Lisa Kashinsky
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@POLITICO politics reporter and Massachusetts Playbook author. @The_HorseRace cohost. @bostonherald alum. "scrum queen" lkashinsky @politico .com
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PATS VS. POLITICS: For years it’s been considered an act of electoral sacrilege to campaign in New Hampshire during Patriots games.
But the team's abysmal record this year is changing the playbook for presidential campaigns.
A dream assignment
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Happy Super Tuesday morning from these Elizabeth Warren supporters who are lined up to cheer her on as she walks from her house to her polling location in Cambridge
#mapoli
#SuperTuesday
#Warren2020
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Former Mass.
@GovBillWeld
, former NJ
@GovCTW
, George Conway among 36 current/former Republicans warning Republican senators that failure to "adjudicate accountability" in Trump impeachment trial "will be a permanent stain" on the GOP
#mapoli
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“we’re in western mass apple picking” — some guy on his phone … in stow.
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Vivek Ramaswamy in a statement pledges to "withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot" and demands Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Nikki Haley "do the same immediately."
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Former VP Mike Pence says if there was an invitation to testify before the Jan. 6 committee, "I would consider it."
#nhpolitics
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👀 Patriots owner Bob Kraft has maxxed out to
@Maggie_Hassan
, per her latest FEC report
#nhpolitics
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@hakeemangulu
Hi Hakeem. My name is Lisa Kashinsky and I’m a reporter for the Boston Herald. I’m hoping to chat with students affected by the Harvard shutdown today. I understand this is such a difficult time. If you’d like to chat, please email me at lkashinsky
@bostonherald
.com! Thanks!
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Ron DeSantis has lost a backer in New Hampshire. State Rep. Cyril Aures, who was on a May list of DeSantis endorsers from Never Back Down, is now w/Vivek Ramaswamy. He’s seen “too much vitriol” from the FL gov; Ramaswamy “not attacking, he’s talking issues”
#nhpolitics
@politico
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🚨GOP Gov.
@CharlieBakerMA
makes a VERY rare cable news appearance on CNN on midterms: "One of the big lessons that the Republican Party nationally needs to take away from it is that voters want collaborative elected officials, they don't want extremes." Full intv later
#mapoli
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NEW: Massachusetts left asthma off the list of eligible medical conditions for a coronavirus vaccine in Phase 2, concerning advocates in lower-income and largely minority communities that have shown higher rates of the respiratory condition
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Bernie Sanders enters a health care-themed town hall in Dover, New Hampshire, to a standing ovation. Largely older crowd here. Several people I spoke to came down from Maine
#Bernie2020
#nhpolitics
#fitn
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Lots on immigration/separation at the border. With Mother’s Day tomorrow,
@BetoORourke
asks crowd to think of the mothers in Honduras etc. who don’t know where their kids are in the U.S. “We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to set this country right again.”
#nhpoli
#fitn
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"[A]ny journalist who transcribes an interview with a confidential source and puts it up on Otter has got to live with the possibility that Otter will wind up giving that transcript to the FBI.”
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Look I understand Massachusetts roads were made for cows and horses but really why is Jamaicaway the narrowest road ever
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Chris Christie hands over the $1,000 he needs to get on the New Hampshire presidential primary ballot in cash. “We’re from New Jersey, we give cash.”
“But don’t worry,” he jokes, “It’s not from Bob Menendez’s jacket.”
#nhpolitics
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@VP
Kamala Harris says she and
@POTUS
Joe Biden are “determined to lead the most pro-union administration in American history.” That earns Harris her second standing ovation from the
@GBLCBoston
breakfast crowd
#mapoli
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Some personal news: This past week was my last
@bostonherald
. I'll soon be joining
@POLITICO
as the next author of the Massachusetts Playbook, taking over from the indomitable
@stephanie_murr
!
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US Attny Rachael Rollins says "we're looking into" Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard: "I don't have enough information to answer" if DeSantis broke the law, but is "hoping to get some input from DOJ about what our next steps might be, if any."
#mapoli
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lol
@wutrain
was on “one of the shiny new orange line trains” today because she still takes the T to work and tells
@BosPublicRadio
not a single person tried to talk to her aka the new mayor of Boston. She says feel free to chat! She’s just on her phone like anyone else
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Early voting at Fenway Park is a grand slam. Voters waiting an hour-plus in line tell
@bostonherald
it’s a “historic” and “once in a lifetime” opportunity to vote here.
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New Hampshire primary problems: Trump asks rally-goers in Derry if any of them are NOT from N.H.
~ half the crowd raises their hands
#nhpolitics
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Inbox: Rep.
