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Washington Post national political reporter. The people decide. "You must be or you wouldn’t have come here.”

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Michael Scherer
4 years
New: Bloomberg raises $16 million to pay off fines and fees of Florida felons, aiming to boost vote for Joe Biden
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Michael Scherer
6 years
Pastor who helped introduce Roy Moore last night was convicted for destroying evidence that allegedly implicated his son in molesting orphans in Honduras.
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6 months
NEW: Backlash grows to Univisión interview with Trump. Congressional Hispanic Caucus will ask to meet with newt work exec. Latino Advocacy groups write a letter. John Leguizamo calls for boycott. And more.
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Michael Scherer
10 months
NEW: The DeSantis Administration steered $92 million last year in federal covid stimulus money to a highway project that directly benefits a top political donor who gifted a golf simulator to governor's mansion w/ @jdawsey1 @iarnsdorf
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Michael Scherer
4 years
New: Mike Bloomberg shifts presidential ad campaign to focus on impeachment. Message will go into states with vulnerable GOP senators like Arizona, Maine, Colorado and N.C.
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Michael Scherer
2 years
New: The ex-wife of Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens accused him in court Monday of knocking her down, taking away her cellphone and keys, physically abusing their children and repeatedly threatening suicide if she did not publicly support him
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Michael Scherer
7 months
Fun fact about tonight's debate: The 7 people on stage are collectively polling at 36% in national Republican average. If they were all one person, they would still be losing to Trump by 20 percent.
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Michael Scherer
6 years
Young Democratic pols used to echo Bill Clinton’s mannerisms when giving big speeches. Joe Kennedy clearly came up studying the pacing of Barack Obama.
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Michael Scherer
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“I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute.  One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? … So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you`re going to have to use medical doctors”
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RNC Research
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Biden, flanked by Obama and Pelosi, again peddles the debunked lie that "Trump told us to inject ourselves with bleach."
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Michael Scherer
1 year
SCOOP: Biden calls for South Carolina to be the first ‘24 presidential primary, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada on same day, Georgia, then Michigan, in massive shuffle of tradition, per officials. Iowa is out. w/ @tylerpager Story linked in thread...
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Michael Scherer
5 years
Schultz has deleted the tweet. An aide says he was not personally responsible for sending it.
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Michael Scherer
4 months
AP has a policy not to call "the winner of a race before all the polls in a jurisdiction are scheduled to close." Tonight AP/CNN/Etc. called the race after the caucus doors closed, but BEFORE all votes were cast. People could see on their phones that Trump won before voting.
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Michael Scherer
7 months
Jindal endorses 8 years after calling Trump an “egomaniacal madman,” “entertaining narcissist,” “power-hungry shark” who “eats whatever is in front of him,” “non-serious carnival act,” “unstable,” “insecure and weak,” “shallow"
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Gov. Bobby Jindal
7 months
I just had a great conversation with President Trump, and I told him that he has my full and complete endorsement to win back the White House and Make America Great Again!
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Michael Scherer
6 months
A tweet for the history books.
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Michael Scherer
6 years
Beverly Young Nelson admits to adding date and place to alleged Roy Moore inscription in her yearbook. Gloria Allred initially attributed that writing to Moore. Nelson stands by rest of her story.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
Key point: Florida counts its vote by mail ballots before Election Day, so by targeting Florida Bloomberg hopes to prevent Trump from having evidence to falsely claim victory that night.
@postpolitics
Post Politics
4 years
Mike Bloomberg to spend at least $100 million in Florida to benefit Joe Biden
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Michael Scherer
4 years
That is not Reade. It’s Zoe Baird.
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Michael Scherer
3 years
Tenn. reps gave Kevin McCarthy an oversized gavel after speech. McCarthy invites the 1,400 at Nashville dinner to DC when he becomes speaker. He says he wants everyone to see Pelosi hand him the gavel. "It will be hard not to hit her with it but I will bang it down,” he says.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
New: Mike Bloomberg plans new group to support Democratic nominee, will absorb his staff in six swing states.
