.@GovInslee, speaking at Netroots, says GOP governor candidates this year have all "shackled themselves to the SS Titanic," being Trump.
"There is no Republican Party – it’s the Trump party."
@GovInslee Inslee on 2018: "Whatever energy we have, this is the year to put it all on the line. This the year all the chips are on the table." #NetrootsNation
After Inslee says he thinks competitive Dem primaries are good in general, @aterkel asks when they aren't good.
Inslee: "When somebody’s running against me."
Inslee, asked about @TomSteyer impeachment effort: "Democrats should be talking about every single thing that will hasten the demise of the Trump presidency. … I really respect what he’s doing."
Inslee adds: "We ought to do everything we can to fight him today. And today we can fight him on multiple fronts."
Netroots Audience Q for @JayInslee: Are you going to run against Trump in 2020?
Inslee: "I’m not waiting. I’m running against Donald Trump today."
Another Q from NY attendee calls @NYGovCuomo a "DINO" -- what do we do about it?
Inslee: "This is your decision. You’re the boss. You control your vote."
Notes the DGA, which he chairs, endorsed Cuomo. But repeats: "t’s your decision."
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Jill Biden stepping out a bit more, speaking before her husband at HRC Dinner. Opens by telling story of punching a neighbor who was bullying her sister. "I hate bullies," she says
. @DrBiden talks about incorporation of LGBT "As You Are initiative to work of the Biden Foundation. "When the history books are written we want to be on the side of equality."
. @JoeBiden notes @ChadHGriffin credited him for endorsing marriage equality "early -- but it was very late," he says. Adds he had made it clear to Obama staff he wouldn't shy from question if asked directly
BIDEN, starting his midterm stump: "I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired of what’s going on in this country. I’ve had it up to here! This is not who we are. This is not the America I know."
Biden says this is "the most important election any of us have voted in so far. .. We must, we must reestablish American values."
@MichaelAvenatti@MichelleObama Avenatti: "There is no question that we are the party of love in American life today... But here’s what I believe. When you’re fighting for the values of love, you can’t afford to fight lovingly."
Averse to the minute-by-minute returns watching, Warren said she and her husband were watching “Ballers” on election night ‘16 until later when most numbers in
Richmond asks Warren about criminal justice reform: "Let’s just start with the hard truth about our criminal justice system: it’s racist."