Tom Bevan
@TomBevanRCP
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Co-Founder & President of RealClearPolitics
Joined August 2008
It doesn't matter if Fox's call of AZ ends up being correct in the end. It was totally unnecessary to call it as early as they did. And the fact they jumped to call it, after waiting hours to call FL when 97% was in and Trump up 3+points is an awful double standard.
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Why don't we just do away with the fiction of a "netural" moderator. Let's have openly partisan moderators, but pair them together on stage. Hannity gets to ask Biden questions, and Maddow can question Trump. Bring the best stuff you got, let's see how they handle it.
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Recap:. NBC killed story on Harvey Weinstein, saying it didn't meet their editorial standards. ABC spiked story on Jeffrey Epstein, saying same. Both orgs (& rest of media) went wild running uncorroborated stories about Brett Kavanaugh being a gang rapist.
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How in the hell can 1/5 of vote tabulating machines in the biggest county in the state stop working on Election Day?.
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I have never seen a presidential candidate go with the "if I answer your question it will make news" excuse. It's truly insulting, and the media is letting him get away with it.
Joe Biden:. "You'll know my opinion on court packing when the election is over."
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Media bias is not just in the stories that get covered, but the ones that don't. Total blackout on the insanity in Seattle on major news websites: ABC News, NBC News, CBS News.
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Even the AP 'Fact Checkers' couldn't let this whopper slide.
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FWIW, I agree Election Day should be a national holiday. In fact, It should be a 4 day weekend. In exchange, states should do away with early voting. You have 4 days to get to the polls & vote. That’s it. No drop boxes, ballot harvesting, etc.
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I'm told Biden vax mandate for private sector DOES NOT include carve-out for truckers. So all the biggest trucking companies in America - who already face major driver shortages - will see a % of their workforce quit. Supply chain crisis is going to get much worse - very soon.
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If a bunch of MAGAs took over a section of Seattle & declared their independence, the media would lose their marbles. And you know Jay Inslee would be preening in front of the cameras declaring a statewide emergency instead of pretending he knew nothing about it.
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Stunning numbers among Dems in RCOR's new poll on free speech and censorship:. 47% of Dems say free speech should be legal 'only under certain circumstances. 34% of Dems say Americans 'have too much freedom'. 75% of Dems say government has a responsibility to censor 'hateful'.
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Joe Biden bombed Syria last night, and this is Politico's front page this am. 🤔
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Not sure who should be more embarrassed by what we just saw: the president or the White House press corps.
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Recap of yesterday:. 1) Twitter suspends James O'Keefe, after he publishes series of videos deeply damaging to CNN. 2) Facebook & IG follow Twitter censoring stories critical of BLM. 3) Months later we find out the Russian bounty story, hyped endlessly by Dems & media is fake.
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NYT/Siena, rated an A+ pollster by 538, overestimated Biden's support by:. 6+ in FL.4+ in NC.Probably 6ish in MI when the count is in.10 ish in WI.10+ in IA.9+ in OH. Great job.
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Rush Limbaugh: "Now we’ve got these Trump-Mueller investigators wiping their cellphones. You try this. You try erasing your cell phone when FBI wants to find out what’s on it. You try and see what happens to you. Stunning.".
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Photo of Antifa Karen flipping of black Chicago police officer nicely sums up the current insanity.
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The media's coverage of the Rittenhouse trial is an abomination.
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Kelly: I've been focused on the border since day one. Masters: If that's the best you can do I suggest you resign.
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So every Dem Senator in a competitive race who voted against Kavanaugh lost (Donnelly, Heitkamp, McCaskill, and almost certainly Nelson), and the one who voted for Kavanaugh survived (Manchin). Coincidence?.
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Not a single question in today's White House briefing about the Washington Post story authenticating Hunter Biden's laptop. Not even by the Post itself.
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If 10 FBI agents showed up at dawn at the home of a NY Times reporter, handcuffed them, and confiscated iphones full of notes and source material, it would rightfully generate national outrage. But since it happened to James O'Keefe, we get crickets.
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For those keeping score at home, in the last 24 hours folks on CNN and MSNBC have called Kanye: . 1) dumb.2) mentally ill.3) a house negro.4) a token.5) a minstrel.6) a white supremacist.
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Guess what? Crime isn't down 2.1%, according to the FBI. They just released a "stealth-edit" update: violent crime is actually up 4.5%.
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Wow. Watching MSNBC. Absolutely delusional analysis by Nicole Wallace, Joy Reid, and Rachel Maddow.
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Sarah Sanders just said the Trump campaign has questions about AZ and thinks it was called too early.
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I've consumed a lot of media over the last 20 years since starting RCP. It's my job. But I have never seen anything as biased and one-sided from a major media outlet as CNN's front page this morning.