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Michael Scherer
11 months
Scoop: Top Democratic strategists, including current advisers to President Biden and former U.S. senators, met last week with former Republicans who oppose Donald Trump at the offices of a downtown D.C. think tank. Their mission: Stop No Labels.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
This is exactly what Bloomberg was hoping Trump would do. A new ad hitting Trump on pre-existing conditions enters rotation today.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
Mini Mike Bloomberg is spending a lot of money on False Advertising. I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now, while at the same time winning the fight to rid you of the expensive, unfair and very unpopular Individual Mandate.....
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Michael Scherer
3 years
News: Liz Cheney was alarmed last month when NRCC declined to tell other Republican lawmakers that a recent party poll found Trump was a 15-point drag in core battleground districts. Poll had other reasons to worry W/ ⁦ @jdawsey1 ⁩ ⁦ @DanLamothe
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Michael Scherer
5 years
Everyone should watch.
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Gifdsports
5 years
Journalist gets quickly shut down when she asked James Harden, Russell Westbrook if they would refrain from speaking out on politics/social justice after China debacle...
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Michael Scherer
4 years
Twitter temporarily blocked a Trump campaign account @teamtrump for posting a video that is currently pinned to the top of President Trump’s Twitter account, which is not blocked. Fascinating showdown taking place just a few weeks before the election.
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Donald J. Trump
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Michael Scherer
3 years
If Biden wins, as looks likely, Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have a huge uphill climb to hold the House in 2022. And no Dem Senate likely soon. The Democratic dream of unified government—name your platform priority: single payer, green deal, repeal tax cut for rich, etc.--is dim.
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Michael Scherer
5 years
How Rep. Matt Gaetz avoided punishment for his 2008 DUI arrest.
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Michael Scherer
6 years
School’s out in Tallahassee.
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Michael Scherer
3 years
Thing to remember if Dems win Ga.: There are not many political races where candidates can argue credibly that a vote for them would put $1400 in your pocket in a matter of weeks. A parting gift from Trump.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
Scoop: In the wake of Iowa debacle, Mike Bloomberg told aides this morning to double ad spending—from 1200 points to 2400 points in all targeted markets.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
This may be the only normal news of the day.
@nypost
New York Post
4 years
Picture of Johnny Depp asleep and covered in ice cream emerges in court
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Michael Scherer
6 years
Rep. Matt Gaetz on his SOTU guest: "He's not a holocaust denier." That guest on Reddit: "I do not and never have believed the six million figure... Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic."
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Michael Scherer
5 years
The Mueller report was birthed by Comey firing, based on Rosenstein memo, which criticized Comey holding a press conference spinning a Clinton investigation that resulted in no charges. So we have come full circle. "We do not hold press conferences," Rosenstein wrote to Trump.
@NBCNightlyNews
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
5 years
JUST IN: AG Barr and Deputy AG Rosenstein will hold a news conference Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. ET, DOJ spokesperson says; will come on same morning that redacted Mueller report is expected to be released.
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Michael Scherer
6 years
Sen. Richard Shelby is the only state-wide elected Republican to come down on the right side of voters on this.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
Kimmel edits miss that Pence appeared to be making a joke.
@JerryDunleavy
Jerry Dunleavy 🇺🇸
4 years
Jimmy Kimmel is lying. Watch the unedited clip.
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Michael Scherer
10 months
“Bring some Cokes in please.”
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Michael Scherer
7 months
NEW: Biden reelection effort raises $71 million for third quarter m, extending lead over GOP rivals, behind where Obama and Trump were at this point in re-elections
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Michael Scherer
4 months
This is the future. Our attention will be lost to fights started by famous people who uncritically swallow social media bunkum and then repeat it because evolution did not prepare humanity for the dopamine rush of a pocket computer.
@jimmykimmel
Jimmy Kimmel
4 months
Dear Aasshole: for the record, I’ve not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor will you find my name on any “list” other than the clearly-phony nonsense that soft-brained wackos like yourself can’t seem to distinguish from reality. Your reckless…
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Michael Scherer
2 years
New: LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman gathered billionaire donors Friday with an alarming message: "MAGA leaders intend to use 2022 midterm wins to install Trump in 2024 regardless of the vote” Inside the liberal money push to fight GOP election deniers.
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Michael Scherer
5 months
Jorge Ramos addresses his employer Univision’s approach to its recent interview with Trump: “We cannot normalize behavior that threatens democracy and the Hispanic community, or offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories.”
