The Tap: Saturday, September 24, 2016

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The Tap covered election news, public policy, and other noteworthy events from February 2016 to February 2022.

Review of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #36 of The Tap, which was published on October 1, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

Federal

  • Donald Trump called school choice the “new civil rights issue of our time” at a campaign event in Virginia. He said, “Too many African Americans have been left behind and trapped in poverty. I will fight to make sure every single African American child in this country is fully included in the American dream. That includes the new civil rights issue of our time: School choice.” Earlier in September, Trump outlined his stance on school choice, saying, “As your President, I will be the nation’s biggest cheerleader for school choice. I want every single inner city child in America who is today trapped in a failing school to have the freedom – the civil right – to attend the school of their choice. I understand many stale old politicians will resist. But it’s time for our country to start thinking big once again. We spend too much time quibbling over the smallest words, when we should spend our time dreaming about the great adventures that lie ahead.”
  • The editorial board of The New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton, writing, "In any normal election year, we’d compare the two presidential candidates side by side on the issues. But this is not a normal election year. A comparison like that would be an empty exercise in a race where one candidate — our choice, Hillary Clinton — has a record of service and a raft of pragmatic ideas, and the other, Donald Trump, discloses nothing concrete about himself or his plans while promising the moon and offering the stars on layaway." The New York Times published a follow-up editorial titled “Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President.” The editorial board stated, “Voters attracted by the force of the Trump personality should pause and take note of the precise qualities he exudes as an audaciously different politician: bluster, savage mockery of those who challenge him, degrading comments about women, mendacity, crude generalizations about nations and religions. Our presidents are role models for generations of our children. Is this the example we want for them?”
  • President Barack Obama attended the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. In a speech, he said, "This national museum helps to tell a richer and fuller story of who we are. … By knowing this other story we better understand ourselves and each other. It binds us together. It reaffirms that all of us are America, that African-American history is not somehow separate from our larger American story. It is central to the American story. … We're not a burden on America or a stain on America or an object of shame and pity for America. We are America. And that's what this museum explains. Hopefully, this museum makes us talk to each other and listen to each other and see each other."


Preview of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #35 of The Tap, which was published on September 24, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

Federal

  • Former fictional advisors to fictional president Jed Bartlet (D)—played by Martin Sheen— will stump for Hillary Clinton. Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg, Josh Lyman, and Charlie Young—the fictional aides played by Richard Schiff, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, and Dule Hill on The West Wing—are set to appear in a number of Ohio cities to speak on behalf of the Democratic nominee.




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