@AyannaPressley
praises
@RepCori
’s leadership on the eviction moratorium and says “Organized power is realized power, and today’s announcement is a testament to the strength of our unwavering collective advocacy.”
#mapoli
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.
@BetoORourke
’s NH team scored some clutch corner visibility outside the SNHU Arena in Manchester
#Beto2020
#nhpolitics
#NHDems2020
#fitn
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At
#CBCStateOfBlackAmerica
economic panel
@AyannaPressley
says: "Reports have shown that the city of Boston is booming. It’s simply a question as to for whom. Today we are here to figure out the answer — how the answer becomes: for us.”
#bospoli
#mapoli
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NOW: Dem nominee for AG
@AndreaForAG
enters her primary night party to raucous cheers, hugs and applause
#mapoli
#bospoli
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Rep.
@AyannaPressley
campaigning for
@wutrain
now: “For those that will say it's pie in the sky to be visionary, to be aspirational, to think boldly, I think our ideas need to be as big and go as broad and as deep as the hurt.”
#bospoli
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Progressives on a roll pushing the Biden administration on policy (with
@ewarren
and
@AyannaPressley
at the forefront)
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good shit
MWRA COVID wastewater data continues sharp decline. Updates through Jan 18.
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I’m in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the state Democratic convention. I thought I got here early. Apparently presidential candidates teams have been here since 3 a.m. - or slept here!
#NHDems2020
#fitn
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Boston Mayor
@wutrain
endorses her former City Council colleague
@LydiaMEdwards
in her bid for state Senate (and takes a walk through the Belle Isle Marsh on a beautiful fall day). It’s Wu’s first endorsement as mayor
#bospoli
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Me and a crowd (can’t tell how big from this vantage point) waiting for the Prince and Princess of Wales at Boston City Hall Plaza on this rainy afternoon.
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A friendly reminder that Massachusetts doesn’t have a governor’s mansion
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U.S. Rep.
@AyannaPressley
on Children's Services of Roxbury's "ROXTalks" says "unequal distribution" of coronavirus vaccines in communities of color hardest hit by the pandemic is "ostensibly vaccine redlining."
#mapoli
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Rep.
@AyannaPressley
tells
@WCVB
Biden's notion that forgiving more than $10,000 in student loan debt would benefit those who went to elite/pricey schools is a "harmful and flawed characterization of the issue" and again pushes him to cancel $50,000 by executive order
#mapoli
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Rep.
@AyannaPressley
touring fellow Squad members
@IlhanMN
@AOC
@RashidaTlaib
thru MA-07. They were in Cambridge Fri, are launching a canvass in Roxbury now & are in Somerville tn. They’re talking abt expanding the electorate & listening to ppl’s needs b4 asking for votes
#mapoli
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Inbox:
@BoldProgressive
committee that endorsed Elizabeth Warren is now urging Michigan voters to cast ballots Tuesday for Bernie Sanders
#MichiganPrimary
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Inbox:
@SenWarren
@RepPressley
and colleagues lead more than 80 members in a letter calling on President Joe Biden to cancel up to $50,000 in federal student loan debt per borrower, stressing that he has legal authority to do so
#mapoli
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Sen.
@ewarren
, Rep.
@AyannaPressley
,
@SenSchumer
: “We’re pleased the Biden administration has heeded our call to extend the pause on student loan payments. … We continue to call on President Biden to take executive action to cancel $50,000 in student debt”
#mapoli
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This is maybe just half the line outside the MassMutual Center in Springfield to see
@BernieSanders
. Doors opened more than half an hour ago and there are already hundreds of people inside (and there's a hockey game going on in the same building)
#Bernie2020
#mapoli
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Transition questions, travel edition: How quickly does Healey re-record Baker’s Logan Airport greeting?
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Standing-room only for Chris Christie’s town hall in Nashua with former Rep. Charles Bass (who’s endorsed Christie) and Gov. Chris Sununu (who hasn’t).
Sununu: “Chris has been great, he’s basically a (NH) citizen at this point”
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STORY: After a request from
@SenMarkey
& Mass. reps, the Treasury Dept is examining Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant transports & whether the Republican improperly used money connected to Covid aid to facilitate the flights.
w/
@fineout
@politico
#mapoli
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Sec.
@PeteButtigieg
’s closing pitch in Nashua, NH, is that this midterms is “fundamentally a choice between people who want to ban books and people who want to build bridges”
#NHSen
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Today's my first day
@POLITICO
!
#mapoli
#bospoli
send your tips, scoops, birthdays and press releases to lkashinsky
@politico
.com & please add/re-add me to your press lists! Monday's my first Mass. Playbook & I have some big shoes to fill from
@stephanie_murr
, so help a girl out!