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JORGE RAMOS
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Here’s my weekly column on why, as journalists, we should question and confront Trump; for democracy, for the rights of immigrants and, simply, for good journalism.
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Michael Scherer
2 years
DNC just voted to invite every state Dem party in the country to apply for the chance to displace Iowa, NH, Nevada and South Carolina in 2024. Those states must reapply. Must signal intent by May 6, apply by June 3. Final DNC calendar decision expected in July. So it begins.
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Michael Scherer
2 years
Buttigieg with a Trump stinger. "First of all, I am glad to have a president who can ride a bicycle."
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Aaron Rupar
2 years
NEHLS: Biden falls off bicycles ... my question for you is, sir, have you spoken with any other cabinet members about implementing the 25th amendment on President Biden? BUTTIGIEG: First of all, I'm glad to have a president who can ride a bicycle
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Michael Scherer
4 years
New: Mike Bloomberg to spend at least $100 million in Florida to defeat President Trump
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Michael Scherer
2 years
A central part of the Gridiron Covid outbreak story is that dozens of people who were in the room, as hotel employees, have been disappeared from the stats. Their employer won’t say if any got sick, probably for business reasons. They probably risk jobs if they speak out.
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Michael Scherer
1 year
SCOOP: Biden will buy television ads after Tuesday's campaign announce. --Julie Chavez Rodriguez is campaign manager. Quentin Fulks is her deputy. --Co-chairs: Reps. Jim Clyburn, Veronica Escobar, Lisa Blunt Rochester, others w/ @tylerpager
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Michael Scherer
4 years
Advisory board member for Trump campaign.
@Harlan
HARLAN Z. HILL 🇺🇸
4 years
Kamala Harris comes off as such an insufferable lying bitch. Sorry, it’s just true.
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Michael Scherer
2 years
"They continue to call this an armed insurrection," Maria Bartiromo said. "And yet no guns were seized, Mr. President." "Right," Donald Trump answered. "There were no guns whatsoever."
@seungminkim
Seung Min Kim
2 years
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas man who stormed Capitol on Jan. 6 with gun, helmet and body armor sentenced to 87 months in prison, longest yet.
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Michael Scherer
1 year
NEW: Inside No Labels planning for a 2024 presidential campaign: Joe Lieberman won’t say Biden is an acceptable candidate. Joe Manchin, Larry Hogan won’t rule out joining ticket. Bill Galston leaves the organization over fears the plan will help Trump.
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Michael Scherer
3 years
Joe Biden picks Ron Klain: "His deep, varied experience and capacity to work with people all across the political spectrum is precisely what I need in a White House chief of staff,” Biden says in statement to Washington Post.
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Michael Scherer
5 months
NEW: Opponents of No Labels, led by Dick Gephardt, launch cable ads warning that all third-party efforts will elect Donald Trump, endanger democracy. RFK Jr. replies: “The real threat to democracy is business as usual in Washington."
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Michael Scherer
5 years
Jeff Mason is a total pro. That was textbook. Play the tape in journalism schools.
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Michael Scherer
3 years
Biden chooses Ron Klain as White House chief of staff
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Michael Scherer
5 months
Biden approval down 14 points since July among Democrats and Independents—his own voters. Could keep dropping. He appears to be in a standoff with people who don’t want him to run for reelection, but who he believes will vote for him if he is the only alternative to Trump.
@MonmouthPoll
MonmouthPoll
5 months
NATIONAL POLL: @POTUS Biden job rating drops to all time low since taking office. 34% approve 61% disapprove
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Michael Scherer
5 months
Journalism is awesome.
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Jesse Eisinger
5 months
NEW: In 2000, Clarence Thomas was deep in debt. He met w/ a GOP Congressman & complained about his salary. The GOP started to fear he’d leave the court. In the years that followed, billionaires lavished him w/ secret gifts.
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Michael Scherer
1 year
New: Trump’s campaign is preparing for a state-by-state legal battle to keep him on ballots. Lawyers are preparing strategies to boot him because of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment—the insurrection clause. Both sides see Supreme Court resolution as likely.
