Some days, we wade into the trending topics thinking, "These are kinda dumb." But not today! We might mess around and learn something during this next round. Here's what's trending:
No, this isn't a joke about having a few too many. It's also not a sequel to that social media Blackout trend from a few weeks ago. No, this Blackout Tuesday is an effort to get Black Americans to only buy from Black-owned companies — or abstain from spending money. The whole goal is to push for social and economic justice by leveraging the 1 trillion dollars worth of buying power within the Black community. This sort of economic disruption or boycott has some historical significance too: The Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 and '56 was successful because Black riders refused to ride until they could sit where they wanted.
Deutsche Bank is trending today after the bank was forced to give up 150 million dollars over their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the former financier and convicted sex offender. New York State hit the German bank with the fine for not monitoring all the red flags coming up in Epstein's account activity.
Both Pusha and Drake are trending today over new drama in a years-long feud — which makes this a great opportunity to give a little rap beef history lesson here. Basically Pusha T and Drake are two of the biggest rappers in the world, and they just hate each other. Things really got out of hand in 2018 in one of the most infamous dis tracks of all time, when Pusha revealed Drake had a secret child.
"Adonis is your son, and he deserves more than an Adidas press run. That's real."
Drake has tried to brush off Pusha as trying to make a whole career out of knocking Drake. Either way, this is a musical rivalry with no end in sight.
If it seems like Joe Biden is running kind of a low-key campaign, well … he is. But whatever he's doing seems to be working pretty well for him considering the sizeable lead Biden's got over the president in polls both nationally and in key states. It's a lead far beyond what Hillary Clinton had last time around, but the question now is will it hold? Newsy's Alex Miller has more.
The presidential conventions, in whatever form they inevitably take, are less than two months away. Right now, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is sitting in a pretty comfortable position. A recent Monmouth University poll has Biden leading President Donald Trump 53 percent to 41 percent, but as Democrats learned the hard way in 2016, leading a national poll won't win you an election. For now, the state polls look promising for the Biden campaign too, showing him with a lead in nearly every swing state. The Midwest wall that tipped the election to President Trump four years ago looks to be moving in Biden's favor.
“You have to look at some of the external factors, being COVD, the shape of the economy and the overall tone and tenor that Trump has displayed.”
It all comes as the former vice president keeps a mostly low profile, limiting himself to just a few fundraising events per week and utilizing his wide range of surrogates, including former rivals like Senator Elizabeth Warren. Much of the campaign's focus now is on President Trump's response to the coronavirus.
“Make no mistake we’re still in a deep, deep job hole because Donald Trump has so badly bungled the response to the coronavirus and has now has basically given up on responding at all.”
While doing limited public events, the Biden campaign has been focused on fundraising, raking in more than the Trump campaign two months in a row, beating them by $10 million in June and by nearly $20 million in the quarter overall. This war chest is allowing the campaign to expand quickly. Biden made multiple hires in both Pennsylvania and Florida this week. Still the President’s campaign reported a remarkable $295 million in cash on hand. But whether the campaign is making the right calculation by keeping Biden home as Trump continues public, outdoor rallies, remains to be seen.
“Trump is his own worst enemy and I think one of the things that the Biden campaign has been very good about is not getting in the way of Trump and letting him not only destroy his own campaign but the trickle down effect you are seeing with senate republicans.” Outside of Washington, Alex Miller, Newsy.
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