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@VP
Kamala Harris at
@GBLCBoston
Labor Day breakfast calls out "extremist so-called leaders" across the country who are "trying to turn back time" on workers' rights, abortion rights and more. She says the Biden administration is "fighting back" and lists how
#mapoli
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Rep.
@AyannaPressley
slams SCOTUS for reinstating the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and calls to pass her Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act.
“State-sanctioned murder is not justice, no matter how heinous the crime.”
#mapoli
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DCA put the Dunkin next to the Boston gates on purpose didn’t it
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UPDATE:
@massdems
says Flexibility and Benefits for Massachusetts Drivers will no longer be attending this weekend's convention and that the party will return the group's tabling fee after 400+ party activists and candidates signed a petition urging the party to do so
#mapoli
Morning, Mass. ☀️ Hundreds of Dem activists & most of the party’s statewide candidates are at odds w/ MassDems leadership days before the convention. We have why.
Plus:
@EdforBoston
, Ironworkers Local 7 to endorse
@RicardoNArroyo
for Suffolk DA
#mapoli
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NEW: Mass. Senate staffers are moving to unionize.
@BeaconHillUnion
, thru IBEW local, asked Senate President
@KarenSpilka
to voluntarily recognize the union that has majority support of staffers. Spilka has asked Senate Counsel to “carefully review.” More in Playbook tmrw
#mapoli
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BREAKING:
@AntDambrosioMA
has called
@LydiaMEdwards
to concede the special primary election to fill former state Sen. Joe Boncore’s seat. She’s expected to address supporters soon
#bospoli
#mapoli
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Mass. Gov-elect
@maura_healey
’s first national TV interview since her historic win goes to CNN. She says tax reform “will be my first act day one as governor.”
#mapoli
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NOW:
@NikkiHaley
rallying in Portland, Maine, thanks GOP Sen. Susan Collins for voting for her. “When all the fellas are following the herd, she showed why she’s got a steal spine … thank you for showing the fellas that you’ve got more balls than them.”
@politico
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Proud to be reporting alongside my dedicated
@EagleTrib
colleagues covering
#MAgasfires
. With no power in our newsroom we worked from fast food joints and libraries (thanks
@Wendys
in North Reading and
@NevinsLibrary1
in Methuen!) to get the paper out. Stay with us this weekend!
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NOW:
@VP
Kamala Harris holds a roundtable on how Biden admin can best support working ppl w/
@SenMarkey
,
@RepPressley
@maura_healey
. Harris notes she & Healey overlapped as AGs & praises presumptive Dem nominee for gov as a “leader nationally” on combating wage theft etc
#mapoli
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Joe Biden supporters on the steps of the Statehouse include state Sen. Marc Pacheco, state Rep. Claire Cronin and labor groups including the IAFF. They say Biden is the one who can repair relationships internationally and who can hit the ground running
#Biden2020
#mapoli
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🔵 Andrea Campbell has won the Democratic primary for Massachusetts state attorney general.
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Mass. Senate President Pro Tempore
@WBrownsberger
comes out as bisexual. "When my parents passed away a couple of years ago, I finally did the personal work to...name the breadth of love and desire that is part of who I am."
#mapoli
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Russia has sanctioned most, but not all, of Massachusetts' nine congresspeople:
@RepAuchincloss
@sethmoulton
@RepPressley
@RepKClark
@RepStephenLynch
@RepRichardNeal
have been sanctioned, plus
@RepLoriTrahan
, who says: "Good, now let’s get Ukraine some more weapons.”
#mapoli
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BREAKING:
@AnnissaForBos
has conceded the Boston mayor’s race to
@wutrain
. Essaibi George is addressing supporters, then Wu is expected to speak to hers. Unofficial results from the city still slow to come in. “I want to offer a great big congratulations to Michelle Wu.”
#bospoli
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New Hampshire Gov.
@ChrisSununu
formally endorses
@NikkiHaley
for president.
“You bet your ass I am” endorsing Haley, he says. “We’re all in.”
#nhpolitics
@politico
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📍NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — Standing-room only for Nikki Haley at her event on the Georgia border. Lots of fans in the room from both sides of the state line, but only some of them are able to actually cast ballots for her on Saturday
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📍MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Nikki Haley starts off by asking the crowd how many people lived in the state when she was governor. More than half raise their hands
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Would love to see the polling behind the decision to go after Massachusetts as part of an opening pitch for New Hampshire governor
I’m running for Governor because New Hampshire is one election away from becoming Massachusetts – from becoming something we are not.
What we have here is worth fighting for. Together, we will ensure that New Hampshire remains safe, prosperous, and free.