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Michael Scherer
10 months
NEW: The pro-Desantis canvasser was caught complaining on a Ring camera: "I’m a little stoned, so I don’t even care." A look at the risks of relying on paid staffers to knock on doors, w/ @jdawsey1
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Michael Scherer
6 months
Only in Washington can the party of deficit hawks find a way to stick taxpayers with $26.8 billion in debt to pay for $14.3 billion in Israel aid by pairing it with reduced tax collection--and then blame the added taxpayer burden on DC politics. CBO:
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Kelly Phares
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NEW: @SpeakerJohnson on CBO score for his Israel aid package: “Only in Washington when you cut spending do they call it an increase in the deficit”
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Michael Scherer
4 years
NEW: Former President Obama demands TV stations pull pro-Trump super pac ad attacking Biden in South Carolina.
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Michael Scherer
6 months
“If you don’t like our religion”
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Sawyer Hackett
6 months
Wow. Trump says if he’s elected he’ll implement “strong ideological screening” of all immigrants to the U.S. One of his criteria: “if you don’t like our religion…then we don’t want you in our country.”
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Michael Scherer
3 years
“Ultimately, we always win,” says former President Trump, who has not always won.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
"Last night I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans. This is not the outcome we wanted or we worked so hard for, and I'm sorry we did not win” - Hillary Clinton, 11/6/2016.
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Gov. Bobby Jindal
4 years
The Left has refused to concede the last election for four years, and is now preparing to do the same this November. Listen to the voters, unless the "deplorables" vote for Republicans.
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Michael Scherer
3 years
Trafalgar predicted Trump lean or tilts in Nevada, Arizona, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Likely Trump win in Georgia.
@BretBaier
Bret Baier
3 years
Congrats. You got it right. You deserve shout-outs.
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Michael Scherer
2 years
New: Retiring Alabama Sen. Shelby said to plan $5 million campaign to boost former aide Katie Britt as replacement over Trump-endorsed Mo Brooks.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
A Missouri sleepaway camp has shut down after more than 80 kids and staffers became infected with the coronavirus, health officials said.
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Michael Scherer
9 months
Presidential candidates generally don’t get USSS protection until year of election, and only if likely nominee. Obama was the exception in May of 2007. DHS and a panel of congressional leaders decide. More here: .
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr
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Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection.  But not me.   Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days.  After 88-days of no response and after several…
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Michael Scherer
6 years
McConnell cannot act until Alabama sends certification to Senate. And that will not happen until Dec 27 at earliest, according to Alabama Sec of State.
@ewarren
Elizabeth Warren
6 years
I call on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to listen to the people of Alabama and seat @GDouglasJones without any delay.
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Michael Scherer
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2.6m now.
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George Conway
2 years
If I recall correctly, he had 1.7 million followers just a few hours ago
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Michael Scherer
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"Ron has been invaluable to me over the many years that we have worked together, including as we rescued the American economy from one of the worst downturns in our history in 2009 and later overcame a daunting public health emergency in 2014,” —Joe Biden
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Michael Scherer
30 days
Trump effort to change Nebraska electoral college system dealt a major setback tonight. “If you want winner take all in Ne., this is your last chance,” said Sen Slama about a vote on whether her amendment was germane. She needed 23 yes votes. She got 8. The lawmakers moved on.
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Michael Scherer
5 years
“Nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime,” Joe Biden says. Nobody?
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Michael Scherer
6 months
The start Bart’s excellent Peter Thiel profile suggests possibility of a campaign finance crime by Trump. Federal candidates cannot directly solicit political donations in excess of hard money limits.
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Barton Gellman
6 months
A profile of Peter Thiel, after months of interviews.
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Michael Scherer
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NEW: Florida appointee who gave Ron DeSantis use of his private planes during campaign has let DeSantis staff meet with lobbyists at a hotel/bar he owns in Tallahassee, even though it is closed for renovation. Last night DeSantis gave him a new state gig.
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Michael Scherer
1 year
Not the behavior of someone planning to run for re-election.
@marktmcl
Mark McLaughlin
1 year
The worst in-cycle fundraising in any quarter of Manchin's entire Senate career. He raised $496,453 in the last quarter of 2011, which was his previous low. He reported $529,106 in April 2011 and $556,198 in April 2017.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
Top Experts: DOJ's Bureau of Prison Blocking Michael Cohen Book about Trump Violates First Amendment
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Michael Scherer
4 years
This was a Twitter click-in poll. No random or representative sample. Like walking into a bar and asking, and then allowing whoever wants to to chime in by phone. Depends what bar you walk into, and whom you give the phone number to. Means nothing.
