completely tallied every vote cast by midnight on the day of the election — at a minimum, military and other overseas voters have a grace period. And media outlets, not election officials, are the ones declaring winners early, with certification of the actual election results taking place long after the public has moved on.
Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, said the focus on certification is the wrong way to think about it. “This is an issue about Nevada voters getting the information that they expect to have,” he said. “Until we get to a point of being to perfection, we can’t use that argument.”
Still, a very close contest could mean media outlets don’t have the statistical confidence to declare a winner. The Associated Press, for example, typically does not call an election if it’s within a recount margin.
And even having preprocessing periods is not a panacea.
It doesn’t help if large numbers of ballots are dropped off on Election Day. And in some states, including Nevada, ballots are counted if they are postmarked by Election Day and arrive soon after. Such last-minute ballots by definition can’t be processed in advance.
Aguilar said his office is focusing on helping local officials increase capacity — particularly in Clark and Washoe counties, which combined account for a supermajority of the state’s votes. “It is making sure we have enough talent to manage the process. It is making sure we have enough machines, making sure we have enough space,” he said. “Do we need to increase the number of pickups at polling sites to be able to get the ballots before the end of Election Day?”
Perhaps one of the biggest differences from 2020 is that election officials in many states are expecting far fewer people to vote via mail in 2024, and instead opt for a return to Election Day or early in-person voting. In the 2022 midterms, more voters voted via mail than in 2018, but it was noticeably fewer than in 2020.
“Sixty-five percent of the voters are voting early. And then we have the other 30 percent that are voting on Election Day,” Raffensperger said. “Voters get to make that choice, so that gives them confidence in the process. But by doing that, we will have the tabulation done very quickly for all the early votes.”
What a bullshit poll. Non citizens are prohibited by law from voting in Federal elections. Anyone with any brains hearing the polling question would have responded 'wait, what?!'
You Trumpanzees HAVE to believe that you lose elections because of voter fraud rather than for the real reason; GOP policies suck. The abortion ruling is opposed 60%-40%. THAT'S why Trump and JD are going to have their authoritarian asses handed to them, soon.
Straw man argument. I said 'riffing about bogus Covid remedies' And He DID suggest injecting disinfectants was worth 'looking into.'
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/23/trump-bleach-one-year-484399
His handling of it; downplaying it...his words....scoffing at science and common sense public health measures by holding super spreader campaign rallies and riffing nonsense about disinfectant and light 'remedies'.
Welcome home, maybe.
Why would any morally imbecilic Trumpanzee, redundant I know, vote for someone like her?
Good for him. Now can you imagine Trump holding forth and chiding his MAGA'Ts about ambiguities...NOT in his vocabulary.... and judgmentalism, much less condemnation, of and toward Dem's? Me neither.
When has the GOP produced a president like Obama? And do you remember the bithrerism directed towards him?
He was a far better president than Tea Party members deserved, providing as he did more access to health care than they'd ever had.
And because you support the insurrection inciting, doc stealing and hiding, shitty phone call making, Felonious Orange F'k YOU are a treasonous piece of shit.
First to ABC: Retired 4-star general, 200 former GOP staffers endorse Harris
Source: ABC News
General Larry Ellis, a retired four-star general who served in that rank under George W. Bush’s administration, is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in a letter exclusively obtained by ABC News.
This is the first time Ellis, who served as the commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command, has endorsed a presidential candidate, writing that “this is not a decision I take lightly, but one I believe necessary.”
"Donald Trump has demonstrated that he is wholly and dangerously unfit for Commander-in-Chief. He praises and emboldens our enemies that seek to weaken our country. He has denigrated our brave men and women in uniform,” Ellis writes.
Ellis adds that if any service member were to ever “act just a bit like” Trump, “then he or she would be immediately removed from the leadership position, admonished, and separated from military service.”
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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-retired-4-star-general-200-former-gop/story?id=113163960
Hosts, please note - this is a NEW story, about Ellis's letter today, although part of the article rehashes yesterday's news about the letter from 200 Republican staffers.
The theme played throughout The War without lyrics. Haunting to say the least.