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@GuardianUS democracy editor/"Trump on Trial" writer. @CJR columnist. @The_Almanac contrib. Recent bylines @latimes @rollingstone @politicomag . @vicenews alum.
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Source tells me that roughly half the House GOP conference gave Marjorie Taylor Greene a standing ovation after she rose to speak a few min ago.
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A little update — The GOP lawyer who helped
@kanyewest
get on the ballot in Wisconsin is actively working for
@realDonaldTrump
's campaign. She's the lawyer of record in their lawsuit to try to get a
@prioritiesUSA
anti-Trump ad pulled. Original story:
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@BernieSanders
supporters have started booing reporters at rallies. One yelled at us in the pen as he exited in LA yday. Not at the same level but starting to feel Trumpian. And Sanders and some top surrogates have been going after "the corporate media" with increasing disdain.
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Just dropped a big investigation with
@VICENews
:
The U.S. will have almost fewer 21,000 Election Day polling places in 2020 than four years ago.
That's a 20% drop from 2016.
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Parscale is now threatening to block reporters from Trump rallies because they made fun of the light turnout in Tulsa.
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@WillHurd
votes with Dems on resolution condemning Trump's comments as racist, first R to do so.
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@JoeBiden
attorney Bob Bauer: "So much for state legislative intervention. Not possible, not legal, not constitutional, cannot happen."
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"It's like arraign on your wedding day"
Good morning from downtown Manhattan where this lovely couple is getting married right next door to the media scrum waiting for the Trump indictment.
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Former NSC adviser Alexander Vindman was key in exposing Trump's 2019 attempt to extort Ukraine & in his 1st impeachment.
"It’s because of Trump’s corruption that we have a less capable, less prepared Ukraine,"
@AVindman
told me.
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Just a reminder that Florida is a must-win for Trump and not for Biden.
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Soldiers in WWI and WWII used... mail-in ballots.
Because of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, 2020 will be the most RIGGED Election in our nations history - unless this stupidity is ended. We voted during World War One & World War Two with no problem, but now they are using Covid in order to cheat by using Mail-Ins!
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Holy hell. Michigan's GOP Senate majority leader said the Capitol insurrection "wasn't Trump people," called it "staged" and "a hoax."
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Kudos to
@ewarren
for coming out and talking to the press, taking real questions from reporters, on a tough day. This is something fewer and fewer politicians are willing to do these days.
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Scoop: I found another senior GOP strategist helping get
@kanyewest
on the ballot, this time in Colorado. "I realize this is hilarious," Rachel George wrote to other operatives she said were "in on the joke" asking for help.
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The fact that the president of the United States condemning the KKK and neo-nazis is big news is rather notable in itself.
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A local GOP source tells me this is Lane Ruhland, a top WIGOP election lawyer who was former general counsel for the state party. Ruhland didn't deny it when I called her: "I’m going to leave any comment about the petitions, the papers and what’s going on to the campaign itself."
“No comment” as woman enters election commission building just after 5p in Madison to drop off signatures for Kanye West
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I talked to more than a dozen volunteers and former staff who worked hard to elect
@SenatorSinema
in '18. Now? They feel "betrayed," "livid," "crushed."
"People need to know she sucks," one former campaign staffer told me.
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@realDonaldTrump
just gave a shout-out to Mark Harris, "a pastor, a fine man" who had his House election thrown out because an adviser committed the biggest vote fraud in recent memory.
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Another big crowd for
@BernieSanders
here in Las Vegas. The campaign says the venue supervisor's final crowd count was (no joke) 2020.
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Fwiw other sources saying it was likely less than half the conference but all say it was a substantial chunk of the conference. And came after MTG (sort of) apologized.
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This obsessive focus over whether Trump got physical when he wasn't allowed to go to the Capitol misses the point of Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony.
No one's disputing that he was irate and demanded to go.
And her other testimony is much more damning.
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It's LA, where big rallies happen. But this might be the largest crowd I've ever seen at a primary rally, here for
@BernieSanders
.
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Breaking: The Wisconsin Elections Commission just voted 5-1 to throw
@kanyewest
off the ballot because the GOP operative who submitted his signatures arrived just after the 5pm deadline. Story TK.
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The Lincoln Project and Dem operative
@lawindsor
hired operatives to pose as tiki torch-wielding white supremacists at
@GlennYoungkin
's Charlottesville rally today.
They only took credit/blame after I told them I IDed someone in the photo.
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Incorrect! Richard Nixon did in 1960.
No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost. I won them both, by a lot!
