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Correspondent on the trail & the Hill for @nbcnews @msnbc @nbcnewsnow . Author ELECTABLE: Why America Hasnt Put A Woman In the White House…Yet. ❤️ = bookmarks.
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🚨 Read the first excerpt of my new book, ELECTABLE, in
@politico
right now:
Then pre-order so you can read more on August 23:
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Sean Penn is in the hearing room today as “just another citizen,” he told us. Asked what he thinks about the hearings he said “we all saw what happened on 1/6…now we’re looking to see Justice.”
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So disgusted they’d only say it on background.
A senior White House official told
@Axios
when they saw the tear gas clearing the crowd for Trump to walk to the church: "I’ve never been more ashamed. I’m really honestly disgusted. I’m sick to my stomach. And they’re all celebrating it."
@jonathanvswan
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Given how much Warren footage we just watched, it feels worthwhile to point out: I covered Warren's campaign for over a year. Every day was about "why she's in this fight." For policy. It's laughable to think anyone ever thought she was urging people towards physical violence.
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Kamala Harris is Vice President of the United States. Let's please say her name correctly.
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Loud laughter from basically everyone in here as Senator Hawley’s escape from the Capitol was shown— in real time speed and slo mo. It was a badly needed moment of levity in a room that was increasingly (understandably) tense and dark.
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Hard to watch all of these commercials and not think of Kaepernick.
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Personal news(!): I’m so excited to be
@NBCNews
’ newest Capitol Hill Correspondent, joining an amazing team here.
And now the usual ask to please add me to your press lists and help me if I look lost in this maze of buildings 😅.
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No fun way to say it: I tested positive for COVID during a recent routine test. I’m quarantining per CDC guidelines but feeling better— and feeling thankful for being vaccinated + boosted so this hasn’t been worse. Get your shots, keep testing & wear a mask.
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For the 1st time in any White House, 2 women are in command of its top messaging roles—
@PressSec
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Now NY will have it’s first female Governor in Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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This is what’s happening at the Trump rally in Tampa as
@Acosta
does a live shot. Folks booing, shouting “traitor,” and “you’re a liar.”
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Spotted outside of
@ewarren
’s, new chalk that popped up in the hours since she announced her decision to leave the race.
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Now: nurses from National Nurses United protest lack of PPE outside the White House while holding signs showing pictures of their colleagues who have died of coronavirus. They’re standing on X’s 6 ft apart to maintain social distancing.
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If you’re tweeting nasty things about Taylor Swift or her fans, you should know: it is an option to just say nothing.
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Just caught up with
@betoorourke
as he headed into his rally here in El Paso. Asked him if this was the start of a 2020 run and he said “no, no we are here to follow the lead of this great community and make sure the country sees us at our best.“
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Senator Patrick Leahy just came out to our cameras livid over Sen. Graham’s “beyond the pale” questions of Judge Jackson.
“As the Dean of the Senate…I’m just distressed to see this kind of a complete breakdown of what’s normally the way the Senate’s handled,” he told me.
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Rep. Stephanie Murphy just told Chuck Todd on
@MeetThePress
that Tony Ornato, who the committee has deposed behind closed doors, “did not have as clear of memories from this period of time as I would say Ms. Hutchinson did" re: the alleged moment w/ Trump in the SUV.
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History has been made: America’s first female Vice President, Kamala Harris.
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This is stunning.
@ewarren
leads off her talk on the opioid crisis here in Kermit, WV asking who knows someone who’s “been caught in the grips of addiction.” Dozens instantly raise their hands.
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I’m excited to take on a new role as NBC News Political Correspondent here in DC covering the Hill, agencies, and politics! Add me to your press lists and send me all your tips 👩🏽💻
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I just really love the
@maddow
@JoyAnnReid
@NicolleDWallace
Big Night In Politics trio. OK, that’s all. We can all watch
@msnbc
together now.
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Our pilot tonight, as we landed at DCA: be nice to each other, wear a mask, and vote in a couple weeks.
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She tweeted about how few in the crowd were wearing masks...Wow.
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Trump's legal team: Democrats used video that was edited out of context!
Also Trump's legal team: [Random splicing together of Democrats saying the word "fight"]
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Trump brings Ivanka on stage. "She actually said 'Daddy can I go with you?' I like that," he says of the 35 yr old, also a snr WH advisor.
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A Trump campaign source, in reax to this, tells me "it's all true" and "way worse than people realize."
longtime ally of Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager: "Manafort not challenging Trump anymore. Mailing it in. Staff suicidal."