@danielggarza
Daniel Garza
4 years
Spanish speaking viewers of Telemundo expressed their preference of who won tonight’s presidential debate: 66% Trump 34% Biden. #DebateTuesday
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Michael Scherer
2 years
If you’re going to die on the street, San Francisco is not a bad place to do it. The fog keeps things temperate. There’s nowhere in the world with more beautiful views.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
Big suspense in Democratic presidential race is whether Bloomberg will pivot his massive paid media operation to hit Sanders before Super Tuesday. This is step in that direction.
@MikeBloomberg
Mike Bloomberg
4 years
The NRA paved the road to Washington for Bernie Sanders. He spent the next three decades making sure they got a return on their investment. We deserve a president who is not beholden to the gun lobby. #NotMeNRA
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Michael Scherer
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BREAKING: Jeff Roe, top strategist for DeSantis Super PAC, resigned tonight. “I cannot in good conscience stay affiliated with Never Back Down given the statements in the Washington Post today. They are not true and an unwanted distraction.” More here—>
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Michael Scherer
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"Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!” … "Try not to hurt him. If you do, I'll defend you in court.” … "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK?” —DJT
@ABC
ABC News
5 years
After arrest of Coast Guard lieutenant, who allegedly amassed weapons and compiled list of Democratic lawmakers and journalists, Sarah Sanders says Pres. Trump hasn't "at any point" done anything "but condemn violence, against journalists or anyone else."
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Michael Scherer
5 years
Spotted tonight at Trump Hotel bar in DC as Trump held nearby fundraiser: Nigel Farage
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Michael Scherer
6 years
Even more notable is that he did it to provoke exactly this reaction from the national press, professional Washington, thereby deepening the identity of his own supporters as defined against the disapproving gaze of those with power. And it seems to work more often than not.
@maggieNYT
Maggie Haberman
6 years
Cheers are the least surprising thing. Doing this after a journalist was apparently murdered by an autocratic regime - while complaining that you yourself are covered unfairly - is quite something.
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Michael Scherer
5 years
"Almost everything the Washington Post does is fake," says President Trump, while falsely blaming the newspaper for a book written by two New York Times reporters.
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Michael Scherer
10 months
NEW: Inside Biden’s hidden campaign—borrowed offices, TikTok trainings, farm fair cutouts and the DNC operative behind that viral MTG video.
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Michael Scherer
3 years
Apple CEO to Facebook: ““If a business is built on misleading users, on data exploitation, on choices that are no choices at all, it does not deserve our praise. It deserves scorn,” Cook said.
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Michael Scherer
1 year
@tylerpager Biden’s rationale is increasing diversity—demographic, geographic, urban, suburban, union, etc. “I got into politics because of civil rights,” he says in letter drafted for Dem Officials. “[I]t is time to update the process for the 21st century.”
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Michael Scherer
1 year
Old: Trump announces presidential run days after election to take credit for GOP midterm wins. New: Mar-a-Lago under evacuation orders with 2 to 5 foot storm surge, possible tornadoes and damaging winds expected from likely Hurricane Thursday.
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Michael Scherer
2 years
Such a strange debate. Cruz is correct, Carlson is wrong, per FBI definition of domestic terrorism: “Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences”
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
2 years
Ted Cruz grovels apologetically to Tucker Carlson for his "sloppy" comments about January 6 being a "terrorist attack"
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Michael Scherer
4 years
The less is more campaign: Biden is rising in polls, despite no press avails and granting only 5 interviews in June. By contrast, Trump has done 21 interviews, and taken questions from WH press corps at least 6 times.
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Michael Scherer
4 years
The Reagan Foundation, which runs the library, has issued a warning to the Trump campaign and the RNC to quit raising money off Reagan's name and likeness. Lawyers may soon be involved:
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Michael Scherer
4 years
White House coronavirus task force calls for “maximal” social distancing in Wisconsin amid virus spike, according to report obtained by WaPo. President Trump moving ahead with mass rallies there on Saturday. W/ ⁦ @bylenasun
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