#SupremeCourt
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I talked to more than a half-dozen senior GOP strategists about
@realDonaldTrump
’s current election standing and what he’s doing to down-ticket races. Some choice descriptions: “sucks,” “catastrophic,” “dire,” “ominous.”
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Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton told me that Trump's delay of military aid to Ukraine emboldened Putin.
“He obviously saw that Trump had contempt for the Ukrainians. I think that had an impact.”
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SCOOP:
@GOPLeader
McCarthy is gonna donate to charity the $$$ he took from Rudy Giuliani's newly indicted pals, his office tells me.
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JD Vance has repeatedly said people need to be more willing to stay in unhappy marriages for the kids' sake—and at a September event, seemed to suggest that included “even violent” marriages.
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@realDonaldTrump
is running an ad claiming he built "the best" economy in US history and will do so again. That ad uses footage of him at a steel plant that recently laid off hundreds — part of industry-wide layoffs that predate COVID.
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According to our new
@vicenews
/
@Ipsos
poll, just as many African Americans say they’d consider voting for
@BernieSanders
as
@JoeBiden
. Sanders might not have as much of a problem wooing black voters if he’s the Democratic nominee as some have assumed...
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Interesting to note that one of the top people helping Kavanaugh prepare for his potential upcoming hearing is White House Comms chief Bill Shine, who was ousted at Fox News for mishandling sexual harassment cases. (H/t
@jameshohmann
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Kayla Moore says it's a lie that she and
@MooreSenate
don't like Jews. "I just want to set the record straight while they’re here," she says, waving to the reporters in the back of the room. "One of our attorneys is a Jew."
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I took a deep dive into Toni Shuppe, a top Doug Mastriano ally who's rumored to be his pick to run Pennsylvania's election system.
She's repeatedly pushed QAnon-linked conspiracy theories and credits her political awakening to a wild QAnon video.
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Blake Masters explicitly called to fire all the U.S. military generals at least seven times over a span of eight months.
“I would love to see all the generals get fired. You take the most conservative colonels, you promote them to general."
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Cruz may have hung on but the Beto suburban coattails were real.
#TX07
: Lizzie Fletcher (D) defeats Rep. John Culberson (R). Dem PICKUP. This district voted 48%-47% for Clinton in 2016.
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SCOOP: I obtained an email Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander sent to a conservative listserv Monday.
"Accelerationists may have been right," he said. Accelerationism is a theory in vogue with far-right extremists to justify violence & insurrection.
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Trump seems to be continuing one of his little annual traditions—lying about his 9/11 experience. There's zero evidence he helped out after 9/11, as he's repeatedly claimed.
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@BernieSanders
Bernie hates WaPo and blames Bezos for unfair coverage. All I know is that
@WaPoSean
is one of the best reporters in the biz and this behavior is the type of thing Bernie himself criticizes when it comes from Trump.
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What ACTUALLY matters is she testified that she personally heard Trump acknowledge he knew many in the crowd were armed before urging them to march on the Capitol, pushed for days to join them, and had a tantrum when he wasn't allowed on Jan. 6.
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Do... do the Playbook authors remember Trump barring reporters (and, hell, lawmakers) from child detention centers two years ago?
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@realDonaldTrump
's attacks on voting def didn't help the GOP, but it's not like Republican turnout was bad. Both
@KLoeffler
and
@Perduesenate
won MORE votes in this runoff than Trump won in the state in '16. Dem turnout was just stratospheric.
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I lived in LA County four years in college and never heard the story of LAPD attacks on striking janitors from my professors. Prof.
@ewarren
's lecture tonight is tragic and interesting. I'm continually amazed how little worker history I got in the classroom.
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Just rewatched
@mtgreenee
's floor speech. At no point did she mention or apologize for her past comments indicating support for political violence.
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Confirmed. Texas Dem legislative source tells me they're at the Austin airport right now, planning to fly to DC.
Breaking: Texas Democrats are walking out to deny Republicans a quorum, which will prevent the passage of their elections bill, the trans bill, their bail bill, and everything else. They will have to leave the state for weeks. The last time they did this was in 2003.
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On Trump,
@mikepompeo
&
@TuckerCarlson
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"They have blood on their hands because if they weren’t acting against America’s interests in aiding and abetting our most belligerent aggressive enemy then we may not have ended up here."
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"This is 20 years building. But it was a slow creep until you get to the Trump administration, and there's a big lurch forward. We were almost at a point of no return at that point," he said. "By the time President Biden comes into power, you have all these vulnerabilities."
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@GovRonDeSantis
has turned tiny New College into the latest lab for his right-wing educational social experiment. The students are distraught they've become his guinea pigs.
One student said it was "terrifying." Another said "It just broke our hearts."
