Confirmed:
@AOC
wins a spot on the high-profile House Oversight committee, giving her a potentially huge platform to interrogate Trump administration officials in next two years.
NEW: The Biden campaign has raised more than $21.5 million online today, per a campaign official — its best day of the race.
Added to the ~$10 million from 9pm-12 a.m. raised during and post-debate last night and you have a $31.5 million haul in a little over a day.
So
@Ocasio2018
is talking about insider trading in Congress while taking a large knife to an onion on Instagram.
"Not okay"
**chop**
"Profound conflict of interest"
**chop**
"Not something I'm going to do"
Almost 4,000 people are watching this.
NEWS: The Trump operation refunded $122 million — more than 10% — of what it raised online in 2020.
Prechecked boxes withdrew $$$ weekly from unwitting supporters. Scores were ensnared. Fraud claims to banks soared.
My investigation into what happened:
NEWS: Democratic donors shattered ActBlue's all-time record for donations in an hour after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.
Democrats gave $6.2 million in the 9 pm hour.
Then they broke the record again in 10 pm hour.
More than $100,000 per minute.
No really “news” anymore but still unprecedented:
ActBlue surpassed $200 million donated in the first 100 hours after news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, currently without an income, needs to wait until her congressional salary kicks in to get a DC apartment.
"I’ve really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January,” she tells
@Azi
.
NEW: Democratic donors have now given more than $46 million to candidates and causes in the hours since Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away — a breathtaking sum of money in so short a timespan.
NEW: Democrats have given more than $20 million through ActBlue in the last four hours.
The three biggest hours for donations in its 16-year history are, in order:
10 p.m. tonight
9 p.m. tonight
11 p.m. tonight
NEW: Elizabeth Warren in a gaggle in Boston just called on Mayor Pete Buttigieg, by name, to release his list of bundlers, disclose who has gotten "titles" and open his fundraisers to the press.
More TK.
NYT sends an alert at 2:15 p.m.: "U.S. virus cases are climbing toward a third peak"
Trump at 2:26 p.m.: Predicts pandemic is going to "peter out" soon
NEW: Rep. Katko (R-NY) will vote to impeach.
“To allow the President of the United States to incite this attack without consequence is a direct threat to the future of our democracy. For that reason, I cannot sit by without taking action. I will vote to impeach this President."
NEWS: ActBlue processed $10.8 million in four hours after Kamala pick.
It had processed $2.3 million those same four hours on Monday, suggesting a $8.5 million Biden windfall.
Campaign says it is biggest day for grassroots $$$.
So this Tish James clip held up:
“Don’t tie me to Gov Cuomo. He didn’t make me. He’s not responsible for my victory. I stand up in the spirit of Shirley Chisholm…and if anyone says that I’m bought and sold by Gov Cuomo then they don’t know Letitia James”
NEW: The NRSC sent a fundraising email today signed by Herschel Walker in which it is actually keeping 99% of what’s raised, per fine print.
Walker gets a dime for every ten dollar donation.
Cheney says Trump is again inciting violence with his anti-FBI rhetoric over the search of Mar-a-Lago.
“It is entirely foreseeable the violence will escalate further,” she says, holding him to account in advance.
NEWS: The NRSC is canceling some fall ad reservations in PA, AZ and WI — total so far north of $10 million — in a sign of financial troubles.
Cuts include more than $5 million just from the Philly market.
FIRST CUT —>
This. Sentence.
“It’s why America hates the out of touch leftist media elite,” Ms. Schlapp tweeted from a limousine en route to an exclusive after-party organized by NBC/MSNBC.
NEWS: In a shift, Elizabeth Warren now says she will NOT do big-money fundraising events if she's the Democratic nominee.
She had previously said her ban only applied to primary.
One person died tonight at Trump Tower in a fire on the 50th floor. I would expect the fact that the upper floors do not have sprinklers is going to be the subject of some scrutiny in the coming days.
Full NYT story here:
NEWS: Top Bernie Sanders adviser Jeff Weaver is behind a new super PAC aimed to rally progressives behind Joe Biden. It's called Future to Believe In PAC.
And Weaver is teaming up with ex-Sanders adviser Mark Longabaugh.
Biden campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon, in grassroots summit, emphasizes that their polling does NOT show a double-digit lead nationally.
"Please take the fact that we are not ahead by double digits"
“Those are inflated national public polling numbers”
NEW w/
@npfandos
: There are Heidi Cruz group text messages.
"Anyone can or want to leave for the week?"
Inside the planning of Ted Cruz's Cancún trip, and their escape from a "FREEZING" house
So Paul Ryan flew across the country to secure a $30 million check from Sheldon Adelson but then stepped out of the room for a couple minutes to avoid technically soliciting the money? Via
@JakeSherman
@politicoalex
NEWS: More than 120,000 people have already paid to attend today’s Biden-Obama virtual fund-raiser, raising $4 million+ for the campaign — a huge sum for an online event.
My piece on Biden's emergence as a financial force in his own right in 2020 —>
The entrance polls in Nevada show Bernie Sanders winning men and women, whites and Latinos, voters 17-29, 30-44 and 45-65, those with college degrees and those without, liberal Democrats (by a lot) and moderate/conservatives (narrowly), union and non-union households.
Just randomly remembered: Ralph Northam is still Virginia's governor, Justin Fairfax is still the lieutenant governor and Mark Herring is still the state attorney general.
The new scandal playbook really is to just wait it out.
Trump made widespread use of prechecked boxes to automatically enroll donors into repeating donations — unless they opted out.
In Sept., as Trump faced a cash crunch, those recurring donations began withdrawing *every week*.
Many donated unknowingly:
This faked interview of
@Ocasio2018
by
@CRTV
has nearly 1 million views on Facebook. In less than 24 hours.
Interview didn't happen. It takes clips from
@MargaretHoover
's show and edits in faux questions.
Not labeled satire (other than a 😉 emoji).
One subtle but powerful thing about the students who've mobilized after Parkland: We are hearing the names of survivors and victims far more than the shooter.
Alfonso Calderon, a Florida school shooting survivor: “Trust me, I understand. I was in a closet locked, for four hours...I understand what it’s like to text my parents, ‘goodbye, I might never ever get to see you again, I love you’”
NEW: Trump just filed:
— $63.1 million cash on hand.
— $1.4 million in debts.
We will be getting full figures for Biden later this evening but that # expected to be much larger, even after he outspent Trump on TV last month by a lot.
NIXON rips off the gloves in her opening speech: "The Koch brothers donated $80,000 to Andrew Cuomo when he first ran in 2010..They knew a good investment when they saw one."
NEW, per FEC fillings: Cash on hand on Feb. 1:
Sanders: $16.8 million
Buttigieg: $6.6 million
Biden: $7.1 million
Klobuchar: $2.9 million
Warren: $2.2 million
Bloomberg: N/A
Steyer: N/A
Howard Schultz of Starbucks, who briefly dabbled in the idea of running for president in 2020, announces he is voting for Joe Biden in an email to supporters
New detail from
@AsteadWesley
that captures the Warren team:
"In Illinois, where Ms. Warren’s campaign was scheduled to hold a post-Super Tuesday phone banking session, staff and supporters...decided to use their time to support Marie Newman"