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“Even Whitmer?” Headline reads as if a Dem gov in a critically important state, who just won a decisive re-elect, all while leading on a signature national issue (repro rights) is some long-shot afterthought. Odd.
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As I hear Klobuchar talk again abt her 4th grade elex, I cant help but wonder what my life would be like now had the kids at my H.S. voted for me & Amy Wagner instead of the two guys on the soccer team who didn’t even bother to make their own posters or come up with a platform.
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*whispers* election results are never 100% certified when the clock strikes midnight on election night. Even in states that are called, every ballot continues to be counted and final canvassing totals come later. This isn’t a This Year thing, it’s an always thing.
@rickklein
Here's Jason Miller claiming that counting all the ballots = stealing the election:
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Pete Williams making an important point right now on
@MSNBC
: the ruling today re: Vance doesn't mean the *public will see Trump's tax returns. This decision relates to the returns being sent to a grand jury (which is private).
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An interesting new nugget: In Monday’s classified Ukraine briefing, Sen. Romney asked a question. Before responding, Blinken commended Romney’s longstanding work on Russia & Putin and senators in the room applauded, multiple sources tell me,
@JulieNBCNews
&
@Abs_NBC
.
(1/X)
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NEW: Just spoke to
@ewarren
about the WH's Trump/Ukraine call notes. "It doesn't have to be a quid pro quo," she said. "It's a solicitation of help from a foreign gov't for his own political purposes. That is the smoking gun. It's right there in his own words. He's admitted it."
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The Arizona crowd is now chanting "McCain's gotta go." Wow.
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Here’s the full exchange with Kennedy, in which I ask the questions multiple times to make sure we’re understanding- even at one point saying I was surprised by the stance.
Full story here and video TK:
Kennedy’s campaign issues a “clarification,” not attributed to him, which states that he didn’t mean to give the answer that he gave:
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This Harris v. Biden exchange on race and policy is stunning. One of the most direct attacks on Biden we've seen yet — and a clear example of what Kamala camp means by "prosecuting the case."
#DemDebate2
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It can’t be stated enough: Almost all of these were must-know people over my time covering the Trump 2016 campaign. They’re not ancillary players; Bannon, Manafort, Gates, Cohen, Flynn - they were The Team.
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This
@AliVelshi
monologue on all of the double-standards we apply to women in politics is what we need from all men. Calling it out, and then fixing the way we cover it, is crucial. 👏🏼 I’d be pumped to join his show next anyway but now I am even more so!
#velshi
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Forget for a moment that Fetterman is a Dem Sen. Forget that he’s a politician at all. This interview w/
@CBSNews
is powerful. Depression is so hard. Candor about depression is so hard. But hearing that you’re not alone in your experience makes a difference.
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The overall vibe here in the hearing room totally shifted when this video recreating Jan 6 began. It feels as if everyone in here has caught the same chill. Some crying, others nervously fidgeting in their chairs, but all rapt by the footage on the screen.
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NEW: Asked about online attacks from Sanders supporters & if he has done enough to condemn them, Warren tells me Sanders “has a lot of questions to answer here” & “that’s not how we build an inclusive Dem party & not how we beat Trump. We do not build on a foundation of hate.”
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Just caught up with Rep. Garcia who told me there was palpable surprise from GOP members in the room when Turley said this. They’re in a bit of “freak out” mode now, he said, because Turley was supposed to be one of their “star witnesses.”
At another point in his opening, Turley urges an approach devoid of political bias or pre-judgment and allows that “some of these issues [at hand] do gravitate in *favor of the president”
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Cohen also passed along an image of this letter to me, signed from "Stormy Daniels" and dated Jan 10, 2018, denying rumors of hush money from Trump and calling them "completely false."
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As Biden comes to the podium, NBC News calls the Ossoff/Perdue race for Ossoff.
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SCOOP: J6 Cmte currently plans to vote to subpoena fmr Pres Trump during today’s hearing, sources familiar w/ their plans tell
@NBCNews
. Members want to put the move in the public record despite acknowledging how unlikely it’d be for him to comply - w/
@haleytalbotnbc
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Cheney says here she WILL campaign for Democrats if that’s what it takes to ensure election deniers - like Kari Lake in AZ - don’t get elected in 2022.
#TribFest22
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@HCTrudo
Fully disagree that abortion access is “fringe”— and polls that showed it moving enthusiasm metrics bolster that. Reproductive care is an economics issue and voters can hold space for both in the voting booth as they decide.
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"If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me they can and they will if we don't make a change in this election...we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it," Michelle Obama says.