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The Trump State Department staffer charged with attacking police during the Capitol riots had many previous run-ins with the law.
That includes a 2013 case where he was charged with assault & theft.
I obtained the charging docs. It's... an odd story.
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Trump State Department official Freddie Klein's alleged role in the Capitol insurrection isn't the first time he's shown pro-coup tendencies.
Klein repeatedly praised the Argentine military junta.
Turns out his uncle was a senior junta official.
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full story on the wild night:
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@JoeBiden
has now pulled into the lead in Michigan and Wisconsin. If his leads hold in all the states where he's currently ahead, he's the next president—regardless of what happens in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
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@BernieSanders
camp says they raised $1.7M today from 100K donors (!), best debate-day total of the best-funded campaign in the field.
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FWIW these Miami-Dade numbers include ALL early in-person votes (expected to skew GOP) but only partial mail votes (expected to skew Dem). Dunno how much is out or how much ground Biden can make up but this isn't final.
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ICYMI, the woman who submitted
@kanyewest
's ballot signatures in crucial Wisconsin last night is a longtime GOP election lawyer who is also working for
@realDonaldTrump
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The alleged white supremacist Buffalo murderer's manifesto has some startling similarities with rightwing talking points that are becoming increasingly common among Republican lawmakers and candidates—like
Elise Stefanik, Ron Johnson, JD Vance.
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Just talked to a source close to the
@MikeBloomberg
campaign a few min ago who said the rationale for the campaign basically got wiped out with
@JoeBiden
's blowout in South Carolina. "At least I got a bunch of free sandwiches out of it."
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A Wisconsin state senator is thinking of quitting the GOP after Trump attacked her election reform bill.
"I am extraordinarily angry, I mean, cuss word angry, with Donald Trump," state Sen. Kathy Bernier told me.
She had a lot more to say.
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A little scoop: Remember that doctor with some wild COVID theories that
@realDonaldTrump
RTed in July?
The one who preached about people having health problems because they had dream sex with demons?
Yeah, she's speaking at a Trump event in Texas tonight.
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i'm hearing this too. and it's largely because of the expectations the polls set. but biden's team actually is on pace to win the core states they aimed for from the start, though NC was a clear fuckup. it's down-ticket dems that have a lot more soul-searching to do.
An overwhelming sentiment I’m hearing today: It should never have been this close. And the Democratic Party needs to get it together.
This is from lots of Democrats.
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This is at least the 3rd impeachment hearing I’ve been at where
@DevinNunes
walked out of the hearing room during Dem counsel’s questioning. Where’s he going? Is he watching? Who’s he talking to outside the hearing?
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A half-dozen GOP Senate candidates are pushing the conspiracy theory that Democrats want to import massive numbers of immigrants to seize control of the country electorally—a claim rooted in the white supremacist Great Replacement theory.
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@JoeBiden
is giving a general election speech tonight. "At this moment when there’s so much fear in the country, there’s so much fear across the world we need American leadership we need presidential leadership, that honest, truthful, reassuring and steady."
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While we await the Merrick Garland statement, worth noting that Rudy Giuliani warned that "If Trump gets elected [president], the first thing he’ll do is raid every one of Biden’s houses.”
Take him seriously.
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@AVindman
told me that Trump's delay in military aid "absolutely" hurt Ukraine's ability to defend itself and that there was "no question" it emboldened Vladimir Putin.
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Arizona's GOP House speaker makes clear that there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud in his state and rejects calls to try to overturn the election as unlawful. Pretty strong brush back.
Statement from the Speaker addressing calls for the Arizona Legislature to overturn 2020 certified election results.
#AZLeg
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Michael Peroutka thinks public education is a communist plot & COVID response was a "hoax."
He bankrolled Roy Moore.
He was on the board of the pro-secession League of the South.
And he could win Maryland's GOP attorney general nomination tomorrow.
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So in a district
@realDonaldTrump
won 53%-40% (and McCain won by 18) and was the biggest surprise Dem pickup of the '18 cycle, voters only oppose impeachment by 52%-45%. This is the best # his campaign mgr can tout to prove impeachment is hurting Dems?
Nancy Pelosi is marching members of her caucus off the plank and into the abyss.
Impeachment is killing her freshman members and polling proves it.
Here’s data on Rep. Kendra Horn (OK-5).
More to come on other members soon.
Say goodbye to your majority, Nancy!
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Republicans have spent the last months screaming about mail voting fraud. It's rare but does exist, occasionally! The last real known case was one of the GOP's own strategists, whose fraud swung a House race. He just pled guilty to related charges.
