Mike Allen
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Joined March 2008
🗳️How @KamalaHarris would change the race as nominee ... Column by @JimVandeHei & me: 1. She'd immediately ensure Roe as a main focus 2. Dems would try to make age/fitness the GOP's problem 3. Dems would frame it as former prosecutor vs. convicted felon
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Some of his advisers are quite concerned that a fresh, youthful, non-Biden ticket presents a bigger threat than Trump assumes.
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💡This is a Santa & Grinch presidency: constant promises to give something of financial value to a nation, group or person — or take it away Rarely are impulsive Trump transactions enshrined in law ... So they're reversible ⬇️Column by @JimVandeHei & me
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Almost every day reveals a new promise to give something of financial value — or take it away.
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November is National Adoption Month, a time to celebrate adoption and the incredible families it creates. Adoption is beautiful, yet born of both grief & grace. It holds both loss & love. My life has been deeply shaped by adoption. Our family’s story wasn’t complete until K
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NEWS from @StefWKight @stephen_neukam : Deal to end government shutdown in reach
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At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
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NEWS — A deal in the Senate to end the government shutdown is within reach, multiple sources from both parties told Axios. At least 10 Dems are likely to support a procedural vote on a package of funding bills and a CR, sources said. It would be in exchange for a vote on ACA
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At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
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As we noted in today's newsletter, today's newsletter generated more revenue than Metsera has generated in its entire history. Metsera's complex choice between Novo and Pfizer
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It's not as easy as picking the highest bid.
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👀Alex Karp on tech moguls building bunkers: "I think they have the same fears you do. They just have more money…And anyone in tech is like: 'You have a 25% chance of non-recoverable death,'" or loss of brain function. https://t.co/t2gJEtuX9U via @YouTube
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🚨 THE RESISTANCE REVIVED! Tuesday's elections did overnight what President Trump didn't do in 10 months: revitalized Dem resistance, instantly and profoundly Dems feel like winners ... and are more likely to donate, protest 👇Column by @JimVandeHei & me
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Democrats now believe, for the first time since Trump won, they can stand up to the president and beat him.
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📱@axios Jim VandeHei to @PaulRieckhoff @indy_americans: "You've got to clean up your algorithm, what you're ingesting. There's healthy, high-quality information out there. But you have to be super-careful about what you're letting infiltrate your brain" https://t.co/aTOO0RQlgP
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BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi announces retirement from Congress
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Pelosi's departure marks the end of an era in Washington.
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📺 NEW on The Axios Show: Palantir CEO Alex Karp tells @mikeallen that Americans should worry less about government surveillance than surveillance from companies that want to sell them things: "That's the reality of life in the West."
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🚨 THE RESISTANCE REVIVED! Tuesday's elections did overnight what President Trump didn't do in 10 months: revitalized Dem resistance, instantly and profoundly Dems feel like winners ... and are more likely to donate, protest 👇Column by @JimVandeHei & me
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Democrats now believe, for the first time since Trump won, they can stand up to the president and beat him.
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Nvidia CEO says China on track "to win the AI race"
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Jensen Huang tells the FT that he is concerned about a potential regulatory burden on AI.
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Scoop: Trump's $2 billion fundraising binge
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No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
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New: Spanberger and Sherrill have invited tons of Dems and potential 2028ers to campaign for them in the final stretch in NJ and VA. But they pointedly have not invited Bernie or AOC. An example of the larger debate in the party over the path forward. https://t.co/HW7mmSO11f
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It's a sign of the turmoil between moderate and progressive Democrats.
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“No bullsh*t.” “Conversations that set the agenda.” This is The Axios Show: https://t.co/qD8Neoxsow
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Two unfolding forces will shape significantly the short-term future of the Democratic Party, officials tell us: 1The popularity of socialist candidates and ideas, especially among grassroots Democrats. 2AI increasing energy costs, joblessness and inequality.
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This climate is ripe for an anti-AI socialist to emerge as a counter to Trump.
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