Kamala Harris calls Trump 'a national security threat' after he says he'd take information from foreign power

Mod: It's now as if Trump is standing in the middle of Times Square screaming, "I'm a traitor!" Isn't it about time everyone takes his word on it?

Harris calls Trump 'a national security threat' after he says he'd take information from foreign power (The Hill link): Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) called President Trump“a national security threat” Wednesday night after Trump said he might not inform the FBI if a foreign country offered him information on a political opponent.

“China is listening. Russia is listening. North Korea is listening,” Harris tweeted. “Let’s speak the truth: this president is a national security threat.”

In the Wednesday interview, Trump would not commit to calling the FBI if offered damaging information.

"I think maybe you do both,"Trump said when asked whether he would contact the authorities or accept such an offer.

"I think you might want to listen. There’s nothing wrong with listening," he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. "It’s not an interference. They have information. I think I’d take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go maybe to the FBI."

Several of Harris’s fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates reacted similarly to ABC’s release of the clip. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) reiterated her call for impeachment hearings, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) also called for Trump to be impeached.

Trump erupts after polls say he would lose to every major Democrat in 2020: ‘They don’t even exist’ (The Independentlink): Donald Trump has claimed a wave of new polling from the 2020 presidential campaign season is fake after recent surveys showed every major Democrat vying for the White House besting the president in the upcoming election.

“The Fake News has never been more dishonest than it is today,” the president began in a series of Wednesday morning tweets. “There new weapon of choice is Fake Polling, sometimes referred to as Suppression Polls (they suppress the numbers).”

“The Fake (Corrupt) News Media said they had a leak into polling done by my campaign which, by the way and despite the phony and never ending Witch Hunt, are the best numbers WE have ever had,” he continued, addressing reports from Tuesday that said he had instructed his aides to deny internal polling data that showed former Vice President Joe Biden beating him in 2020. Despite his claims of “fake polling,” a vast range of surveys conducted by a variety of news organisations, polling groups and universities show the president losing against his top opponents time and time again.

In fact, Mr Trump even falls behind Mr Biden in the deeply red state of Texas, where another Quinnipiac University poll conducted last week showed the former vice president four points ahead of him.

Poll: McConnell's approval in Kentucky at 18 percent (The Hilllink): Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has an 18 percent job approval rating in Kentucky, according to a new survey.

A Public Policy Polling survey found just 18 percent of respondents approve of the job McConnell is doing, compared with 74 percent who disapprove. If McConnell were up for reelection today, 37 percent of respondents said they would vote for the Kentucky Republican. Another 44 percent would instead choose a Democratic opponent, according to the survey.

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