Monday, Jul 25, 2022 TOP TIDBITS
FROM THE DNC WAR ROOM
FROM THE CHAIR’S DESK
MESSAGE TO MOBILIZE
ARTICLES TO AMPLIFY
TOP TWEETS
TALKING POINTS
BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION WEEK AHEAD
TOP TIDBITS This past weekend, the DNC released a video putting Sen. Hawley’s remarks at Turning Point USA summit claiming he was “not going to run” from his critics side by side with footage from the Jan. 6 hearings showing he did exactly that. The video has garnered 2.6 million views as of this morning.
The DNC also launched a mobile billboard campaign calling out Donald Trump ahead of his speech at the extreme Turning Point USA Summit. The mobile billboard circled the city of Tampa and highlighted Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 election results despite his crushing loss to President Joe Biden — who won more than 81 million votes, the most of any presidential candidate in United States history.
The DNC also showed up at the event with accompanying flyers to call out Ron DeSantis on his refusal to pre-order vaccines for young kids in Florida as well as ultra-MAGA Republicans for their extreme agenda in Florida all weekend.
FROM THE DNC WAR ROOM MAGA Hot Mic: MAGA Hot Mic: New Hampshire Senate Candidate Kevin Smith FROM THE CHAIR'S DESK@harrisonjaime: We need more inclusion, not less. Thank you @VictoryFund for your work to make sure LGBTQ+ candidates have the resources they need to run for office! [LINKED TWEET] MESSAGE TO MOBILIZE Please amplify some of our top content from DNC channels below: Did Josh Hawley really just say that? We’ve heard differently. @TheDemocrats (Twitter), (Facebook) House Democrats passed a bill to protect access to birth control—the vast majority of House Republicans voted against it. @TheDemocrats (Twitter), (Facebook) I grew up in a family where if the price of gas went up, we felt it. Gas prices have dropped since mid-June and should continue to come down in the days and weeks ahead. I know those extra dollars and cents mean something. @JoeBiden (Twitter), (Facebook) The Biden-Harris administration has taken action to help make sure abortion access is available to mothers whose lives are at risk. @TheDemocrats (Twitter), (Facebook) Want to help amplify the DNC’s message online? Join the DNC’s Greenfly to start receiving daily content updates and access to social media resources. Click here to download the app and use code: DEMSTALKERS at sign up. Please note that individuals working for independent expenditures or Democratic primary campaign candidates are ineligible to join the DNC’s Greenfly. ARTICLES TO AMPLIFY Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: Democrats mock Trump in his own backyard! New billboard showing Fox News announce his 2020 defeat appears in Tampa ahead of ex-president's speech there Business Insider: Democrats troll Trump by greeting him with a mobile billboard showing clips of Fox News announcing his election loss, report says TOP TWEETS @BrianDeeseNEC: Impt context ahead of this wk's Q2 GDP release:
The data will capture Apr-Jun economic conditions, ie backward looking
Hiring, spending, and production data look solid
CEA outlines why economists look broadly at data to assess the economy’s health [ARTICLE LINK] @WhiteHouse: According to an industry analyst, the most common price at gas stations across the U.S. is $3.99. Lowering costs for Americans is @POTUS’ top economic priority – and bringing down prices at the pump is just one part of his plan to make life more affordable for families. @POTUS: Make that 65 cents down over 40 days. [LINKED TWEET] @POTUS: Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, our labor market is in a strong position to fight the global challenges of inflation and transition from historic recovery to stable growth. @KamalaHarris: To protect the freedom to vote and a woman's right to make decisions about her own body, we need people who will defend our rights up and down the ballot. TALKING POINTS 1. Across the country, gas prices are decreasing and American families are feeling relief. The result is real breathing room for American families who are now spending less on filling their cars. And, since gasoline prices affect the prices of other goods and services through transportation costs, including food, both households that drive and households that don’t directly benefit from lower gasoline prices.
President Biden has taken historic actions to address Putin’s Price Hike at the pump and increase the global supply of oil.
He’s releasing a record one million barrels of oil per day on average from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The president rallied our global partners to release a combined 240 million barrels of oil. These releases have had an outsized effect at a time when the market is especially tight. In fact, as one leading oil market analyst put it, “the US has become the world’s oil barrel of last resort, single handedly keeping prices in the energy market from exploding even higher by selling a large chunk of its Strategic Petroleum Reserve.”
We expect gas prices to continue to decrease in the near term.
If oil prices stay at or below current levels, gas prices will decline further. That’s because while oil prices have decreased by more since their June peak than prices at the pump.
Despite the data, you wouldn’t know gas prices are coming down from watching the evening news or reading the paper.
The facts are clear: the sustained decrease in the price of gas over the past several weeks is important news for families across the country. It’s important progress in giving families more breathing room. Yet the media is doing its own version of rockets and feathers – covering the spike, but not the drop. This is an issue that matters tremendously to American families and coverage should reflect the drop as intensely as it reflected the rise.
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