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Fri. 08/16 – Understanding Early Head-to-Head Polling

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Episode notes

Lewandowski might run for Senate in New Hampshire, O’Rourke confirms yet again that he is not running for Senate, head-to-head matchup polls show Trump losing badly and why that’s misleading, an update on that end-run around the Electoral College, Bullock and de Blasio will appear in CNN town halls later this month, and what Buttigieg ate at the Iowa State Fair.

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• Trump Thinks Corey Lewandowski Would Be a ‘Fantastic’ Senator From New Hampshire (NYT)
• Corey Lewandowski’s potential New Hampshire Senate run is a very Trumpian move (WaPo)
• Mueller Report [searchable text version] (DocumentCloud)
• Remember That Time Corey Lewandowski Brought a Gun to Capitol Hill (Roll Call)
• Merrick Garland heard Trump campaign manager’s appeal over gun in 2003 (USA Today)
• O’Rourke: ‘I will not in any scenario run for the United States Senate’ (Politico)
• Fox News Poll: Biden still leads Democratic race, Warren climbs into second (For News)
• Fox News Poll 8/15 [full results] (Fox News/Scribd)
• Should We Take These Early General Election Polls Seriously? $#!% No! (FiveThirtyEight)
• What the @#$%&! Is a Grawlix? (ThoughtCo)
• The Movement To Skip The Electoral College May Take Its First Step Back (FiveThirtyEight)
• CNN to host presidential town halls with Steve Bullock, Bill de Blasio (CNN)
• Mayor Pete’s Excellent Iowa State Fair Adventure (Eater)