#nhpolitics
#nhgov
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“NH ❤️ NH”—
@NikkiHaley
with some new signs for her second swing through New Hampshire as a presidential candidate
#nhpolitics
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To clarify what’s actually happening here: Migrant and homeless families are being placed in the FORMER Chelsea Soldiers’ Home, which is vacant and slated for demolition. Veterans have already moved into the new facility on the campus.
Sad state of affairs that Mass. cares more about housing for illegal immigrants than for our veterans who have defended our freedom.
We can't ever allow this to happen in New Hampshire, but this is what
@JoyceCraigNH
and
@CindeWarmington
would bring to our state.
#nhpolitics
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NOW: Gov. Maura Healey announces she’s pardoning “all misdemeanor convictions for marijuana possession on record in our state.”
“We believe this is the most sweeping cannabis pardon ever proposed by any governor.”
#mapoli
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It’s 9:40 a.m. on the day before the Massachusetts primaries and I’ve already seen every Democrat running for statewide office at the
@GBLCBoston
Labor Day breakfast (save for
@maura_healey
, who’s coming later.) And yes, that’s
@TamiGouveiaMA
eating a waffle
#mapoli
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If you're a Massachusetts pol thinking of running for something, please don't announce it from 9 to 10 p.m. tonight because I would at least like to try to have time to watch the Succession finale tysm
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INBOX:
@AyannaPressley
has endorsed
@wutrain
for mayor of Boston. “At this pivotal moment in our city’s history, we need bold leadership.”
#bospoli
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.
@NikkiHaley
gets mobbed following her Exeter, NH, town hall and asked to sign photographs, signs and books
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One of the biggest venues and therefore one of the biggest crowds I’ve seen yet for Nikki Haley in New Hampshire
#nhpolitics
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.
@BernieSanders
making his entrance at Mack’s Apples in Londonderry, New Hampshire, where he thanks the crowd for coming out despite pouring rain. (There are some folks standing under tents just outside the door listening).
#fitn
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.
@VP
Kamala Harris knows her
@GBLCBoston
audience — she quickly heaps praise on former Boston mayor and former union head
@SecMartyWalsh
(who isn’t here today) and passes along his greetings to his many Boston friends and frenemies in this crowd
#bospoli
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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Massachusetts Dems showing up to hold signs for the write-in Joe Biden campaign include: Boston Mayor
@wutrain
, BHA Administrator
@KenzieBok
, state Sen.
@SalDiDomenico
and Boston City Councilor
@RonDurk
#mapoli
#nhpolitics
@politico
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INBOX: Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a GOTV rally for Dems
@maura_healey
for governor,
@MayorDriscoll
for LG and
@AndreaForAG
at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury. Rep.
@AyannaPressley
, Boston Mayor
@wutrain
will also be there per Healey camp
#mapoli
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Chris Christie starts his town hall in Epping, NH, talking about Nikki Haley:
"If someone asked me what the cause of the Civil War was, it’s easy. It’s slavery. And by the way, you don’t have to take my word for that. When SC passed its resolution to secede from the union, the…
Haley blames a ‘Democratic plant’ for Civil War question that tripped her up
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New Hampshire Gov.
@ChrisSununu
intros
@NikkiHaley
at Nashua town hall: “She’s not just been here once, she’s come back and back and back & that’s exactly what we want to see.”
Haley’s had solid debate performances. 3rd bout will inform Sununu’s endorsement decision
#nhpolitics
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Rep.
@AyannaPressley
has endorsed
@juliaforboston
,
@votehalbert
,
@ruthzee4boston
and
@CarlaforBoston
for Boston City Council at-large, and
@hicks4district6
for District 6
#bospoli
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Rep.
@AyannaPressley
, who had a breakthrough Covid-19 case, tells
@BosPublicRadio
she & Gov. Charlie Baker “see this differently.” She calls for an “aggressive, comprehensive, statewide plan” including a statewide indoor mask mandate
#mapoli
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In a blow to the left, AP calls the
#RI01
Democratic primary for Biden White House alum
@gabeamo
. Given that this is a safe blue seat, Amo will likely be Rhode Island’s newest congressional representative
@politico
🔵 Gabriel Amo (D) has won the special Democratic primary for Rhode Island’s 1st District.
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UPSET at MassGOP meeting: Ron Kaufman, the former RNC treasurer and general chair of the Republican National Convention, has been defeated 37-35 for another term as Massachusetts’ Republican national committeeman by Brad Wyatt. Kaufman will serve through the convention
#mapoli
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NEW: SC Rep. Jim Clyburn wants the DNC to count New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary. The DNC isn't shutting the door to it.
And NH Dems who helped Biden win a write-in campaign are thrilled with Clyburn's support
#nhpolitics
@politico
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