Michael Kruse
@michaelkruse
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Senior staff writer, @POLITICO and @POLITICOMag. @DavidsonCollege alum and St. Pete Times grad. Love Lauren and the girls.
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Joined September 2008
“She was, like, mystical — like a unicorn or something like that, you know?”
washingtonpost.com
Brian Glenn is trying not to get caught in the middle of the breakup between his partner and his president.
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“It’s hard because Republicans aren’t central planners,” says @RealJoeGrogan.
washingtonpost.com
The chamber also blocked a Republican bill to give Americans up to $1,500 to spend on health care instead of extending the subsidies.
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“I am working hard to kind of reshape — rebuild — the Democratic Party into a grassroots working-class type party, not a corporate-funded, billionaire-funded consultant type party,” says @BernieSanders. “And if that doesn’t work, we will be seeing people running as independents.
washingtonpost.com
An anti-oligarch protest in a small Indiana town shows the depth of the national backlash against the concentration of wealth and power.
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Your Jeep deserves more than just a traditional lift kit — it deserves an AccuAir Dynamic Lift Kit.
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“He’s like a bad gambler who just can’t stop doubling down on the same bet, and that bet was that cost of living and age was killing Biden,” says @JamesCarville. https://t.co/CzW6tzy3o6
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“If there is one thing Joe Biden proved, it’s that you can’t jawbone people into feeling what they’re not experiencing in their lives,” says @davidaxelrod. “The cost of living continues to be the most pressing issue Americans are facing and telling them that things are much
“It is a gift to Democrats, and I think this is the one time that the Democrats have been disciplined enough to home in on one message,” says @Bakari_Sellers. “And between this and health care, you have winning issues. And you’re seeing that throughout the country.”
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“It is a gift to Democrats, and I think this is the one time that the Democrats have been disciplined enough to home in on one message,” says @Bakari_Sellers. “And between this and health care, you have winning issues. And you’re seeing that throughout the country.”
nytimes.com
The president continues to brush off an issue that he said he would solve in his first months in office. Some Democrats say he is making the same mistake as his predecessor.
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“This is the thing I think conservatives should worry about. Could a future President AOC say, ‘Oh my gosh, we are at war with the fossil fuel companies. They are inflicting masses of harm on the United States. It might be cumulative, but they’re doing it on purpose.’”
politico.com
The Trump administration needs to release the legal analysis underpinning its controversial military campaign.
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"If you look at the numbers in terms of immigration and diversity, the United States is further ahead in that decay — if you want to call it that — than Europe." https://t.co/QFcD59zsua
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“The president would be wise to listen to his smart polling team that is focusing him on this issue. He cannot afford to fall into the same trap as the Biden administration, where he feels compelled to tout a supposedly great economy nobody is feeling,” says @KSoltisAnderson.
politico.com
Trump's Pennsylvania speech demonstrated that his return to the trail is a gamble: It’s just as likely to provide Democrats campaign fodder as it is to motivate his MAGA base heading into the midterm...
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“That’s what so many of the white boys — the Josh Shapiros, the Gavin Newsoms of the world and even Pete, although I would vote for Pete — that’s what they miss about Kamala,” @Bakari_Sellers tells @ShaneGoldmacher. “She is so important to so many people.”
nytimes.com
She was seen for two decades as a future face of the Democratic Party. Is she now suddenly a figure of its past?
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“I’m sure he’s a lovely man. His brother’s a lovely man. … Do you know his brother is serious MAGA?”
politico.eu
The American pontiff has rebuked the White House over its treatment of immigrants and the potential invasion of Venezuela.
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“Europe doesn’t know what to do.”
politico.com
In an interview with POLITICO, the president offered no reassurance to America’s allies about Russia and vowed to reshape their politics.
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Just read @michaelkruse and this is easily the best profile written about Graham Platner so far. Lots of new details about his past, which has so far been mostly understood only in broad strokes, as well as the specifics on his recruitment and much more.
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Just read @michaelkruse and this is easily the best profile written about Graham Platner so far. Lots of new details about his past, which has so far been mostly understood only in broad strokes, as well as the specifics on his recruitment and much more.
politico.com
The candidate embodies a quarter-century of raw American frustration. It’s the source of his strength — and potentially his downfall.
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“Then this thing could turn into a multiple year battle making Indiana kind of the epicenter of conservative politics.” https://t.co/CsPtIhzt8t
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