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By comparison, I covered Trump for yrs & repeatedly heard him urge supporters to violence. In 2016, telling supporters he'd pay their legal bills if they punched protesters in the face or even wishing law enforcement were more forceful when removing protesters from events.
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Bill Nelson wasn't making things up when he said Russians hacked Florida election systems,
@KenDilanianNBC
reports after three people familiar with the intelligence told him there is a classified basis for Nelson's assertion:
#FLSEN
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I know it seems nuts - we aren’t electing our leaders for their glam - BUT women candidates/electeds don’t get to be taken seriously & also be called “rumpled” or “disheveled” like some male pols. We expect the VP to look polished; for women that takes more than it does for men.
From a staffing perspective, this is unforgivable. It’s such a violation, it completely undermines the boss and completely misreads the reality of being a woman in the public eye. There are plenty of valid critiques to discuss but this ain’t it
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Just a stunning statement. Not only because it’s 9 days out from an election, but because the White House Chief of Staff is saying outright the focus for them is mitigation, not containment of COVID.
MEADOWS: We're not going to control the pandemic
TAPPER: Why not?
M: Because it's a contagious virus
T: Why not make efforts to contain it?
M: What we need to do is make sure we have the proper mitigation factors to make sure people don't die
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I’ve read this piece several times & each time it’s left me more disappointed. The author asks what led the woman who went home w/ Ansari to “believe that this time would be different?” What a sad question & even more reason for this current movement.
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This quote just stole whatever was left of my soul.
👀 Rep. Massie says of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.): “He's uniquely positioned to lose 30 votes on either side of the conference.”
Says he plans to vote for Jordan, per
@AnthonyAdragna
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Warren says she WON’T cross the Local 11 picket line outside the debate next week — “even if it means missing the debate.”
The union (cooks, dishwashers, cashiers, servers who prep/serve meals for LMU) have been in negotiations with Sodexo for a collective bargaining agreement.
.
@UniteHere11
is fighting for better wages and benefits—and I stand with them. The DNC should find a solution that lives up to our party's commitment to fight for working people. I will not cross the union's picket line even if it means missing the debate.
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Warren says tonight she’ll go to the Homestead detention facility tomorrow, before the debate. A campaign aide tells me she met with advocates backstage tonight and decided to go.
Warren just came out with a plan to ban private prisons and facilities like these last week.
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Amid assurances that his team would “look like America,” new data from the Biden-Harris transition shows that women make up more than half of the transition staff (52%) and people of color are more than 46% overall.
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KAINE’s take on VA doesn’t mince words: “Congressional Dems hurt Terry McAuliffe. I mean, I'm gonna be blunt, it's humbling to say it. But if we had been able to deliver infrastructure and reconciliation in mid October, he could have sold” those policies. (via
@frankthorp
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👀 With Trump hours from a presidential announcement, Rep. David Cicilline circulating draft bill text to his Dem colleagues to bar Trump from being able to hold office again, citing Jan 6/14th Amendment.
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Quite honestly? This is likely true. We were crisscrossing the country, multiple rallies per day, he put in the leg work.
Trump: "I don't think anybody has ever worked harder in the last month of a presidential campaign than I did."
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Little wave from a masked
@KamalaHarris
as she leaves DC. A few spectators — including a mom who brought her daughter to show her more examples of women in power — cheered.
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.
@realDonaldTrump
has advocated “extreme vetting” for ppl trying to come to the US. Would he consider the same for ppl trying to buy a gun?
Trump on civilian who intervened in Texas shooting: “If he didn’t have a gun, instead of having 26 dead, you would have had hundreds more.”
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For all the political theater — and there is a lot of it — this is the progress Fetterman has the chance to embody as a Senator: broadening the public vision for who can legislate and why diversify of lived experience can make better, more inclusive policy.
-
@JohnFetterman
at disabilities hearing gets emotional showing his cellphone transcription app & addressing those who mock him for his auditory processing struggles:
“How can we become more empathetic, more responsive, and more effective senators?
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Contrast to how Kamala Harris took several days off the road as a precaution, despite not having had what the CDC would call “close contact” after her comms director tested positive.
Remarkable: VP’s chief of staff Marc Short has tested positive for coronavirus, is considered a close contact of the VP & yet Pence will “maintain his schedule” — which includes lots of travel & campaigning.
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Biden and the DNC announce that they raised a combined $364.5M in August. A, to put it scientifically, truly bonkers sum of money.
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Trump supporters gather this AM in front of the WH for a "Pittsburgh not Paris" rally. Patriotic jams playing in the background.
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Fascinating moment from my intv w/ Warren re: the double standard women face in politics when it comes to being aggressive, for instance, on debate stages. “You know, this is what women face all the time. It's always too much of this, too much of that.”