McCrae Dowless pleaded guilty to 2 of the 4 charges he faced related to Social Security disability fraud stemming from the ballot fraud investigation, and prosecutors agreed to drop two other charges, via
@will_doran
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Really does feel like the premature AP and Fox calls on Arizona have kept everyone from calling NV because that'd be 270 but no one really feels comfortable declaring Biden the winner there if it rests on AZ too...
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I spent the last few months trying to get my head around Tommy Tuberville for
@RollingStone
. Talked to him multiple times, chatted with former players and a bunch of senators.
Very few are happy with him right now.
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So it turns out that the Kelli Wards and Allen Wests of the GOP aren't outliers.
I went through the public comments of all 50 GOP state chairs. A significant number are openly pushing conspiracy theories and spouting unhinged rhetoric.
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Ain't gonna cut it for Trump. Looking increasingly hard there.
The 4:10 to Yuma just arrived with 4,846 ballots.
Breakdown:
Biden: 2,361 (48.7%
Trump: 2,337 (48.2%)
Biden is steaming ahead with a lead of 39,424 votes in Arizona.
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A little scoop:
@BernieSanders
was very unhappy when top former staffers launched a super PAC, so they just changed the name from an old Bernie slogan to make it clearer that he's not okay with it.
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.
@guycecil
asked why
@realDonaldTrump
is still holding crowded rallies if polling is showing it's hurting him. "He is a reckless asshole who has no self control... I don’t fucking know why Donald trump does anything. Because he’s a terrible human being."
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@realDonaldTrump
hasn’t said a single new thing since he announced the deal. This is just a rambling recitation of his normal immigration speech. Now he’s even wandering into non-immigration territory.
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@realDonaldTrump
lays out his 2020 case against the Dems: “They’re becoming the party of socialism, late-term abortions, open borders and crime."
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That took long. First
@jeffsessions
protesters (posing as KKK members) already kicked out.
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The Pennsylvania SOS office is reporting 100K mail ballots left to be counted statewide. The top six counties are all Biden counties, with a combined 70K (inc 35K in Allegheny, 23K in Philly). Biden's lead will just keep going up...
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What kind of man was
@93XRT
's
@LinBrehmer
?
My dad turned 70 last month. My fam put together a tribute video from fam/friends. We reached out to a few musicians/celebs my dad loves to see if anyone might send in a quick "happy birthday."
Lin was the only one to respond.
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GOP strategists say their state/district polling is just as brutal as what we're seeing in national public surveys. Trump's far behind in MI, WI, PA, trailing in AZ, FL and NC, and barely ahead in GA, TX, IA, OH. That's the whole map.
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Giuliani, Flynn, Bannon and other Trumpists have called for revenge while claiming that Biden has weaponized the FBI.
That's ironic given Rudy's misadventures hunting Hunter in Ukraine and Flynn's Jan. 6 plans.
And it shows what could happen if Trump DOES survive this and win.
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Worth remembering that Holtz campaigned hard for Jesse Helms while Helms was leading the charge against making MLK Day a national holiday.
Lou Holtz just called Biden and his family "Catholics in name only" for supporting legal abortion.
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As Pam Bondi leans hard into the "Bidens"/"Burisma" smear, worth remembering that in that newly released tape of Trump's private dinner ( ), Lev Parnas mentioned how he'd just had dinner with her...
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Trump is now having a total tantrum on Truth Social while denying that he threw violent tantrums in the White House and lunging at a Secret Service agent.
(w/
@misstessowen
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Roughly a week after a different kind of existentialist rhetoric inspired the Buffalo killer, Trump is talking up "civil war."
This is an increasingly common rhetorical frame on the hard right. And it's dangerous.
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also, it's notable that the team that appears to have won the white house, picked up senate seats and held the house is already going into postmortem mode while the team that's gonna be outta power seems to be doubling down on its message and strategy.
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Scoop: James Comey has hired his old friend and former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as one of his personal attorneys.
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The full email is in the story. This is the 2nd time in as many days I've found a senior GOP operative helping West qualify for a battleground state ballot:
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Capitol Officer Harry Dunn: "Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are being lauded as heroes and while I agree with that notion, why? Because they told the truth? Why is telling the truth so hard? I guess in America, it is."
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Wondering where John Eastman came from, and why so many "serious" conservatives like Mike Lee vouched for him as pushed crazy coup plots?
Reupping my deep dive on the Claremont Institute, the powerful and once well-respected think tank he works for:
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@TuckerCarlson
has had
@RepJimBanks
on his show multiple times, without disclosing that Banks' comm. director Buckley is Tucker's son.
Banks is a rising House GOP star who got a lot of attention for being named to/blocked from the 1/6 committee.
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