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Holy f*ck, @LasVegasSun. This editorial was written after the alleged shooter, Quintez Brown, was identified as a left-wing BLM activist.
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What a garbage headline this is. We don't characterize annual flu deaths this way, or traffic fatalities, or suicides. #themediaisbroken
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From Monmouth poll: After 8 months of campaigning, here's the change in net favorable ratings of the 2020 field in New Hampshire. Only one has improved his/her standing:. Yang + 38.Buttigieg -2.Warren -2.Klobuchar -2.Sanders -8.Booker -18.Biden -32.
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Why are Georgia and North Carolina not working through the night to get the votes counted as quickly as possible? Makes no sense.
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Can we stop pulling down statues for a minute and look into the eyes of Mekhi James? 3 years old. Killed by gunfire Saturday night in Chicago. His life mattered, as did the lives of the 12 other people who were murdered in the city on Father's Day weekend.
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With lightning speed, the Associated Press adopts Democrats' language on SCOTUS: adding members is now "depoliticizing" the court, only "critics" refer to it as "packing."
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Holy shit. This is the New York Times' takeaway from Comer's press conference revealing that bank records show 9 members of the Biden family received millions of dollars from foreign nationals while he was Vice President.
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According to The Guardian, this is how Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the Signal chat:
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If Trump wasn’t already running in 2024, he definitely is now.
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Norah O'Donnell has decided to burn CBS News's credibility (and her own) to the ground. You go girl.
'CBS Evening News' anchor Norah O'Donnell opened the show with The Atlantic story:. "Two weeks from Election Day, as the final battleground sprint is underway. Every hour matters for these candidates as they try to reach as many voters as possible in the key states that will
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Our media is so embarrassing.
“Mr. President, what did you order?”. President Biden: “Chocolate chocolate chip.”. Crowd: “Ooooooohhh” "Oh yeahhh.".
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You now have to issue statements explaining why you're standing for the national anthem. In America.
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After this weekend, the odds that Mitch McConnell will be the Majority Leader if the GOP wins back the Senate in November have decreased rather significantly.
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Check my math. Trump is currently up 680,000 votes in PA. If they have 1 million votes left to count, Biden would have to win them 84-16 to close the gap.
Pennsylvania has more than 1 million votes left to count, said Gov. Tom Wolf in a Twitter posting early Wednesday #Election2020 . "I promised Pennsylvanians that we would count every vote and that’s what we’re going to do," Wolf said
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Imagine if Steve Scalise had tweeted this at Bernie Sanders. Democrats would have lost their marbles.
I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out. Happy to work w/ almost any other GOP that aren’t trying to get me killed. In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign.
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The media's willingness to play along with the gaslighting and memory-holing of Harris' record over the last four years is truly jaw-dropping.
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Masters absolutely crushing Kelly on immigration. If this was a fight they would stop it.
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The more you dig through the #s the more stunning this election looks. GOP moved the national vote roughly 7 points in their direction from 2020 but will gain only a handful of House seats & make no gains (or may even lose a seat) in the Senate. .
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This is false. We never called Pennsylvania, and nothing has changed.
#FakeNews won’t cover law suit which will invalidate 300,000 or more crooked democrat votes votes in Philly. Real Clear Politics just took PA away from Biden and made it a toss up. Only the beginning please look beyond the Big Media censorship to watch it all change.
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Biden's schedule this week is truly absurd. 1 phone call on Monday. Nothing Tuesday or Wednesday. 1 phone call and a ceremony on Thursday & then off to the beach house. Any employee or CEO who did would be fired. Biden is the leader of the free world working 10 hours a week.
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Just this week @jaketapper has:.1) threatened Trump supporters 2) Tweeted ‘bye Felicia’ at WH Press Sec 3) nodded as Clyburn said Putin was dictating US fortunes. Plus 4 yrs of hyping Russia hoax, getting caught meddling in an election & lying about it, maybe just take a seat?.
Tom’s upset because we’ve pointed out that he published libelous smears of an active duty Green Beret (that he had to delete) and of Trump administration official @VictoriaCoates. But instead of apologizing and being better, he attacks. It’s a shame because a lot of RCP is great.
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Tillis just took the lead in NC. GOP keeps this seat, they keep the Senate.
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Best. Tweet. Ever.
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Masters: Mark Kelly voted no on 18,000 new border patrol agents, and voted in favor of 87,000 new IRS agents.
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Nothing to see here. I mean, who among us hasn't taken a $5 million interest-free loan from the Chinese? .
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@SpeakerPelosi Reminder: 11 days ago you said on national television that "this is not a normal election" and "Trump "must be stopped. he cannot be president." .
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To put it simply: CNN spiked the Hunter Biden story before the election and its reporters and anchors gaslighted the American public by calling it 'Russian disinformation." The End.