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My parents got the vaccine today. It was just as emotional as others have said it would be. And I hope that all of you can also feel that same tension knot lessen in your chest or loosen in your shoulders as your loved ones get protected.
#WearAMask
#PlanYourVaccine
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The issue is less Trump's womanizing, and more the thinking that you're entitled to do whatever you want to women.
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Lots of news today, but this isn't to be missed:
BREAKING: The Trump administration just backed down and settled our FOIA lawsuit to obtain the White House visitor logs they were trying to keep secret.
The public will have access to these records in the coming months.
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Shot this footage earlier. Pence already picking up some Trump tendencies. 👍🏼👋🏼👉🏼👊🏼
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Asked about his Obama wiretap claims, Trump: "I don't stand by anything...I think our side's been proven very strongly."
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I asked
@ewarren
just now about Biden’s support of Hyde. She said she “will lead the fight to have it overturned.”
Pressed on if D nominee can hold that position: “it’s not about the politics, its about whats right. The Hyde amendment should not be American law.”
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OK so PRAISE this one woman who came over to pen, amid us being mocked, and said "thank you for what you do. I really value free press."
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Trump (while asked about Roy Moore allegations) says he doesn't watch much TV. "They like to say I watch television—people w/ fake sources. You know, fake reporters, fake sources. But I don’t get to watch much television. Primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents."
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We started this week talking about Oprah running in 2020. Does that feel like months ago to anyone else?
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Watching Stacey Abrams speak before Harris’ event in GA. You really can’t talk about GA’s evolution into a viable battleground for Dems w/o centering that convo on Abrams & the work her camp did to make it clear to skeptics that investment *could actually bring success here.
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Trump in 2016: consummate outsider, no more politics as usual, drain the swamp.
Trump today: "that's politics!"
Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That's politics!
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NEWS: fmr Speaker McCARTHY is floating a plan that would reinstall him as speaker and make conservative Trump ally, Rep. JORDAN, assistant speaker, three sources familiar with the pitch tell me +
@scottwongDC
. More about the longshot idea >>
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This was really quite a moment.
Broward County Sheriff stops NRA spox to say she can’t tell students she’s standing up for them when she’s not
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SCOOP: Mick Mulvaney to meet with J6 Cmte today for a virtual deposition, multiple sources tell me &
@haleytalbotnbc
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Harris is fundraising with Hillary Clinton and - in a life imitating art moment - the women who play them on SNL, Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler. Clinton says the night has raised $6M from more than 100,000+ donors and the avg donation is less than $30.
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NEW Trump to
@msnbc
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So...Elizabeth Warren is stopping by a bar in Iowa in a bit here. The establishment is quite full. So full, in fact, that the bar announced it was out of glasses, so empties either had to be passed forward with team work or the whole would be cut off. Team work has ensued.
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We take for granted moments like this now because tensions are so high and political moments so charged, but Biden just called President Trump a racist from mere feet away from him on the stage. And it didn't even get a response.
#Debates2020
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New: Warren met with WA Gov. Jay Inslee in Seattle when she was in the state for a rally before Labor Day, two sources w/ knowledge of the meeting tell me. Tonight, Warren's out with a climate plan that features Inslee-inspired elements.
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Honestly kids are awesome. This little girl is telling Harris about an anti-bullying campaign she started. “With everyone, for everyone” is what it’s called (“Wee-Fee”).
@KamalaHarris
took the “WeFe Warrior”’pledge - kindness and respect to everyone, lift up & help others.
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New neighbor just knocked on my door with freshly baked chocolate chip cookies as a ‘welcome’ present and dang, if this didn’t just make my night 🥰
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Let's not let the irony of this statement pass us by...
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Caught up w/ Jayapal outside the hearing, with tears streaming down her face. Asked about how it felt to see Milley explain vastly different reactions to the insurrection, she told me “it's a strange thing. I I feel like I knew these things. I just didn't have all the detail.”
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NEW:
@ewarren
will endorse Joe Biden with a tweeted video this morning, a source familiar with her plans tells me.
This is the third major Democratic endorsement for Biden in as many days, preceded by Sanders on Monday and Obama on Tuesday.
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The *personal news* I’m so excited to finally share. We have a cover and a pre-order link! Get your copy of my book ELECTABLE: Why America Hasn’t Put A Woman In the White House…Yet, w/
@deystreet
. Out August 23rd.
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.
@haleytalbotnbc
’s account of what it was like inside the House chamber is absolutely chilling, as all of these stories have been. I’m in awe of her always but especially right now. Read her story >>
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