To put it simply: Fox News producers believe that their viewers do not want to hear about depressing pandemic deaths. They believe pandemic news doesn't "rate." They believe that they need to focus on culture war battles, anti-Democrat narratives, and pro-Trump stories. The end.
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lol. Meanwhile, the NYT still hasn't informed its readers a member of the House Intel Committee was dating a Chinese spy. Major media actively ignores/suppresses stories unfavorable to one party. Call it what you want, but it ain't journalism.
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Hard to imagine a more divisive, sensational, context-less headline. A textbook example of the media being the enemy of the people.
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I wish Aaron Rodgers would stop making me like him.
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Un-fricking-believable: the same cast of characters who ran Russiagate are leading/supervising the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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It's over. I'm not sure how many people watched, or how much it will matter, but Masters was the clear winner of that debate. Kelly made his points on abortion and Social Security, but Masters simply crushed him on inflation and illegal immigration.
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My parents live in Mesa, just heard they went to two different locations and were unable to vote because the machines weren't working.
This started with a single location. Then a few. Now, it's sounding as if this is widespread and very serious.
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CNN is not a news organization.
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“For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth.”. A liar to the very end. No joke.
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The Times-Union says Hegseth should resign because "sooner or later his sloppiness will get someone killed.". Lloyd Austin got 13 U.S. servicemen killed in Afghanistan but I can't seem to find the Times-Union's editorial calling for his (or anyone else's) resignation.
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Calling people who disagree with your political views on voting legislation "domestic enemies" and comparing them to Jefferson Davis and Bull Connor is not divisive at all.
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Why is Jen Psaki not wearing a mask while giving her briefing? Every reporter in the room is being forced to wear one.
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Amazing: GOP still leading national House vote by just under 6 million votes.
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I love the fact that Kimmel, Colbert, and Fallon all inherited legacy programs with built-in audiences and then @greggutfeld built a show from scratch and immediately started kicking their asses.
Late Night TV Rankings May 9-15. 1⃣@GutfeldFox! @GregGutfeld .2⃣@JimmyKimmel.3⃣@StephenAtHome.4⃣@JimmyFallon.5⃣@FoxNewsNight @ShannonBream.6⃣@SethMeyers.7⃣@Nightline.8⃣@BillMaher.9⃣@11thHour @SRuhle.🔟@JKCorden.#11 @IamJohnOliver.#12 @DonLemon.#13 @TrevorNoah.n/a @IamSamBee
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Biden just said wage growth had outpaced inflation over the past year. That is false.
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Factoid: Neither Stacey Abrams nor Beto O'Rourke has EVER led in a poll this entire race. Combined, they have raised (and will spend) around $150,000,000 this year.
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You don't say: On July 1 Portland police disbanded its 34-member Gun Violence Reduction Team at the direction of the City council after budget cuts. By the end of the month, the Portland had recorded its highest number of homicides in more than 3 decades.
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Knocked up the nanny. Slapped his ex in public. Was a 'foul-mouthed' misogynistic a-hole at work. @jrpsaki just slobbered over him as the new male role model. Turns out he's only a tick or two away from Harvey Weinstein.
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Karine Jean Pierre stood at the White House podium for almost 3 years dissembling and deflecting and the Washington Post never once wrote a story like this about her.
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Who are the 5% who think the Afghanistan withdrawal is going "very well"?
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Kanye West’s blatant anti-Semitism cost him a billion dollars and got him excommunicated from polite society. Ta-Nahesi Coates gets treated like royalty for his.
Ta-Nehisi Coates suggests he's not above taking part in an October 7-style attack:."And I grow up under that oppression and that poverty and the wall comes down. Am I also strong enough or even constructed in such a way where I say this is too far, I don't know that I am."
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The propagandists at CNN, who were responsible for injecting the Steele dossier into the mainstream and who spent years pushing its bogus claims, cannot find room on their front page for a single story about the arrest of Igor Danchenko.
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Dozens and dozens and dozens of meetings w/Hunter and his business partner right after trips abroad, but never once a discussion of business. It's laughable.
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It’s like Sunny Hostin or Joy Behar is hosting a Sunday show.
“You’re standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to commit a genocide.”. Margaret again, my God, when are her bosses going to tell her to stop getting shellacked.
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See a lot of Teslas in "disadvantaged and rural communities?" .
Jen Psaki: 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations are needed for "rural and disadvantaged communities."
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Biden 3/26/22: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”. Biden 3/28/22: "It's ridiculous. Nobody believes I was talking about taking down Putin. Nobody believes that.”.
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My home town of Evanston, Illinois is having a Juneteenth Parade and a Gay Pride Parade, but is cancelling the 4th of July Parade & Fireworks.
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